16 Facts About Pieter Bourke

Pieter Bourke is an Australian musician, composer, producer and audio engineer.

In 1987 Pieter Bourke formed the Melbourne-based electronic pop rock band Eden, providing keyboards, rhythm programming and percussion.

Pieter Bourke's last recorded output with Eden was a six-track EP, Healingbow, released in 1993 on Projekt Records.

Pieter Bourke is credited with hammer dulcimer, keyboards, percussion and programming while additional drums and remix work was provided by guest musician, David Thrussell.

From early 1993 Bowley suffered from glandular fever and late that year Pieter Bourke left the group.

In 1993 Pieter Bourke began a collaborative partnership with Thrussell.

Pieter Bourke joined Thrussell's techno-industrial band Snog, playing keyboards live and writing new material with Thrussell.

Snog's first single with Pieter Bourke aboard, "Born to Be Mild", is credited to Julia Mary Bourke, Thrussell and McGrath.

In 1996 Soma released The Inner Cinema, which "sees the collaboration between Thrussell and Pieter Bourke evolve and deepen from the tone set by their debut" according to Kavadias.

In 1995 Pieter Bourke began working with Lisa Gerrard, co-founder of the world music group, Dead Can Dance.

Pieter Bourke provided bass guitar, darabeka, drums, hand clapping, tabla and backing vocals on Gerrard's first solo album, The Mirror Pool.

Pieter Bourke became a touring member of her band for concerts in Europe and North America.

In late 1996 Pieter Bourke played keyboards and percussion for Dead Can Dance on their Spiritchaser Tour, to promote the band's album of the same name.

In 1997 Gerrard invited Pieter Bourke to perform on her second solo album, Duality.

The album was co-credited to Gerrard and Pieter Bourke and released on 14 April 1998 on the 4AD Records label.

Back in 1993 Pieter Bourke had met Westbrook, who provided cello on Eden's Healingbow.