Topic: Storm Corrosion - projekt muzyczny Mikaela ze Stevenem Wilsonem

[In_Prog_We_Trust]

Jest tu parê ciekawych informacji o przysz³ym albumie:

The coming to fruition of a meeting of musical minds that has had fans of adventurous, progressive and heavy music shivering with anticipatory excitement for many years, Storm Corrosion is unlike anything you have ever heard. A collaboration between two of the modern era’s greatest and most revered artists – Steven Wilson, prolific sonic polymath and frontman with UK prog standard bearers Porcupine Tree and Mikael Åkerfeldt, leader and chief creative driving force for Swedish progressive metal legends Opeth – it takes the listener on an unprecedented journey into realms yet undiscovered.

“We never discussed what we were going to do,” recalls Åkerfeldt. “I went down to hang out at Steven’s house and we drank wine and talked about music, but neither of us had anything prepared. We wrote the song ‘Drag Ropes’ [Storm Corrosion’s opening track] that first night, and we both thought it was pretty cool. We’d never heard anything like it and it doesn’t really sound like our bands. We found our own niche, right then and there.”

“It was special, different and intriguing,” agrees Wilson. “We ran in the opposite direction of the idea of a prog metal supergroup that people had been talking about and expecting from us. It was a chance to delve into more experimental ideas. We were being wilfully self-indulgent in the best possible way, making music to please ourselves. There’s something wonderfully pure and liberating about that you can hear that in these songs.”

Wilson has mixed and contributed to several Opeth albums over the years, of course, but this is the first time that he and Åkerfeldt have written music together. Recorded at Wilson’s No Man’s Land studio in leafy Hertfordshire, England, Storm Corrosion is a six-song exploration of the outer limits of these two artists’ febrile creativity. As with their individual recent works – Wilson’s ‘Grace For Drowning’ and Opeth’s ‘Heritage’ in particular – which have challenged their respective fan bases and added new, vibrant colours to once familiar aural palates, this album is an exercise in total musical freedom, wherein anything is possible and ideas are snatched from the ether and moulded into something utterly new, beguiling, disturbing, and otherworldly. From the sprawling, multi-faceted dynamic splurge of ‘Drag Ropes’ and the unsettling sweep of title track through to the fragile menace of the closing ‘Ljudet Innan’ (which means “ancient music” in Swedish), Storm Corrosion is an epic, disorientating trip.

“You can hear it in Opeth and in my music, the idea of taking something beautiful and destroying it,” explains Wilson. “We have both always loved the idea of discord, of beauty, and ugliness side by side. Without being too pretentious, that’s what life is like, so you hear a lot more of that coming out in Storm Corrosion. It’s heavy, but without the use of the metal vocabulary. You can hear that on ‘Grace For Drowning’ and on ‘Heritage’ too. So I think, in many ways, this is the completion of a trilogy.”

Although manifestly conceived in the grand, esoteric tradition of records like Talk Talk’s ‘Spirit Of Eden’ and Scott Walker’s ‘The Drift’, Storm Corrosion is unmistakably a work of intense originality and one that has grown organically from a process that has plainly thrilled its creators.

“It was very much a 50/50 effort and very easily achieved,” states Åkerfeldt. “We just sat down, started from scratch and created it all from nothing. There’s some beautiful music on there but it’s a demanding record. If you’re doing other shit as you listen to it, it’s going to pass by like elevator muzak. You really have to sit down and pay attention! If you allow it to sink in, it could be a life companion…”

Anyone who has followed the careers of Wilson and Åkerfeldt should already be prepared to embrace the unexpected as their artistic sensibilities fully collide for the first time, but both men are resigned to the fact that Storm Corrosion is a deep and daring piece of work that will simply not strike a chord with every Opeth or Porcupine Tree fan. This is something else, something other...and it’s truly extraordinary.

“For me, self-indulgence is one of the fundamental things about being an artist,” Wilson concludes. “Do not make music or art to please other people. If you do, you’ve stopped being an artist and you’ve become an entertainer. This is a very cinematic, impressionistic and immersive record. We just got together and it poured out of us. With this record you’re entering into a very unusual and unfamiliar sonic universe and that’s a very exciting thing to be part of.”

Znajdziemy to na oficjalnej zak³adce Storm Corrosion z Roadrunner'a w dziale Biography.

[Funnykris]

Je¿eli siê potwierdzi, wychodzi na to, ¿e album wydanie zostanie na modê Porkow±, czyli osobno CD, osobno 5.1, osobno winyle, bo Opeciane p³yty od czasu przyst±pienia do RR, wydawane s± zazwyczaj w konfiguracjach: CD, CD+DVD(5.1) i ró¿ne wersje winylowe...

