Sterling Roswell

British singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Sterling Roswell (occasionally known as Rosco) first came to prominence as the drummer for legendary shoegaze/space rock pioneers <a href="spotify:artist:1ZOlVrZ2MtNSY9LcFYklDB">Spacemen 3</a>. A native of Rugby in the West Midlands, Roswell was only 18 when he joined the already established group and stayed with them until 1989 when he and former <a href="spotify:artist:1ZOlVrZ2MtNSY9LcFYklDB">Spacemen 3</a> bassist Pete Bain formed a new group called <a href="spotify:artist:0SGOEHwGgXP3c2JcYfYLbp">the Darkside</a>. Roswell initially acted as drummer for <a href="spotify:artist:0SGOEHwGgXP3c2JcYfYLbp">the Darkside</a>, but soon switched to keyboards and eventually guitar, gradually taking on a bigger role in group's neo-psychedelic sound. After three albums for <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Beggars+Banquet%22">Beggars Banquet</a> and a handful of EPs and singles, the group disbanded in 1993. Throughout the following decade, Roswell was a bit of a journeyman, eventually settling in Rome, where he worked as a television host, actor, and DJ. His return to recording was initiated by Barney Stoppard (son of playwright Tom Stoppard), who recruited him to compose music for a sci-fi film he was involved with. While the film never materialized, Roswell continued to experiment in his studio, recording the atmospheric, psyched-out music that would eventually become his first solo release, 2004's The Psychedelic Ubik. After relocating to London, he became active as a producer and engineer, working on records by <a href="spotify:artist:2efxPUTFPnzRvR9kDogSU6">Sky Saxon</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:1q4Jwdw6XRbsIOYBJ830Nq">Geraint Watkins</a>, and even assisting on <a href="spotify:artist:3BqaUtuQmqIHg7B5Bc7fP7">Nick Lowe</a>'s At My Age album. In 2011, he issued the single "Interplanetary Spaceliner" on his own <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22ROSCOM%22">ROSCOM</a> label, with another single following in 2012, both of which would show up on his second solo LP, 2014's Call of the Cosmos. ~ Timothy Monger, Rovi