OTL: Nicolas Meier World Group

TITLE: Nicolas Meier World Group --- SUBTITLE: Elysian Drift --- DATE/TIME: Tuesday 17 November 2026, 12pm --- VENUE: Culford Room at Cadogan Hall --- PERFORMERS: Nicolas Meier (guitars/glissentar), Demi Garcia Sabat (percussion), Alex Hutton (piano), Richard Jones (violin), Paul Michael (bass) --- EVENT COPY: Meier is one of those musicians who has deep-dived into many genres of music, resulting in a unique approach to the guitar that encompasses a mastery of jazz, Turkish idioms and Metal. He has also studied Classical and Flamenco, so this is all to be found in the sonic melting pot. Of the Turkish idioms, he has comprehensively absorbed the sounds, making use of quarter-tone scales to outstanding effect on his fretless guitar and glissentar (the 11-string, fretless guitar based on the oud). Meier's compositions and playing came to the attention of the great Jeff Beck, resulting in Je