Shineback
Shineback
Genres: Progressive rock, electronic, electronica, experimental, prog
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About Shineback
Shineback is a solo project from Simon Godfrey who released "Rise Up Forgotten, Return Destroyed" in July 2013 through Bad Elephant Music (BEM). A follow-up release is due in 2015. Go to http://www.shineback.org for more details. Shineback main man Simon Godfrey is a songwriter, vocalist and producer with a deep and abiding passion for all forms of progressive music. The son of BBC radio announcer Peter Godfrey, Simon was born in the UK but spent the first years of his life growing up in South Africa, before returning to his native West London to complete his education. Simon’s first love was for the drums and studied at the DrumTech institute in the UK, notching up countless sessions and several tours as a sticks-man over his first 8 years as an active musician. A chance encounter with the underground acoustic scene in London however had a profound impact and Simon decided to lay his sticks to one side and to become a songwriter instead. “It was as if a light bulb had switched itself on inside my head. From that day on, writing songs was the only reason I got up in the morning,” says Simon. Over the next 5 years, Simon played guitar in several small time groups and solo projects before forming the band Tinyfish in 2005 with guitarist Jim Sanders, bass player Paul Worwood and lyricist Robert Ramsay. Tinyfish have released three albums to date and gone on to sell thousands of records worldwide, playing shows in the UK, Europe and America. In 2013, Simon released the album “Rise Up Forgotten, Return Destroyed” under the name Shineback with independent label Bad Elephant Music. The album fuses elements of pop, rock, electronica, cinematic music, and dance into a story of abuse, betrayal and madness. The story centres on a girl called Dora who undertakes a journey into her own dream world where she encounters dark revelations about her past buried in memory. Simon is currently working on a follow-up Shineback album “Dial” to be released in 2015. In 2014, he released “Motherland,” a return to his roots as a songwriter with a collection of eleven very personal songs recorded over twelve weeks in Philadelphia and London.
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