Los Angeles native Pam Shaffer aka Nyxe crafts lush missives that transport the listener into subterranean explorations of the magical and mundane. Nyxe is a space witch, a primordial night pixie, spinning songs pulled from the stars of her galaxy mind, drawn to maximalist sonic palettes that blend her beloved Steinway with the atmospheric swirls of her Moog Grandmother, Roland Juno, virtual synthesizers, sampled percussion and found sounds--all wrapped around layers of her ethereal voice.
Alongside her work as a recording artist and producer, Shaffer is a therapist, podcaster and writer who embraces the messy charm of leading a multi-faceted life. Her show, Why Not Both, features fellow artists and creators talking about their multiple passions. As time waxed and waned in 2020 without the usual markers, interior landscapes and mythologies became even more generative material for Nyxe’s stories. Her upcoming debut album, The Lovely Unknown, centers the strange, tenuous sense of safety and exploration that Shaffer saw in her clients, friends, and podcast guests, and of course within herself.
Time spent in her home studio encouraged Nyxe to level up as an artist and self-producer, much like the iconoclastic musicians she counts as influences--including Grimes, Enya and Björk. Sonically she retraced her steps from days experimenting in the high school synth lab to more recent afternoons spent home alone writing songs at her piano.
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