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No Man

No Man

Representative Albums:

Win! Instantly!, How the West Was Won, 3

Similar Artists:

No Man's Band, Mission of Burma, Birdsongs of the Mesozoic
  • Alternative Name: No Man Is Roger Miller
  • Genre: Rock
  • Active: '80s, '90s

Biography

Mission of Burma dissolved in 1983, due in large part to guitarist Roger Miller's hearing problems, directly caused by the astonishingly loud band's volume. Miller (along with bandmate Martin Swope) joined Erik Lindgren's experimental chamber music project Birdsongs of the Mesozoic immediately, and simultaneously pursued a more rock-oriented direction with his one-man live project Maximum Electric Piano. No Man is basically a combination of the two approaches, mixing the avant-garde concepts of Birdsongs with the muscular oomph of Miller's rock & roll edge.

The first side of 1986's No Man Is Hurting Me consists of Miller's Maximum Electric Piano improvisations, a combination of Robert Fripp's Frippertronics and John Cage's prepared piano, with a second side of quirky experiments like a cover of the same-named folk-pop singer's "King of the Road" that Miller had been threatening to do since his Mission of Burma days. (Discographical note: the artist credit on No Man Is Hurting Me is actually Roger Miller; besides No Man, the project was also known as No Man Is Roger Miller and, on half of 1989's Damage the Enemy, No Man's Band; Miller also released unrelated solo albums of a more experimental nature during the No Man period.)

1988's Win! Instantly! is more song-oriented, including a new version of Mission of Burma's "This Is Not a Photograph." For half of 1989's Damage the Enemy, Miller retains bassist Russ Smith, who had appeared on Win! Instantly!, and adds drummer Ken Winokur (who would later draft Miller into the Alloy Orchestra) for a series of fractured instrumental improvisations; the other side continues the more conventional art-rock focus of its predecessor. 1990's Whamon Express is more straightforward still, the most conventional rock & roll album of Miller's career. 1991's How the West Was Won returns a little more experimentation to the sound, to good effect. After that album, Roger Miller formed M-3 with his brothers Laurence Miller and Benjamin Miller (who had both played in the seminal Michigan punk band Destroy All Monsters in the mid-'70s), with whom he had last recorded in high school in the late '60s as Sproton Layer. Between that project and new interests, Miller allowed the No Man name to lapse. ~ Stewart Mason, All Music Guide
 
 
Wikipedia: No-Man
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Background information
Origin Hemel Hempstead,
Stockton Heath,
England
Genre(s) Art Rock
Experimental Pop
Years active 1987-Present
Website Official site
Members
Tim Bowness
Steven Wilson
Former members
Stuart Blagden
Ben Coleman

No-Man is a British duo formed in 1987 as No Man Is An Island (Except The Isle Of Man) by Tim Bowness (from Stockton Heath, Cheshire, born, November 29th, 1963) and Porcupine Tree's Steven Wilson (from Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, born, November 3, 1967).

Over the course of five massively varied albums and several singles/outtakes collections, No-Man has produced a unique body of work that has developed from the band's sample-based proto Trip-Hop origins into something beyond easy categorisation.

After receiving ecstatic press reviews (including Singles Of The Week in Melody Maker, Sounds and Irish music paper, Hot Press), indie top 20 hits and high profile contracts (with One Little Indian, Hit & Run Publishing and Epic/Sony) in the early 1990s, the band has continued to write and evolve throughout its two decade long career.

Recording and re-defining themselves through ever changing and eclectic musical approaches, No-Man has released material via Snapper Music, Materiali Sonori, Third Stone/Adasam and internet label Burning Shed, building up a loyal worldwide cult following drawn to the band's increasingly ambitious sound.

Between 1991-1994, No-Man were managed by Talk Talk's manager Keith Aspden. Mirroring the evolution of artists such as Talk Talk, David Sylvian, Radiohead, Scott Walker and Kate Bush, with each successive release, the band has moved further away from its more conventional Pop/Rock roots.

Included amongst the many artists and guest musicians the band has worked with since the early 1990s are electro-pioneers Scanner, Muslimgauze and The Shamen, Jazz luminaries Ian Carr and Theo Travis, and the legendary likes of King Crimson personnel, Robert Fripp and Mel Collins, Roger Eno and ex-Japan members, Jansen, Barbieri and Karn.

Drawing from a diverse mix of Jazz, Minimalist, Progressive Rock, Electro-Pop, Trip Hop and Contemporary Ambient sources for inspiration, No-Man are one of the most difficult to pigeonhole British bands of recent times. Creating an emotive fusion of panoramic soundscapes, cracked ballads and abrasive sonic surprises, it's difficult to predict how the band's music will develop on its future recordings. According to the band's website, a new album is expected sometime in 2008.

Discography

Studio Albums

Compilations/Other

Singles and EPs

  • Colours (1990)
  • Days In The Trees (1991)
  • Ocean Song (1992)
  • Sweetheart Raw (1993) - Mail Order Only
  • Only Baby (1993)
  • Painting Paradise (1993)
  • Taking It Like a Man (1994) - US Only
  • Housewives Hooked On Heroin (1996)
  • Dry Cleaning Ray (1997) - Vinyl Only Release
  • Carolina Skeletons (1998)
  • All That You Are (2003)
  • The Break-Up for Real (2007)

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