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no-man is a British duo formed in 1987 by Tim Bowness and Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree).

The name no-man was adopted in 1990 and first used on the self-released June 1990 single release, Colours.

Originally creating a sample-based proto-trip hop / ambient styled music, no-man’s sound has become more organic, eclectic and band-oriented in subsequent years.

On labels such as One Little Indian, Sony, Adasam and Kscope, 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.

no-man's most recent studio album, Schoolyard Ghosts, was released in May 2008 and received some of the most favourable reviews of the band's career (being described as "truly sublime" by Classic Rock magazine).

Mixtaped - a double DVD package including a film of the band's sell-out London performance in 2008, a career profiling documentary and assorted promotional videos - was released in October 2009. Source: no-man

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Album Review

No-Man: Love You to Bits

Read "Love You to Bits" reviewed by Geno Thackara


Sometimes a new album is what happens when you're busy making other plans. Fittingly enough, plans for this duo have always been something of a joke anyway; No-Man's career has criss-crossed the whole spectrum of styles precisely because they've always been willing to follow unexpected ideas as the mood hits. It's also the reason the band had been back-burnered for several years while Tim Bowness and Steven Wilson pursued a range of other endeavors, solo and with a variety of ...

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Rediscovery

No-Man: Together We're Stranger

Read "No-Man: Together We're Stranger" reviewed by John Kelman


No-Man Together We're Stranger (remastered/expanded)Kscope2014 (2003) With Steven Wilson on the cusp of releasing Hand. Cannot. Erase. (Kscope, 2015), and Tim Bowness' Abandoned Dancehall Dreams (Inside Out, 2014) one of 2014's best releases, now's as good a time as any to revisit the pair's music together as No-Man--specifically, Together We're Stranger (Snapper, 2003), reissued last year on Kscope in a remastered and expanded edition that sounds even better on the Tetra listening instruments that were ...

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King Crimson's David Cross & No-Man's Andrew Booker's Unreleased 2006 Album Ends Meeting

King Crimson's David Cross & No-Man's Andrew Booker's Unreleased 2006 Album Ends Meeting

Source: Glass Onyon PR - William James

David Cross was a member of King Crimson during the 1970s and Andrew Booker was a member of No-Man, Sanguine Hum and Peter Banks’s Harmony in Diversity. This PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED STUDIO ALBUM was recorded in 2006 but had not seen a release until now. David Cross said of the release “I met Andrew some years ago when the David Cross Band were touring with Pete Banks's Harmony and Diversity. Andrew was the drummer with that band and we got together ...

"Bowness and Wilson possess voracious musical appetites, and their individual and collective refusal to become boxed in by any reductionist definition is what has ultimately rendered no-man's six studio recordings and two live recordings so distinctive...and so ultimately important in defining their respective careers." All About Jazz

"Conceivably the most important English group since The Smiths..." Melody Maker

"Can easily be measured with the best work of similarly unclassifiable acts like Japan and Talk Talk..." OOR Magazine

"The power of great pop." D.D.D.

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