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Description
The Best of the peerless collaboration between Steven Wilson & Aviv Geffen, features 15 essential tracks, including "Blackfield", "Once", "Family Man" & "Pain".
Blackfield is the collaboration between Israeli songwriter & musician Aviv Geffen & British musician & producer Steven Wilson. The collaboration, extending from their self-titled debut in 2004 to their superb return with album 'V' produced with Alan Parsons in 2017, has proven to be a prolific partnership for creating striking & affecting music.
The pair makes for a formidable musical force; Geffen has worked with legendary producers Tony Visconti & Trevor Horn, has also recently performed with & hosted Jake Bugg, played as support for Biffy Clyro & was a judge on the Israeli TV show 'The Voice'. Wilson, after a long tenure as the leader of the hugely influential band 'Porcupine Tree', has since embarked on a highly successful solo career, most recently earning a #3 album in the UK Charts & #2 in the DE Charts, as well 4 Grammy nominations.
This collection, curated by Wilson & Geffen, selects the best works from an impressively rich Blackfield catalogue with each of the five records combining both sweet & tart elements. It's an uncommonly potent mixture. Perhaps the debut album's Lasse Hoile cover art—a bottled elixir lurking in the gloomy shadows of an apothecary—signifies that Blackfield is a dark medicine to be administered through the listener's ear. There's no recipe on the aged & frayed label of the bottle. Yet some lyrical ingredients can be discerned within the mix: Take a dash of childhood memory, sprinkle in some heartbreak, pour in a drop of blood from an open vein, add a pinch of angry conscience (carefully weighed), puree the dew of a kiss & then garnish with the bitter tears of adult disillusionment. Stir carefully & name it after the very first Blackfield collaboration: "Open Mind".
Steven Wilson - "Blackfield appealed to me because it was a chance to focus firmly on the art of the classic pop song with concise songs & strong melodies, harmonies, orchestration & a very lush 'golden' production."
'Open Mind' is a CD presented in digipack packaging complete with an 8-page booklet featuring new artwork by Hajo Müller.
"shimmering soundscapes & towering choruses" CLASSIC ROCK
"melancholy lyrics wrapped in gorgeous melodies" TIME OUT, NY
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Tracklisting
- 1. Blackfield
- 2. Family Man
- 3. Open Mind
- 4. 1,000 People
- 5. Oxygen
- 6. Hello
- 7. Once
- 8. How Was Your Ride ?
- 9. Waving
- 10. From 44 To 48
- 11. Pain
- 12. October
- 13. Faking
- 14. Dissolving With The Night
- 15. End Of The World
Disc 1
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