"Blackfield" (CD) 2004 - Import

Description: Blackfield: Blackfield is a collaborative music project by the English musician and founder of Porcupine Tree, Steven Wilson, and Israeli rock singer Aviv Geffen. Together, six albums have been released under the moniker. The first two records, Blackfield and Blackfield II, saw Geffen and Wilson working together as equal partners, while the third and fourth, Welcome to my DNA and Blackfield IV, saw Geffen take on a leading role, writing all but one track across both albums and providing a significantly increased share of lead vocals. Despite initially announcing his intention to leave the project in 2014, Wilson instead worked again as an equal partner on a fifth album, Blackfield V, which was released on 10 February 2017. A sixth record, For the Music, was released on 4 December 2020, with Geffen again taking a leading role. Blackfield I (2000–2005) Geffen, a fan of Porcupine Tree and Wilson, invited the band to play shows in Israel in 2000. He struck up a friendship with Wilson, leading to the two musicians recording together. Geffen performed backing vocals on two tracks on Porcupine Tree's In Absentia album, "The Sound of Muzak" and "Prodigal". Geffen, interested in growing a fanbase outside of Israel, approached Wilson about starting their own project, which would become Blackfield. Originally planned as an EP for a 2001 release, it eventually evolved into a 2004 self-titled full-length recording.[6] Wilson provided lead vocals on all but two songs and played guitar or piano on every song except "Scars", which had instrumentation provided by Geffen's band "The Mistakes." Outside of Israel, the band has received constant comparison to Porcupine Tree, Wilson's most popular project. In response, Wilson has explained: ...Porcupine Tree would never be so focused on the art of a 3-minute pop song, which I believe. Blackfield is all about the art of a great tradition pop song of verse-chorus-verse-chorus. Porcupine Tree has never been about that, although we have fraternized a little bit with the art of pop music. Porcupine Tree has always been more about horizontally complex long pieces and the album is an overall piece rather than lots of little pieces... Aviv is not a big fan of heavy music, and he is not a big fan of long pieces so immediately the meeting point had to be somewhere where we were both focused on short melancholic songs. In early 2004 the band debuted live on a couple of promotional TV performances in Israel. This line-up featured drummer Chris Maitland (drummer of Porcupine Tree from 1993 to 2002), who was replaced by Tomer Zidkyahu, for a European tour that followed in the Autumn of 2004. Their first self-titled album was released in Israel and Europe in 2004, and the United States in 2005. While the band's first album was created over a relatively long period of time, the follow-up album, Blackfield II, was created in one short burst of activity. Wilson and Geffen worked on their respective projects throughout the end of 2005, but in early 2006 Wilson moved to Israel for six months to work on the album. Wilson performed lead or co-vocals on all tracks except "Miss U", which Geffen performed all vocals on. The album was released in February 2007 in Europe and March 2007 in the United States. In the same year, keyboardist Daniel Salomon left the band to continue his successful solo career. Salomon was replaced by Eran Mitelman, former keyboardist for Israeli hard rock band HaYehudim. The band also recorded a live CD/DVD combo, titled Blackfield – Live in New York City while touring in support of Blackfield II, in March 2007. In a 2008 interview, Wilson discussed Blackfield's future at the time, stating "I think we're going to tentatively start working on some new songs and that's as far as we've got regarding planning. I think there almost certainly will be another record. As with No-Man and my other projects, there's no reason to stop doing them as long as the music keeps flowing. In January 2009, to promote his first English-language European release, Geffen went on a small tour of Europe with the Blackfield live band, including Wilson being billed as a special guest. Half of the set consisted of songs from the then yet to be released first English language solo album by Geffen while the rest was a selection of Blackfield songs. Wilson would also appear on three tracks from the album. In April 2010, Geffen and Wilson entered the studio to begin writing the follow-up to Blackfield II. However, this time, all songs, with the exception of the track "Waving", were written by Geffen, as Wilson had been concentrating on his second solo album, Grace for Drowning, at the same time. Wilson only performed lead vocals on five of the eleven tracks, but provide backing or co-vocals on several other tracks. Their third album, Welcome to my DNA, was released on 28 March 2011[16] and supported by a European and North American tour following a kickoff concert in Israel. However, several concert dates were cancelled due to the death of Wilson's father in May 2011 Blackfield – Blackfield Label:Helicon Records – HL8199Format:CD, AlbumCountry:IsraelReleased:Feb 6, 2004Genre:RockStyle:Pop RockTrack list:1Open Mind3:492Blackfield4:063Glow4:004ScarsPerformer [Music] – The MistakesPerformer [Music] – The Mistakes3:575Lullaby3:296Pain3:477Summer4:128Cloudy Now3:349The Hole In Me2:4710Hello3:09Companies, etc.Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Helicon Ltd.Copyright © – Helicon Ltd.Made By – ABCD MusicRecorded At – Zaza StudioRecorded At – Hamon StudioRecorded At – New Rising StudiosRecorded At – No Man's Land (3)Mixed At – No Man's Land (3)Mastered At – Abbey Road StudiosCreditsConductor [Strings] – Daniel Salomon (tracks: 1, 5, 7, 10)Design – Ran BarlevDrums – Chris Maitland (tracks: 2, 9, 10), Gavin Harrison (tracks: 1, 6), Jeremy Kaplan (tracks: 3, 7)Executive-Producer – Tami Szatmary*Graphics, Design – Aleph (10), Carl Glover (4)Management [Aviv Geffen] – Meir KotlerMastered By – Chris BlairPhotography By – Lasse HoilePhotography By [Inlay] – Ofir KedmiProducer, Performer – Aviv GeffenProducer, Performer, Mixed By [Final Mixes] – Steven WilsonProduction Manager – Riki GoldshteinStrings – The Illusion Quartet (tracks: 1, 5, 7, 10)Technician [Assistant] – Barak Gabison, Eyal Dafna, Shlomy Kane'anWritten-By – Aviv Geffen (tracks: 1, 3, 4, 6 to 10), Steven Wilson (tracks: 1 to 5, 7, 8, 10)NotesRecorded at various times between 2001-2003. Studios: ZaZa - Tel Aviv, Israel; Hamon - Tel Aviv, Israel; New Rising - Colchester, UK; No Man's Land - Hemel Hempstead, UK. Final mixes at No Man's Land, UK, September 2003. Mastered at Abbey Road. The Israeli version came in two variants: two different stickers on front (see images). Also, a promo version was released with a promo sticker over the barcode section (see image). Barcode and Other IdentifiersBarcode: 7 293627 819923Mastering SID Code: IFPI L063Mould SID Code: IFPI 1U22Matrix / Runout: ABCD HL 8199 (04028101)Rights Society: ACUM

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