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CD Release Date Friday 11th April 2025
LP Release Date Friday 6th June 2025
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.
Needle Mythology, the label founded by music writer, author and broadcaster Pete
Paphides, is honoured to announce the release of Think Once More • A Journey with The
Montgolfier Brothers, the first ever anthology by the feted duo made up of Mancunian
musicians Roger Quigley and Mark Tranmer.
The Montgolfier Brothers released three acclaimed albums between 1999 and 2005. Roger
Quigley had released music as Quigley and At Swim Two Birds, while Mark Tranmer has
released music both as GNAC, in his own name and with Vetchinsky Settings.
The Montgolfier Brothers’ music is perhaps best compared to that of artists such as The
Durutti Column, Yann Tiersen, Young Marble Giants and Robert Wyatt – artists whose music
is celebrated for its ability to arouse deep emotion by the sparest of means.
Working closely with the family of Roger Quigley who passed away in 2020, Think Once
More was sequenced by Mark during the summer of 2024.
Think Once More gathers together music from the albums Seventeen Stars, All My Bad
Thoughts and The World Is Flat.
Featured on the album is Between Two Points, interpreted by David Gilmour and Romany
Gilmour on the recent UK number one album Luck and Strange. Prior to the album release
this was a also a single and, across all platforms, has surpassed 10 million streams.
Of its 14 songs, nine songs featured on Think Once More have never previously been
released on vinyl.
As well as David Gilmour, other well-known fans of The Montgolfier Brothers include Tim
Burgess and the celebrated author Jonathan Coe, who has written liner notes for the release
of Think Once More.
Think Once More comes in specially created artwork by esteemed Philadelphia-based
Creative Director Timothy O’Donnell. It is also first Montgolfier Brothers release to feature
Roger and Mark on its front cover – the photograph (by Olivier de Banes) captures the duo in
1997, following a French show two years prior to the release of Seventeen Stars.
Think Once More will be released on double LP in gatefold sleeve and printed inners – with
black and crystal clear vinyl variants. The songs were all mastered for this release by Miles
Showell at Abbey Road. There will also be a vinyl replica CD in gatefold sleeve.
Tracklisting
1. Even If My Mind Can't Tell You 2. Pro-Celebrity Standing Around 3. Seventeen Stars 4. In Walks A Ghost 5. Between Two Points 6. Fin 7. Be Selfish 8. The World Is Flat 9. Think Once More 10. Inches Away 11. The First Rumours of Spring 12. Koffee Pot 13. Brecht's Lost Waltz (Summer Is Over) 14. Journey's End
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