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Steven Wilson
Transience (25. Sept., 2015)

Steven Wilson — Transience (25. Sept., 2015)

             Steven Wilson — Transience (25. Sept., 2015)                               ≈•≈   Steven Wilson není typem umělce, od kterého by jste mohli očekávat, že by někdy vydal své největší hity na cd. Jeho hudba je charakteristická konceptuálním uměleckým pojetím a odstraňování jakékoli skladby z alba by také mohlo obrazně odstranit všechny z původně míněného kontextu. Jsou tady témata v čele s hněvem, melancholií, osamělostí, nostalgií až po dětství a život ve XXI století. Některé zajímavé možnosti pro vznik vinylového dvojalba jsou však zahrnuty v coververzi hitu Alanis MORRISSETTE  “Thank You”, dále v nové nahrávce od Wilsona pro Porcupine Tree, klasice “Lazarus”, se kterou Steven vystupuje v poslední době na turné se svou hvězdnou koncertní kapelou. Také to lze chápat jako skvělý sběratelský předmět pro jeho vášnivé fanoušky. Někteří z nich jsou i u nás, o čemž svědčí zahrnutí Prahy do velkého turné 2016. Uvidíme ho tedy v Praze, 19. dubna 2016, Forum Karlín.
Address: Pernerova 51–53, 186 00 Praha 8. Prolific collaborator and solo artist in addition to his duties as frontman for contemporary prog band Porcupine Tree.           © Steven Wilson, Naki Kouyioumtzis. Steven Wilson, on location: Oxfordshire.
Birth name: Steven John Wilson
Born: November 3, 1967 in Kingston–upon–Thames, London, England
Location:
Album release: 25. Sept., 2015
Record Label: Kscope
Duration:     61:35
Tracks:
Side 1:
01. Transience [Single Version]     3:11 
02. Harmony Korine     5:08 
03. Postcard     4:27 
04. Significant Other     4:32 
05. Insurgentes     3:55
Side 2: 
06. The Pin Drop     5:02 
07. Happy Returns [Edit]     5:12 
08. Deform to Form a Star [Edit]     5:53 
09. Thank You     4:39
Side 3:  
10. Index     4:47 
11. Hand Cannot Erase     4:14 
12. Lazarus [2015 recording]     3:58 
13. Drive Home     7:37
Side 4:
14. Etching
Line–up:
* Steven Wilson — vocals, acoustic guitar, keyboards
* Nick Beggs — chapman stick
* Guthrie Govan — slide guitar
* Adam Holzman — piano, hammond organ
* Marco Minnemann — drumsAllMusic Review by Thom Jurek;  Score: ***½
•≥   From the very beginning of his musical career, Steven Wilson has worked in a variety of genres.
•≥   These include the classy experimentalism of No–Man, the classic rock approach of Blackfield, the indie, progressive, and gothic–heavy metal statements of Porcupine Tree, and the electronic explorations of Bass Communion, as well as his solo recordings that rely on prog and, more recently, sophisticated pop/rock. Transience is a limited–edition three–sided vinyl–only compilation (the fourth side contains no music, but a handwritten lyric etching for the song “Happy Returns.” Wilson’s intention was to create “…a more easygoing introduction to my music. These are mostly the shorter song–based tracks (some represented by edits) recorded between 2003 and 2015.”
•≥   With the exception of the seven–plus–minute final cut, “Drive Home,” from The Raven That Refused to Sing and Other Stories, the remainder rove between three to under six minutes. The set also includes a brand–new version of “Lazarus” released especially for this album. The title track is the single version from Hand. Cannot. Erase. and the edited versions of “Happy Returns” and “Deform to Form a Star” still serve the elemental flow, regardless of their original source: solo, Porcupine Tree, et al. The only complaint is format. In “trying to sequence an album that would act as a more easygoing introduction to my music” while choosing a limited–edition vinyl pressing, Wilson appears to be at cross purposes with his intention. Nonetheless, this is an excellent, if quirky, introduction to one (accessible) aspect of Wilson’s multidimensional persona; it will serve fans — and newcomers — willing to take the plunge.
