Tim Bowness
Encyclopedia
Tim Bowness is a singer/songwriter
primarily known for his work as part of the band No-Man
, a long-term project formed in 1987 with Porcupine Tree
's Steven Wilson
.
album
s with No-Man (for record label
s such as One Little Indian, Sony/Epic and Kscope
), Bowness has appeared on recordings by Italian
artist
Alice
, OSI
and guitarist David Torn
.
In 1994, he recorded a collaboration album with Porcupine Tree
/Japan
/Rain Tree Crow
keyboard player Richard Barbieri
, called Flame
.
Additionally, Bowness has been a core or floating member of several other bands.
He has sung for German electronic band Centrozoon
and British electro-improvisers Darkroom
on the more vocal-orientated projects performed and released by each group.
He is the lead singer and guitarist for Henry Fool
and also sings for Memories of Machines
and Anglo Estonian Jazz band, Slow Electric. He was singer (and occasional second guitarist) for Samuel Smiles
between 1992 and 2000.
Bowness also has a longstanding duo collaboration with Ely
-based multi-instrumentalist Peter Chilvers
(with whom he has worked in Samuel Smiles
and Henry Fool
). Mostly based around voice and keyboards (predominantly piano), this project has produced one album, 2002's California, Norfolk.
Following years of collaborations, Bowness' debut solo album, My Hotel Year was released on the One Little Indian label in 2004. The album continued to make use of Bowness collaborators both old and new (featuring Roger Eno
and Hugh Hopper
amongst others).
Recent activity has included guest appearances with Italian band Nosound
and Norwegian groups White Willow
and The Opium Cartel
.
In 2009, Bowness co-wrote and co-produced Talking with Strangers
, an album by former Fairport Convention
singer, Judy Dyble
, which also features Robert Fripp
, Ian McDonald
, Simon Nicol
, Jacqui McShee
and Julianne Regan
(amongst others).
Featuring performances from Robert Fripp
, Peter Hammill
, Julianne Regan
and others, Warm Winter, the debut album by Memories of Machines
, was released on the Mascot label in April 2011.
The self-titled debut album from Slow Electric is due to be released on the Panegyric
label in October, 2011.
record label
and store Burning Shed
with Peter Chilvers
and Pete Morgan.
Songwriter
A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...
primarily known for his work as part of the band No-Man
No-Man
No-Man are a British art-pop duo formed in 1987 as No Man Is An Island by singer Tim Bowness and multi-instrumentalist Steven Wilson . The band has so far produced six studio albums and a number of singles/outtakes collections...
, a long-term project formed in 1987 with Porcupine Tree
Porcupine Tree
Porcupine Tree is a progressive rock band formed by Steven Wilson in 1987 in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England. Their music is difficult to categorise, being associated with both psychedelic rock and progressive rock, yet having been influenced by trance, krautrock and ambient due to Steven...
's Steven Wilson
Steven Wilson
Steven John Wilson is an English musician, best known as the founder, lead guitarist, singer and songwriter of progressive rock band Porcupine Tree...
.
Music career
In addition to recordingSound recording and reproduction
Sound recording and reproduction is an electrical or mechanical inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects. The two main classes of sound recording technology are analog recording and digital recording...
album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
s with No-Man (for record label
Record label
In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...
s such as One Little Indian, Sony/Epic and Kscope
Kscope
Kscope is a division or sub-label of independent record label Snapper Music dedicated to artists in the Post-Progressive genre.Artists that the label has issued albums for to date include Anathema, Anekdoten, Engineers, Lunatic Soul, No-Man, North Atlantic Oscillation, Nosound, Porcupine Tree,...
), Bowness has appeared on recordings by Italian
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
artist
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
Alice
Alice (Italian singer)
Alice , also known as Alice Visconti is an Italian singer-songwriter and pianist, active since 1971...
, OSI
OSI (band)
OSI is an American progressive rock band, originally formed by Fates Warning guitarist Jim Matheos in 2002. Chroma Key keyboardist and vocalist Kevin Moore is the only other full-time member of the band...
and guitarist David Torn
David Torn
David Torn is an American composer and guitarist.He is known for the organic blending/manipulation of electronic and acoustic instruments and performance techniques that have an atmospheric or textural quality and effect, along with a particular harmonic richness...
.
