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Insurgentes! Can't wait to see it and listen to all the bonus tracks.

can't wait to see bass communion live and insurgentes! meanwhile (you're a true pt-nerd if you spotted the reference), listen to this. it's a rather rare pt song that i found on spotify. it's originally yoko ono but here it's all pt plus yokos vocals, beautiful

ptkc123 wrote: Palliams wrote: Insurgentes! Can't wait to see it and listen to all the bonus tracks. I made a huge decision yesterday, to remove pretty much all indie music from my i-pod apart from a select few, and then replace all of it with the likes of Sigur Ros, Oceansize, Pinapple Thief, Anathema, Engineers, etc... I now have a very prog inspired i-pod, full of Porcupine Tree/Steven Wilson/Blackfield, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Riverside, Crippled Black Phoenix... Not to mention Neil Young, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix   If I ever misplace it, I often wonder what the person who finds it would think if they were an indie kid or something!??? Oceansize is always a good thing.

I think Insurgentes is pretty great, although I have to be in a particular mood to enjoy it. My favourite tracks are Insurgentes and Collecting Space, although it's pretty solid all round. Falls slightly short of 5 stars, although I have higher hopes for SW's next solo outing.

Ooooooooooh!
I've got it in the mail, shipped 2 or so days ago, although they usually take a week or so to get over here from England/Burning Shed. Super excited for it to come, should be sometime this week with a bit of luck.

Palliams wrote: progkidjoel wrote: I think Insurgentes is pretty great, although I have to be in a particular mood to enjoy it. My favourite tracks are Insurgentes and Collecting Space, although it's pretty solid all round. Falls slightly short of 5 stars, although I have higher hopes for SW's next solo outing.   Sorry Progkid, I wasn't reffering to the Album, but the documentary DVD that was shipped over the weekend... I take it you don't have it, or haven't bought it?

I knew immediately that you were referring to the film.

I loved it when I saw it at the NY premiere - definitely not your usual profile of a rock musician, but then, SW isn't exactly your run of the mill sort of fellow, nor is Lasse Hoile. 

As you say, it was far different than I expected, but in no way a disappointment - it was, in fact, far more intimate than this sort of film usually allows, which to me at least is what makes it so special. 

I have yet to hear the bonus tracks - I got the notice from Burning Shed that my copies were posted yesterday - it usually takes about a week to the US as well, though I have been pleasantly surprised before, though the IEM box set seemed to take forever.

In the meantime, here are a couple of shots we took with SW at the premiere - he is every bit as nice in person as he comes across in interviews, if a bit more shy.  

These photos also put to rest some of the discussions on other threads about Steven Wilson being a tiny fellow - I'm 5' 2", and Marek is 6' 3", so to my way of thinking that puts Steven Wilson (who was wearing sneakers) somewhere around 5' 9" or 5' 10"; not exactly a Viking warrior, but decidedly not short/tiny either.  

Buying New Soul is win.

Catcher10 wrote: Sorry....wondering if anyone has heard about new material from either the Tree or SW....if it has been posted here just let me know what page and I'll go there. These threads get so long sometimes I loose my place.... I'll do my best to try and keep up next time.. Thanks in advance

No problem, dude.

Here's a new track from SW that he decided to scratch off his forthcoming second solo album: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/soundcheck/articles/web-extras/2010/sep/21/exlusive-track-steven-wilson/

^ You can also download the track, not just stream it.


Edited by ptkc123 - October 25 2010 at 13:11

Oops.  Here are the other two.  ;-)

cool. already downloaded - gotta burn a cd-r now.

insurgentes arrived today. i haven't got around watching the actual film yet, just bc and pig live plus the bonus songs and the lasse and sw interview. really cool, just what i expected.

also i'm listening to vapour trail lullaby just as we speak, much better than the blackfield one. not a masterpiece but good.