Review
By Conor Fynes on September 10, 2015
•≥   Transience is one of the most baffling albums I’ve ever come across. I’m trying to think now, actually, and I can’t think of another that possibly trumps this in terms of the sheer mixed signals it’s trying to send.
•≥   Now, it’s important (and hopefully obvious) to note that whatever confusion I have towards Transience has scarce little to do with the music itself. Like quite a few of you reading this, the work of Steven Wilson and Porcupine Tree has been a major part of my listening digest for years, and albums on both sides of his career have wormed their way as some of my top favourites. I’ve listened to some of his albums hundreds of times, and not once have I ever thought Porcupine Tree (much less Wilson’s solo career) ever needed some kind of ‘Greatest Hits’ compilation to sway potential newcomers. Best–of compilations are swiftly becoming a thing of the past as it is, and while certain stalwarts like The Beatles or Queen might invite some release to compile their catchiest tunes on a single disc, I don’t think the medium works for progressive rock artists. Prospective fans of Wilson’s music aren’t going to be looking for the chart–topping hits and club-friendly banger; they’re probably going to jump headfirst into the masterpieces and appreciate the work as it was intended. In any case, I would never have thought to see a best–of comp from the man himself.
•≥   However, that’s still not the reason I am baffled by Transience. That’s not the reason it’s one of the strangest things to be released this year.
•≥   The bottom line is that Steven Wilson has released what’s essentially an accessible best–of comp with every exclusive bell and whistle I’d normally associate from a diehard fan item. Steven describes Transience as “the ideal way to introduce a friend or partner to SW music without the more “difficult” stuff getting in the way.” Surely, many of us have already had times where we’ve tried to get friends, girlfriends and wives into the music, but buying them a limited vinyl–exclusive 2LP probably isn’t the first place I’d start. Probably. I mean, it’d probably be a safer bet to start with a few non–chalant YouTube links here and there, then slowly working up to full albums. Even then, if I wanted to sway someone who really needed an easygoing introduction to Wilson’s music, I’d start with Porcupine Tree and advance from there.
For what it’s supposedly trying to do, I think Transience actually does a fairly lovely. Part of an album’s central character is the way in which the songs are sequenced; the way they compliment and contextualize one another. In that regard, Transience manages to paint some of these pieces in a fresh light, and for that, I am duly surprised. Who’d have thought “Transience” would make a perfect opener, or “Drive Home” an epic finale? For whatever cash–grab this album seems to be, Steven Wilson‘s obviously given it more thought and care than the average best–of compilation. The most enticing part of this album’s press release is the part where Transience is described as “personally curated” — indeed, the album does feel that way, and the songs have been made to feel like they fit together.
•≥   Fans hungry for any sort of fresh material will be a quarter–impressed; a re–recorded version of “Lazarus” offers some novelty, but feels pretty dead compared to the original. Barring that, this is the Steven Wilson you all know, and mostly love. For those who are really looking to get into Wilson’s music to start, I’d personally recommend checking out Lightbulb Sun or Deadwing from the Porcupine Tree days. The only people I can imagine delving into Transience will be people who are already major Steven Wilson fans, and it probably won’t be for the listening so much as the having. •≥   http://www.prog-sphere.com/

      © Steven Wilson, Naki Kouyioumtzis. Steven Wilson, on location: Oxfordshire.
