Lone Bison / Nick Bonell lives by the sea in Ramsgate. Mainly a guitar player and pedal freak, Nick bought a used Korg MS20 and fell in love with synths. As one half of Stuntmen, Nick released the sample-heavy single 'You're the Beat Find' on the groovy Tummy Touch label, which led to him scoring three Ford adverts in the U.S and a few pieces of well-used production music - which paid for more synths and pedals! An album, 'Transistor Memory' and single 'Drugs' came out via Dom Martin's Polytechnic Youth records in 2021. "Wave Construction" was released by Castles in Space in Autumn 2023. An album for the CiS Subscription Library entitled "Mechanical and Electrical" was released in late 2024.

Nick Explains: "After recording "Transistor Memory", "Wave Construction" and "Mechanical and Electrical" pretty much back-to-back, I wanted to change my sound palette a little.  I started programming my Hydrasynth Explorer in obsessive detail and was also drawn to using my voice, in a sampling kind of way at first.  Sampling my voice then shifted into recording more straightforward vocals and writing proper songs again.  "Rise Up" started as a field recording in my local park and then some wonky piano loops with a cheap mic – somehow a song arrived.  I’ve always really liked really concise records, so I got interested in packing lots of synth textures into a three-minute pop song.  As the record progressed, I did less leaning on vocoders and harmonisers and developed the courage to just do more up-front vocal mixes. Things like Maths and Minimal / Maximal are more groove-based and came from recording 20 minute drum tracks then jamming bass guitar over it then editing it all down and adding loads of synths.  Oh, and there’s a bit of James Williamson era Stooges at the end of Minimal / Maximal – I was a bit nervous about playing garage rock guitar on a Castles in Space record but Colin told me I would be ‘fucking mental’ if I didn’t end the record with it."

Lone Bison's music is influenced by Krautrock, electronica, post-punk, soundtracks, a splosh of modern classical/minimalism and post-rock.  Nick has also been working as the sole writer with Colin at CiS and a brace of session singers to create an album coming in September - although there will be singles dropped over the Summer. We've had some lyric videos done by Merseyside scenster, genius artist and all round lovely person, Neil Grant from Lo Five.  "Castles in Space Presents Project Pop Volume One".  Hooky as fooky, Nick again demonstrates his prowess with melody, invention and startling musicianship. We love him a lot.