A polyrhythmic farewell to my place of residence of the last 12 months. Huntington Beach is a city of amazing contrasts. A beautiful shoreline with the best surfing in the country littered with aging offshore oil wells. Cookie cutter housing developments side by side with rusty oil drills. Opulent wealth next to abject poverty. Almost [...]

A video tribute to Luke Vibert, JoJo Mayer, KJ Sakwa, and the health care reform debate insanity. This is a live drum n’ bass performance video from Nigel Sifantus’ upcoming solo ep. Like a line of dominos, The sounds are set up and then knocked down using digital V-drums, nobs, sliders and effects. Prepare to [...]

In light of President Obama’s speech last night, and all the recent insane chatter on the healthcare issue, I have been reflecting on my own experience with our country’s “health care system.” Although I have lived a relatively healthy life (I did break my leg when I was 5) heath insurance, or a lack thereof [...]

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 [...]