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1. The Unknown Door (22:33)
2. One of Us (3:10)
3. No Dominion (6:25)
4. Far from Here (12:44)
5. Never Land (8:16)

Total Time 53:08

If you don't mind, with the only difference: "THE REFORMATION is a progressive rock band ..."

Otherwise I have to use past tense in the whole bio ("their own style is was", "They create created" and so on).

I wasn't sure, so I played safe lol! The band's Facebook page hasn't been updated since June 2021, so I doubt that I'd get a reply if I messaged them to ask if the band was actually named after the Iranian tomàn.

It's no big deal though if we just leave this statement in the biography and assume that it's correct. 

TOMÀN (or TOMAN) is a Belgian (west-Flemish) Post-Rock band, originally operating as a quartet consisting of multi-instrumentalists Lode and Wouter VLAEMINCK, Bram PAUWELS (guitar & vocals) and Jens VANYSAKER (bass & vocals). After putting together an early demo called 'It's Important for the Experiment That You Continue', the band received airplay on Studio Brussels (Duyster and Radar) as well as Radio 1 (operated by the Flemish public broadcaster Vlaamse Radio), and the Dutch magazine Oor included TOMÀN in their Top 20 Underground Bands of 2004. Radio 1's "Cucamonga" show had described the band as "Belgium's best-kept musical secret", and that same year TOMÀN undertook their first tour abroad, in Spain. 

The following year, the band recorded their critically-acclaimed debut album 'Catching a Grizzly Bear, Lesson One' at a studio located in a local farmhouse in their rural hometown of Reninge, and the album was released via Zealrecords on April 18th, 2005. The band toured extensively to promote the album, supporting bands like KARATE, DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE and THE ALBUM LEAF, and they were also invited to record live sessions for various radio stations in both Belgium and Holland. The album was described by their record label as "a trip through dreamy guitarscapes with some sparse but well-used vocals".

A second album called 'Perhaps We Should Have Smoked The Salmon First' followed in 2006. It was recorded in February 2006 at De Studio in Asse, just outside of Brussels, Belgium by Dirk MIERS, who also played trumpet on the album, and was mixed by lead singer Wouter VLAEMINCK at his home. Most of the songs that were included had already been tried out live before being recorded, and the album was released in September 2006 by Zealrecords in Belgium, with the Chicago-based indie record label Graveface being sufficiently impressed by it to release it in the USA at the end of October. However, just two months after the album's release in Belgium, the band's bass player Jens VANYSAKER quit - with a European tour with the Belgian alternative/indie rock band MADENSUYU already planned for the following spring.

Luckily, Wouter VLAEMINCK met the keyboard player Sens GUNS while he was studying music production at the School of Arts (aka The Conservatory) in Ghent, and asked him if he would like to come and play the Rhodes piano part in a live performance by TOMÀN of an arrangement of 'Twee Meisjes' by Raymond van het GROENEWOUD that the group had made. As a result, Sens GUNS joined TOMÀN shortly after he had guested for them in February 2007, just in time for the tour with MADENSUYU. This allowed Lode and Wouter VLAEMINCK to now share bass duties, and the tour saw the band perform in Germany, Holland, France, Switzerland, Austria, Italy and also Luxembourg.

In March 2008 Alexander VANYSAKER joined TOMÀN on guitar and keyboards to make the band into a five-piece, and they released their third album 'Where Wolves Wear Wolf Wear' in July 2009, the album having again being recorded & mixed by Wouter VLAEMINCK at his home studios in Lo-Reninge and Ghent, Belgium between summer 2008 and winter 2008/9. The band's stated influences include US indie and post-rock bands THE AMERICAN ANALOG SET and EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY, and the Canadian instrumental band DO MAKE SAY THINK.

I wasn't sure if such a long list of track titles in a single field would even be accepted by the PA software. It must have taken you ages to reformat all the text from Discogs style into PA style.

I've made some slight progress on CD 29. The track times of the first 11 songs (the "Tryal" album from 1984) can be found here: https://www.levykauppax.fi/artist/horslips/more_than_you_can_chew/.

1. Witness Stand (2:31) 

2. First Kiss (3:09) 

3. Vows And Breezes (4:40) 

4. Safe World (3:24) 

5. Declaring War (5:14) 

6. Walk On Love (3:45) 

7. Unearthly Hours (0:45) 

8. Shadowy Figures (3:04) 

9. I Wanted You (3:12) 

10. Strange Disease (3:23) 

11. Dark Light And Air (Break A Spell) (2:52) 

Total Time 35:59

This YouTube upload of the album pretty much agrees with that too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGvaKMtiPlc.

But I can't find the times for the singles. 

Maybe we could just do it like this:

Unless someone here has got the full set of 33 CDs and can give us the times of those singles, I think that's the best we're going to be able to manage.

Edit: Julien got there before me with the YouTube upload of the 'Tryal' album lol!

We're not the only ones who are short of info regarding the history and discography of 'The Host'. Irishrock.org are also asking for help with it at the bottom of this page.