GADADU productions

Scores, Soundscapes and songs

Longtime collaborators Nicki Adams and Hannah Selin create fresh, imaginative music that moves freely between genres and mediums. With their band GADADU, the songwriting duo has released two albums to critical acclaim, with a third arriving in September 2022. Their score for 222, a short film directed by Delfine Paolini, was nominated for the 2018 Peer Raben Award at the SoundTrack Cologne festival. Recent collaborations include feature length documentary, Utter Nonsense (2023) and feature length film, A Wonderful Way With Dragons (2024).

Nicki, a jazz pianist, composer and synth wizard, has performed and recorded with musicians such as Francisco Mela, Billy Hart and Ebony Bones. Adams works as a keyboardist and producer with bands Votive Crown, Kyla Quinn, earthTone and Marcelino Feliciano as well as a music director and accompanist with dozens of broadway and jazz singers throughout NYC. He scored several award winning short films including Misguidance, 222 and 6 ft of Love as well as feature length documentaries and films and Off-Broadway productions. A Steeplechase recording artist, he has released six albums as a leader, three with his own band GADADU, and three in the duo context with Michael Eaton and his brother Patrick. He was a finalist in the inaugural Bob Ravenscroft international jazz piano competition (2022) and has toured throughout the USA and Canada with The Adams Quartet and GADADU.

As a composer, Hannah has won national and international awards and commissions, including second prize in the 2021 Balsys International Composition Competition (“Winter” from Four Mountain Songs for choir) and a 2018 commission from the Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra (Six Narratives for six vocalists and chamber orchestra). Also a sound designer, Selin works with soloists and ensembles to create immersive soundscape compositions. Her 2021 composition dream journal, commissioned by Chromic Duo, was a finalist for the international 2022 Zodiac Composition Prize.