In 1994, he recorded a collaboration album with Porcupine Tree
Porcupine Tree
Porcupine Tree is a progressive rock band formed by Steven Wilson in 1987 in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England. Their music is difficult to categorise, being associated with both psychedelic rock and progressive rock, yet having been influenced by trance, krautrock and ambient due to Steven...
/Japan
Japan (band)
Japan were a British New Wave group, formed in 1974 in Catford, South London. The band achieved success in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when they were often associated with the burgeoning New Romantic fashion movement .- History :The band began as a group of friends...
/Rain Tree Crow
Rain Tree Crow
Rain Tree Crow was the name used by the English New Wave band Japan when they briefly reformed for this one-off project, which would be their final album...
keyboard player Richard Barbieri
Richard Barbieri
Richard Barbieri, is an English synthesiser player, keyboardist and composer. He was educated at Catford Boys' School, Catford, South East London...
, called Flame
Flame (Richard Barbieri and Tim Bowness album)
- Song credits :A Night In Heaven Steve Jansen - drum programmingMick Karn - saxophoneRichard Barbieri - keyboards, synthetisers, additional drum programmingTim Bowness - vocal...
.
Additionally, Bowness has been a core or floating member of several other bands.
He has sung for German electronic band Centrozoon
Centrozoon
centrozoon is a German electronic improvisational music group. The core members are Markus Reuter and Bernhard Wöstheinrich...
and British electro-improvisers Darkroom
Darkroom (electronic music project)
Darkroom is a British electronic music project created by Andrew "Os" Ostler and Michael Bearpark .Other contributors to the project have been Tim Bowness and Peter Chilvers ....
on the more vocal-orientated projects performed and released by each group.
He is the lead singer and guitarist for Henry Fool
Henry Fool (band)
Henry Fool are an English progressive rock band that use elements of jazz and post-rock in their music.The core members of the band are Tim Bowness and Stephen Bennett...
and also sings for Memories of Machines
Memories of Machines
Memories Of Machines is a band formed by Tim Bowness and Giancarlo Erra in April 2006.-History:Memories of Machines emerged as a full project following Bowness' first collaborations with Nosound during the mid-2000s. This began with a song called "Someone Starts to Fade Away" which eventually...
and Anglo Estonian Jazz band, Slow Electric. He was singer (and occasional second guitarist) for Samuel Smiles
Samuel Smiles (band)
Samuel Smiles were an intermittently active English ambient-folk band...
between 1992 and 2000.
Bowness also has a longstanding duo collaboration with Ely
Ely, Cambridgeshire
Ely is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, England, 14 miles north-northeast of Cambridge and about by road from London. It is built on a Lower Greensand island, which at a maximum elevation of is the highest land in the Fens...
-based multi-instrumentalist Peter Chilvers
Peter Chilvers (musician)
Peter Chilvers is a Cambridgeshire-based British musician and composer best known as a collaborator with Brian Eno and Tim Bowness.Chilvers is one of the three co-founders of the Burning Shed online record label, with Tim Bowness and Pete Morgan....
(with whom he has worked in Samuel Smiles
Samuel Smiles (band)
Samuel Smiles were an intermittently active English ambient-folk band...
and Henry Fool
Henry Fool (band)
Henry Fool are an English progressive rock band that use elements of jazz and post-rock in their music.The core members of the band are Tim Bowness and Stephen Bennett...
). Mostly based around voice and keyboards (predominantly piano), this project has produced one album, 2002's California, Norfolk.
Following years of collaborations, Bowness' debut solo album, My Hotel Year was released on the One Little Indian label in 2004. The album continued to make use of Bowness collaborators both old and new (featuring Roger Eno
Roger Eno
Roger Eugene Eno was born in Woodbridge, England in 1959. He is known primarily as an ambient composer.He began euphonium lessons at twelve and at sixteen entered Colchester College to study music...
and Hugh Hopper
Hugh Hopper
Hugh Colin Hopper was a progressive rock and jazz fusion bass guitarist. He was a prominent member of the Canterbury scene, as a member of Soft Machine and various other related bands.-Early career:...
amongst others).