Biography
•≥   One of the most eclectic and prolific artists in rock music, Steven Wilson has been writing, recording, and producing music continuously since the age of 10. A native of Hemel Hempstead in England, Steven was first exposed to music at the age of eight, when he started hearing his father listening to Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon,” and his mother to Donna Summer’s “Love to Love You Baby,” two albums that were pivotal in the development of his musical direction. His father, an electrical engineer, built him a multi–track tape machine, and he began to experiment with overdubbing and developing a repertoire of production techniques. Early demo tapes started to emerge in the mid 80’s while Steven was still at school, and at the end of the decade he created the two projects which gained him entry to the professional music world: Porcupine Tree and No Man. Porcupine Tree, which explored psychedelia, progressive music, and his love of ambitious seventies music, was initially an imaginary “band” which, in reality, Steven overdubbed all the instruments himself. This even extended to early demo tapes coming with a fictional written history of the band, and biographical info about the fictitious performers.Around the same time, Steven formed No–Man, his long–term collaboration with singer Tim Bowness. Influenced by everything from ambient music to hip–hop, their early singles and albums were a mixture of dance beats and lush orchestrations. Signing to One Little Indian in the UK, and Epic in the US in 1990, they received tremendous accolades from the music press, with Singles Of The Week in Melody Maker, Sounds and Hot Press.
•≥   Meanwhile, things progressed with Porcupine Tree, whose increasing popularity was fast outpacing the imaginary pretext of an actual group. The second full–length album, Up the Downstair was released in 1993 and was praised by Melody Maker as “a psychedelic masterpiece… one of the albums of the year.” This was the first album to include keyboardist Richard Barbieri and bassist Colin Edwin, albeit only as guests at this point, the album was still effectively a solo project.The next album The Sky Moves Sideways was a transitional album featuring both solo SW and band pieces, but from then on it became a full band with the addition of Chris Maitland on drums.  Further albums throughout the late nineties, and extensive touring resulted in a string of indie chart placings and critical acclaim, many fans hailing them as the Pink Floyd of the nineties.
•≥   In 2001 Porcupine Tree was signed to US label Lava Records, under the auspices of Atlantic Records. Now with the support of a major label, and featuring new drummer Gavin Harrison, In Absentia saw the light of day in 2002, featuring a heavier sound than all the group’s previous works. It charted in many European countries and remains one of the top–selling Porcupine Tree albums. It was also their first album to be released in 5.1 Surround Sound,, and won the “Best Made–For–Surround Title” award for the Surround Music Awards 2004. Its 2005 follow–up, Deadwing was inspired by a film script written by Steven and film–maker Mike Bennion, and became the first Porcupine Tree album to chart around the world. The album won “Album of the Year” at the Classic Rock magazine awards, and its surround version received the “Best Made–For–Surround Title” once again. The following year the band released Fear of a Blank Planet, which was nominated for a US Grammy, and won several polls as the best album of the year. Their tenth studio album The Incident was released in late 2009, and became their highest charting album to date, again received a Grammy nomination, and was followed by another extensive tour that included arena shows and concluded with sold out shows at Radio City Music Hall in New York, and the Royal Albert Hall in London. 2010 ended with their status as arguably the biggest “underground” band in the world cemented.•≥   Starting in 2003 Steven quietly started to release music under his own name, in the form of a series of two track CD singles on his own label Headphone Dust, each one featuring a cover version and an original SW song. The choice and treatment of the cover versions was unpredictable, as it featured songs by Alanis Morissette, Abba, The Cure, Momus, Prince, and Donovan. Stylistically these cover versions allowed Steven to expand his musical palette into everything from electronica, noise music, and stripped down acoustic balladry. This led to his decision to record his first solo album of original music.
•≥   Between January and August of 2008, Steven began recording material that would comprise Insurgentes. 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 to Israel. The whole process was visually documented by film–maker Lasse Hoile, and the work in progress Insurgentes film features footage of the recording sessions, surreal sequences, and interviews with Steven and many other musicians about what it means to be a musician in the age of iPods and download culture.
