Nick Triani
Editor in chief at OQM. I’m also a co-founder, writer and handle some management too. I’m head of A+R at the record label Soliti. I also Label manage and A+R at Playground Music Finland.
Nick's Contributions
OQM Playlist : Life during quarantine #8
Nick Triani presents another quarantine playlist while looking back at his own experience with the band Joy Division and their singer Ian Curtis, who died 40 years ago this week... Read more
OQM Playlist: Life During Quarantine #7
With his latest life during quarantine playlist, Nick Triani discusses touch and intimacy in a post-Covid world, Stevie Wonder celebrations and AOR singer/songwriter Judie Tzuke.... Read more
OQM Playlist: Life During Quarantine #6
A new quarantine playlist arrives at OQM HQ as Nick Triani ponders dithering responses to COVID-19 and his remembrance of The Stranglers Dave Greenfield.... Read more
OQM Playlist: Life During Quarantine #5
A new 'Life during quarantine' playlist arrives while Nick Triani explains why he feels Nick Drake's music might be the most unknowingly prescient for these times. ... Read more
OQM Playlist: Life during quarantine #4
A new life during quarantine playlist reminds Nick Triani of first encounters with Roberta Flack's music whilst a DJ in Belgrade... Read more
OQM Playlist: Life during quarantine #3
Another OQM Playlist from quarantine. This week Nick Triani considers the new normal and Neil Young's attempts at being a team player. ... Read more
OQM Playlist: Life during quarantine #2
Another missive from the lockdown - Nick Triani's second life during quarantine playlist - with reference to a formative musical experience. ... Read more
OQM Playlist: Life during quarantine #1
As the lockdown goes on, Nick Triani shares a OQM playlist - Life during quarantine #1. More to come over the coming weeks. Be careful and be safe. ... Read more
WHO KNOWS WHERE THE TIME GOES?
The 2010s changed the way Nick Triani interacted with most of his cultural touchstones. In this essay he looks back on a decade of fast progress in technical innovation that’s offered both endless pleasures/communication routes whilst creating an uncertain future... Read more
ONE QUART RECOMMENDS SIDEWAYS 2019
Sideways ushers in a new Finnish music festival season ... Read more
Best of One Quart Magazine 2018
Find curated highlights from 2018 at One Quart Magazine, our best features in Film, Music, Books, Style, Life and Art. ... Read more
The Beatles White Album in its right place
As The Beatles' White Album turns 50, Nick Triani essays the album's standing in 2018 whilst admiring the new possibilities the reissued and remixed album still promises. ... Read more
Thank You and the art of reputation destruction
One Quart’s ongoing Duran Duran series continues with Nick Triani explaining why he missed the Duran Duran boat, but has grudging respect for their late career nadir Thank You. ... Read more
One Quart Magazine Playlist: Big Gold Dream
With this new playlist for One Quart Magazine, Nick Triani remembers a time in his youth when pop music felt more challenging and rewarding. ... Read more
Superwood and Paola Suhonen
The Twin Peaks of the festival season arrives this weekend in the Helsinki forests with Superwood. Nick Triani talks to Superwood and Ivana Helsinki founder Paola Suhonen. ... Read more
Learning to live while waiting for The Big K.O.
In this essay Nick Triani contemplates on living with a heightened sense of mortality. As he gets older, he has a growing awareness of his own mortality and of learning to live with the fragility of life.... Read more
Flow Festival 2018 Tips/Recommendations
Nick Triani looks forward to another Flow Festival in Helsinki. Find out his tips for best shows, his personal festival don'ts and the concept of live bucket lists. ... Read more
Two years, is that all we got?
As One Quart turns two, Nick Triani picks his highlights from the last year across the site. He also examines the state we’re all in with the TV series The Leftovers as a cultural and spiritual guide. ... Read more