Warm Winter
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Warm Winter is the debut album by art-rock duo Memories of Machines
(a collaboration between No-Man
singer Tim Bowness
and Nosound
multi-instrumentalist Giancarlo Erra). The album was released in 2011.
Warm Winter features a wide range of guest performers, including two leading members of the 1970s progressive rock
movement (Robert Fripp
, Peter Hammill
) and several from its 1990s/2000s equivalent (Jim Matheos
(of Fates Warning
and OSI
), Huxflux Nettermalm of Paatos
, all current and several previous members of both Nosound
and Henry Fool
, and Porcupine Tree
's Colin Edwin
and Steven Wilson
(the latter of whom is also Bowness' partner in No-Man
). Other contributors to the album include Julianne Regan
(All About Eve
), Estonian jazz trumpeter Aleksei Saks and cellist Marianne de Chastelaine (Samuel Smiles
, Heather Nova
).
A different version of the song "Beautiful Songs You Should Know" appears on the 2008 No-Man album Schoolyard Ghosts
(this album shares a title with another song on Warm Winter, which is itself closely related to the No-Man track "Mixtaped").
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...
(a collaboration between 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...
singer Tim Bowness
Tim Bowness
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.-Music career:...
and 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...
multi-instrumentalist Giancarlo Erra). The album was released in 2011.
Warm Winter features a wide range of guest performers, including two leading members of the 1970s progressive rock
Progressive rock
Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...
movement (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...
) and several from its 1990s/2000s equivalent (Jim Matheos
Jim Matheos
Jim Matheos , is the American guitarist and primary songwriter for the progressive metal band Fates Warning. As of bassist Joe DiBiase's departure in 1996, he is the band's only permanent member...
(of Fates Warning
Fates Warning
Fates Warning is an American progressive metal band, formed in 1982 by vocalist John Arch, guitarists Jim Matheos and Victor Arduini, bassist Joe DiBiase, and drummer Steve Zimmerman in Hartford, Connecticut. Fates Warning has experienced numerous line-up changes...
and 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...
), Huxflux Nettermalm of Paatos
Paatos
Paatos is a Swedish rock band that was formed in 1999 by Reine Fiske and Stefan Dimle , Petronella Nettermalm, Ricard Nettermalm and Johan Wallen...
, all current and several previous members of both 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 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 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 Colin Edwin
Colin Edwin
Colin Edwin is a member of the British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree, where he plays both fretted and fretless bass guitar as well as double bass and guimbri. He joined the band in December 1993...
and 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...
(the latter of whom is also Bowness' partner in 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...
). Other contributors to the album include 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 :...
(All About Eve
All About Eve (band)
All About Eve were a British rock/pop band. The creative core consisted of the Coventry born Julianne Regan , and the Huddersfield born Andy Cousin , with other members changing over the years...
), Estonian jazz trumpeter Aleksei Saks and cellist Marianne de Chastelaine (Samuel Smiles
Samuel Smiles (band)
Samuel Smiles were an intermittently active English ambient-folk band...
, Heather Nova
Heather Nova
Heather Nova, is a Bermudian singer-songwriter and poet. She has released eight full-length albums and has found lasting success in Germany where two of her albums South and Storm have made their way into the Top-5 of German official album chart.-Biography:Heather Nova was born in Bermuda...
).
A different version of the song "Beautiful Songs You Should Know" appears on the 2008 No-Man album Schoolyard Ghosts
Schoolyard Ghosts
Schoolyard Ghosts is the name of the sixth studio album by British art rock band No-Man.Recorded in the UK, France, Sweden and the USA and released on May 12, 2008, the album features contributions from Bruce Kaphan , drummers Pat Mastelotto and Gavin Harrison , saxophonist/flautist Theo Travis, and...
(this album shares a title with another song on Warm Winter, which is itself closely related to the No-Man track "Mixtaped").
