The past year has been a busy period for the various members of Porcupine Tree. Steven Wilson is currently gathering rave reviews for his solo records and accompanying tours and also embarked on a rare tour with No-Man, Richard Barbieri has released an acclaimed album with Steve Hogarth from Marillion, Gavin Harrison has continued is successful partnership with 05Ric and Colin Edwin has being working on a solo record along with a new album from his Metallic Taste of Blood project.
Despite all this activity, fans of the band have still been clamouring for a new Porcupine Tree release. This wait ends on November 19th with the release of Octane Twisted¸ a double disc live set recorded during the tour that supported the band's most recent albumThe Incident. The album went top 30 in both the UK and USA, and the world tour climaxed with sold out shows at Royal Albert Hall in London and Radio City Music Hall in New York.
Steven Wilson discusses Get All You Deserve on Kscope podcast and returns to the studio to record new album
Get All You Deserve, a new high definition audio-visual set from Steven Wilson is now available. Directed by long-time visual collaborator Lasse Hoile, Get All You Deserve was filmed in Mexico City during the recent Grace For Drowning Tour. The set captures the spectacular live experience that Wilson and Hoile created for the tour on Blu-ray, DVD and 2CD. Steven can be heard discussing the film in the latest Ksope podcast which is now online. During the podcast Steven also discusses his new album which he has recently started recordin g in LA. Live tracks from 'Get All You Deserve' featured in the podcast: 'Postcard', 'Get All You Deserve', 'Index', 'Luminol'.
Click here to download the podcast as an mp3
Steven has posted a couple videos that Lasse filmed while they are in the studio.
Check them out on his Facebook page.
The Pineapple Thief – new videos and Instagram contest result
A new video of Bruce from The Pineapple Thief performing an acoustic version of Warm Seas at the West Coker Ropewalk is now streaming on the album mini-site . Click here for more info on the West Coker Ropewalk. Camera Operators; Neil Randall, Steve Kitch and Scott from Kscope.
In addition to the acoustic video, the promo video for the title track 'All the Wars', directed by Robert MacFarlane is also streaming on the album mini-site, and below:
The album has been hailed by Classic Rock as 'the sound of a band reaching the height of their powers' and by Rocksound as 'an album of Muse-like, slow burning guitar anthems', while Prog have stated that it's an 'elegant, sophisticated work... moody and meaningful, introspective and universal'. Praise has also came from the metal press with Metal Hammer describing it as 'the album that Soord and compatriots have been working towards for all those years', Terrorizer stating 'TPT take the baton of Pink Floyd and run with it, with the same dream-like atmosphere on the cusp of a nightmare' and Kerrang proclaiming 'prog stalwarts deliver the goods'(KKKK)
The album mini-site also now features the final shortlist of photos that were entered in the recent Instagram promotion. Fans were asked to take pictures that they felt represented the titles of tracks from the album and post them with the hash tags #thepineapplethief and #allthewars. There were over 200 pictures submitted and the band picked a shot for each track.
Congratulations to @geird who was picked at random from the entries to win a set of album art prints, signed by the band and Mark Mawson, the photographer who took the pictures used in the album artwork. To see more of Geird's work, check out his Instagram profile.
Download FREE TRACK 'Last Man Standing' from the mini site www.kscopemusic.com/thepineapplethief/allthewars/
Nosound announce new EP 'At The Pier' featuring Chris Maitland (ex-Porcupine Tree)
Nosound are currently working on their new album, due to be released in 2013. Ahead of this release comes At The Pier, a new EP which features three brand new tracks. For the tracks Nosound are joined by Marianne De Chastelaine on cello and Chris Maitland, formerly of Porcupine Tree and Blackfield, on drums. Chris, who will be playing on all of the tracks on the new album, adds a new dimension to the Nosound dynamic through his powerful and inventive drumming as frontman Giancarlo Erra explains when describing the tracks that make up At The Pier:
In general I would say that The Anger Song is a more rough and bleak song than usual Nosound, probably even more powerful and 'angry'. A New Start is more Nosound but almost uplifting in a melancholic way, majestic in music with more twisted lyrics, with a mix of blues and postrock all packed in a song. Two Monkeys is based around piano, upright bass and sampled strings, with deep meaningful lyrics for a different type of piano song to previous Nosound and featuring Marianne De Chastelaine's cello.
At The Pier is a strictly limited digipack release. All pre-orders from the Kscope store will receive an exclusive Nosound guitar pick (1.0mm)
Tracklist
1. The Anger Song
2. A New Start
3. Two Monkeys (alt. version)
Click here to order your copy of At the Pier
Click here for more information on Nosound or here to follow Nosound on Facebook
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