Becoming Human Simon Collins

• 1 Into the Fray 01:18
• 2 Becoming Human 04:17
• 3 The Universe Inside of Me 06:55
• 4 Man Made Man 04:32
• 5 This is the Time 03:54
• 6 Thoughts Become Matter 05:04
• 7 I Will Be Waiting 07:27
• 8 No Love 04:01
• 9 Living in Silence 04:08
• 10 40 Years 04:18
• 11 So Real 04:28
• 12 Dead Ends 09:06
• Total Runtime 59:28

Info for Becoming Human

Simon Collins, erster Sohn von Phil Collins, kehrt mit seinem vierten Soloalbum "Becoming Human" zurück. Das Album erschafft eine starke und aufregende Mischung aus Rock, Pop, Prog und Electronica.

Simon Collins hat sein Leben schon immer mit Musik verbracht, bereits in frühen Jahren mit dem Schlagzeug beginnend 1999 zog Collins nach Frankfurt und Warner Deutschland veröffentlichte das Erfolgsalbum "All Of Who You Are", das sich über 100.000 Mal verkaufte. 2003 gründete er sein eigenes Lightyears Music Label und veröffentlichte 2005 "Time For Thruth". 2007 nahm Collins ein Cover des Genesis-Tracks "Keep It Dark" als Hommage an das 40-jährige Bandjubiläum auf, mit mehr als 200.000 Downloads Später gründete er die Progressive-Rock-Band Sound of Contact, die 2013 "Dimensionaut" veröffentlichte, mit Collins hinter dem Kit sowie als Leadsänger. Sound of Contact schufen einen einzigartigen Sound, eine Hommage an die Größen des Classic und Prog Rock. Unter dem Alias "Spacehead" ist er als DeeJay in Kanada und Deutschland unterwegs.

Simon Collins, vocals, drums, keyboards
Robbie Bronnimann, keyboards, programming, sound design
Gaz Williams, bass
Kelly Avril Nordstrom, electric & acoustic guitars
Robin Boult, electric & acoustic guitars

Simon Collins
first hit the music scene in the year 2000 with his debut album “All of Who You Are” with songs like “Pride” charting all over Eastern and Western Europe. The album also featured the song “Shine Through” which was co-written with Howard Jones. In 2005, Simon put out the album “Time For Truth” where he introduced more of his organic instrumentation and modern rock influences. The album brought about the introduction of Simon to guitarist Kelly Nordstrom with whom Simon would continue to collaborate with.

In 2006 Simon met Dave Kerzner, owner of the music software company Sonic Reality and former member of Kevin Gilbert’s bands Thud and Giraffe. They were both in New York at Genesis’ rehearsals for their final “Turn It On Again Tour”. Having similar musical tastes and a common interest in sci-fi they decided to pay tribute to Simon’s father Phil Collins and Genesis by doing their own version of the song “Keep It Dark” originally from the Genesis album “Abacab”. The song was played on the sound system before the very last Genesis concert of the tour at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.

Simon, Dave and Kelly then worked together on Simon’s third solo album, “U-Catastrophe” in 2008. This time with Grammy-winning producer Kevin Churko who won a Juno award for the album. It also featured a guest appearance from ex-Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett on the song “Fast Forward The Future” as well as a thrilling ‘drum duet’ between Simon and his father Phil Collins on the song “The Big Bang”.

When Simon set out to perform “U-Catastrophe” live, he brought in Matt Dorsey as a bass player and multi-instrumentalist. Then, in 2009, Simon approached Dave Kerzner with the idea of doing a band project together. In 2010, Simon, Dave, Matt and Kelly went to record at Greenhouse Studios in Vancouver in different trio combinations with engineer Chris Holmes. The music and story of “Dimensionaut” was born.

Joining the team to mix the album was veteran engineer Nick Davis (Genesis, XTC, It Bites) who came from England to Canada to mix at The Warehouse in Vancouver. The album was mastered by Gavin Lurssen and Reuben Cohen of Lurssen Mastering.

In 2012 Simon Collins and Dave Kerzner found themselves working again on a Genesis song but this time it was by the invitation of Steve Hackett who was putting together his album “Genesis Revisited 2”. The album includes both Simon and Dave participating on vocals and keyboard for the epic Genesis song „Supper’s Ready“.

Now, in 2013, with their own album that took nearly 3 years to make, Sound of Contact are ready to unleash “Dimensionaut”.

Sound of Contact begins its touring schedule on March 24th in Montreal, Canada supporting Marillion on their Marillion Weekend Event. Then they’re joining Spock’s Beard and Beardfish in Europe in May for the Inside Out 20th Anniversary tour.

This album contains no booklet.