Tylko ¿eby wydali to w DVD-Audio a nie w Blu-Ray. Bo moje kino domowe jest niereformowalne. Gra wy¶mienicie ale mam jakie¶ dziwne z³±cze ³±cz±ce suba z wzmacniaczem do odtwarzacza i nie da siê podpi±æ innego a chêtnie pos³ucham w 5.1

[Luksor]

Weso³e fotki z facebooka Storm Corrosion:

[Luksor]

Kolejny obrazek:

[ambush1]

Jak pierwsze foto ma³o mnie ¶mieszy (wrêcz napawa obrzydzeniem - powinni tego zakazaæ), drugie jest dobre, tak trzecie mnie roz³o¿y³o na ³opatki!! Genialne hehe Ljudet innan  a Steven kurdupel jeden haha i te portki nie no kapitalna fota 

[Luksor]

Jak pierwsze foto ma³o mnie ¶mieszy (wrêcz napawa obrzydzeniem - powinni tego zakazaæ)...

Mam identyczne odczucia. A co znaczy Ljudet Innan, bo nawet nie wiem w jakim jest to jêzyku?

[ambush1]

A co znaczy Ljudet Innan, bo nawet nie wiem w jakim jest to jêzyku?

Ze szwedzkiego ljudet znaczy d¼wiêk, a innan to zanim, przedtem... ca³o¶æ ³atwo zinterpretowaæ

ps. nie to, ¿e biegle znam szwedzki, bez s³ownika siê nie oby³o

[:Wreath:]

by³o w cytacie wrzuconym przez In_Prog_We_Trust:

(...)of the closing ‘Ljudet Innan’ (which means “ancient music” in Swedish)(...)

[Luksor]

by³o w cytacie wrzuconym przez In_Prog_We_Trust:

(...)of the closing ‘Ljudet Innan’ (which means “ancient music” in Swedish)(...)

Hmmm... nawet tego nie zauwa¿y³em. Na usprawiedliwienie mam jedynie to, ¿e ostatnio praktycznie nie czytam, co bosonogi Stefek i uroczy Micha¶ maj± do powiedzenia. Czekam na muzykê!

[Luksor]

Ever wanted to ask Steven and Mikael a question? Now is your chance. Follow this link and ask away! http://bit.ly/AwHQ3G

[In_Prog_We_Trust]

Niech lepiej wypuszcz± muzykê, bo zaczyna mnie strasznie swêdzieæ ten projekt A pytanie sobie zada³em, a co mi tam...

Wielkie nadzieje zwi±zane z tym albumem, jednak co¶ mi mówi, ¿e to nie bêdzie dok³adnie to co bêdê chcia³ us³yszeæ. Byle nie by³o to Blackfield'em z Mikaelem robi±cym za Gaffena(pomalowanym, ca³y w brokacie, z go³± klat± i tymi swoimi czarnymi ¶miesznymi oczkami) to jako¶ to prze¿yje. A co do wypowiedzi Luksora: Trzeba czytaæ moje posty, zazwyczaj nie wrzucam ¶mieci A je¶li chodzi o trzeci obrazek to jak najbardziej trafiony - tak w³a¶nie wyobra¿am sobie ten projekt mniej wiêcej, tyle ¿e Harrison na bêbnach do tego wszystkiego jako¶ mi nie pasuje... Poczekamy zobaczymy. Chocia¿ ¿eby singiel by³..!

[Luksor]

"Storm Corrosion" pojawi³ siê juz w ofercie Amazon, Play.com, CD Universe i jpc.

[In_Prog_We_Trust]

Choæby jaki¶ leak by³, albo kawa³ki z ka¿dej piosenki jak przed nowym Opethem. A tu k*rwa nic. Mogliby ujawniæ chocia¿ ok³adkê.. Czy dla Storm Corrosion nie powinien byæ wydzielany specjalny oddzia³ na forum btw? To w sumie ma du¿o wspólnego z Opethem i Stevenem

[Callahan]

To samo co z Soen - po co im oddzielny pokój? O czym tu rozmawiaæ, ¿e a¿ trzeba by to by³o dzieliæ na kilka w±tków. Projekt ogranicza siê na razie do jednego, jeszcze nie wydanego albumu, ¿adnych koncertów, nic co by siê wiêcej dzia³o w zwi±zku z nim. Pokój by³by martwy, ograniczy³by siê do jednego w±tku.

[:Wreath:]

"nie mnó¿my bytów ponad miarê"

moim zdaniem strona g³ówna forum i tak jest ju¿ zawalona w±tkami..