No Man is Tim Bowness and Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree). Wild Opera, No-Man's third album, released in 1996, is regarded as the most inventive and unpredictable album in the band's catalogue. Rapidly shifting from distorted grooves to sinister, Jazz-inflected Trip-Hop and from choked Rock riffs to more traditional ballad fare, Wild Opera represented a thrilling departure for the band and has since become seen as a classic one-of-a-kind statement of uncompromising creative intent.
Long out of print, the original CD is now a highly sought-after rarity, with copies changing hands for over L100 on Ebay.
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