The Quiet Temple

Biography

The Quiet Temple is an amorphous musical collective from the United Kingdom, put together by Rich Machin and Duke Garwood, with a rolling cast of players assembled from the likes of Soulsavers, Spiritualized, Stereolab and Julian Cope.

Jazz's spirit of wanderlust underpins their music, but Machin is defiant that their début album, the eponymous The Quiet Temple is not a jazz album: "I don’t think it’s a jazz record. It’s got a lot of Krautrocky stuff going on in it as well. For me, as well as the Alice Coltrane influence, it’s equal parts Velvet Underground and Harmonia. There’s lots of psych rock and other elements in there too."

Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.