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
Studio album by
ReleasedMay 2011
RecordedSpring 2006–autumn 2010
Genre
Length49:50
LabelMascot
ProducerTim Bowness, Giancarlo Erra
Professional ratings
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SourceRating
Classic Rock(favourable)
Drowned in Sound[1]
Rock Sins(8.3/10)[2]

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").

Track listing

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All songs by Tim Bowness/Giancarlo Erra unless otherwise noted.

  1. New Memories of Machines - 1:31
  2. Before We Fall - 5:12
  3. Beautiful Songs You Should Know - 4:59
  4. Warm Winter - 5:34
  5. Lucky You, Lucky Me - 4:17
  6. Change Me Once Again - 5:56
  7. Something in Our Lives - 4:11
  8. Lost and Found in the Digital World - 5:14 (Tim Bowness/Giancarlo Erra/Robert Fripp)
  9. Schoolyard Ghosts - 5:32 (Tim Bowness)
  10. At the Centre of It All - 7:26

Personnel

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Memories of Machines

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  • Tim Bowness – vocals, guitar on "Schoolyard Ghosts"
  • Giancarlo Erra – guitars, keyboards, recording, engineering

Guest performers

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References

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