Simon House

Simon House (2008)

Simon House (born August 29, 1948 in Nottingham , Nottinghamshire , England ) is a British composer and musician.

House received classical violin and piano training. From 1969 he played several albums with the band High Tide , then worked with the Third Ear Band a . a. on the soundtrack to Roman Polański's film Macbeth and then joined the spacerock band Hawkwind in 1974 . House has recorded numerous albums with Hawkwind since 1974, and has also worked on solo projects for Hawkwind members Michael Moorcock , Robert Calvert and Nik Turner . From 1978 House was part of David Bowie's band and can be heard on several of his albums. a. with Japan and Thomas Dolby . House was later involved in the reorganization of High Tide , as he was again in 2001/02 with Hawkwind. He has also released several solo albums under his own name. His current projects include working with Astralasia .

Discography

High tide

• Sea Shanties (1969)
• High Tide (1970)
• The Flood (1990)
• Sinister Morning (1970)

Third Ear Band

• Macbeth (1972)

Hawkwind

• Hall of the Mountain Grill (1974)
• Warrior on the Edge of Time (1975)
• Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music (1976)
• Quark, Strangeness and Charm (1977)
• PXR5 (1979)
• Lord of Light (1987)
• Space Bandits (1989)
• Palace Springs (1990)
• Live in Nottingham 1990 (2004)
• Anthology, 1967-1982 (1998)
• Stasis: The UA Years, 1971-1975 (2003)
• Yule Ritual (2002)
• Canterbury Fayre 2001 (2002)
• The Weird Tapes No. 5: Live '76 & '77 (2001)

Michael Moorcock's Deep Fix

• New Worlds Fair (1975)

Robert Calvert

• Lucky Leif and the Longships (1975)
• Hype: Songs of Tom Mahler (2004)

David Bowie

• Stage (1978)
• Lodger (1979)
• Sound + Vision (2001)

Another Face (Bowie, Fripp, Belew, Alomar, House etc.)

• Another Face (1981)

Japan

• Tin Drum (1981)
• Gentlemen Take Polaroids / Tin Drum / Oil on Canvas (1994)
• Exorcising Ghosts (2004)

David Sylvian

• Everything and Nothing (2000)

Thomas Dolby

• The Golden Age of Wireless (1986)
• The Best of Thomas Dolby: Retrospectacle (1994)

Michael Oldfield

• The Complete Mike Oldfield (1988)

Nik Turner

• Prophets of Time (1994)
• Transglobal Friends and Relations (2000)

Simon House

• Yassasim (1995)
• Spiral Galaxy Revisited (2005)

Simon House with Ron Goodway

• House of Dreams (2002)

Spiral Realms

• A Trip to G9 (1994)
• Crystal Jungles of Eos (1995)
• Solar Wind (1996)
• Ambient Voids: A Hypnotic Compilation (1995)

Earth Lab

• Element (2006)

Anubian Nights

• Jackal & Nine (1996)
• The Eternal Sky (2006)

Ambient Time Travelers

• Ambient Time Travelers (1995)

Judy Dyble

• Spindle (2006)
• Enchanted Garden (2006)

Astralasia

• Cluster of Waves (2007)
• Away With the Fairies (2007)

Web links

Commons : Simon House  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Myspace page for Simon House Official web site
• Astralasia Official web site