GNAC - FRIEND SLEEPING GNAC

Friend Sleeping * 25th Anniversary Edition

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supported byAndy N Got the original, so rarely feel the need to get reissues but this is well worth buying.

Favourite track - love all of it in particular the radio sessions tracks. Favorite track: And Now It's So Much Colder (Version). Continental Balcony Twilight (Demo) 00:00 / 04:11

• Double CD edition in digipackCompact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

  An expanded double CD edition of the album - remastered from the 1999 DAT by Samuel J. Smith. With 26 extra tracks. Digi-pack with 12-page booklet that includes archive pictures and track notes. Art direction: Timothy O'Donnell. Total number manufactured = 200.
  
  Initial copies sold include signed vintage GNAC card from 1998. (address on card no longer valid)
  
  Includes unlimited streaming of Friend Sleeping * 25th Anniversary Edition via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.Download available in 16-bit/44.1kHz.ships out within 5 days

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• Yellow vinyl LP.Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

  Yellow vinyl LP with collage printed inner sleeve with archive pictures and track notes. Art direction: Timothy O'Donnell. Mastered for vinyl by Samuel J. Smith from the 1999 DAT. Total pressing of this edition = 100.
  
  Initial copies sold include signed vintage GNAC card from 1998. (address on card no longer valid)
  
  Includes unlimited streaming of Friend Sleeping * 25th Anniversary Edition via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.Download available in 16-bit/44.1kHz.ships out within 4 days

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• Pink Vinyl LPRecord/Vinyl + Digital Album

  Pink vinyl LP with collage printed inner sleeve with archive pictures and track notes. Art direction: Timothy O'Donnell. Mastered for vinyl by Samuel J. Smith from the 1999 DAT. Total pressing of this edition = 100.
  
  Initial copies sold include signed vintage GNAC card from 1998. (address on card no longer valid)
  
  Includes unlimited streaming of Friend Sleeping * 25th Anniversary Edition via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.Download available in 16-bit/44.1kHz.ships out within 4 days

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• First and second test pressing. (2 discs) - 1 leftRecord/Vinyl + Digital Album

  An accepted 3rd press test pressing for Friend Sleeping 25th Anniversary + one rejected earlier test pressing. 2 records in each set. Plus a signed card and a vintage GNAC card from 1998.
  
  Includes unlimited streaming of Friend Sleeping * 25th Anniversary Edition via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.Download available in 16-bit/44.1kHz.ships out within 4 daysedition of 3  1 remaining

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• Digital AlbumStreaming + Download

  Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.Download available in 16-bit/44.1kHz.

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  Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Scrotchets, MAGICAL BATH FUNNEL, An Octave Of Silence, Friend Sleeping * 25th Anniversary Edition, Elegant Contact, Estimating Green, April In Space (E.P.), Biscuit Barrel Fashion, and 17 more.

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1.Friend Sleeping 05:432.Hennebert Sleeve 05:203.Continental Balcony Twlight 02:444.Ice Cream Van 03:055.Nanami Togarashi 01:506.Stepping Aside 08:067.A Vantage Point Is The Top Of A Tree 02:19 video8.Plink 02:249.Bad Self Portrait 04:0410.Fin 01:3511.A Tangle With ... (Session) 02:5512.Can't Get Through To You (Session) 02:5013.Armchair Thriller (Session) 05:5114.Stepping Aside (Session) 04:3815.The Moustache (Session) 04:0616.And Now It's So Much Colder (Version) 03:3217.Difficult Loves (Version) 02:0418.Bad Self Portait (Demo) 04:5719.Continental Balcony Twilight (Demo) 04:1120.Hennebert Sleeve (Remix) 04:0121.At The End Of October 04:4022.Falling Out With Sleep 02:3923.Côte D'Azur 03:0224.Exotica 04:1025.France '98 03:1526.Balveran 03:3027.Gallop 04:0828.O Nova 02:0529.I Remember Carousels 02:4430.La Bamba Gascoigne 00:5631.Broken Stone 01:2032.Legrand Illusion (Work In Progress) 03:1033.The Trials Of Dr Pangloss (Demo) 05:0934.Shuttleworth Jungle 03:2135.Japonica 03:4136.The Valentine Suite (Part IV) 01:3537.Ice Cream Van (Original Length & Audio) 03:4938.Stepping Aside (Original Length & Audio) 09:4939.Plink (Original Length & Audio) 05:2440.Bad Self Portrait (Original Length & Audio) 06:26

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"The 25th anniversary edition of debut GNAC album "Friend Sleeping", originally released in 1999. This is the first release on the "Vertical Features Reissues" imprint, with all reissue artwork by Timothy O'Donnell.

Released on vinyl for the first time ever, the album is available in two colours: pink or yellow. Mastered from the 1999 DAT by Samuel J. Smith. The inner sleeve includes a collage of archive images and track commentary.

The 2CD edition, housed in a digipack, has 26 extra tracks, and a 12 page booklet with archive images and track commentary. CD1 contains the original album, plus a five-song session recorded live in the studio in Amsterdam in October 1999. CD2 contains 21 related recordings, found on cassettes, DATs and minidiscs in the attic. Amongst these are different versions of three album tracks - the first demo of "Continental Balcony Twilight" (thought to be lost until recently), an early take of "Bad Self Portrait", and a remix of "Hennebert Sleeve" made for a cassette to accompany a Greek fanzine. Elsewhere, the tracks vary from guitar-based miniatures, to attempts to use a vintage sequencer to coax drum and bass type music from a mid-size Yamaha keyboard; a scaled down model of the one used by John Shuttleworth.

A deluxe bundle of vinyl + 2CD is available with an original GNAC card - made in 1998 - and signed on the back. (address on card no longer valid). Plus a postcard set. All contained in a GNAC stamped pillow-case.

Equipment used: All recordings were made at home between 1996-1999 onto either a Yamaha MT-100 4-track cassette recorder (many of the extra tracks) or a Roland VS-880 hard-disc recorder (album tracks and some of the extra tracks). These were then transferred to DAT master via a Sony A6 Deck. Yamaha APX-4 Electo-Acoustic Guitar, Epiphone red semi acoustic guitar, Kasuga classical guitar - modified with a pick up, all recorded via direct input. Keyboard: Yamaha PSS-790 Portasound. MIDI Sound box: Yamaha EMT-10 Sound Expander. Sequencers: Alessis MMT-8, Roland PMA-5. Effects: Roland VS8F-1 effects card in the VS-880, Yamaha R 100 Reverb Processor, Rocktek Chorus Pedal. JVC Headphones.

An ironing board was used as a keyboard stand and the recording equipment was placed on a small circular dining table, all illuminated by a floor lamp. Nearly all the recordings were made in the flat I rented above a flower shop, on a corner, in Shirley, Southampton, with a few later recordings made after a move North to Salford.

In the process of remastering the album from the original 1999 DAT for vinyl, tracks 1.4, 1.6 and 1.8 were carefully edited down to comfortably fit within 20 minutes per side. Listening back to this edited edition of the album, I am convinced it is much better for being slightly briefer, so I opted for this version on CD1 as well. However, for completeness, the original full-length versions of A.4, B.1 and B.3 will be included with all Bandcamp download editions (in a zipped folder)."

Mark Tranmer, Scotland, 2024