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Tim Bowness (of no-man) - Abandoned Dancehall Dreams Featuring Steven Wilson and Colin Edwin (Porcupine Tree) and Pat  Mastelotto (King Crimson)
RARE edition of just 200 copies on 180gm white vinyl in gatefold sleeve HAND SIGNED and NUMBERED by Tim on the back cover
Also includes the CD of the album
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Promo postcard and free 16 page booklet featuring a Tim Bowness essay on the making of the album and exclusive artwork.

This fab rare item is sealed, but to hand sign the back of the sleeve Tim has partly opened the cellophane in just the bottom right corner to add his signature and number the edition, as shown in the picture.

I have two of these wonderful items so you will receive either number 89/200 or 90/200 as shown in the picture.

This rare signed and numbered edition on white vinyl sold out at the pre-order stage. I can provide my own letter of authenticity if required. Personally purchased from Burning Shed.

FREE UK 2nd Class Signed For POSTAGE OPTION. For overseas customers I will only use the Royal Mail Signed and Tracked service due to the valuable nature and rarity of this release.

Released 23rd June 2014 on the Inside Out Label - Cat No 0506811.
In hand and ready to post.

21 years after No-Man's debut and 10 years after Bowness's previous solo release My Hotel Year, Tim Bowness returns on the Inside Out label with his ambitious second solo album, Abandoned Dancehall Dreams.

Produced by Bowness and mixed by his No-Man band partner Steven Wilson, Abandoned Dancehall Dreams features performances from Pat Mastelotto (King Crimson), Colin Edwin (Porcupine Tree), Anna Phoebe (Trans-Siberian Orchestra) and members of the No-Man live band (Stephen Bennett, Michael Bearpark, Pete Morgan, Steven Wilson, Andrew Booker and Steve Bingham).

Classical composer Andrew Keeling, best known for his work with The Hilliard Ensemble, Evelyn Glennie and his orchestrations of Robert Fripp's Soundscapes, provides string arrangements for four of the album's eight tracks.

Distinctively combining Art Rock and singer-songwriter influences, Abandoned Dancehall Dreams alternates between the low-key and the large-scale, possessing the cinematic scope and sophisticated sheen of No-Man's best work, while taking Bowness's music into unexpected areas, including the propulsive drum and string chug of The Warm-Up Man Forever, the fretless bass, synth and choir combinations on Dancing For You, the Nick Drake-esque Waterfoot, and the grinding Rock codas to Smiler At 50 and I Fought Against The South.

Completed at Phil Manzanera's Gallery Studios and Steven Wilson's Nomansland in early 2014, the album was mastered by award-winning Pink Floyd engineer, Andy Jackson.

Abandoned Dancehall Dreams is a singular statement from a singular artist.

'Abandoned Dancehall Dreams is Bowness's masterpiece, which is saying something, and a contender as the triumph of 2014.' - Prog

'A perfect blend of the tender and the titanic.' - 9/10 Classic Rock

'Bowness's music has never sounded this magnificent. Drawing on sources ranging from Peter Gabriel to Talk Talk and King Crimson, the end result sounds like nobody but Tim Bowness.' - All About Jazz

TRACKS
LP:

Side 1:

1. The Warm-Up Man Forever (4.06)
2. Smiler At 50 (8.19)
3. Songs Of Distant Summers (5.02)
4. Waterfoot (4.14)

Side 2:

1. Dancing For You (5.59)
2. Smiler At 52 (4.05)
3. I Fought Against The South (8.51)
4. Beaten By Love (3.28)

CD:

1. The Warm-Up Man Forever (4.06)
2. Smiler At 50 (8.19)
3. Songs Of Distant Summers (5.02)
4. Waterfoot (4.14)
5. Dancing For You (5.59)
6. Smiler At 52 (4.05)
7. I Fought Against The South (8.51)
8. Beaten By Love (3.28)


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