No-Man Wild Opera (CD, KScope Records, 1996) ***
Genre: Alt- pop
Places I remember: Fopp
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Radiant City
Gear costume: Dry Cleaning Ray
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Radiant City
Gear costume: Dry Cleaning Ray
They loom large in his legend (The Album Collection playlists): Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5
Active compensatory factors: No-Man is a collaboration between Steven Wilson and Tim Bowness. Of all of Steven Wilson's collaborations, this is the one I am the most ambivalent about. Blackfield and Porcupine Tree? Love everything they've released. Bass Communion and his solo career? Although not strictly collaborations - love them to bits.
Active compensatory factors: No-Man is a collaboration between Steven Wilson and Tim Bowness. Of all of Steven Wilson's collaborations, this is the one I am the most ambivalent about. Blackfield and Porcupine Tree? Love everything they've released. Bass Communion and his solo career? Although not strictly collaborations - love them to bits.
But No-Man? Mmmmm. Not too sure.
Wild Opera was their third album and its focus is more on trip hop and dub than prog rock - which is where my diffidence comes from, I guess. Plus, Tim Bowness' vocals are an acquired taste at times.
Where do they all belong? I do get value for money with Wild Opera as the re-released version I have comes with an odds and sods mini-album collection called Dry Cleaning Ray. Furthermore, the DVD set I have (called Mixtaped) is a live gig that comes with a documentary called Returning.
Where do they all belong? I do get value for money with Wild Opera as the re-released version I have comes with an odds and sods mini-album collection called Dry Cleaning Ray. Furthermore, the DVD set I have (called Mixtaped) is a live gig that comes with a documentary called Returning.
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