No Man
Flowermouth

THE REVIEW

Sometimes dreams come true and this reality can also be called "Flowermouth".

Tim Bowness, his voice and his lips touch the delicacy and humble beauty of this simple bouquet, Steven Wilson aka Porcupine Tree, his is always a true dedication to the instrumental part, and for this wonderful dream that has become reality, No-Man take on an "epic" orchestral magnitude with masterful performances thanks to Richard Barbieri, Ian Carr, Ben Coleman, Mel Collins, Robert Fripp, Lisa Gerard, Steve Jansen, Chris Maitland, Silas Maitland.

Each individual artist, with their wealth of experience and style, is in the search for the perfect Album, a mélange of trumpet, violin, cello, clarinet, saxophone, guitar, piano, percussion, keyboard, personal melodies and sounds and ... Tim's voice, what can be said of such a rare voice, without taking anything away from Lisa's alternative voice, all key components for a refined blend. Every single song is of intelligent accessibility, one just needs to listen to understand its meaning and provide their own interpretation. Every single track expands and transforms to maximize scope and structure, there are abstract duets, overlapping instruments to voices that take shape, delicate whispering guitar and organ melodies over unrestricted synth dialogues.

Nine tracks and two bonus tracks, one of which is a dark and unsettling conclusion "Born Simple" where anxiety persists in a measured twelve-minute and 09° heartbeat, while the opening track "Angel Gets Caught in the Beauty Trap" violin, double bass, trumpet, clarinet, piano, sax, and guitar are the locomotive of a ten-minute and 33° journey that slowly flows along the tracks of life, without a goal, without a destination, it's a journey against time with a thousand surprises and adversities, a journey to a place where music slowly dissolves, "You Grow More Beautiful" an overseas journey, "Simple" Robert, Tim, and Lisa are chilling in a mix of romance, "Things Change" a sweet kiss and ... Robert omnipresent, "Angeldust" sax, synthesizers to scream, a "space" journey.

I would say it is nice to lock oneself in a small dark room, listen to each track letting oneself go, waiting for the environment to become so saturated with sounds and images that penetrate the mind and heart until it can bear no more, for that constant pain called "feeling".

An excellent Album dedicated to those interested in crossing new experimental unions between "ancient" and ultra-modern in a musical field that, from the start, given the presence of certain guests, becomes very fascinating and quite curious as well as extremely relaxing.