From Loudersound.
Steven Wilson has launched a video for a live version of Song Of Unborn, originally the opening track to his 2017 album To The Bone. The video was animated by Jess Cope, who previously worked with Wilson on videos including People Who Eat Darkness, Routine, and The Raven That Refused to Sing, as well as the Last Day Of June video game.
“I took Carl Sagan”s quote, ‘We are all made of star stuff’ and based the film around that idea for Song of Unborn,” says Cope. “Using abstract imagery and different styles of animation, the video represents the human form developing from the inside of its body instead of inside the womb.
“This is the first film that I have made with next to no narrative. I focused more on using the evolution of animation as a way to represent the evolving foetus in utero. The combination of space, sky, sea and fish just seemed to be the direction I wanted to take it.
“The paper cut out fish at the start represent sperm, the string rays are red blood cells through veins and the jellyfish are nerves. The whales represent the transition from gill-bearing aquatic fish that can only survive underwater to air breathing mammals that give birth to live young. It depicts the transition from a baby inside the mother’s womb to the birth and its first breath.”
In 2017, Wilson said of Song Of Unborn, “At one point, I was worried that it was falling back to one of my typical epic piano ballads like Routine or The Raven that Refused to Sing. But the difference here is that actually this song has a very positive message. Song of Unborn is about recognising the world is a wreck, but that every life is unique and can be turned into something really special.
“The arc of your life can really be profound if you embrace it. I thought that was a beautiful message for an unborn child. The other important element in this song is the choir arrangement. I’ve never done anything quite like that section. It’s almost pagan in its beauty and optimism. In the end, I think it’s come out is very unique and distinct from any of those other songs.”
Steven Wilson’s Home Invasion: In Concert at the Royal Albert Hall is available now.
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STEVEN WILSON Grace For Drowning (2011 UK/EU limited edition 12-track double vinyl LP, the second official solo album by the prolific British progressive rocker Steven Wilson. The two discs are entitled 'Deform To Form A Star' and 'Like Dust IHave Cleared From My Eye' and include the 23-minute track Raider II. The gatefold picture sleeve comes with the picture / lyric inners and the two vinyl discs show only light signs of play KSCOPE818)
- Steven Wilson - Index - Red & Gold Cover + Signed Postcard - UK - book - £149.99, $193.49, €178.49 (New Item) (arrived 16-Jul-2024 17:21)on July 26, 2024 at 7:51 pm
STEVEN WILSON Index - The Art Of Steven Wilson's Music (Scarce 2015 UK limited deluxe edition 240 Page hardback book by Lasse Hoile & Carl Glover, featuring 340 photographs with 178 previously unseen images, illustrating the visual side of hisalbums covering the period from Porcupine Tree’s 2002 album In Absentia right up to my most recent (and probably most visually ambitious) album Hand. Cannot. Erase., as well as his other projects no-man, Blackfield, IEM, Bass Communion, and Continuum. This edition was released to coincide with two concerts at the Royal Albert Hall on 28/29th September, cloth bound in the RAH colours of Red cover with gold embossed text. To help protect this example, a past owner has laminated the cover, otherwise remains in a fantastic condition, and includes a postcard which has been signed by the photographer & authors Lasse Hoile & Carl Glover in a blue or black pen, still in the orignal card mailer)***Limited to only 800 copies***
- Steven Wilson - Index - Red & Gold Cover + Signed Postcard - UK - book - £149.99, $193.49, €178.49 (New Item) (arrived 16-Jul-2024 14:42)on July 26, 2024 at 7:51 pm
STEVEN WILSON Index - The Art Of Steven Wilson's Music (Scarce 2015 UK limited deluxe edition 240 Page hardback book by Lasse Hoile & Carl Glover, featuring 340 photographs with 178 previously unseen images, illustrating the visual side of hisalbums covering the period from Porcupine Tree’s 2002 album In Absentia right up to my most recent (and probably most visually ambitious) album Hand. Cannot. Erase., as well as his other projects no-man, Blackfield, IEM, Bass Communion, and Continuum. This edition was released to coincide with two concerts at the Royal Albert Hall on 28/29th September, cloth bound in the RAH colours of Red cover with gold embossed text. To help protect this example, a past owner has laminated the cover, otherwise remains in a fantastic condition, and includes a postcard which has been signed by the photographer & authors Lasse Hoile & Carl Glover in a blue or black pen, still in the orignal card mailer)***Limited to only 800 copies***
- Porcupine Tree - Signify - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £39.99, $51.59, €47.59 (New Item) (arrived 15-Jul-2024 11:26)on July 26, 2024 at 7:51 pm
PORCUPINE TREE Signify (2017 UK limited edition 15-track 2-LP set pressed on Heavyweight Vinyl. The remastered by Steven Wilson fourth studio album by British progressive rock band originally released in 1996, the first album recorded with the band on board from the beginning, previous albums had been essentially solo efforts with occasional help from other musicians. Housed in a gatefold picture sleeve with printed inners. Although not sealed, this remains ina 'near as new' condition KSCOPE948)
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PORCUPINE TREE On The Sunday Of Life (2017 UK Limited 'HMV Exclusive' Edition 18-track remastered double LP pressed on Audiophile quality 180gram Translucent Blue Vinyl - Originally released in 1992, the debut album from the English progressive rock band led by Steven Wilson compiles tracks that Steven produced & recorded for two cassette-only releases: Tarquin's Seaweed Farm [1989] and The Nostalgia Factory [1991]. The gatefold picture sleeve shows minimal light wear while the two discs remains in barely played condition KSCOPE955)
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