Jamie Thomson

Music:

Member Since: 5/5/2007
Band Members:

Jamie Thomson -
acoustic guitar, voice, flute, psalteries, cello, percussion, hurdy-gurdy, field recordings, singing bowls, kalimba, found objects, bouzouki, electric guitar, melodica, electric bass, synth, etc.

Truth Behind The Curtain -
audio engineering, electric guitar, mandolin, etc.

Eclectic Warrior -
film concepts & films

also, for Veio...

Sharon Van Etten -
voice on 'Til time turns away

Rumer -
voice on Peace through tall trees & A forgotten garden

Chris Curruthers -
piano on Among the clouds

Keith ’Spider Hands’ Forrester -
Weissenborn on Snow leopard

Nick Castell -
slide guitar on 'Til time turns away

Warped Memories -
sitar on Snow leopard

Cath Cook -
viola on Alone by the sea

birds -
voice on A forgotten garden

Influences:

music -

Olivier Messiaen ('Louange a l'immortalite de' played by Kyung Wha Chung on 12th feb. 1984, from 'Quartet for the End of Time'), Gustav Mahler (slow movements from 2nd & 5th symphonies), Carlo Gesualdo (Sacred music for five voices), Appendix Out, Robbie Basho (romantic stuff), Bob Kilgore (Tender age), Bill Evans (anything without busy drumming), James Blackshaw (O true believers), George Benson (Ode to a kuda, From now on), Somei Satoh (Bird in warped time II, The heavenly spheres are illuminated by lights), Lisa Hannigan, John Renbourn (The Hermit), Dick Gaughan (Cragie Hill), Planxty (As i roved out), Marie-Joseph Canteloube (Bailero), Quaouauh, Sharon Van Etten, Openverge, Alasdair Roberts,Terry Riley (Harp of new albion, Hall of mirrors Palace), Anne Briggs, Nick Drake, Emmanuelle Parrenin (Maison Rose), David Qualey (Only Guitar Parables), traditional music (of Europe, China, India, Tibet, Spain, etc.), Van Morrison, Tim Buckley, Bernard Herrmann, Big Star, choral music, Lenny Breau, Bilal, Elizabeth Fraser, Kill Your Timid Notion 2003 (particularly Mirror, [The User], Sunburned Hand Of The Man), Truth Behind The Curtain, D'Angelo (Voodoo), Beth Orton, John Martyn, Alexander Turnquist, Rich Martin (Dubai Ident), Joni Mitchell, Jeff Buckley, The Watersons (Bright Phoebus), Turin Brakes (The Optimist LP), Alex Degrassi (The Water Garden), Andrew Liles (My Long Accumulating Discontent), Chet Baker, Jim Macdonald, Richard D James (Drukqs), Ceylan Hay, Jim o'Rourke (Love Liza score/soundtrack), Steffen Basho-Junghans, Paul Simon, James Taylor (Classic songs), The Incredible String Band, Roy Hargrove (Trust)

film -

'Lapis' by James Whitney, 'Round Midnight' by Bertrand Tavernier, 'Alice' by Jan Svankmajer, 'Vertigo' by Alfred Hitchcock, 'Jeff Buckley - Live in Chicago', 'The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda' by Ira Cohen, 'Once Upon a Time in America' by Ennio Morricone, 'Withnail & I' by Bruce Robinson

Sounds Like:
fleeting memories of a pure blissful golden age before birth,
& a plea to return once the embers of this life sustain no more light.

July 2009 -
An elderly butterfly
(Pawilamont)

Record Label: Pawilamont
Dust Wind Tales
Terrascope
Type of Label: Indie