Amp (band)
Amp are an English electronic space rock band formed in London by Richard F. Walker in 1991, after collaborating with David Pearce of Flying Saucer Attack on The Secret Garden and the Distance projects. Amp recorded the audio cassette/short story Green Sky Blue Tree with Ray Dickaty, while Walker was studying at the Royal College of Art in 1992. After a two-year break, Amp resurfaced with French vocalist Karine Charff, Bristol experimentalists Matt Elliott, and Matt Jones on board. MC Strong in 'The Great Indie Discography' described Amp as "Occupying musical territory somewhere between shoegazing and the Bristol 'Trip Hop' sound, AMP had created a work of sweeping soundscapes, echoing ambience and waves of feedback."
Jones and Elliott left to pursue their own projects by 1997. Since then, Amp has worked with Charff and Walker and a succession of collaborators, including:
- Guy Cooper and Gareth Mitchell of The Secret Garden, who worked with Amp on Astralmoonbeamprojections
- Robert Hampson, who worked as producer on Stenorette
- Olivier Gauthier, on Stenorette and L'Amour Invisible
- Jan Zert, on L'Amour Invisible
- Marc Challans on US
- Ray Dickaty, on Green Sky Blue Tree, US, Transmissions , All of Yesterday Tomorrow
- Donald Ross Skinner, on US, Motus, Oetinger Villa, Outposts
Discography
- Green Sky Blue Tree
- Sirenes
- Astralmoonbeamprojections
- Perception Darla US, Ampbase UK
- Passe Present
- Stenorette
- VV.AA. – A Tribute to Spacemen 3
- Saint Cecilia Sinsemilla
- L'Amour Invisible
- US
- Transmissions
- All of Yesterday Tomorrow
- Motus
- Oetinger Villa
- Outposts
- Live at Corsica Studios
- Switched on And Live
- Q Factors
- Entangled Time
- Echoesfromtheholocene
- ''Ambient Love Darkness Share''