Simon Huw Jones was born in
Birmingham, England in 1960 but grew up in rural Worcestershire where, in 1979, he formed the alternative rock band And Also the Trees with his guitarist brother
Justin Jones. In the following years the band toured extensively in
Europe and the
United States. Jones now lives in
Geneva, Switzerland where he founded, together with Bernard Trontin (a member of the Swiss band
The Young Gods), the
electro/
ambient project November. In 2006 they released an album under the same name. In May 2012 Jones recorded the vocal for the 'electric version' (for 17 electric guitars, percussion and voice) of "How we tried a new combination of notes to show the invisible" a
piece of music written by the
French guitarist and composer
Olivier Mellano under commission for the Orchestre Symphonique de Bretagne. The piece, written in four
movements, was performed along with the original version for full
orchestra and
soprano and a further 'electro'
transcription at the Opéra de Rennes as part of the Rencontres Trans Musicales 2012. After leaving school, Jones studied
photography in
Great Barr, Birmingham then worked in the
Cadbury Schweppes photographic studios. He has continued to take and exhibit photographs, most notably when German multi media artist
John Bock used five of his pictures whilst curating the
FischGrätenMelkStand exhibition in the Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin in 2010. His photographs have also been used as covers for And Also the Trees albums and singles. ==Discography==