Friday, 20 June 2008
Tim Wheater
Artist: Tim Wheater
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
Sound Medicine Man
Year: 2004
Tracks: 5
Incantation
Year: 2003
Tracks: 9
Afterglow
Year: 1999
Tracks: 13
Heart Land
Year: 1995
Tracks: 4
Whalesong
Year: 1994
Tracks: 3
Fish Night Moon
Year: 1994
Tracks: 9
Awakenings
Year: 1994
Tracks: 12
Timeless
Year: 1992
Tracks: 9
Eclipse
Year: 1990
Tracks: 2
Green Dream
Year: 1989
Tracks: 11
A Calmer Panorama
Year: 1988
Tracks: 2
The Enchanter
Year: 1986
Tracks: 16
Flautist, composer and self-described "sound healer" Tim Wheater began his musical breeding at the Guildhall School of Music in London, later winning a scholarship to study in Paris under Marcel Moyse, Jean-Pierre Rampal and Roger Bourdin. A stint at New York's Eastman School of Music under the aegis of James Galway followed ahead Wheater toured with the dance-pop outfit Bronski Beat; he later fagged tierce years with Eurythmics, afterward on the job with Ugly Kid Joe. Additionally playing with everyone from the London Symphony Orchestra to jazz figures like Sonny Stitt and Al DiMiola, Wheater recorded his solo ambient debut A Calmer Panorama in 1988; subsequent efforts include 1991's Mistral: The Wind of Change, 1994's Fish Night Moon, 1997's This Earth and 1999's Conjuration. He to boot recorded a series of albums in collaboration with fellow flute player Michael Hoppé, among them The Yearning, The Dreamer and Wind Songs.