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Andrew's Collection

No-Man   ??/??/1990

Demos, Unknown, UK
Source Lossless cassette rip
Media Flac CDR   1 disc
Notes "1990 Demos"
Tech Notes All four of the below demos on one data disc.

"No Man (is an Island) - Early Demos 1989/90
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For the uninitiated, No-Man are an art-pop-rock combo featuring the multi-instrumentalist skills of Porcupine Tree's Steven Wilson & Norfolk's answer to Billy Mackenzie, Tim Bowness. The band also featured the truly amazing violin of Ben Coleman. The live No-Man band expanded from just the 3-some in the early days to a full band augmented by various members of Porcupine Tree and ex-members of Japan. I am currently seeding a rare No Man live show on Dime & TTD.

These songs date back to the very early days of the band, when they played pubs in North London & the Home Counties and recorded many, many demos at Steven Wilson's home studio, No Mans Land. The band where known to give away tapes of their work at their shows and even gave away a limited 7" vinyl pressing of their cover of Donovan's "Colours". This seed contains transfers of these orginal tapes and the give-away 7".

No Man continued to play live & record, eventually signing to the One Little Indian label, where the fantastic "Days in the Trees" gave the band a much wider audience. Even as Steven Wilson began developing Porcupine Tree as a full band in the mid-90's, he still gave up much of his time to No Man. No Man are planning to record a new LP in the next few months.

This torrent contains:

Girl from Missouri tape:
1. The Girl from Missouri
2. Forest Almost Burning
3. Night Sky Sweet Earth
4. The Ballet Beast

Swagger tape:
1. Flowermouth
2. Life is Elsewhere
3. Bleed
4. Mouth Was Blue

1990 Demos
1. Swirl
2. Days in the Trees
3. Heaventaste
4. Love Among the White Trash
5. Swirl

Colours
1. Colours
2. Colours (remodelled)

Apologies for some digital NR on the tape transfers & a glitch about 30 secs into Days in the Trees.

Enjoy!



Some informative and factual reading (if you want to know more) can be found here:

http://burningshed.co.uk/aconfession/

For a massive list of all No Man & Steven Wilson recordings, see here:

http://www.swhq.co.uk/discography.cfm"
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Owned by Andrew · Last Updated May 23, 2023