Recent activity has included guest appearances with Italian band Nosound
Nosound
Nosound is an Italian progressive rock band that started as a vision by Giancarlo Erra. All of the early recordings were composed, played, produced, engineered, and released by Erra. As time passed, this music became more popular and the demand for live performances increased...
and Norwegian groups White Willow
White Willow
Salix alba is a species of willow native to Europe and western and central Asia. The name derives from the white tone to the undersides of the leaves....
and The Opium Cartel
The Opium Cartel
The Opium Cartel is Jacob Holm-Lupo's solo-project away from his other band, White Willow. The project involves musicians from White Willow, Wobbler, Änglagård, Pineforest Crunch, Jaga Jazzist, No-Man, Rhys Marsh and the Autumn Ghost, The Rentals and more. The debut album is entitled "Night...
.
In 2009, Bowness co-wrote and co-produced Talking with Strangers
Talking with Strangers
Talking with Strangers is a 2009 album by Judy Dyble featuring Robert Fripp, Ian McDonald, Julianne Regan, Simon Nicol, Tim Bowness, Jacqui McShee, Pat Mastelotto, Alistair Murphy, Celia Humphris, Laurie A'Court, Rachel Hall, Mark Fletcher, and Harry Fletcher.The album features a near 20-minute...
, an album by former Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention are an English folk rock and later electric folk band, formed in 1967 who are still recording and touring today. They are widely regarded as the most important single group in the English folk rock movement...
singer, Judy Dyble
Judy Dyble
Judith Aileen Dyble, better known as Judy Dyble , is an award winning British singer/songwriter most notable for being one of the vocalists with, and founder members of, Fairport Convention and Trader Horne; in between these she was very briefly with Giles, Giles and Fripp, which evolved into...
, which also features Robert Fripp
Robert Fripp
Robert Fripp is an English guitarist, composer and record producer. He was ranked 42nd on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and #47 on Gibson.com’s "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time". Among rock guitarists, Fripp is a master of crosspicking, a technique...
, Ian McDonald
Iain Matthews
Iain Matthews is an English musician and songwriter. He was born Iain Matthew McDonald, in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. He was known in the 1960s first as Ian McDonald, then as the 1960s progressed, as Ian Matthews...
, Simon Nicol
Simon Nicol
Simon John Breckenridge Nicol is a guitarist, singer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. He was a founder member of British folk rock, or electric folk group Fairport Convention and is the only founding member still in the band...
, Jacqui McShee
Jacqui McShee
thumb|300px|right|Jacqui McShee performing with [[Pentangle]] at the 2007 [[BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards]]Jacqueline 'Jacqui' McShee is an English singer. Since 1966 she has performed with Pentangle, a jazz influenced folk rock band.-Biography:McShee's musical career began as a soloist in British folk...
and Julianne Regan
Julianne Regan
Julianne Regan is an English singer, song writer, guitarist, bass guitarist and keyboard player. She is best known for being the lead singer of the band, All About Eve.- Early life :...
(amongst others).
Featuring performances from Robert Fripp
Robert Fripp
Robert Fripp is an English guitarist, composer and record producer. He was ranked 42nd on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and #47 on Gibson.com’s "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time". Among rock guitarists, Fripp is a master of crosspicking, a technique...
, Peter Hammill
Peter Hammill
Peter Joseph Andrew Hammill is an English singer-songwriter, and a founding member of the progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator. Most noted for his vocal abilities, his main instruments are guitar and piano...
, Julianne Regan
Julianne Regan
Julianne Regan is an English singer, song writer, guitarist, bass guitarist and keyboard player. She is best known for being the lead singer of the band, All About Eve.- Early life :...
and others, Warm Winter, the debut album by Memories of Machines
Memories of Machines
Memories Of Machines is a band formed by Tim Bowness and Giancarlo Erra in April 2006.-History:Memories of Machines emerged as a full project following Bowness' first collaborations with Nosound during the mid-2000s. This began with a song called "Someone Starts to Fade Away" which eventually...
, was released on the Mascot label in April 2011.
The self-titled debut album from Slow Electric is due to be released on the Panegyric
Panegyric
A panegyric is a formal public speech, or written verse, delivered in high praise of a person or thing, a generally highly studied and discriminating eulogy, not expected to be critical. It is derived from the Greek πανηγυρικός meaning "a speech fit for a general assembly"...
label in October, 2011.
