No Balance Palace is the fifth album by the Danish band Kashmir

Kashmir (band)

Kashmir is a Danish alternative rock band consisting of Kasper Eistrup ; Mads Tunebjerg ; Asger Techau and Henrik Lindstrand .-History:...

. It was released on October 10, 2005. The album features David Bowie

David Bowie

David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...

 on "The Cynic" and Lou Reed

Lou Reed

Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer. He is best known as guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground, and for his successful solo career, which has spanned several decades...

 on "Black Building", and was produced by Tony Visconti

Tony Visconti

Anthony Edward Visconti is an American record producer and sometimes a musician or singer.Since the late 1960s, he has worked with an array of performers; his lengthiest involvement with any artist is with David Bowie: intermittently from Bowie's 1969 album Space Oddity to 2003's Reality, Visconti...

. The first single was "The Curse of Being a Girl".

The cover art is an abstract painting by El Lissitzky

El Lissitzky

, better known as El Lissitzky , was a Russian artist, designer, photographer, typographer, polemicist and architect. He was an important figure of the Russian avant garde, helping develop suprematism with his mentor, Kazimir Malevich, and designing numerous exhibition displays and propaganda works...

 called "Abstract Cabinet" (1927).

Track listing

1. "Kalifornia" – 5:27
2. "Jewel Drop" – 4:20
3. "The Cynic" (featuring David Bowie
   David Bowie
   David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...
   
   ) – 4:22
4. "Ophelia" – 3:56
5. "Diana Ross" – 0:31
6. "The Curse of Being a Girl" – 3:39
7. "She's Made of Chalk" – 5:05
8. "Ether" – 5:21
9. "Snowman" – 3:14
10. "Black Building" (featuring Lou Reed
    Lou Reed
    Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer. He is best known as guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground, and for his successful solo career, which has spanned several decades...
    
    ) – 1:58
11. "No Balance Palace" – 8:03

• Australian Tour Edition bonus tracks:

12. "Supergirl (Demonstrations Skizze)"

13. "She's Made of Chalk (Single Revision)"

• Japan bonus tracks (SICP 1019):

12. "Ding A Ling" – 5:41

13. "Snowman (Organic Draft)" – 2:58

14. "The Dusk Hour (Sidestep Walk)" – 5:15

15. "Supergirl (Demonstrations Skizze)" – 3:58

External links

• The video of "The Curse Of Being A Girl"
• The video of "The Cynic"