Staying with the no-man vibe for a minute, Burning Shed's download store have FLAC and Mp3 files available to buy of a promo mix of "The Break-Up For Real" from their recently re-released 2003 album, Together We're Stranger.
Tim Bowness is interviewed in the June edition of Guitar Player magazine by the redoubtable and always readable, Anil Prasad. The article touches upon Robert Fripp’s guest-spot on no-man’s Flowermouth album.
“We did two passes through each song” says Bowness. “On the first pass, we instructed Robert on what and how to play. For the second take, we asked him to do whatever he thought was appropriate for the song. We used a combination of both approaches on the final release. Occasionally, to trigger inspiration or ire, we’d hold up an old image of Robert with an afro from the early King Crimson days and say”We’d like a bit of this.” Then we’d hold up an image of Brian May in full Queen regalia and add, “But we’d also like a bit of this.” I’ve always loved the extreme range of Robert’s expression. It was very inspiring to be around someone equally adept at making ear-splitting noise as he is in crafting ethereal and graceful sounds.”
Thanks to those nice people at Snapper we have four copies of the album in question to giveaway. All you need to do to be in with a chance of grabbing one of these digipak delights is to tell me the name of the 2006 no-man anthology (here’s a bit of a hint if you’re not sure) by sending an email to competitions@dgmlive.com. The four winners will be picked out of the hat and announced on Monday 21st May.
