Hastings/Brighton - "I realised I wanted to live when the doctor gave me the option of ending my life"

Oli Spleen by Kirill NikitinOli Spleen by Kirill Nikitin
Oli Spleen by Kirill Nikitin
Hastings-born Brighton musician Oli Spleen looks back on his near-death experience on his fifth and latest studio album Still Life.

Brought up in Hastings, Oli offers Still Life as “a hymn to nature, life, grief, mortality, decay and ultimately death.”

He offers it as an album for our times.

“Some of the themes within express global concerns, depicting the balancing forces of nature, the environment, displaced people, fears around climate change and mass extinction of species. Other themes are more personal, ranging from our own mortality, terminal illness, the grief of seeing a loved one slip away from us and the general anxieties of life in these unpredictable times.”

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