Grey October Day remix contest

Grey October Day – from the Mercury entered album Talking With Strangers, features Robert Fripp, Tim Bowness, Alistair Murphy, Simon Nicol, Ian McDonald and Julianne Regan amongst others, has been superbly reviewed worldwide, and the single will be issued as a download, CD EP and limited vinyl, and you could be involved...

From 26th June 2010, the entire file stems for this track will be available from www.cromerzone.co.uk, and you will be able to construct your own remix, in whatever style you like. It needs to be made 3 mins long (max), and the only rule, no 'effects' can be put on Judy or Tim 's vocals.

Otherwise, the floor is yours, do whatever you think best, and see what you can achieve with this superb track...

Terms of remix:

• The 10 tracks that Judy and Tim consider best will be released as 'official B sides downloads' on Monday October 18th 2010, via Brilliant!/Genepool/Universal
• The winning track will additionally be released on the CD, EP, and the limited vinyl
• Each version will count towards overall chart success, and the single will be heavily promoted to help achieve this
• Each artist chosen will be accounted too, and paid a small % royalty of the tracks overall nett profits, 6 months after release. A simple one page licence release form will be agreed and signed
• The closing date for mixed and mastered tracks is Friday 30th July 2010 at midnight. No late entries will be accepted, and Judy Dyble's decision, via her management company is final
• All entries are to be submitted via email, to judydybleremix@gmail.com
• Any enquiries to the same address

Tim recorded a vocal performance for Estonian duo UMA in April for its new album, Hymn To Undiscovered Land. Tim appears on the six and half minute title track, providing lead vocals, lyrics and treated vocal textures.

Tim describes that album as having a "rich, melancholy feel that would fit in well with the more atmospheric output on the ECM label."

Percussionist Andi Pupato (from ECM band Nik Bärtsch's Ronin) has mixed the album and plays throughout. Aleksei Saks, the duo's trumpet player, has recently contributed to the still gestating Memories Of Machines album.

The album can be pre-ordered here. Visit the bands Myspace page to hear music from the album.

The latest edition of the Polish language magazine,
Dawka Muzyki issue 3, features an interview with Tim Bowness.

The magazine also includes a competition to win a signed (by Tim Bowness) copy of the no-man Radio EP. Details of how to buy the magazine via Paypal can be found at www.dawkamuzyki.pl/dm3.htm.

The closing date for the competition is June 2nd 2010. Orders from outside Poland will get details of the competition in English, but the rest of the magazine (including the interview with Tim) is in Polish.

In his capacity as Judy Dyble collaborator, Tim performed live on two Norwegian TV shows in late February.

The first was God Morning Norge, Norway's biggest breakfast TV show. The second, Lydverket (Soundworks), is a pop/rock show and dedicated an episode to Folk Rock.

In addition to this, Judy & Tim also performed a live session on NRK radio.

Judy, Alistair and Tim were joined by musicians from the White Willow/Opium Cartel/Wobbler/Termo collective, and rising Norwegian Jazz star, Svein Magnus Furu.

No-Man's Wild Opera is the latest album to be added to Tim's Album Notes Blog.

Head over to Tim's Diary page for a new 2010 entry that includes more news on the Memories of Machines project, and the background to the recent Samuel Smiles recordings.

Tim guests on the new Fjieri album, Endless.

10 years in the making, Fjieri's debut album Endless represents the satisfying conclusion to a meticulously executed labour of love. The band, led by Stefano Panunzi and Nicola Lori, are joined by an impressive cast of guest musicians, including Mick Karn, Tim Bowness, Peter Chilvers and Porcupine Tree members, Gavin Harrison and Richard Barbieri. Co-produced by Barbieri, the album artfully combines Ambient and Progressive Rock influences to create a sophisticated sound that incorporates delicate atmospherics, rich melodies, looping rhythms and hard-hitting riffs. Recalling aspects of Rain Tree Crow, Pink Floyd, Porcupine Tree, Eno, King Crimson and No-Man, Endless is a powerful debut statement from an Italian band in the ascendant.

Endless is now available from The Burning Shed.
Excerpts from the album can be heard on the band's MySpace site.

Visit the newly launched Tim Bowness album notes blog. The site will contain Tim’s thoughts, memories and reflections on albums that he has recorded with no-man, his solo releases plus collaborations with Peter Chilvers, Samuel Smiles and others.

The first album notes are for Tim’s debut solo release, My Hotel Year plus two key no-man albums, Speak and Flowermouth.

Tim has recently reconvened with Samuel Smiles (Peter Chilvers and Michael Bearpark) for the first time in nine years. The trio has recorded an album's worth of songs by Tim's pre-no-man band, Plenty. The material has been subject to a radical overhaul in most cases.

Recorded live, it's expected that the songs will be subject to some overdubs and post-production, but it's hoped an album could result early in 2010.

The trio are also hoping to perform live together for the first time since 2000.

