Utilisateur:Jinroh/Steven Wilson

Informations générales
Nom de naissance	Steven John Wilson
Activité principale	guitariste, chanteur, compositeur, producteur
Genre musical	Rock progressif; Rock psychédélique; Ambient
Années actives	1987 - présent

Steven Wilson (né le 3 novembre 1967 à Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire en Angleterre) est un compositeur, chanteur et multi-instrumentaliste fondateur du groupe de rock progressif Porcupine Tree. Wilson est un autodidacte reconnu pour ses collaborations avec de nombreux groupes en tant que producteur, ingénieur son ou simple musicien.

Biographie[modifier | modifier le code]

Steven Wilson discovered his love for music around the age of 8. It began one Christmas when his parents bought presents for each other in the form of LPs. His father and mother received Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon and Donna Summer's Love to Love You Baby, respectively. The young Steven spent much of his childhood listening to these albums in "heavy rotation", as he once commented. Both LPs would influence his future song writing. He claims "...in retrospect I can see how they are almost entirely responsible for the direction that my music has taken ever since." With Pink Floyd leaning him towards experimental/psychedelic conceptual progressive rock (as exemplified by Porcupine Tree and Blackfield), and Donna Summer with her trance-inflicted grooves (which No-Man, Wilson's long-running collaboration with fellow musician, vocalist Tim Bowness initially adopted as its musical approach. Subsequently, the band's sound evolved and pursued a more meditative and experimental Talk Talk-esque approach).

As a child, Steven was forced to learn the guitar, but he did not enjoy it; his parents stopped paying for lessons. However, aged 11, Wilson rescued a nylon string classical guitar from his attic and started to experiment with it; or in his own words, "...scraping microphones across the strings, feeding the resulting sound into overloaded reel to reel tape recorders and producing a primitive form of multi-track recording by bouncing between two cassette machines." It was clear that the 11 year-old displayed an early fascination with different possibilities of arranging and playing with sounds.

It didn't take too long before he began to form bands with his friends from school and play live. However, the thing which kept him truly satisfied was experimenting with sounds and producing the recordings he made.

Between the years 1984 and 1986 he recorded material with underground bands Altamont and Karma. Some of those tapes have recently resurfaced due to the increasing popularity of Porcupine Tree. Wilson describes it as "...a bit like a painter having his nursery school paint blots on display..."

He was only 15 years old when he recorded a tape with Altamont, called Si Vockings. This particular work includes lyrics by Alan Duffy which Wilson later used for two Porcupine Tree songs: "This Long Silence" and "It Will Rain for a Million Years".

Around the same time he played with Altamont, he was also in a band called Karma, and they recorded two tapes: The Joke's on You (1983) and The Last Man to Laugh (1985), which contained the original versions of songs later used by Porcupine Tree, "Small Fish" and "Nine Cats" though not "The Joke's On You" (played live but not recorded).

Up to this point Wilson's diverse musical experiments contained avant-garde industrial, psychedelia (with Altamont) and progressive rock (with Karma). Steven's next step was forming two bands:No-Man and Porcupine Tree.

After he worked with Israeli rock star Aviv Geffen he created the band Blackfield. He splits his living time between Tel Aviv, Israel and London, UK.

Steven has also signed on to produce the next album of Israeli progressive metal band, Orphaned Land.

Projets et coopérations[modifier | modifier le code]

Excepté Porcupine Tree, voici les principaux projets auxquels Steven a participé dans sa carrière :

I.E.M., un groupe de krautrock expérimental.

Blackfield né de la collaboration avec l'israélien Aviv Geffen. Blackfield se rapproche de l'aspect pop-rock de Porupine Tree.

Il produit le prochain album du groupe israélien Orphaned Land, intitulé The Never Ending Way of ORWarriOR

Il a produit les albums [Blackwater Park]], Deliverance et Damnation du groupe suédois Opeth.

Il prévoit d'enregistrer un album avec le chanteur du groupe Opeth, Mikael Åkerfeldt, et le batteur de Dream Theater, Mike Portnoy.

Bass Communion plays host to Wilson's interests in drone and ambient music. For this project, he collaborated in the late nineties with Muslimgauze, and more recently with Vidna Obmana.

Wilson also releases under his own name. For this and other purposes he created his own record label Headphone Dust.

Has also worked with OSI, Marillion, Fish, Cipher and Anja Garbarek.

Wilson played guitar on one track on the Spirits Burning CD New Worlds By Design.

He is featured on the latest Fovea Hex EP "Allure" (Part 3 of the "Neither Speak Nor Remain Silent" trilogy of EP's) on bass guitar. The EP will be released in April through Die-Stadt Musik.