Speak (No-Man album)
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| Compilation album by No-Man | |||||
| Released | August 1999 | ||||
| Recorded | 1988 to 1989, 1999 | ||||
| Genre | Ambient, Art Rock | ||||
| Length | 50:54 | ||||
| Label | Hidden Art, Snapper Music | ||||
| Producer | Tim Bowness, Steven Wilson | ||||
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Speak is a compilation album consisting of previously obscure material by British Art Rock band No-Man. Originally, recorded between 1988 and 1989[1], the songs were re-mixed and re-sung in 1999 (during the band's sessions for Returning Jesus). Before Speak the songs in the track list had only been released on cassette earlier in the band's history.[2]
Snapper Music's 2005 reissue of Speak adds the bonus track "The Hidden Art Of Man Ray" (an untreated improvisation from 1988). The track also appears as a second disc on Tonefloat's vinyl release of Speak.
The version of Nick Drake's Pink Moon was originally featured on the 1991 Nick Drake tribute album, Brittle Days.
[edit] Track listing
All songs by Bowness / Wilson, except:
(1,6) - Coleman / Wilson, (2) - Nick Drake, (7) - Donovan Leitch, (11) - Bowness
- Speak (1.24)
- Pink moon (3.03)
- Iris murdoch cut me down (4.33)
- Curtain dream (3.01)
- Heaven's break (3.22)
- French tree terror suspect (2.59)
- River song (2.01)
- Riverrun (4.44)
- The ballet beast (1.27)
- Night sky sweet earth (6.37)
- Life with picasso (3.26)
- Death and dodgson's dreamchild (2.19)
- The hidden art of man ray [Bonus track] (11.42)
[edit] Musicians
- Tim Bowness - vocals, words, guitar (11)
- Steven Wilson - instruments, backing vocals (8,10)
- Stuart Blagden - guitar (13)
- Ben Coleman - violin (1,6,10,13)
- Richard Felix - cello (6,9), harmonica (5)