Memories Of Machines

Memories Of Machines is the name of the new band Tim has formed with Nosound's Giancarlo Erra.

Involving contributions from Peter Hammill (Van Der Graaf Generator), Colin Edwin (Porcupine Tree), Jim Matheos (OSI/Fates Warning) and members of the No-Man and Nosound live bands, the band's debut album was recorded over a three year period in New York, Rome, Småland (Sweden) and the capital of the known universe, Norwich.

The album, likely to be called Warm Winter, is complete bar a few mixes and some minor instrumental additions.

No release date or label has yet been agreed on.

Talking With Strangers

The Judy Dyble album Talking With Strangers is scheduled for an official release on July 25th via Fixit Records (Universal Distribution).

There are a limited number of signed (by Tim, Judy, and Alistair Murphy) copies of the album, which will be shipped in June, available from here.

Along with other additions (such as the OSI collaboration, No Celebrations), Tim has added two excerpts from Talking With Strangers to his Myspace page (including one of the sections that unites past and present King Crimson members, Robert Fripp, Pat Mastelotto and Ian McDonald).

no-man - wherever there is light

Acting as a bridge between No-Man's elegiac 2008 return Schoolyard Ghosts and the forthcoming live concert DVD Mixtaped, Wherever There Is Light is a strictly limited edition CD release.

From Schoolyard Ghosts, the poignant title track features an incredible guest performance from US pedal steel legend Bruce Kaphan (American Music Club/Red House Painters). The alt-country tinged Death Was California and the atmospheric Counting are two new songs especially written for the EP, while Carolina Skeletons and All The Blue Changes are the first recordings released from No-Man's Autumn 2008 mini-tour.

Also containing Grant Wakefied's poetic video for the title track, a powerful preview from the Mixtaped DVD, and striking Carl Glover artwork, the enhanced Wherever There Is Light EP is a rare and beautiful thing from the band Uncut memorably described as 'Britain's most underrated sorrowful sonic architects'. Buy from the Burning Shed.

Tim appears on the bonus disc of the new OSI album, Blood, on the co-written track, No Celebrations.

OSI is an American Rock band consisting of Jim Matheos (Fate's Warning) and Kevin Moore (Chroma Key, ex-Dream Theater). Porcupine Tree's Gavin Harrison and Opeth's Mikael Åkerfeldt also appear on the album.

The Tim Bowness/Peter Chilvers album California, Norfolk will be re-issued in an expanded format via Burning Shed in the Spring of 2009.

The 2009 re-issue will be a 2-disc version, with California, Norfolk (plus two videos) on disc one, whilst disc two consists of Winterton (acoustic sessions EP) and Overstrand.

no-man

Work on the forthcoming live DVD, Mixtaped, has now been completed.

More interviews have been conducted for Richard Smith's No-Man documentary and both DVDs are still on course for a Spring 2009 release.

Tim & Steven have also been working on two new no-man pieces, Death Was California & Counting. These tracks may appear as extras on the forthcoming DVD, or be released as downloads.

Judy Dyble

The forthcoming Judy Dyble album, Talking With Strangers, which has been co-produced by Tim and Alistair Murphy, has been completed and is scheduled for Spring/Summer 2009 release.

Tim has contributed backing vocals throughout the album and played some guitar and mellotron.

The first taste of the album is likely to be a single release of the duet, Grey October Day.

The album also features contributions from Simon Nicol (Fairport Convention), Julianne Regan (All About Eve), Jacqui McShee (Pentangle) and present and former King Crimson personnel, Pat Mastelotto, Ian McDonald and Robert Fripp.

Elsewhere:

Tim will be appearing on a couple of tracks on Norwegian band The Opium Cartel's new album, Night Blooms, which has a release date of March 16th. Tim's main contribution will be on a cover of Brian Eno's classic, By This River.

Tim has recently recorded some vocals for a song by US band OSI (an experimental project led by Chroma Key's Kevin Moore and Fate's Warning's Jim Matheos).

Work on Tim's collaboration album with Giancarlo Erra will continue in early 2009.

Tim has recently co-written two songs with guitarist Mike Bearpark. Beyond The Firing Line (featuring no-man's live violinist, 'Maestro' Steve Bingham) appears on Tim's MySpace page.

Seven years after its debut album, Henry Fool, the band has very nearly completed its follow-up, Album Number Two.

Over five hours worth of material has been written since the debut release, which encompasses structured studio instrumentals, live improvisations and more conventional song-orientated compositions.

Once more, the band's sound takes in aspects of contemporary Post Rock, 1970s Progressive Rock, ECM Jazz and influences from the Canterbury Scene bands.

Album Number Two will be a double CD comprising the best of this material.

Featuring all the members who performed on the debut release, except Fudge Smith, the album will also include appearances from drummers Andy Booker (No-Man), Huxflux Nettermalm (Paatos) and Diego Mancini.

Release date and label have yet to be decided on.

Rajna's album Duality, featuring Tim on 3 tracks, has been released on French label Holy Records (and will be released by US label Projekt later in the year).

