Tymon Dogg

Location:
UK
Type:
Artist / Band / Musician
Genre:
Folk Rock / Rock / Folk
Site(s):
Label:
Map Music Independent
Type:
Indie
'The Irrepressibe Tymon Dogg' is a retrospective featuring a wide range of tracks and demonstrating the development of this extraordinary singer-songwriter, from the psycho-pop tracks penned when he was 14 in the 60s to the deeply political anthemns of more recent times. Three tracks from the album are now on the playlist.

The record is available from Cherry Red, Amazon and all good record stores from 27 September 2010.

Tymon is also featured on a new book-CD from Thin Man Press. He composed five of the eight tracks on the accompanying CD. Book-CD available from Amazon, book stores and www.thinmanpress.com.



The four new tracks above are from 'A Wave of Dreams' and an as yet unreleased project - '1973' - recorded with Richard Dudanski (PiL, 101ers) in Spain last summer.

Tymon is a multi-instrumentalist and has created a harp of his own invention which has yet to be named (due to copyright considerations) but which some are calling 'the pyramid' or 'new age' harp. He's talented and highly original on the piano and violin and his guitar playing owes much to years spent in Andalusia.



The Past.

Tymon started singing and playing his own material when he was 16.

His obvious talent was immediately spotted and he was and he was signed to Pye records. His first single, The bitter thoughts of little Jane, was released in 1967.

In 1968 Tymon started to record an album for the Apple Label, but disagreed with the commercial route the label had started to pursue and left without signing the contract. He embarked on a nationwide tour supporting the Moody Blues at this time.

Tymon devoted several years to honing his songwriting skills and learning to play a surprising number of instruments, from the viola to Chinese shawms. He is probably the first musician to sing and play the violin at the same time.!



At the centre of the 70s squatting scene in W11 that also produced the Slits (with whom he shared a house) and the Clash amoung other bands, Tymon left the chaotic music scene behind for a while and went to India. There he embarked on a spriritual search that lasted several years. Turning up in New York in 1980; he found his friends, Joe Strummer and Mick Jones had become massive punk stars. He contributed 'Lose this skin' to their Sandanista album and also played on albums by musicians as diverse as Ian Hunter and The Poison Girls.

In 1983 Tymon and Joe made an album recorded by Glyn Johns (Rolling Stones etc.) Hollowed Out has yet to be released.

Tymon released two further albums in the 1980s, Battle of Wills and Relentless.

Tymon worked both solo and with other musicians in Europe and America. Over the following years, he continued evolving the global music sensibility which characterizes his music.

In 2000 he joined Joe Strummer's new band the Mescaleros and toured widely with them, co-writing several songs with Joe which were recorded on 'Global a-Go Go'. Following Joes untimely and tragic death in 2002 Tymon left the band which later broke up.

For more info on Tymon please go to the excellent fan site at www.tymondogg.net



"The Quikening" are "Awe-inspiring sincere and captivating; an amalgamation of acoustic, rock, folk, roots and Latin flavours".

myspace graphics & layouts
0.02 follow us on Twitter      Contact      Privacy Policy      Terms of Service
Copyright © BANDMINE // All Right Reserved
Return to top