Business
In 2001, Tim co-established the onlineONLINE
ONLINE is a magazine for information systems first published in 1977. The publisher Online, Inc. was founded the year before. In May 2002, Information Today, Inc. acquired the assets of Online Inc....
record label
Record label
In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...
and store Burning Shed
Burning Shed
Burning Shed is an independent record label established in April 2001 by musicians Tim Bowness and Peter Chilvers, in association with duplication company manager and former Noisebox Records boss, Pete Morgan....
with Peter Chilvers
Peter Chilvers (musician)
Peter Chilvers is a Cambridgeshire-based British musician and composer best known as a collaborator with Brian Eno and Tim Bowness.Chilvers is one of the three co-founders of the Burning Shed online record label, with Tim Bowness and Pete Morgan....
and Pete Morgan.
Charting songs/albums
| Song | Chart | Position | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Taking It Like a Man" (with No-Man) | Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... Hot Dance Music/Club Play(US) |
34 | 1994 |
| "Viaggio In Italia" (with Alice) | Italian Albums Chart | 16 | 2003 |
Select discography (Outside No-Man)
- Warm Winter (Mascot, 2011) - with Giancarlo Erra (as Memories of MachinesMemories of MachinesMemories Of Machines is a band formed by Tim Bowness and Giancarlo Erra in April 2006.-History:Memories of Machines emerged as a full project following Bowness' first collaborations with Nosound during the mid-2000s. This began with a song called "Someone Starts to Fade Away" which eventually...
) - Talking with StrangersTalking with StrangersTalking with Strangers is a 2009 album by Judy Dyble featuring Robert Fripp, Ian McDonald, Julianne Regan, Simon Nicol, Tim Bowness, Jacqui McShee, Pat Mastelotto, Alistair Murphy, Celia Humphris, Laurie A'Court, Rachel Hall, Mark Fletcher, and Harry Fletcher.The album features a near 20-minute...
(FixIt, 2009) with Judy Dyble (guest vocals throughout the album, which was co-written and co-produced by Bowness) - BloodBlood (OSI album)Blood is the third studio album by American progressive rock band OSI, released by InsideOut Music on April 27, 2009 in Europe and May 19, 2009 in North America....
(Inside Out, 2009) - with OSIOSI (band)OSI is an American progressive rock band, originally formed by Fates Warning guitarist Jim Matheos in 2002. Chroma Key keyboardist and vocalist Kevin Moore is the only other full-time member of the band...
(guest vocals on one track) - LightdarkLightdarkLightdark is the second album of the Italian progressive rock band Nosound. This is the first official studio album to include members other than the founder Giancarlo Erra....
(Kscope, 2008) - with NosoundNosoundNosound is an Italian progressive rock band that started as a vision by Giancarlo Erra. All of the early recordings were composed, played, produced, engineered, and released by Erra. As time passed, this music became more popular and the demand for live performances increased...
(guest vocals on one track) - Duality (Holy Records, 2008) - with Rajna (guests on three tracks)
- The Scent of Crash and BurnThe Scent Of Crash And BurnThe Scent Of Crash And Burn is a mini-album / EP by Centrozoon , featuring No-Man singer Tim Bowness as a guest vocalist; the first in a series of releases by this trio configuration which included both CD and vinyl albums, digital-releases, as well as a DVD.Selected tracks from The Scent Of Crash...
EP (Burning Shed, 2003) - with centrozoonCentrozooncentrozoon is a German electronic improvisational music group. The core members are Markus Reuter and Bernhard Wöstheinrich... - Never Trust the Way You Are (Resonancer, 2004) - with centrozoon
- My Hotel Year (One Little Indian, 2004) - Solo album
- Viaggio in Italia (NuN Entertainment, 2003) - with Alice (guest vocals on two tracks)
- California, Norfolk (Burning Shed, 2002) - with Peter Chilvers
- Ones And Zeros (Voiceprint, 1997) - with Rosario "Saro" Cosentino (guest vocals on one track)
- FlameFlame (Richard Barbieri and Tim Bowness album)- Song credits :A Night In Heaven Steve Jansen - drum programmingMick Karn - saxophoneRichard Barbieri - keyboards, synthetisers, additional drum programmingTim Bowness - vocal...
(One Little Indian, 1994) - with Richard BarbieriRichard BarbieriRichard Barbieri, is an English synthesiser player, keyboardist and composer. He was educated at Catford Boys' School, Catford, South East London... - Another Beauty Blooms (Stranger Records, 1986) - with Ian Simpson, Mike Bearpark