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★★★★★ Wilson launches his Headphone Dust online store with a stunning live recording made on The Overview Tour in Madrid Impossible Tightrope: Live in Madrid is Steven Wilson’s fourth solo live album, following Catalogue / Preserve / Amass (2012), Get All You Deserve (2012), and Home Invasion: In Concert at the Royal Albert Hall (2018). …
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This is an analysis of the second half, and title track, of Steven Wilson's eighth solo album, The Overview. For an introduction to the album, click here. For an analysis of the first half of the album, 'Objects Outlive Us', click here. The Earth Seen from Apollo 17. Source: Wikimedia Commons THE OVERVIEW Perspective Perspective …
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Monday 12 May 2025 The London Palladium *****Steven Wilson's Epic Return to Solo Performance Steven Wilson last performed as a live solo act in England seven years ago at the Royal Albert Hall in London, in a series of three concerts, one of which was later released as the concert film Home Invasion. That tour …
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Record Store Day exclusive remix album completes the Harmony Codex trilogy **** Steven Wilson's Harmony Codex trilogy is complete. The original album was released in September 2023. The Deluxe Edition of The Harmony Codex included a remix album, Harmonic Distortion. The new remix album, Harmonic Divergence was released on 20 April 2024 as a limited-edition …
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***** New Prog supergroup bring joy in fragmented times Drummer Craig Blundell, keyboard player Adam Holzman and bass player Nick Beggs began playing together on Steven Wilson's Hand. Cannot. Erase tour in 2015. They also joined Steven on his To the Bone tour in 2018 and 2019. When Steven went off for a cup of …
Impeccable live jazz-rock from former Miles Davis music director and Steven Wilson's keyboard player ***** On 12 March 2020, keyboard player Adam Holzman and his band Brave New World drove to the Nublu club to soundcheck for a gig that night. The global pandemic was about to close New York City. Broadway had just shut …
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