SW Solo 2 Out in June – Deform to Form a Star & Like Dust I Have Cleared From My Eye
The new solo album website will probably launch in early June now. The music is done, but we’re still working on film material and the deluxe edition. It’s presented as two 40-45 minute albums in the same package (which begs the question; when is a double album not a double album? When it’s 2 single albums issued together!) The album titles are “Deform to Form a Star” and “Like Dust I Have Cleared From My Eye”.
SW in 2011/2012 update
A little update…..after last year was pretty much a year without any new music from me, I’ve been working very hard in the studio on various projects. Firstly, we finished mixing the incredible new Opeth album a few days ago, keep an eye on their website for details on that. Mikael and I also took the opportunity while he was here to finish writing our collaboration album – there’s still a lot of recording work to do, but this should definitely be out in early 2012. The new SW solo record is still on track for September release, and I think the next two King Crimson remixes (Larks Tongues in Aspic and Starless and Bible Black) will be out around the same time. I’m now working on new stereo and 5.1 mixes of another very famous 70′s progressive album for a deluxe reissue this year, can’t say more about that just yet. Last but not least, over the last year I worked on and off on a new Bass Communion album called “Cenotaph”, which is a kind of sequel to Ghosts on Magnetic Tape – news on when this will be released when I have it. I think that’s enough for now! Off on tour with Blackfield soon.
TF100
There are 2 tracks from the just released TF100 release on the Tone Float Soundcloud page – one of which I sing on, another of which I play keyboards on. This is a beautiful album of collaborations between all of the main artists that have released music on Tone Float during the last 10 years or so, and the presentation is gorgeous, being a 108 page hardback book featuring artwork and other ephemera from the first 100 Tone Float releases, with the album spread across 2 x 10 inch records. It’s limited to only 500 copies for sale, and quite reasonably priced (though expensive to post). Headphone Dust will get a few copies of the book version, please email if you’d like to reserve one (hd@swhq.co.uk) – I don’t know yet if there will be a CD release at a later date, but I hope so.
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More info on Steven Wilson’s 2nd solo album
Cut Ribbon once again failed to make the cut – although the 12 tracks / 84 minutes of music I’ve selected for the main release is quite eclectic, it has in common a pretty organic feel, mostly inspired by the darker end of vintage progressive music and some movie soundtrack stuff (Morricone especially). The sound palette is made up of things like strings, choir, woodwinds, mellotron, organ, piano, fender rhodes, jazz drums, and warmer guitar tones, so the shiny metal attack of Cut Ribbon just doesn’t fit. But the track is all mixed and finished and sounds good, so I’ll find somewhere to release it. Definitely the album will come out on double vinyl too.
Steven Wilson Solo 2 details
My second solo album is nearing completion. It will be in the form of 2 separate 40 minute albums released in the same 2 CD set, and will also come as a blu-ray with surround mix, high definition stereo and a lot of visual material (Lasse is already working hard on films for many of the songs, attached is a still from one of these we shot a couple of weeks ago to a song called “Index”). We’re also planning a special Insurgentes style hard back book edition with a full length bonus CD of additional material. A year in the making, this is without doubt my biggest project to date, perhaps my most ambitious and personal music, and with some phenomenal musicians and performances on it (drummer Nic France in particular is going to blow a lot of people away). We hope a website will launch around April/May to start previewing material, with the album scheduled for September. More soon….
Steven Wilson in 2011
It’s been a while since the last update but I’m back on it now! Here’s a summary of what’s been happening since the last post. 2011 is going to be a great year for Steven Wilson fans.
- The new Blackfield album is out on 28th March, called Welcome To My DNA. A new Blackfield website has been launched with some sound samples and various tour dates in the UK, Europe and USA have been announced. You can pre-order the album here.
- A small collaboration with Sand Snowman has been recorded for the 100th release on Tonefloat records. “It takes the form of a deluxe cloth bound 108 page book vinyl edition, featuring many of the artists that have helped to define the ToneFloat sound over the last few years collaborating in different combinations.” It can be pre-ordered here.
- 28th February will see the release of a box set on Esoteric / Cherry Red documenting Delerium Records, the label set up by Richard Allen at the start of the 90′s to cater for Richard’s love of psychedelic music. Among the very first signings to the label were Porcupine Tree, who released 4 studio albums on the label between 1992-96. “The Last Daze of the Underground” is a 3 CD box set that includes the rare short version of “Radioactive Toy” (different intro and guitar solo), and the title track of Signify, as well as tracks from many of the other bands that released music on Delerium Records, and a detailed booklet containing the history of the label
- A Porcupine Tree iPhone/iPad app is in the works for Feb/March
- SW’s 2nd solo album will be released in September
- The rumoured collaboration between SW and Opeth’s Mikael Akerfeldt is finally due to be released near the end of this year.
You can also follow Porcupine Tree and Blackfield on their own Twitter accounts, in addition to the one for this blog.
SW new solo track
Steven has been in New York doing some promotion for the Radio City Music Hall Show and screening of Insurgentes. He was interviewed on New York radio station WNYC today, and left them with an exclusive solo recording called Home on Negative, which is now available on their website here (for more information about the track check Steven’s Facebook page).
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Tape Experiments 1985-86
A free download album of SW’s early feeblings “Tape Experiments 1985-86″ available from http://bit.ly/aP8z5u.
Steven Wilson solo album 2, Blackfield III, Akerfeldt/Wilson “Storm Corrosion”
Posted by SW on Facebook:
Hello folks – thanks to everyone in the USA that came to see us on the Coheed and Cambria tour, especially anyone that came to see Coheed and was seeing Porcupine Tree for the first time. The idea of us doing the tour was to try to reach a younger audience, and that was certainly the way it panned out, though only time will tell how many were converted to the PT cause. There are a few video clips from the tour, check out our twitter stream for the links.
Next we will be going to Greece (first shows there in 5 years), then to New York, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, and finally finishing up at the Royal Albert Hall on 14th October with a 3 hour show including a lot of music from the 90′s we’ve not played before, or never played with Gavin (that will be the show we do in NYC too). Following that I’ll be returning to the studio to continue working on 3 new studio records already in progress (SW solo album 2, Blackfield III, Akerfeldt/Wilson “Storm Corrosion”), all to be released throughout 2011.
Cover Version VI
Headphone Dust will soon release the newly recorded Cover Version VI single (but please don’t write in trying to order it yet). This will be the last in the series of CD singles featuring a cover version and an original. In the meantime you can listen to the second track from the single on MySpace page now – of course as always the cover version itself will remain a secret until the CD single is actually released. The plan is for there to be a limited edition box which will house not just CV6 but all of the previous singles too, complete with a picture sleeve for each one. ToneFloat will also release CV5 and CV6 on 7 inch vinyl. More news soon….
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