Winterlight - a sky full of clouds

Growing up in the Thames Valley in the UK, Tim Ingham stood shoulder to shoulder with the likes of Slowdive at local gigs but his own musical endeavours didn't get off the ground until he found he could use a laptop late at night once his family had retired for the night to create his own electronic version of the kind of warm, hazy sounds that he had gravitated to since his youth. Ingham's compositions where quickly noticed due to his myspace profile and he recorded 2 singles as Winterlight for UK label Years Without Art. The singles titled Mirror and Kissed showcased Ingham's ability to craft simple dream pop melodies in the vein of contemporaries like Ulrich Schauss and veterans like Robin Guthrie. Mirror became the subject of an unlikely but successful progressive trance remix by producer DJ Solarstone. Shortly after Mirror and Kissed Ingham produced remixes for port-royal and oppressed by the line, which gained him limited release for the "summer interlude" (2008 /Distant Noise) album under the name Lightsway. Lightsway although not much different from Winterlight is in Ingham's words "largely more stretched out ambient influenced...". The addition of a second guitarist, Jamie, to the Winterlight live set up has resulted in an increasing role for the guitar in his compositions which, whilst maintaining his initial love of simplicity and repetition in melodic structure, are gradually evolving into something more complex and deep... Somewhere adrift in the hazy moments of life when happiness and sadness are indistinguishable. http://n5md.com/artist/Winterlight http://www.myspace.com/timbotoo http://winterlightmusic.wordpress.com/