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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 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. 

The songs were all mastered for this release by Miles Showell at Abbey Road.

TRACK LISTING

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