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NigelNigel H Seymour has been playing the guitar and writing songs since the age of 11. His style took shape while a young crofter boy on the Isle of Iona in West Scotland. It was on Iona that Nigel was able to participate in the various island activities such as Cheilihs and the Iona community concerts playing and singing his songs.

Nigel’s first recording experience was at the age of 17 when he was invited to record two of his own songs: ’I found you’ and ’Lady in the wood’ by a band named Tractor who had also been given a chance to record their own songs on a small four-track machine loaned to them by John Peel and Dandelion Records.

It was in the mid eighties that Nigel embarked on a series of international expeditions across the world from Sweden to South America having created the world’s first sailing kayaks called ’Kaymaran’ with the intention of sailing them around Cape Horn.

Through all these years Nigel continued to write and record his songs utilising a small tape machine. Each song was numbered and filed. Cape Horn was a success and Nigel found himself writing more material while on other expeditions in Chile South America. Poems and songs depicting the times and the mood while at the height of the Pinnochet regime.

On his return to the UK Nigel who had been working in association with the BBC London was asked to provide some of his music for a film about the ’Kaymaran’ at Cape Horn. He’d written a song called ’Sail Away’ and happened to meet up with and play it to Martin Barre the famous Jethro Tull guitarist. Martin agreed to record the song with Nigel in his studio in Devon.

Other recordings followed before Nigel found himself once more on a journey back to South America.

It was by coincidence that several of his songs again came to the fore in Santiago where the countries first musical ’platform’ for artists had established itself known as ’Video Top’. His two songs ’Arabic Woman’ and ’I can’t Believe’ were broadcast Live that year 1988 with Nigel becoming the first British musician to do so.

Throughout the nineties Nigel continued in and out of music. He worked as a Principal of an outdoor Education centre in the Lake District as his main occupation but his spirit for music and writing songs would surface and he would constantly find himself knocking on the door of music again with new recordings and a new chance.

The ’Heaven to Earth’ album 1997 featured some new songs written while in Cyprus and resulted in a journey to Los Angeles.

He appeared briefly at the Glastonbury Festival in 2003 and later produced a film of a concert entitled ’Alone’ which was performed live in the Westmorland Hall in Cumbria. ’This performance was among one of the best performances I’ve ever done so far. It was a strange experience to be sat in the emptyness of such big hall playing an unplugged Martin DM guitar to the acoustics’.

In 2005 Nigel made the decision to come back to music full time. He is presently in the process of establishing Watermark Music and it is his intention to make available to the world all his recorded works.

The songs are now available for you to listen to and enjoy. You can purchase them on this website individually or in the collection of songs they were originally recorded in. Whichever way you choose.

In 2007 Nigel found himself resident in Germany.There he began the process of persuing his career within Europe. Again he found himself involved in the making of a film and once again he has written all the music for it. The film is based on a concept of ’Forgiveness’ and to date has involved several journeys to Israel Poland and central Europe. The film is entitled ’The Bells of Nuremberg’ and it is hoped will be for general release and eventually made available on the Watermark Website.