Mushroom Music Publishing

With seven solo albums, four of those released internationally, and guests spots on hundreds of releases, Nathan Haines has been at the forefront of modern soul, jazz and electronic music for over 20 years.

His albums Squire for Hire and Soundtravels produced in London by Phil Asher have remained classics, and featured an incredible array of talent including US soul legend Marlena Shaw, UK diva Vanessa Freeman, US poet Rich Medina, Damon Albarn in his D2 guise singing a Steely Dan cover, plus the hit singles Earth is the Place (released on Francois Kervorkian's US label) and Squire for Hire.

Nathan has also recorded an album with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra with arrangements by the grammy award winning Alan Broadbent, and has played many major festivals and clubs throughout the world including the 2010 Java Jazz Festival, Tokyo Blue Note, the North Sea Jazz Festival, and the UK's Southport Weekender.

Collaborations and sessions include Reel People, Jamiroquai, Marco di Marco, Billy Cobham, 4-Hero, Da Lata, Masters at Work, Louie Vega, Jon Cutler and many more.

Heaven and Earth, Nathan's seventh studio album was released on Warner Music in March 2010 to critical acclaim, and the band played the main stage at Java Jazz Festival in Jakarta over three nights. Vanessa Freeman once again features on the single It's Alright, and guitarist brother Joel features strongly on material the pair have written together. Recorded between Nathan and Joel's studios and Neil Finn's superb Roundhead Studios in Auckland, drummer Mickey Ututaonga is captured to good old fashioned tape, and UK vocalist Kevin Mark Trail features on the dub-heavy single Pathway. Vanessa shares vocal duties with Mike Patto and Nathan for the 8-minute epic Etched Into Gold, and Nathan sings the title track Heaven and Earth. Much more experimental than pervious releases, this album also features artwork by iconic New Zealand artist Martin Poppelwell, and the ever elusive Frank Booker will be doing club remixes of the singles.

1972 - Born into a musical family, father Kevin is a jazz bassist who has performed in New Zealand with Nat Adderley, Eartha Kitt, and Lee Konitz as well as New Zealand's finest musicians

1985 - Awarded Most Outstanding Young Jazz Musician at the Tauranga Jazz Festival aged 13

1989 - Awarded Sony Young Jazz Musician of the Year, judged by US guitarist John Scofield

1991 - Left New Zealand for New York after receiving an AGC Young Achievers Award

1994 - Returns to New Zealand to record Shift Left, his first solo album released on Polygram records and later Verve records in Europe, after being spotted playing at Cause Celebre nightclub by Gilles Peterson. Gilles went on to support Nathan's music years later in the UK. Shift Left becomes New Zealand's biggest selling jazz-based record, going to gold status and beyond, and this record stands until the release ten years later of the UK recorded album Squire for Hire

1995 - Moves to London at the bequest of UK dj Roy the Roach, where Nathan went onto perform at clubs and raves alongside Roy and dj legend Paul Trouble Anderson at the Loft in Camden

1996 - The album Soundkilla Sessions is released in New Zealand on Polygram Records which features live performances from Nathan and various band line-ups and with studio overdubs and turntablism from dj Manuel Bundy

1997 - Starts weekly residency "bemsha!" at the Notting Hill Arts Club which fuses dj sets from the likes of Phil Asher, Gilles Peterson, Goldie, Bob Jones, A-Sides, Paul Trouble Anderson, 4-Hero and many others, with live music sets from Nathan and his band. Guests and performers included Vanessa Freeman, Mike Patto, Kaidi Thatham, Mark de Clive Lowe, Miles Danso, Williams Cumberbache, Simon Colam, Level Neville Malcolm, Daniel Crosby, Chris Franck, Karl Orr and even US drumming legend Billy Cobham. The residency lasts 4 years and regularly tops London's weekly guide Time Out as one of the top live music and dj nights

