Porcupine Tree - In Absentia [Bonus Disc]

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Wikipedia: Porcupine Tree are a Grammy award-nominated progressive rock band formed by Steven Wilson in 1987 in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England. Their music is a combination of rock, ambient, psychedelia and metal. During the nineties the band focused mainly on psychedelic music although they incorporated a wide range of styles of electronic music, from trance, krautrock and ambient due to Steven Wilson and Richard Barbieri's liking for the Kosmische Musik scene of the early '70s, led by bands such as Tangerine Dream, Neu! and Can to more recently metal. For live shows, Porcupine Tree make use of a screen that displays a different projection for each song. This visual element was introduced during the In Absentia tour, when the band started to work with Danish photographer and film-maker Lasse Hoile, whose works help to create a distinctive image for the band. Despite being signed to Roadrunner in Europe and Atlantic in the U.S., the band have their own record label, Transmission, which they use to launch some independent releases and special limited editions of their albums. Porcupine Tree originated in 1987 as something of a collaborative hoax between Steven Wilson and Malcolm Stocks. Partially inspired by psychedelic bands of the seventies, in the likes of Pink Floyd, that dominated the music scene during their youth, the two decided to form a fictional legendary rock band named The Porcupine Tree. The two fabricated details such as band members, album titles, and a back-story, that purportedly included events such as a meeting at a '70s rock festival and several trips in and out of prison. As soon as he put aside enough money to buy his own studio equipment, Wilson obliged the creation with several hours of music to provide "evidence" of its existence. Although Porcupine Tree started largely as a joke and Wilson was preoccupied with his other project, No-Man (an endeavour with UK based singer and songwriter Tim Bowness he had been involved in at the time), by 1989 he began to consider some of the music as potentially marketable. Wilson created an 80-minute-long cassette titled Tarquin's Seaweed Farm under the name of Porcupine Tree. Still showing the spirit of his joke, Wilson included an 8-page inlay containing information about fictitious band members such as Sir Tarquin Underspoon and Timothy Tadpole-Jones. A new EP called Nil Recurring was released on 17 September 2007, featuring four unreleased tracks from the Fear of a Blank Planet sessions, and also includes another contribution from Robert Fripp. The second leg of the current tour started on 3 October 2007, now promoting new music from the EP. Nil Recurring entered the UK Top 30 Independent Label Albums at #8. The EP was later reissued in 18 February 2008 through Peaceville Records. On 5 November 2007, Fear of a Blank Planet won the "Album of the Year" award for the 2007 Classic Rock magazine awards. In December, 2007, it was nominated for a "Best Surround Sound Album" Grammy though Love by The Beatles won the award. In January, 2008, was voted "Best Album of 2007" by readers of the Dutch Progressive Rock Page. The LP version of Fear of a Blank Planet includes the Nil Recurring EP tracks.

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Tracklisting:
Disc 1
1. Blackest eyes
2. Trains
3. Lips of ashes
4. The Sound of muzak
5. Gravity eyelids
6. Wedding nails
7. Prodigal
8. .3
9. The Creator Has a Masterpiece
10. Heartattack in a Layby
11. Strip the Soul
12. Collapse the Light into Earth

Disc 2
1. Drown with me
2. Chlorophorm
3. Strip the soul

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Sound quality of this release seems pretty good and I hope there will be no need for future remasters - pardon me but issuing 2-4 remasters for almost every album of importance quickly drains my wallet and makes me believe what ignorants were working on previous releases when they couldn't make their job done properly.

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Other Purcupine Tree releases:
Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun {CD + DVD} (2000/2008)
Porcupine Tree - Nil Recurring {EP} (2008)