Tracklisting
All songs by Tim Bowness/Giancarlo Erra unless otherwise noted.- New Memories of Machines (1.31)
- Before We Fall (5.12)
- Beautiful Songs You Should Know (4.59)
- Warm Winter (5.34)
- Lucky You, Lucky Me (4.17)
- Change Me Once Again (5.56)
- Something in Our Lives (4.11)
- Lost and Found in the Digital World (5.14) (Tim Bowness/Giancarlo Erra/Robert Fripp)
- Schoolyard Ghosts (5.32) (Tim Bowness)
- At the Centre of It All (7.26)
Memories of Machines
- Tim BownessTim BownessTim 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.-Music career:...
– vocals, guitar on "Schoolyard Ghosts" - Giancarlo ErraNosoundNosound 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...
– guitars, keyboards, recording, engineering
Guest performers
- Steven WilsonSteven WilsonSteven John Wilson is an English musician, best known as the founder, lead guitarist, singer and songwriter of progressive rock band Porcupine Tree...
– guitars & keyboards on "Lucky You, Lucky Me", additional recording & engineering, mixing - Gabriele SaviniNosoundNosound 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...
- acoustic guitarAcoustic guitarAn acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...
on "Change Me Once Again" - Jim MatheosJim MatheosJim Matheos , is the American guitarist and primary songwriter for the progressive metal band Fates Warning. As of bassist Joe DiBiase's departure in 1996, he is the band's only permanent member...
- guitar atmospherics on "Something in Our Lives" - Robert FrippRobert FrippRobert 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...
- guitar SoundscapesSoundscapes by Robert FrippA musical style developed by guitarist Robert Fripp, involving the use of audio loops created and modified by a specific set of digital music synthesizers and digital audio processing devices....
on "Lost and Found in the Digital World" - Michael BearparkMichael BearparkMichael Bearpark is an English scientist and musician.-Work as scientist:Bearpark is a Principal Research Fellow in the Chemistry Department at Imperial College, London...
– volume-swell guitar on "Schoolyard Ghosts" - Peter HammillPeter HammillPeter 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...
– guitars on "At the Centre Of It All" - Alessandro LuciNosoundNosound 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...
- bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
on "Before We Fall", "Warm Winter" & "Change Me Once Again" - Peter ChilversPeter 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....
– bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
on "Schoolyard Ghosts" - Colin EdwinColin EdwinColin Edwin is a member of the British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree, where he plays both fretted and fretless bass guitar as well as double bass and guimbri. He joined the band in December 1993...
– double bassDouble bassThe double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
on "At the Centre Of It All" - Paolo MartelacciNosoundNosound 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...
- keyboards on "Before We Fall" & "Change Me Once Again" - Stephen Bennett – electric pianoElectric pianoAn electric piano is an electric musical instrument.Electric pianos produce sounds mechanically and the sounds are turned into electrical signals by pickups. Unlike a synthesizer, the electric piano is not an electronic instrument, but electro-mechanical. The earliest electric pianos were invented...
& synthesizerSynthesizerA synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...
solo on "Schoolyard Ghosts", additional recording & engineering - Huxflux NettermalmPaatosPaatos is a Swedish rock band that was formed in 1999 by Reine Fiske and Stefan Dimle , Petronella Nettermalm, Ricard Nettermalm and Johan Wallen...
- drums on "Before We Fall" & "Warm Winter" - Gigi ZitoGigi zitoGigi Zito is an Italian born drummer. Gigi's professional music career began in the summer1986,playing in tour with Nada , a famous Italian pop/rock singer. Since then he has become a Music Producer and composer along with being a professional full-time drummer. His latest work is A sense of loss...
- drums on "Change Me Once Again" - Andrew BookerAndrew BookerAndrew Booker is a British drummer and vocalist best known for his work with Tim Bowness and with ex-Yes guitarist Peter Banks ....
- drums on "Schoolyard Ghosts" - Aleksei Saks - trumpet on "Lost and Found in the Digital World"
- Myke CliffordSamuel Smiles (band)Samuel Smiles were an intermittently active English ambient-folk band...
- saxophone on "Schoolyard Ghosts" - Marianne de ChastelaineSamuel Smiles (band)Samuel Smiles were an intermittently active English ambient-folk band...
- cello on "Beautiful Songs You Should Know" & "At the Centre Of It All" - Julianne ReganJulianne ReganJulianne 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 :...
- backing vocals on "Before We Fall" & "Change Me Once Again"