No More Travelling Chess

No More Travelling Chess
Studio album by Parallel or 90 Degrees
Released	October 2001
Recorded	2001
Genre	Progressive rock
Label	Cyclops
Producer	Andy Tillison

Last updated April 28, 2019

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No More Travelling Chess is an album created by Guy Manning and Andy Tillison whilst in band Gold Frankincense & Disk-drive. The album consisted of cover versions of pieces by Peter Hammill plus a couple of original pieces. The subsequent album was released as a Cassette version on private mail order before eventually being remastered and released in an extended CD format by Cyclops Records under the band name Parallel or 90 Degrees.

Guy Manning is an English multi-instrumentalist and singer, best known for his own album releases and for his membership of progressive rock bands Parallel or 90 Degrees, The Tangent, The United Progressive Fraternity (UPF), Damanek and his own band, Manning.

Andy Tillison is a British keyboardist and singer best known for his work in the progressive rock bands Parallel or 90 Degrees and The Tangent.

Peter Joseph Andrew Hammill is an English singer-songwriter. He is a founder member of the progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator. Best known as a singer, he also plays guitar and piano. He also acts as a record producer for his own recordings and occasionally for other artists. In 2012, he was recognised with the Visionary award at the first Progressive Music Awards.

Track listing

Van der Graaf Generator/Peter Hammill covers

Arrow
Roncevaux
Flight
Modern
In The Black Room (Track added to original Cassette version)

P090/GF&DD Compositions

Advance (Tillison)
Evolutionary Status Quo (Manning)

Personnel

Andy Tillison: drums, keyboards, vocals
Guy Manning: guitars, keyboards, vocals

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum. A drum kit consists of a mix of drums and idiophones – most significantly cymbals, but can also include the woodblock and cowbell. In the 2000s, some kits also include electronic instruments. Also, both hybrid and entirely electronic kits are used.

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments. Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir of singers or a band of instrumentalists. Singers may perform as soloists or accompanied by anything from a single instrument up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Different singing styles include art music such as opera and Chinese opera, Indian music and religious music styles such as gospel, traditional music styles, world music, jazz, blues, gazal and popular music styles such as pop, rock, electronic dance music and filmi.

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings. It is typically played with both hands by strumming or plucking the strings with either a guitar pick or the finger(s)/fingernails of one hand, while simultaneously fretting with the fingers of the other hand. The sound of the vibrating strings is projected either acoustically, by means of the hollow chamber of the guitar, or through an electrical amplifier and a speaker.

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