Rajna create an atmospheric music that blends elements of Ambient, World and Dark Wave musics.

The tracks featuring Tim are the following:

We Are The Echoes (written by Bowness/Rajna, arranged and produced by Rajna)
Tim - Lead Vocals

A Pearl In The Ocean (written by Bowness/Rajna, arranged and produced by Rajna)
Tim - Piano, Organ

I Used To Pray (written by Bowness, arranged and produced by Bowness/Rajna)
Tim - Vocal Loops, Keyboards, Tapes

The album is currently available from Burning Shed.

Schoolyard Ghosts, No-Man’s sixth official studio album, sees No-Man’s Tim Bowness and Steven Wilson expanding the band’s sonic palette by collaborating with, amongst others, Theo Travis, Pat Mastelotto, Gavin Harrison, and the London Session Orchestra (arranged by Dave Stewart).

Featuring the sweetly hypnotic Wherever There Is Light, the warped dynamics of Pigeon Drummer, and the subtly evolving explorations of the uplifting 13 minute semi-orchestral epic Truenorth, Schoolyard Ghosts reveals the band taking its music to an even more focused and personalised place than before.

The cd/dvda comes in a lavish digi-pack with booklet and also features a 5.1 mix of the album, a photo gallery and videos for 3 songs.

The No-Man Store edition comes with an exclusive 6 track, 20 minute, bonus disc of alternates and edits.

Officially released on May 12th, the No-Man Store edition ships late April/early May.

Schoolyard Ghosts t-shirts are also available for pre-order.

In January, February and March, no-man continued writing and recording material for its sixth official studio release, schoolyard ghosts. This will be the band's first album of new music for five years.

schoolyard ghosts is released by Kscope / Snapper music in mid-May, 2008, and will feature a 22 piece orchestra on the 13 minute track Truenorth, as well as contributions from a number of guest
collaborators (including Pat Mastelotto, Bruce Kaphan, Porcupine Tree's Gavin Harrison and Colin Edwin, and Tim Bowness Band members, Pete Morgan, Andrew Booker and Peter Chilvers).

The band are planning a European mini-tour, their first since 1993, to support the release of the album.

Head over to http://www.burningshed.co.uk/aconfession/ for some pictures taken during the recent album sessions.

As of February 2008, the album will be available from www.burningshed.com.

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Rajna's album Duality is to be released, in Summer 2008, on the US- based Projekt label.

Tim contributes to 3 tracks on the French duo's album, singing lead vocals on We Are The Echoes, playing piano and organ on A Pearl In The Ocean, and providing vocal loops, keyboards and tapes for I Used To Pray (a new version of Voiceloop Two).

See http://www.rajna.net/ for futher details.

Several vocal tracks were completed (including overdubs for the forthcoming No-Man album).

Tim also completed vocal takes for French band Rajna, Henry Fool, Nosound and Norwegian project, The Opium Cartel.

For a very limited time, one of the performances recorded for The Opium Cartel (a pre-production/rough mix of a version of the Brian Eno song, By This River) can be heard on their MySpace page at http://www.myspace.com/opiumcartel.

Four pictures taken during Tim's recent recording sessions in Sweden have been added to the downloads page.

Tim's My Hotel Year album (with Sleepwalker as a bonus single) is now available at the Burning Shed.

Further sessions are expected in January, with the band working towards a Spring 2008 release for their sixth official album (as yet untitled).

More details can be found on the diary page.

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The ongoing project with Nosound's Giancarlo Erra continues, with recent contributions from Jacob Holm-Lupo (White Willow, Opium Cartel), Colin Edwin (Porcupine Tree, Ex-Wise Heads) and Rick Edwards (a contributor to No-Man's 'Returning Jesus').

In related news, Tim is expected to contribute to the forthcoming Opium Cartel album (due for 2008 release) and will be featured on one track on the new Nosound album (due out in November, 2007).

Taking its cue from the timeless and sensuous late night ambience of John Martyn, Arab Strap and the Blue Nile, and occasionally drawing on the darker, more parched terrain of Peter Hammill and Mark Eitzel, the album offers eight original compositions and two cover versions (Peter Hammill's
Ophelia and King Crimson's Two Hands).

Created in collaboration with Alias Grace vocalist Sandra O'Neill, guitarist Tony Harn, and Porcupine Tree's Colin Edwin and Steven Wilson (who appear on Watching Over Me), World of Bright Futures smoulders in a twilight reverie of cheap drum machines and high emotions, digital hardware and human heartache.

The songs Breathing The Thin Air and Endless will appear on the album Endless. Released under the name Fjieri Group in Autumn 2007, the album also includes contributions from Richard Barbieri, Suzanne Barbieri, Mick Karn and Gavin Harrison.

The songs Hidden Lives and Fades (featuring a string quartet) will appear at a later date (most likely on Stefano Panunzi's follow up to his Timelines album).