•≥   A second solo album Grace For Drowning was recorded in 2010–11 and released in September 2011 on CD, vinyl and Blu–ray formats as a double disc designed to be listened to as two single albums, with the individual parts named Deform to Form a Star and Like Dust I Have Cleared From My Eye. The album received massive critical acclaim, and charted all over the world, notably charting in the top 40 in UK, Holland, Germany, and reaching the Polish top 10.  It was nominated at the 54th Grammy Awards for Best Surround Sound Album. Shortly before the release of the album SW also announced his first solo tour, in Europe and North America. The first leg of the tour took place in October and November 2011 and contained songs from both Insurgentes and Grace for Drowning. The tour featured quadrophonic sound and many new visual elements. A second leg of tour took place in April–May 2012, this time also taking in South America, and including a brand new 12 minute piece Luminol, which had been written specifically for the new band line up to play.  A live DVD/Blu–Ray recorded in Mexico titled Get All You Deserve was released on 25 September 2012, again charting all over Europe (number 2 in Germany, number 5 in UK).
•≥   At the same time that Steven was working on Grace For Drowning, he was also working on a collaboration album with his long term friend, the leader of Swedish band Opeth Mikael Akerfeldt.  Their collaboration was eventually released in May 2012 under the name of Storm Corrosion, and going against all expectation was an extremely atmospheric and darkly orchestrated album, very influenced by both musician’s love of artists such as Scott Walker and Talk Talk.
•≥   Steven has become known for the high standard of his production and is a sought–after mixer and producer. Artists he has worked with in this capacity include the Norwegian artist Anja Garbarek, Anathema, and Swedish progressive–metal band Opeth for whom he produced and/or mixed four albums. Other projects include Blackfield, a collaboration with Israeli megastar Aviv Geffen which has now produced two acclaimed albums, and Steven’s drone / ambient / experimental outlet Bass Communion.
More recently Steven has become known for his 5.1 surround sound mixing, starting with his own projects, but since 2009 also for the remixing of several classic albums, notably the revamping of the King Crimson catalogue, on which Steven worked closely with band leader Robert Fripp, Jethro Tull, and several others yet unannounced projects.
•≥   2012 saw Steven winning “Guiding Light” trophy at the Progressive Music Awards 2012 and writing recording his third solo studio album, The Raven That Refused To Sing (and Other Stories) in Los Angeles with legendary producer Alan Parsons engineering. The album was released in February 2013. The album was a huge critical and commercial success, earning numerous 5 star reviews and charting well across the world. The virtuoso band Steven assembled to record the album, Guthrie Govan (guitar), Adam Holzman (keyboards), Theo Travis (flute / sax), Nick Beggs (bass / stick), and Marco Minneman, accompanied him on a hugely successful world tour in 2013 that took in 78 shows across 22 countries. UK shows included sold out Royal Albert Hall & Royal Festival Hall shows. The latter part of 2014 saw Steven Wilson enter Air Studios to record the highly anticipated follow–up to The Raven… and, just as long time fans will be expecting, it may be the most ambitious album of his entire career.
•≥   Released on 2nd March 2015, via Kscope, Hand. Cannot. Erase. is a concept album; a mesmerising, labyrinthine tale hewn from a vivid blend of fact and fiction. In musical terms, the new songs are a more varied and esoteric bunch than those on The Raven that Refused to Sing, partly down to Steven’s aversion to repeating himself, but also because of the way it reflects its subject matter. One thing that has remained the same is the band, who are once again on hand to display their extraordinary skills and sensitivity. Veering from brooding electronic soundscapes to incendiary progressive rock epics and covering all bases in between, Hand. Cannot. Erase. is simultaneously a summation of everything that came before it in Steven’s career, and quite unlike anything he has recorded before. Fans will be instantly thrilled by his increasingly refined and distinctive compositional voice, and the use of new elements such as Ninet Tayeb’s female vocal contributions, and the unusual (in the context of a rock album at least) use of a boy’s choir.
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By Howard Whitman on February 27, 2013 at 12:01 pm
•≥   http://www.technologytell.com/entertainment/13780/steven-wilson-the-raven-that-refused-to-sing-and-other-stories-kscope-cd/

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