Steven Wilson announces Record Store Day remix album
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Steven Wilson has announced the release of a limited edition remix album for Record Store Day. Harmonic Divergence will be a vinyl only release and will only be available in participating shops on this year’s Record Store Day on April 20.
The new release sees music from Wilson recent The Harmony Codex album remixed and reimagined by Wilson, alongside longtime bandmates/collaborators and like-minded bands and producers, including Mogwai, Manic Street Preachers, Craig Blundell (Frost*, Steven Wilson), Adam Holzman (Miles Davis, Steven Wilson) and David Kollar & Arve Henriksen and more.
“One of the most fun and rewarding aspects of The Harmony Codex has been the opportunity to have the music remixed by so many other artists and musicians I admire," Wilson explains. "The material seemed to lend itself so well to reinterpretation.
"This special Record Store Day release features a range of different approaches, best illustrated by the two nine-ten minute remixes which bookend the album - one a euphoric and propulsive reworking of Time is Running Out by Ewan Pearson, the other a claustrophobic treatment of the title track by Mogwai that adds layers of sheet noise to the original. Harmonic Divergence feels to me like the perfect way to give closure to the Harmony Codex project."
None of the tracks on Harmonic Divergence have been available physically before (only Manic Street Preachers remix of Economies Of Scale has been previously released digitally).
Harmonic Convergence
Side A:
1. Time is Running Out - Ewan Pearson remix (9.20)
2. The Harmony Codex - David Kollar & Arve Henriksen remix (5.10)
3. Codex Theme #10 (0.57)
4. Actual Brutal Facts - Craig Blundell remix (5.09)
Side B:
1. Economies of Scale - Manic Street Preachers remix (4.03)
2. Codex Theme #4 (1.37)
3. Rock Bottom - Adam Holzman remix (5.01)
4. The Harmony Codex - Mogwai remix (9.51)
5. Codex Theme #13 (0.47)
Steven Wilson has updated fans on his next studio album, only months after the release of his Top Four album The Harmony Codex!
Speaking on the Gas Masks & Hand Grenades podcast, during an interview with himself and Tim Bowness about the new No-Man Housekeeping: The OLI Years, 1990-1994 box set, Wilson revealed that his next studio album will be different again, featuring just two long tracks and follows a conceptual theme.
"The follow up is almost finished, can you believe," Wilson revealed. "Bear in mind The Harmony Codex was finished in December 2022, so it's been over a year since that and I've almost finished the follow-up. It's very different again."
When asked when the new album might be released, Wilson continued, "Beginning of 2025. I work very quickly and I'm still excited by making music. This is just two 20-minute long tracks. So it's a very conceptual, and a I think that'll be finished and ready to come out early next year."
When the host asks if he's not going to tour The Harmony Codex, Wilson replies, "I think I'm going to wait until I've put this next record out and then I'm going to tour."
Wilson released his seventh studio album The Harmony Codex in September. the album reached Number Four in the UK album charts while Prog writers voted their abum of the year, a move followed by the readers in the 2023 Readers' Poll in the current issue, where Wilson was also voted Band/Artist Of The Year as well.
(Source: www.loudersound.com)
