Simon Scott (drummer)
Simon Scott | |
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Birth name | Simon Scott |
Born |
Cambridge, England | 3 March 1971
Genres | Shoegazing, dream pop, alternative rock, electronic |
Instruments | Drums, guitar, synthesizer, vocals, laptop |
Years active | 1988–present |
Labels | KESHHHHHH Recordings |
Associated acts |
Slowdive The Sight Below Lowgold Inner Sleeve/Televise The Charlottes Seavault |
Website | www.simonscott.org |
Simon Scott (born 3 March 1971) is an English drummer, electronic musician and was the former drummer in Slowdive and Lowgold.
Scott has also collaborated with James Blackshaw, Machinefabriek, Nils Frahm, Isan, Rafael Anton Irisarri, Marcus Fischer and is also a part time live member of Seattle band The Sight Below in Between with Taylor Deupree on the us [12k] experimental record label.
Career
Born in Cambridge,[1] Scott first started drumming with female fronted Huntingdon band The Charlottes in 1988 at the age of 16 and left in 1990 to replace original drummer Adrian Sell in Slowdive in 1990. He played on albums Just For A Day and Souvlaki, which was voted in The Guardian as 'One of the top 50 albums to hear before you die' in 2007 before leaving the band in 1994, prior to the band working on their third album Pygmalion.
After working as a session musician in London, Scott formed and fronted Inner Sleeve in 1997 who released two singles in 1998 and an album Looking Up in 1999, all on the Fierce Panda label.[2]
In 1999, Scott split Inner Sleeve up to join Lowgold following the departure of original drummer Paul Mayes, appeared on one track on the band's debut album Just Backward of Square and toured it extensively.[2][3] He left the band in 2002 after the band ran into financial problems following the collapse of Nude Records.[4][5] Demo's recorded prior to the collapse of Nude and his departure were later released on the compilation Keep Music Miserable including the track Time Reclaims All Frontiers, which was premiered at Reading Festival.
Scott then reformed Inner Sleeve as Televise with new musicians and signed to London record label Club AC30.[4] He has also played in the bands The Sight Below, Seavault (on Morr Music), Chapterhouse and Conformists (with Jasper TX).[4]
In 2006, Scott started an electronic experimental record label Kesh Recordings, working as a musician and sound artist from his Cambridge recording studio and was remixed on an album called 88 Tapes by Lawrence English, Sawako, Moskitoo, Greg Davis, Benoit Pioulard, Christopher Bissonnette, Mark Templeton, and many more.[4]
2009 saw the release of Scott's self-assured solo debut album,[6] Navigare, for Miasmah records which is an electronic/neo classical record label, run by Erik Knive Skodvin from Deaf Center. Reviews called it a "Tour-De-Force" (www.smallfish.co.uk) and UK music website Boomkat said that the album "transcends the usual parameters of drone music".
Scott was given "Single of 2010"[7] for the limited 7" "Depart, Repeat" (that included Nils Frahm on pianoand contributed "electronics" to Sailors With Wax Wings - Sailors With Wax Wings CD 2010 (including James Blackshaw).
A second album called Bunny on Miasmah was released on 7 October 2011 to more critical acclaim and led to a successful sold out performance at Seattle festival Decibel.
"Below Sea Level" was released on 12k in May 2012 and the album is accompanied by an 80 page journal written whist recording in the sunken areas of The Fens in East Anglia where the album is conceptually based. The aforementioned journal is an 80-page color, 13X20cm, hardcover book that includes Scott’s essay entitled An Exploration of the Subterranean Fenland Environment, many pages of hand-written notes and sketches and a section of photography from the area. Each copy of the book will come with a unique ink sketch from Scott as well as a download code for the album and a bonus 30-minute live recording.
Scott occasionally performs live[8] with The Sight Below (on Ghostly International) and co-wrote/co-produced three tracks on the second album called It All Falls Apart released in April 2010 on Ghostly International. In January 2012 the prestigious German label ambient techno Kompakt released "Pop Ambient" 2012 including Scott's track "For Martha" and also Pop Ambient 2014 includes his track 'Für Betty'.
Solo discography
- Navigare (Miasmah) - October 2009
- Nivalis 3" CD (Secret Furry Hole) - January 2010
- Silenne CD (Slaapwel) - August 2010
- Conformists vinyl LP film soundtrack with Dag Rosenqvist (Low Point) - October 2010
- Depart, Repeat 7" (Sonic Pieces) - February 2011
- Bunny (Miasmah) - October 7, 2011
- Pop Ambient 2012 (Kompakt) - January 29, 2012
- Below Sea Level (12k) - May 29, 2012
- Pop Ambient 2014 (Kompakt) - January 27, 2014
References
- ↑ http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20010209041521/http://homepage.ntlworld.com/daniel.stretch/press.htm
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Strong, Martin C. (2003) The Great Indie Discography, Canongate, ISBN 1-84195-335-0, p. 803, 845
- ↑ http://www.isnakebite.com/interviews/lowgold/lowgold3.html
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Gourlay, Dom (2009) "Shoegaze Week: DiS talks to Simon Scott about his time in Slowdive", Drowned in Sound, 23 April 2009, retrieved 2011-04-15
- ↑ http://www.citylife.co.uk/news_and_reviews/news/3230_lowgold_are_winners
- ↑ http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2009/09/navigare/
- ↑ http://www.textura.org/reviews/2010top10s.htm
- ↑ http://www.playgroundmag.net/noticia/5662/empieza-el-sonar-recomendaciones-diarias