My new album, Requiem For A Village, is OUT NOW! A new visualiser for ‘Murmuration’ can be watched on my YouTube channel. Buy/stream now at https://stevenwilson.lnk.to/Requiem-for-a-Village
I wanted to get back to a kind of music where you can hear the metaphorical thumbprints. Doubling down on the human gestures and flaws in the music, stuff that can’t be created using software.
For example using only analogue synths with all their unpredictability, or not having instruments perfectly in tune. But it also lead to me picking up the violin, the oboe, or trying my hand on the drums – playing things I don’t really know how to play but getting something out of them that inspired me in ways I didn’t expect.
Approaching the music with a sense of innocence and seeing where it took me. And where it took me was to the village.
Requiem For A Village track listing:
- Swirl In A Lark’s Eye
- Requiem For A Village
- The Same River Twice
- Now Departing
- Hiraeth
- On Chapel Slope
- Murmuration
- Cursus Fingerprint
- A Basket Of Bees
- Great Green Map
- Wheel
- The Old God Is Buried
Requiem For A Village is available CD, Blu-Ray, 140g two 12” black/green vinyl. Limited amounts of signed CDs will be available through Amazon, and CDs with exclusive packaging will be available through HMV.
“…you will all blow away, dandelion sneeze / the hills will grow higher, with each dying breeze.”
