''Together We're Stranger'' is

No-Man No-Man are an English 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 band has so far produced seven studio albums and a number of singles/outtakes ...

's fifth studio album released by the

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label in 2003. The first four songs are linked to form a 28-minute suite of continuous music with recurring lyrical and musical themes. The remaining three songs feature acoustic guitar and clarinet-dominated arrangements and are amongst the band's most stripped-down and intimate recordings. In keeping with other No-Man releases, the title track reuses the musical basis of a previous

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work: that of "Drugged" from his first

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. The chord progression in "The Break-Up For Real" would later be reused by Wilson for songs on

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's 2009 album, '' The Incident''. The album was released in a limited edition white vinyl format on the Dutch label Tonefloat in November 2005 and in February 2007 on

as a 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. In 2014 was released a remaster (by

) single-disc edition on the

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label, includes 2 bonus tracks "Bluecoda" and "The Break-up for Real – drum mix".

Track listing

Two disc Snapper edition

The two disc edition (on

) comes with the original stereo mix on CD and a DVD featuring the album in 5.1 DVD-A surround sound and in high resolution 24 bit stereo, with bonus tracks "Bluecoda" and "The Break-up for Real – drum mix" as well as the video for "Things I Want to Tell You" and a photo gallery. Both "Bluecoda" and "The Break-up for Real – drum mix" later appeared on the compilation album '' All the Blue Changes – An Anthology 1988–2003'' and on the 2014 Remaster version of the album, released by

label.

Personnel

Tim Bowness Tim Bowness (born 29 November 1963) is an English singer and songwriter primarily known for his work as part of the band No-Man, a long-term project formed in 1987 with Porcupine Tree's Steven Wilson. Music career In addition to recording album ...

– vocals, words *

– instruments, harmony vocals with: *

Michael Bearpark Michael Bearpark is an English scientist and musician. Work as scientist Bearpark is a Principal Research Fellow in the Chemistry Department at Imperial College London. He works in computational chemistry, including method and software developm ...

– guitar solo (1) * Stephen Bennett – noise (1), organ and cymbal (6) *Ben Castle – clarinet, bass clarinet, flute *

Peter Chilvers Peter Chilvers was an inventor, engineer and promoter of sailing and windsurfing. He is credited with an early version of a sail powered surfboard. He died from lung cancer on 26 February 2015. Life Chilvers had been an engineer for Lotus an ...

– space-bass (1,2), bass (6) *

Roger Eno Roger Eugene Eno (born in Woodbridge, Suffolk, Woodbridge, England, in 1959) is an English ambient music composer. He is the brother of Brian Eno. Early life and education Roger Eno began euphonium lessons when he was 12 years old, and entered C ...

– harmonium (5,8) *David Picking – trumpet (1,2), electronics (1,2,3,4), percussion (2,5,9)

External links

No-Man's Official WebsiteNo-Man's Fan Site

References

{{Authority control 2003 albums No-Man albums Snapper Music albums