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Steven Wilson signs a worldwide deal with Kscope

Posted in Insurgentes, Solo by David Mytton on October 31, 2008

Kscope have secured a worldwide 3 album deal with writer & producer Steven Wilson.

Acclaimed for his work with Porcupine Tree, Opeth and Anja Garbarek, amongst others, Steven Wilson’s debut album Insurgentes will be released on Kscope in February 2009. Comprising 10 new tracks that range from ballads and anthems to all-out industrial noise assaults, the dark, cinematic, and richly textured disc represents two years’ worth of creative output and numerous recording sessions worldwide in studios from Mexico City to Japan and Israel.

To watch a trailer set to the first song from the album, Harmony Korine and to hear more music from the album, visit www.insurgentes.org

While Wilson is a member of several bands, including Blackfield, No-Man, and Bass Communion, he explains that “when I began writing these songs, I quickly realized that they would be best suited to an album under my own name. It was an intuitive, almost unconscious writing process that resulted in a kind of ‘poetry of melancholy.” The final product inhabits a similar experimental realm as recent albums by Thom Yorke, Portishead, and Nine Inch Nails.

Wilson recruited a stellar cast of guests to work on the album including bassist Tony Levin, drummer Gavin Harrison, and keyboardist Jordan Rudess, alongside Japanese Koto player Michiyo Yagi, British guitarist Sand Snowman, and jazz flautist and saxophonist Theo Travis.

Tracklist
Harmony Korine
Abandoner
Salvaging
Veneno Para Las Hadas
No Twilight
Significant Other
Only Child
Twilight Coda
Get All You Deserve
Insurgentes

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