Chris Gill and Bands: Home
West Country UK
September 2010
Hello and welcome to the website of (Me) Chris Gill, The Nonexistent, and a myriad of other music projects that I work on.
It is for this reason that the website is in my name rather than the band names, as each one is different..... only I remain the same!
My first and main band is called BAND OF RAIN.I recorded the first album - DEEP SPACE under this name.It was released to critical acclaim (Thank goodness) in 2004.
Encouraged by the success of Deep Space, I went on to record GARLANDS, which was also released to critical acclaim in 2005.So far so good..
31 January 2006, I went back in to the studio, determined to do another album.What followed is kind of like a blur to me now, but weird times they were..The end result is ARTS & ALLUREMENTS which was released eventually in 2007.It is really a well kept secret as I have never promoted the album....
Full length songs from all three albums can be heard here by going to the listen page.I will put up some Nonexistent tracks as soon as I can. If you scroll down the listen page you will find sections of interviews too..
After this period of intense recording, I was approached by Stephen Palmer (MOOCH). Steve explained that he had several projects lined up and would I like to sing on them?
"SING" says I..! "I am not a singer"
"I think you are" Says he...
Well I went along to have a go not expecting anything to come of it, as I really felt I would not be able to do it, and lo, it came to pass that I could.
I went on to sing on 4 albums with MOOCH, and I loved every minute of them.
The first was "Dr Silburys Liquid Brainstem" An extreme space rock album with people like Cyndee Lee Rule and Bridghet Wishart...It was great fun for me I really liked doing it.
Then came two 60's psychedelia albums:
1967½
1968a
Steve recorded all the music and wrote everything, I performed the vocals. Great fun.
Then there was THE PAGAN YEAR released in 2010. So in the last 3 years I have recorded the vocals for 4 MOOCH albums.
While all this was going on, I was recording and co producing an album for BECK SIAN.Beck is a self styled Celtic Banshee from the wilds of Australia, and related to Kate Bush. Though I think Becks voice is actually better.
Beck wrote an album of songs called "LUMINOUS WINGS AND UNSEEN THINGS"
We spent at least one day a week recording the songs, and I wrote a few parts and performed a few parts, and the album was relesased late 2009, and very nice it is too.
At the same time, Steve Palmer Andy Bonham Hole and myself got together under the name of THE NONEXISTENT and over three recording sessions, made a space rock double album. This was released on 21 JUNE 2010.
We have also managed to get a couple of gigs in with a view to doing more...We are also going back in to the studio on Sept 4th to start recording another album together.
Our last gig was at THE RESTORATION near Huddersfield with Band of Oz - Whimwise and Harvey Bainbridge.
I have also been recording some new music with German composer RAINER STRUCK.We already have at least 4 songs about done, but we are talking about doing a whole album of songs together in the next year.
I have started to record the 4th BAND OF RAIN album too. I hope to have it finished spring 2011.....There will be a lot of music coming down the line soon so watch this space.....
Links to all the people here can be found on the ...links page...