This is the brand new video for my new song “From 10 to 11″ featuring Jubei on vocals (of L Maestro Presents). I recorded mixed and edited all the music as well as shooting and editing the video itself. The drum beats are all cut up clips from my own drum breaks mashed up into [...]

L Maestro descended to the surface of the earth once again in Cleveland Ohio on Sunday, August 16th to rock the Grog Shop. Although Taylor, Jason and I have been performing as “The Cell Theory” in the mean time, this group hadn’t played together since late 2004. We were scattered around the country in proportion [...]

In the midst of moving, I haven’t been able to post any of the new stuff I have been working on, but I did come across this gem from a Cell Theory Show with Taylor McFerrin and Jason Fraticelli at the Blue Note a couple of years ago. This song, at the time called “Altered [...]

Here it is. In the midst of a dynamic time of reflecting on the past and starting anew, I bring you the all new, fully comprehensive nigelsifantus.com. Here you will find pages dedicated to all the bands I have played with over the past decade with detailed information on each, as well as music both [...]

Since getting my iPhone a few months ago I quickly realized it is one of the most amazing new musical tools. When my daughter received this “Elmo” guitar for a birthday present from a certain musician friend of mine, I thought it might be the worst thing I had ever heard. That is until I [...]

The L Maestro Presents show in Cleveland on Sunday the 16th quietly ended an almost year long hiatus from performing for me, the longest I’ve gone without performing I believe since I was around 7 years old, performing contemporary classical music at the Rivers music school. Sure I had sit in at a couple of [...]

I was listening to NPR on my way home yesterday (yes since there is no music worth listening to on the radio any more I nerdily am usually listening to NPR these days) they were doing a bit about “classic summer jams” and discussing what were this year’s big summer hits. An amazing fact was [...]

A few days ago I was itching to see some jazz and found listed on lajazz.com that a group called the Robert Mullins trio would be playing in Huntington Beach (my current place of residence) at a place called the “Sandbox.” I had no idea what to expect but figured it was worth a chance. [...]

A few nights ago I found myself in a full fledged battle with me on one side, and my miscommunicating computer and new audio interface on the other. I had a simple project in mind for the evening: record few drum clips into Ableton Live from my v-drums so that I could cut them up [...]

This is my first video experimenting with the V-drums. I’m basically just exploring the sounds, no samples or sequences here. This is raw and meant to be just a peek into the world that is to come.