1998 - Nathan and drum and bass producer Jason Cambridge (A-Sides) record Melt and OD for Goldie's Metalheadz label under the name Sci-clone. The single goes onto become an underground hit, and the pair go onto record several more singles for the Metalheadz, Reinforced, and for the Artcore compilations with their song Everywhere I Go still being played by dj's today

2000 - Records Sound Travels with producer and co-writer Phil Asher (restless soul) for Chillifunk Records, which includes tracks Earth is the Place (remixed by Francois Kervorkian and released on his US label Wave), Long (remixed by 4 Hero), Believe (remixed by Kenny Dope), Surprising sung by Marcus Begg, jazz stormer Wonderful Thing sung by Vanessa Freeman and a jazz ballad written and sung by Nathan

2001 - Nathan and his band play London's Jazz Cafe, the Tokyo Blue Note, Holland's Drum Rhythm and North Sea Jazz Festivals as well as Sound Travels receiving critical acclaim and heavy dj rotation around the world. Nathan also goes onto record with Reel People, 4-Hero, Mark de Clive Lowe, Da Lata, Masters at Work, Fanatix, Louie Vega and many others

2003 - Nathan and Phil record Squire For Hire featuring US soul legend Marlena Shaw on the title track, US poet Rich Medina, Damon Albarn singing a cover of Steely Dan's FM, Vanessa Freeman, Mike Patto, Marcus Begg, Shelly Nelson and many others. Nathan and the band continue to tour Europe with performances in Italy, Greece, Russia and throughout the UK

2005 - Nathan records an album with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra featuring arrangements from ex-pat Grammy Award winning arranger Alan Broadbent, plus originals from Nathan and brother Joel. They tour New Zealand to sold-out concert halls and the album garners critical acclaim

2006 - Nathan performs with Marlena Shaw and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra around New Zealand, this is Marlena's first series of concerts with an 85-piece symphony orchestra and her first visit to NZ. Nathan has been part of Marlena's UK band since 2001 and they regularly perform and record together. Nathan also records the song Tallulah with Jamiroquai at Jay Kay's home studio outside of London, and Nathan is invited to perform with the band at a large outdoor concert in South London

2007 - Nathan and co-producer and co-writer Chris Cox record Right Now between New Zealand and the UK for Nathan's new label Haven Music. Once again Marlena Shaw sings the title track and other guests include Vanessa Freeman, Mike Patto (also executive producer), brother Joel Haines, Dixon Nacey and UK band member Leon Stenning on guitar, percussionist Miguel Fuentes, and vocalist Tama Waipara

Nathan flys out Mike Patto and Vanessa Freeman to tour the album in New Zealand, and they make a music clip directed by Luke Sharpe for the first single "Tell Me" which features the band playing to a club of dancing robots. The band play Melbourne's Miss Libertine club at the end of the tour

2008 - Sci-clone play the Sun and Bass Festival in Italy, their first live gig since the formation of the band over ten years ago. Nathan also guests with Marlena Shaw for three nights at Ronnie Scotts Jazz club in London, and performs with his own band at Camden's Koko Club

Nathan produces Music for Cocktail Lovers for Sony/Thom Music at Neil Finn's new studio Roundhead in Auckland, his first outing as a sole producer which features his NZ band playing music from Herbie Hancock, Joni Mitchell, Zero7, Nina Simone as well as an original composition. Long term collaborator and keyboardist Kevin Field features strongly, leading to Nathan producing a solo album for Kevin which will be out early 2010

2009 - Right Now is released on UK label Freestyle with 12" vinyl remixes from Domu and Summer Street and new cover art for the UK market.

2010 - Heaven and Earth is released on Warner Music New Zealand in March and charts in the top 20 for three weeks running, with critics calling it "sonically superb" and "easily his best work yet". The band play the Java Jazz festival in Jakarta with UK guests Mike Patto, Vanessa Freeman and percussionist Will Fry.