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And another new Lasse Hoile video from Steven Wilson’s impending 2nd solo album, Grace for Drowning.  Behold, “Remainder the Black Dog”… another dark, visual mindf*ck from Lasse Hoile with a Dream Theater-esque fuzzy guitar and keyboard solo.

Grace for Drowning is out September 27th.  Pre-order now on Amazon.  Check out the video for “Index” over HERE and “Track One” over HERE.

~Dan – np: Steven Wilson – Grace for Drowning

Steven Wilson “Index” video directed by Lasse Hoile from Steven’s upcoming 2nd solo album, Grace for Drowning.  A tad dark and creepy…

Grace for Drowning is out September 27th.  Pre-order now on Amazon.  Check out the video for “Track One” over HERE.

~Dan – np: Steven Wilson – Grace for Drowning

Lasse Hoile’s new video for “Track One,” taken from Steven Wilson’s second solo album Grace for Drowning.  Slow start, then some bombast… then returning… quite gorgeous.

Steven Wilson’s Grace for Drowning comes out September 26th.  The mega deluxe & vinyl editions are available from gfd.com.  The digipack CD is for pre-order on Amazon (only $11).

~Dan – np: Ty Tabor – Balance

Update 8/24: there’s a new video for the song “Track One” with the image below, as well as pre-order information at THIS BLOG.

After some news leaking slowly, Porcupine Tree/No-Man/Blackfield frontman Steven Wilson’s next solo album finally has a name… Grace For Drowning.  It also has a trailer…

Recapping the news from prior posts:

• it’ll be two 40-45 minute albums in the same package… due “Autumn 2011″ (September-ish)
• album names: Deform to Form a Star and Like Dust I Have Cleared From My Eye
• pretty organic feel, mostly inspired by the darker end of vintage progressive music and some… movie soundtrack stuff (Morricone especially)
• the usual array of excellent SW options: double-vinyl release, 5.1 surround sound, hard back book edition, CD, digital…
• Update 7/19: free download… 9-minute full-track by signing up for the mailing list at http://www.gracefordrowning.com/

Stay up with his Facebook page and http://www.gracefordrowning.com/ for the scoop as it develops.  Steven just finished up his tour with Blackfield, and also in the works… Storm Corrosion with Opeth’s Mikael Akerfeldt (likely a 2012 release).

~Dan – np: Remy Zero – Villa Elaine

More news to tack onto the original announcement (go here for that).  This is also from Steven Wilson‘s facebook page:

Thanks for all the wonderful feedback regarding my new solo record! Sorry, but “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. Love the new Radiohead album! Here’s another still from the work in progress films Lasse is working on to include on the blu-ray version of the album.

~Dan – np: Earth – Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 1

Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree put out his first solo album, Insurgentes, in 2008.  He followed it up with the concept album The Incident from his day gig (Porcupine Tree) in 2009, a live PT DVD (Anesthetize) and Insurgentes DVD in 2010… and now, 2011 will shower us with at least two SW-related records: Blackfield‘s third album, Welcome to My DNA (with a world tour), and his second solo album (based on this news on his facebook page):

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 [Hoile] 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….

There’s also Storm Corrosion… his collaboration with Mikael Akerfeldt of Opeth and Mike Portnoy (ex-Dream Theater).  TBD/TBA…

He’s a busy dude.

~Dan – np: Ozric Tentacles – Arborescence

Porcupine Tree‘s new live film is approaching completion and a special edition will be available in April, with a regular version to follow in May.  Anesthetize was filmed live over 2 nights in Tilburg, The Netherlands in October 2008, at the end of the Fear of a Blank Planet tour. The 130 minute live film includes a complete performance of the Blank Planet album and 11 other tracks, and was directed and edited by Lasse Hoile on high definition cameras, with the soundtrack mixed into stereo and 5.1 sound.

The special edition will take the form of a cloth bound hard back 120 page book (as per The Incident and Insurgentes deluxe versions) featuring live photography of the band taken over the last 5 years. The book will house both a DVD and a much higher quality Blu-Ray disc version of the film, as well as 2 audio CDs of the soundtrack including one bonus track not featured in the film.  The book and audio CDs will not be included with the standard retail versions of the Blu-Ray/DVD.

~Dan – np: I.E.M. – 1996-1999