''Warm Winter'' is the debut album by art-rock duo

Memories of Machines Memories of Machines is a band formed by Tim Bowness (No-Man, Henry Fool) and Giancarlo Erra (Nosound) in April 2006. History Memories of Machines emerged as a full project following Bowness' first collaborations with Nosound during the mid-2000 ...

(a collaboration between

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singer

Tim Bowness Tim Bowness (born 29 November 1963) is an English singer and 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 In addition to recording albu ...

and

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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

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movement (

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) and several from its 1990s/2000s equivalent (

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(of

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and OSI), Huxflux Nettermalm of

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, all current and several previous members of both

and

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, and

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and

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(the latter of whom is also Bowness' partner in

). Other contributors to the album include

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(

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), Estonian jazz trumpeter Aleksei Saks and cellist Marianne de Chastelaine (

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). A different version of the song "Beautiful Songs You Should Know" appears on the 2008 No-Man album ''

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'' (this album shares a title with another song on ''Warm Winter'', which is itself closely related to the No-Man track "Mixtaped").

Track listing

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

Personnel

Memories of Machines

– vocals, guitar on "Schoolyard Ghosts" *Giancarlo Erra – guitars, keyboards, recording, engineering

Guest performers

– guitars & keyboards on "Lucky You, Lucky Me", additional recording & engineering, mixing * Gabriele Savini –

acoustic guitar An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked, its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...

on "Change Me Once Again" *

– guitar atmospherics on "Something in Our Lives" *

– guitar

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on "Lost and Found in the Digital World" *

Michael Bearpark Michael Bearpark is an English scientist and musician. Work as scientist Bearpark is a Principal Research Fellow in the Chemistry Department at Imperial College London. He works in computational chemistry, including method and software developm ...

– volume-swell guitar on "Schoolyard Ghosts" *

– guitars on "At the Centre Of It All" * Alessandro Luci –

bass guitar The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...

on "Before We Fall", "Warm Winter" & "Change Me Once Again" *

Peter Chilvers Peter Chilvers was an inventor, engineer and promoter of sailing and windsurfing. He is credited with an early version of a sail powered surfboard. He died from lung cancer on 26 February 2015. Life Chilvers had been an engineer for Lotus an ...

–

on "Schoolyard Ghosts" *

–

double bass The double bass (), also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, the bull fiddle, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched string instrument, chordophone in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions ...

on "At the Centre Of It All" * Paolo Martelacci – keyboards on "Before We Fall" & "Change Me Once Again" * Stephen Bennett –

electric piano An electric piano is a musical instrument that has a piano-style musical keyboard, where sound is produced by means of mechanical hammers striking metal strings or reeds or wire tines, which leads to vibrations which are then converted into ele ...

synthesizer A synthesizer (also synthesiser or synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis a ...

solo on "Schoolyard Ghosts", additional recording & engineering * Huxflux Nettermalm – drums on "Before We Fall" & "Warm Winter" * Gigi Zito – drums on "Change Me Once Again" * Andrew Booker – drums on "Schoolyard Ghosts" *Aleksei Saks – trumpet on "Lost and Found in the Digital World" * Myke Clifford – saxophone on "Schoolyard Ghosts" * Marianne de Chastelaine – cello on "Beautiful Songs You Should Know" & "At the Centre Of It All" *

– backing vocals on "Before We Fall" & "Change Me Once Again"

References

External links

Memories of Machines homepage
(archived from th
original
on 4 May 2103)
Warm Winter Blog
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