TIM BOWNESS – Butterfly Mind (2022)
Coming 40 years after he first started performing in bands in his native North West of England, ”Butterfly Mind” is the most surprising release yet from TIM BOWNESS. Rather than a retrospective, reflective album looking over his 4 decades in music, the new CD instead finds Mr. Bowness with perhaps one of the most distinctively unique voices in prog, continuing from where he left off and moving forward with perhaps one of the lushest prog-pop / art rock records in recent memory.
Produced by Bowness and Brian Hulse (Plenty), the album was mixed and mastered by highly demanded Steven Wilson, featuring the stellar rhythm section of Richard Jupp (Elbow) and Nick Beggs alongside a spectacular generation and genre spanning guest list including Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull), Peter Hammill (Van Der Graaf Generator), Gregory Spawton (Big Big Train), Stephen W Tayler (Kate Bush) and many more…