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No-Man - Together We're Stranger (2003) {CD with DVD-A/V Snapper UK SMACD 948X rel 2007}

Posted By: ruskaval

Date: 24 Apr 2016 04:26:36

No-Man - Together We're Stranger (2003) {CD with DVD-A/V Snapper UK SMACD 948X rel 2007}
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DVD5 Audio/Video -> 3.80 Gb | All Regions | NTSC 16:9 / NTSC 4:3 | LPCM, 2 ch / DTS, 6 ch | ~ 63 min | ISO Image
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 11 Gb | 5% repair rar
© 2003, 2007 Snapper UK | SMACD 948X
Rock / Neo Prog / Alternative / Prog Rock / Art Rock / Experimental Rock

This special edition includes a bonus audio DVD featuring the complete album two disc CD/DVD edition comprising a remastered 5.1 DVD-A surround sound mix, high resolution 24 bit stereo of the album and additional bonus material.

No-Man is a British art-pop duo formed in 1987 as No Man Is An Island (Except The Isle Of Man) by singer Tim Bowness and multi-instrumentalist Steven Wilson (the latter also of Porcupine Tree). The band has so far produced six studio albums and a number of singles/outtakes collections (most notably, 2006's career retrospective, All The Blue Changes). The band was once lauded as "conceivably the most important English group since The Smiths" by Melody Maker music newspaper.

Originally creating a sample-based proto-trip hop/ambient/electro-pop-styled music, No-Man has pursued a more organic, diverse and band-oriented sound in subsequent years. Drawing from a diverse mix of singer-songwriter, post rock, minimalist, progressive rock, jazz and contemporary ambient sources for inspiration, No-Man's musical style is distinctive yet difficult to categorise.

Amongst the many guest musicians the band has employed are:

* electronic artists Roger Eno, Faultline, Scanner, Muslimgauze and The Shamen
* jazz musicians Ian Carr and Theo Travis
* King Crimson personnel Robert Fripp, Pat Mastelotto, Gavin Harrison (also a member of Porcupine Tree), and Mel Collins
* ex-Japan members Steve Jansen, Richard Barbieri (also a member of Porcupine Tree) and Mick Karn
* US pedal steel legend, Bruce Kaphan (ex-American Music Club).
* Porcupine Tree bassist Colin Edwin.

Spherical, laid-back avantgarde art pop with infatuating lyrics by Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree, Blackfield) together with vocalist Tim Bowness. No drums, hardly any percussion – an album for headphones, to lean back to and immerge into the magical world of No-Man.

Accomplished but slow, Together We're Stranger further envelops the epic arrangements of its predecessor, Returning Jesus. The echo of Talk Talk shrouds this album in that the bouncy pop of such material as "Teardrop Falls" is now long gone to the extent you wonder if they'll ever revisit such terrain again. Like Talk Talk, No-Man have now become moodsmiths of the minimal and the epic. The title song is one of the stronger pieces, beginning with what sounds like a power tool. Twenty seconds later the piece opens to a wider sonic pasture which, over eight minutes, explores an emotional terrain which is very English (not that they've sounded like anything but over their decade-long existence). This is melancholic stuff with a sensual warmth. "The City in a Hundred Ways" is the recurring theme running through Stranger's only mid-paced song, "All the Blue Changes" to "City" itself – a mournful, clarinet-flavored piece leading into the standout and emotionally charged "Things I Want to Tell You"; the highlight of the album reveals itself in the two-and-a-half-minute electronic epilogue. Steven Wilson's academic musicality has studied the best parts of William Orbit's Pieces in a Modern Style with a looped cathedral-bell motif over wispy synth and crashing waves. The last three songs are acoustic-based tracks of which only the lilting "Back When You Were Beautiful" holds any No-Man traits; it was better done as "All That You Are." [The 2007 Snapper UK edition featured an additional DVD of bonus material.]

Personnel:
Tim Bowness - vocals, words
Steven Wilson - instruments, harmony vocals

with:
Michael Bearpark - guitar solo (1)
Stephen Bennett - noise (1), organ and cymbal (6)
Ben Castle - clarinet, bass clarinet, flute
Peter Chilvers - space-bass (1,2), bass (6)
Roger Eno - harmonium (5)
David Picking - trumpet (1,2), electronics (1,2,3,4), percussion (2,5)

tracklist:
CD
01 - Together We're Stranger
02 - All The Blue Changes
03 - The City In A Hundred Ways
04 - Things I Want To Tell You
05 - Photographs In Black And White
06 - Back When You Were Beautiful
07 - The Break-Up For Real

DVD-A/V Content:
01. Together We're Stranger [DVD]
02. All the Blue Changes [DVD]
03. City in a Hundred Ways [DVD]
04. Things I Want to Tell You [DVD]
05. Photographs in Black and White [DVD]
06. Back When You Were Beautiful [DVD]
07. Break-Up for Real [DVD]
08. Bluecoda [DVD]
09. Break-Up for Real [Drum Mix][Multimedia Track]
10. Things I Want to Tell You [DVD]
11. Bonus Materials [DVD]

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