Tarquin's Seaweed Farm

Infobox Album | Name = Tarquin's Seaweed Farm
Type = Album
Artist = Porcupine Tree


Released = early 1989
Recorded = 1987-1988
Genre = Psychedelic
Length = 87:17
Label = Independently Produced
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Last album =
This album = "Tarquin's Seaweed Farm" (1989)
Next album = "Love, Death & Mussolini" (1990)

"Tarquin's Seaweed Farm", subtitled "Words from a Hessian Sack", is the first album to be released by Steven Wilson under the name 'Porcupine Tree'. It was originally a compiled cassette of experimental music made by Steven Wilson for his joke band he formed with his friend Malcom Stocks. The cassette was only sent out to a few people, but was enough to give the band a bit of fame in the UK underground music scene of the time, being picked up by the underground magazine Freakbeat. It was later released under Delerium Records in 1991 in a limited edition of 300 copies, with a few tweaks in the track listing. Eventually, the tracks from this and the later Porcupine Tree album "The Nostalgia Factory" were compiled into what are considered Porcupine Tree's first true studio albums, "On the Sunday of Life" and "Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape".

Track listing*

(All tracks written by Steven Wilson except "Jupiter Island" written by Wilson/Duffy, "Clarinet Vignette" written by Wilson/Masters and "The Cross" written by Prince. Artwork by Alistair Campbell.)

"Side A"
#Music for the Head (Here) 2:44
#Jupiter Island 6:09
#Nun's Cleavage (Left) 2:45
#Clarinet Vignette 1:18
#Nun's Cleavage (Right) 1:09
#Space Transmission 2:56
#Message From a Self-Destructing Turnip 0:28
#Radioactive Toy 5:49
#Towel 3:33
#Wastecoat 1:10
#Mute (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) 8:06
#Music for the Head (There) 1:24"Side B"
#No Reason to Live, No Reason to Die 11:09
#Daughters in Excess 6:46
#The Cross / Hole / Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape 20:39

*Note, for the re-release of the album under Delerium, a few tracks were lengthened or shortened by a few seconds, and in some cases replaced with different mixes of the same song.

Credits (fiction)

Tripping Musicians Extraordinaire:
* The Porcupine Tree – Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Flute, Koto and Sings
* Sir Tarquin Underspoon – Organ, Electric Piano, Synthesisers and Sings
* Mr Jelly – Bass Guitar
* The Evaporating Flan – Drums, Percussion, Drum Computer and Speaks
* Timothy Tadpole-Jones – Acoustic Guitar, Percussion
* Sebastian Tweetle-Blampton III operates the delay circuits and mixing desk
* Solomon St. Jemain – Guitar on 'Wastecoat', Drum Computer on 'Towel' and speaks
* Master Timothy Masters – Oboe, Cor Anglais
* Linton Samuel Dawson operates the light show