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Nico Guerrero is a French experimental composer and guitarist whose work explores the outer edges of drone, minimalism, and sonic ritual. He first emerged in the early 90’s with Vortex, a dark shoegaze project that established his interest in dense textures and immersive atmospheres. The debut album Eksaïphnès (Les Disques du Soleil et de l’Acier, 2000) already outlined the core of his aesthetic: a frozen, cosmic, and noise-infused universe that he currently continue to expand in solo.

Working with a setup centered around a single electric guitar transformed through occult electronic processes—Nico Guerrero crafts vast sonic architectures. His music unfolds as a play of overtones and resonances, where strings bloom into organ-like clusters and dissolve into swirling fields of sound. Within this dense, almost symphonic space, ghostly harmonics and shifting frequencies emerge, suggesting a form of controlled chaos shaped by both intuition and discipline.

In 2015, Guerrero began a close collaboration with American composer Rhys Chatham, creating a poly-instrumental work for electric guitars, flute, and trumpet. Their partnership extended to studio recordings, live duets, and large-scale performances, including the co-conduction of Chatham’s Symphony for 100 Guitars in Le Havre in June 2018 or for Hermès in Paris in June 2025.

His 2019 release Live at the Nordic House, recorded during the Iceland Airwaves festival, reflects a deep connection to Iceland’s stark landscapes and solitude. The album channels a sense of isolation and reverence, paying tribute to influences such as Coil—with a cover of “A Cold Cell”—and echoing the spectral presence of Nico (of The Velvet Underground) in pieces like “Clepsydra.”

After the release of his piece “Horus Rising” for the Dark Indicator 2 – Guitar & String Drones Collection (2020) on Silent Records label, a new studio album Streams of Oblivion followed in 2021, conceived entirely in Reykjavík during the winter months and later recorded and mixed in Paris. Built from layered electric guitars, the work evokes a vast “cathedral of sound,” drawing on esoteric symbolism and Icelandic telluric forces—volcanoes, hidden entities, and mythic presences.

The result is a deeply immersive body of work, oscillating between ceremonial gravity, cold abstraction, and luminous melancholy.

At the beginning of 2026, Nico Guerrero and Rhys Chatham released Athanor on the US label Erototox Decodings. More than a conventional collaboration, the album is conceived as a process of sonic transmutation.

Named after the alchemical furnace, Athanor unfolds as a disciplined ritual in which tuning becomes cosmology, repetition functions as incantation, and resonance reveals hidden structures within sound.

The mastering, handled by Australian composer and sound artist Lawrence English (Room 40), acts as the final alchemical seal—refining and amplifying the material into a heightened sonic presence.

Deeply introspective and often ritualistic, the music of Nico Guerrero navigates between darkness and radiance, evoking a profound sense of space, mystery, and inner transformation.

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Recent Posts

Ómun | Theosophical Society Reykjavik | Sept 25 2026
Nico Guerrero & RM Hendrix | video at Extreme Chill festival | Sept.5 2026
Nico Guerrero & R.M. Hendrix | Who Can Sleep Now? | New Ep
RM HENDRIX & NICO GUERRERO | Extreme Chill Reykjavik| Sept 5 2026
Ómun | Nordic House Reykjavik | Aug 2 2026
Rhys Chatham+Nico Guerrero+Stirnir | The Grapevine Interview
Rhys Chatham & Nico Guerrero | Mengi Reykjavik | June 20 2026
Rhys Chatham Guitar Trio | Tónabíó Reykjavik | June 21 2026
COSMIC CODEX | Nico Guerrero @White Lotus 18.06.26
Ómun performance | Port9 Reykjavik | Apr.02.2026
Performance “Ómun” for Resonance Exhibition | Nullið Gallery RKV | 17.02.2026
“Athanor” as described by Thurston Moore
Ljós í Myrkri Festival | RM Hendrix & Nico Guerrero | Feb.13 2026
Performance for Ex.Sapiens exhibition | hafnar.haus Reykjavik | Feb.07 2026
“ATHANOR” LP vinyl | Rhys Chatham & Nico Guerrero
David F. Presents : Athanor
“ATHANOR” LP | Rhys Chatham & Nico Guerrero | out today on Erototox Decodings
RM Hendrix & Nico Guerrero | Mengi Reykjavik | Oct.11 2025
Nico Guerrero | Falconfest at Lemmy RKV | Oct.5 2025
RM. Hendrix & Nico Guerrero / Reykjavik, Sept. 2025
Rhys Chatham Guitar Orchestra | Cinémathèque de Paris | Feb. 27 2025
Nico Guerrero Live Stream | Space Odyssey | jan. 29 2025 | Reykjavik
Upcoming release of “ATHAN🜔R” | Rhys Chatham & Nico Guerrero duet album
⟁ New Update ⟁ Appel à Guitaristes pour l’Ensemble de Rhys Chatham
BROKEN IMPRO | LE CHAIR DE POULE, PARIS | FEB. 07 2024
“Agame” release 2023 | Limited edition cassette on Space Odyssey
Nico Guerrero Live Stream | Space Odyssey | sept. 15 2022 | Reykjavik
Nico Guerrero opening for Lee Ranaldo | Maroquinerie, Paris | June 21 2022
Broken Impro | Le Chair de Poule, Paris | June 15 2022
Horus Rising | Vidéo Live @ Instants Chavirés | 8.3.2022
#Quasi 2022.3 | concert @ Les instants Chavirés | Montreuil, March 8 2022
Out on Bancamp now “NOT IN MY FUTURE: A Tribute to Genesis Breyer P-Orridge”
Video | the RHYS CHATHAM’s GUITAR ORCHESTRA @ BBMIX festival Paris | 27 Nov. 2021
RHYS CHATHAM GUITAR ENSEMBLE @ BBMIX festival Paris | 27 Nov. 2021
Nico Guerrero “Streams of Oblivion” album featured on Trash Flow Radio | Oct. 16 2021
Nico Guerrero concert at Extreme Chill Festival | Húrra – Reykjavik | Oct. 9 2021
STREAMS OF OBLOVION : reviewed + featured on the REYKJAVIK GRAPEVINE playlist!
New Album out now: Nico Guerrero “STREAMS OF OBLIVION” | Silent Records
New release 2021 annonced: Nico Guerrero “Streams of Oblivion” Album
Record compilation + book project “NOT IN MY FUTURE: A Tribute to Genesis Breyer P-Orridge”
Nico Guerrero + Rhys Chatham | concert video at 0fr. | Paris, Nov. 20 2015
DARK INDICATOR II – a collection of guitar & string drones
Wladd Muta & Nico Guerrero | Performance @ Galerie L’Antichambre | Sept. 11 2020
Review “Live at the Nordic House” by Dimi Brands | DARK ENTRIES
#Quasi 2020.1 | Performance @ Les Instants Chavirés | Jan. 28 2020
Review “Live at the Nordic House” by Yannick Blay | NEWNOISE
Nico Guerrero | Showcase @ Walrus Café | Paris, Nov. 14 2019
Review “Live at the Nordic House” by MÄX LACHAUD | OBSKÜRE
New album out today: Nico Guerrero Live at the Nordic House Reykjavik
1st track from the forthcoming album “Nico Guerrero, Live at the Nordic House”, Release sept.01.2019

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