PORCUPINE TREE Adds Guitarist And Bassist To 2022 Touring Lineup
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Grammy Award-nominated British rock band PORCUPINE TREE has announced the addition of guitarist Randy McStine (MCSTINE & MINNEMANN, LO-FI RESISTANCE) and bassist Nate Navarro (DEVIN TOWNSEND) to its touring lineup.
Earlier today (Friday, May 6),PORCUPINE TREE released the following statement via social media: "We would like to welcome Randy McStine and Nate Navarro to the PORCUPINE TREE touring line up. Both are incredibly talented musicians and we have already had the pleasure of rehearsing the new material with them. It's sounding fantastic and we're looking forward to the tours later this year."
PORCUPINE TREE will celebrate its long-overdue return to the global stage with dates confirmed in North and South America as well as in Europe. The legendary group's first tour since October 2010 in support of its upcoming album "Closure/Continuation" will kick off September 10 at Toronto, Ontario's Meridian Hall, followed by concerts in Montreal, Quebec; Boston, Massachusetts; New York City; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Washington, D.C.; Chicago, Illinois; Irving, Texas; Denver, Colorado; San Francisco, California and Los Angeles, California; continuing with eagerly awaited October performances in Mexico City, Mexico (October 4) and Santiago, Chile (October 7). The North and South American show dates are presented by Live Nation and Paladin Artists. Performances in Europe begin October 21 in Berlin, Germany and then culminate at London, U.K.'s world-famous SSE Arena, Wembley on November 11.
PORCUPINE TREE — Steven Wilson, Richard Barbieri and Gavin Harrison — recently shared "Of The New Day", the latest track from "Closure/Continuation", due on June 24 via Music For Nations/Megaforce Records.
"'Of the New Day' is a song of rebirth, emerging from darkness," says Wilson. "It sounds deceptively simple, a recognizably atypical PORCUPINE TREE ballad. That is until you realize that the length of the bars is constantly changing, flipping between bars of regular 4/4 time to 3/4, to 5/4 to 6/4, 11/4, so that the track never settles into any steady time. It's what PORCUPINE TREE can sometimes do really well, come up with a basic idea that's almost intellectual or mathematical, but carry it off in a way that sounds completely natural and accessible. At least I hope there's no sense of us being clever for the sake of it or putting technique over musicality. That is unless you want to specifically home in on that side of the composition."
Last November, PORCUPINE TREE returned with its first new music in close to 12 years. "Harridan", an epic, eight-minute-long reintroduction to PORCUPINE TREE's truly singular sound, was accompanied by an official lyric video, streaming now via YouTube.
"Closure / Continuation" — which follows 2009's "The Incident" — will be available on standard CD, standard black vinyl 2x12" LP, white vinyl 2x12" LP, transparent blue vinyl 2x12" LP, and white cassette. In addition, a limited audiophile deluxe LP will also be available, cut at 45rpm on 3x12" clear vinyl in 12" slipcase box with two bonus tracks; a limited audiophile deluxe CD in 12" slipcase box will include the standard CD, a second disc with three bonus tracks and instrumentals, Blu-ray disc with 5.1/Dolby Atmos and HD audio versions of the album, and an exclusive album art book. pre-orders are available now.
"'Harridan' and a few of the other new songs have been in play since shortly after the release of 'The Incident'," said PORCUPINE TREE. "They initially lived on a hard drive in a slowly growing computer file marked PT2012, later renamed PT2015, PT2018, and so on. There were times when we even forgot they were there, and times when they nagged us to finish them to see where they would take us. Listening to the finished pieces, it was clear that this wasn't like any of our work outside of the band — the combined DNA of the people behind the music meant these tracks were forming what was undeniably, unmistakably, obviously a PORCUPINE TREE record. You'll hear all of that DNA flowing right through 'Harridan'."
(Source: www.blabbermouth.net)
