22 Facts About Colin Edwin

Colin Edwin Balch is an Australian musician, specialising in fretted and fretless bass guitar, double bass and guimbri.

Currently, Colin Edwin is a member of Ex-Wise Heads, a long running collaboration with multi instrumentalist Geoff Leigh which mixes ethnic, ambient, and post-modern influences.

Colin Edwin is a member of metal-influenced project Random Noise Generator, and the bands Metallic Taste of Blood and progressive metal act OR.

Colin Edwin Balch was born in Melbourne on 2 July 1970.

Colin Edwin played double bass on occasion for Wilson's other main project No-Man, notably for 1993 radio sessions and on 2001's Returning Jesus album.

In 1999, Colin Edwin teamed with former Henry Cow instrumentalist Geoff Leigh and percussionist Vincent Salzfaas to form the instrumental ethno-fusion trio Ex-Wise Heads, who have gone on to record six albums.

Since 2009, Colin Edwin has been releasing solo work, including two solo albums both available through Burning Shed.

Colin Edwin continues to regularly release standalone solo tracks via his Bandcamp page.

In 2011, Colin Edwin formed the band "Metallic Taste of Blood" with Italian musician Eraldo Bernocchi, Hungarian drummer Balazs Pandi and Keyboard player Jamie Saft, releasing an album on RareNoiseRecords.

Colin Edwin has continued working with Eraldo Bernocchi in the newest line-up of the band Obake, alongside vocalist Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari with their second album entitled Mutations, which was released in October 2014 on RareNoise.

Also in 2011, Colin Edwin worked with American guitarist Jon Durant on the album Dance of the Shadow Planets and the two collaborated further on the album Burnt Belief released on the Alchemy Records label in 2012.

Colin Edwin has collaborated with Italian bassist Lorenzo Feliciati, resulting in the album Twinscapes, released on RareNoise in 2014.

In mid 2014 it was announced that Colin Edwin would be joining experimental jazz rock band Henry Fool as well as participating in recording new material for a future album.

Colin Edwin recorded the bass lines for the instrumental rock musical collective Armonite, releasing the albums The Sun is New each Day in 2015 and And the Stars above in 2018, the latter published by Cleopatra Records.

Colin Edwin has collaborated with Ukrainian female vocal duo Astarta, playing concerts in London and Ukraine and releasing a full-length album in April 2016.

Colin Edwin is a jazz fan, and incorporates an atypical jazz-inspired style into his playing for a rock band.

Colin Edwin has a strong interest in world music and in electronica, reflected particularly in his work with Ex-Wise Heads and in his solo releases.

In between 1994 and 2004, Colin Edwin's main bass was a 1994 Wal Mark I four-string fretless bass, until he gave it "a break" and semi-retired it from the rigours of live touring.

Colin Edwin subsequently used a Music Man StingRay and, for the Deadwing Tour, a Music Man Bongo which can be viewed in action on Porcupine Tree's DVD release Arriving Somewhere.

Colin Edwin then gave him one of their extended scale-length models, a Euro 4LX-35 in transparent black.

Colin Edwin still endorses the Spector and Basslab basses as well as EBS amplifiers, speaker cabinets, and effects pedals.

Colin Edwin endorses Ernie Ball Bass Strings for use on his Wal fretless bass and Spector Medium Stainless Steel Bass Strings on his fretted Spector basses.