Steven Wilson - Requiem For A Village (Blu-Ray with 8-page Booklet)
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About his 9th studio album, Steven Wilson says:
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.
The Overview explored the depths, distances, and desolation of deep space, Requiem for a Village narrows its focus to a tiny, unknown corner of the British Isles that exists beyond time and place.
Set in a Wicker Man landscape where the paintings of Stanley Spencer hang in the local art gallery, the stories of M. R. James and Algernon Blackwood sit on the shelves of the public library, and the children of the stones play in the market square, Requiem for a Village is a sepia-toned snapshot of a hidden neverland — a 54-minute piece of cinema for the ears that is intimate, ambitious, richly imaginative, and knowingly eccentric.
The album features multi-instrumentalist Randy McStine, drummer Russell Holzman, vocalist Katherine Priddy, as well as narration written by Andy Partridge (XTC) and voiced by David Tennant (Doctor Who).
Check it out:
Steven Wilson - Requiem for a Village (The Village Hall Sessions)
Tracks:
- Swirl In A Lark’s Eye
- Requiem For A Village
- The Same River Twice
- Now Departing
- Hireath
- On Chapel Slope
- Murmuration
- Curcus Fingerprint
- A Basket Of Bees
- Great Green Map
- Wheel
- The Old God Is Buried
Format: Blu-Ray
Artist: Steven Wilson
Release Date: November 6, 2026