Memories of Machines - Warm Winter

Memories of Machines - Warm Winter is simply the best album of 2011 period.  M of M is a collaboration between No-Man singer Tim Bowness and Nosound multi-instrumentalist Giancarlo Erra.  

The album also features: 

• Steven Wilson – guitars & keyboards on "Lucky You, Lucky Me", additional recording & engineering, mixing
• Gabriele Savini - acoustic guitar on "Change Me Once Again"
• Jim Matheos - guitar atmospherics on "Something in Our Lives"
• Robert Fripp - guitar Soundscapes on "Lost and Found in the Digital World"
• Michael Bearpark – volume-swell guitar on "Schoolyard Ghosts"
• Peter Hammill – guitars on "At the Centre Of It All"
• Alessandro Luci - bass guitar on "Before We Fall", "Warm Winter" & "Change Me Once Again"
• Peter Chilvers – bass guitar on "Schoolyard Ghosts"
• Colin Edwin – double bass on "At the Centre Of It All"
• Paolo Martelacci - keyboards on "Before We Fall" & "Change Me Once Again"
• Stephen Bennett – electric piano & synthesizer 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"
• Julianne Regan - backing vocals on "Before We Fall" & "Change Me Once Again"

All the tracks are great but outstanding is "Before the Fall" with a superb guitar shrill throughout and impeccable lyrics followed by "Beautiful Songs you Should Know" with it's simple acoustic arrangement, simple organ chords and cello: perfect.

If you buy no other album in 2012 go and buy this one - and I recommend the vinyl (you get a digital download as well but the vinyl mix is supreme.

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thanks

Jon Pickles