gnac is a pseudonym used by songwriter and music producer Mark Tranmer. The name is derived from a short story

Short story

A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...

 by Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy , the Cosmicomics collection of short stories , and the novels Invisible Cities and If on a winter's night a traveler .Lionised in Britain and the United States,...

 in Marcovaldo

Marcovaldo

Marcovaldo is a collection of twenty short stories written by Italo Calvino. It was initially published as Marcovaldo ovvero Le stagioni in città . It was published in 1963 but the first stories were written in the early 1950s...

 entitled Luna e GNAC (or "moon and gnac").

Tranmer's music has been described as "imaginary film soundtracks" with comparisons made to Michael Nyman

Michael Nyman

Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, known for the many film scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway, and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano...

, Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI, , is an Italian composer and conductor, who wrote music to more than 500 motion pictures and television series, in a career lasting over 50 years. His scores have been included in over 20 award-winning films as well as several symphonic and choral pieces...

, and Michel Legrand

Michel Legrand

Michel Jean Legrand is a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist...

. Vini Reilly

Vini Reilly

Vincent "Vini" Gerard Reilly is an English musician and leader of the post-punk group The Durutti Column.-Biography:...

 has been identified as an influence.

After releasing several singles between 1998 and early 1999, his debut album, Friend Sleeping, was released in July 1999 on the Vespertine label. For his second studio album he moved to Alan McGee

Alan McGee

Alan McGee has been a record label owner, musician, manager, and music blogger for The Guardian.McGee is best-known for co-forming and running the independent Creation Records label from 1983–1999, and then Poptones from 1999-2007...

's Poptones

Poptones

Poptones is a record label launched by Alan McGee after the demise of Creation Records in 1999. Named after a Public Image Limited song, it is seen as something of a return to the staunchly independent roots of Creation...

 label. Tranmer also recorded with Roger Quigley under the name The Montgolfier Brothers, releasing two albums.

Tranmer has also released an album under his own name, and has recorded with Ian Masters (of Pale Saints

Pale Saints

Pale Saints was formed in 1987 by Ian Masters , Graeme Naysmith , and Chris Cooper in Leeds, England. The group began as a jangly indie pop band, influenced by Primal Scream's early sound.-History:...

/Spoonfed Hybrid

Spoonfed Hybrid

Spoonfed Hybrid were a dream pop duo in the north of England in the early 1990s.The band was formed in 1993 by Ian Masters and Chris Trout, initially as The Long Lost. Masters had just left the band he founded in 1987, Pale Saints, which continued without him. Trout had been guitarist in A.C...

) under the name Wingdisk.

Albums

• Friend Sleeping (1999), Vespertine
• Biscuit Barrel Fashion (2001), Poptones
  Poptones
  Poptones is a record label launched by Alan McGee after the demise of Creation Records in 1999. Named after a Public Image Limited song, it is seen as something of a return to the staunchly independent roots of Creation...
  
  
• Twelve Sidelong Glances (2006), LTM/Boutique NL
• The Arrival of the Fog (2007), LTM/Boutique NL
• The Red Pages (2010), Vertical Features

Compilations

• Sevens (2000), Rocket Girl
• Soviet Bureau (2004), Russia-only release via Soyuz
  Soyuz spacecraft
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Singles, EPs

• In Mauve EP (1998), Amberly
• "The Moustache" (1998), Earworm
• "A Tangle With..." (1998), Kooky
• "Our Distance" (1999), Darla
  Darla Records
  Darla Records is an independent record label founded by James Agren while he was in New York. Darla Record's first release was a 7-inch by Grifters, an indie rock/lo-fi band from Memphis.- Background :...
  
  
• "Hennebert Sleeve" (1999), Liquefaction
• "18th Century Quiz Show" (1999), Acetone
• Split single with Smooth Operator (2001), Octane Gramaphone

Albums

• Seventeen Stars
  Seventeen Stars
  Seventeen Stars was the debut recording from The Montgolfier Brothers. It was released in 1999 on the Vespertine label before the company folded...
  
  (1999), Vespertine
• The World Is Flat
  The World Is Flat (album)
  The World Is Flat is the second album by The Montgolfier Brothers. It was released in 2002 on the Poptones imprint.-Track listing:#"2:55" – 2:47#"The Understudy" – 2:46#"Be Selfish" – 7:42#"The World Is Flat" – 5:09#"The Second Takes Forever" – 2:50...
  
  (2002), Poptones
• All My Bad Thoughts
  All My Bad Thoughts
  All My Bad Thoughts was the third LP from The Montgolfier Brothers. It was released through the Vespertine and Son label in 2005.-Track listing:#"The First Rumours of Spring" – 3:58#"Don't Get Upset If I..." – 2:32#"All My Bad Thoughts" – 4:01...
  
  (2005), Poptones

External links

• gnac/Mark Tranmer on MySpace
  MySpace
  Myspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....
  
  
• gnac biography from LTM