Staircase Infinities is a studio EP by British

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 progressive rock

Progressive rock

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 band Porcupine Tree

Porcupine Tree

Porcupine Tree is a progressive rock band formed by Steven Wilson in 1987 in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England. Their music is difficult to categorise, being associated with both psychedelic rock and progressive rock, yet having been influenced by trance, krautrock and ambient due to Steven...

, first released in December 1994 as a limited 2,000-copy 10" vinyl by Lazy Eye and reissued on CD by Blueprint in the UK in October 1995. It contains outtakes from the Up The Downstair

Up the Downstair

Up the Downstair is the second studio album by British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree, first released in May 1993. It was originally intended to be a double album set including the song "Voyage 34", which was instead released as a single in 1992, and other material that ended up on the...

sessions.

Originally, Staircase Infinities was intended to be released on a double album version of Up The Downstair

Up the Downstair

Up the Downstair is the second studio album by British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree, first released in May 1993. It was originally intended to be a double album set including the song "Voyage 34", which was instead released as a single in 1992, and other material that ended up on the...

but was not completed in time. Up The Downstair

Up the Downstair

Up the Downstair is the second studio album by British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree, first released in May 1993. It was originally intended to be a double album set including the song "Voyage 34", which was instead released as a single in 1992, and other material that ended up on the...

was therefore released as a single album in 1993 but was reissued in an expanded version in 2005 (with live drums by Gavin Harrison

Gavin Harrison

Gavin Harrison is a British drummer and percussionist. He is best known for playing with the British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree which he joined in 2002. As of 2008, he also plays with the band King Crimson....

), this time including the EP Staircase Infinities.

Up the Downstair version

1. "Cloud Zero" – 4:40
2. "The Joke's On You" [2004 remix] – 4:17
3. "Navigator" – 4:49
4. "Phantoms" - 3:15 [only on the 2005 remaster vinyl version]
5. "Rainy Taxi" – 6:50
6. "Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape" – 9:36