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, they have released three albums under the moniker: Blackfield and Blackfield II as equal partners, and Welcome to my DNA with Geffen taking a more dominant role. A fourth studio album, titled Blackfield IV was released on 26 August 2013, with Wilson taking an even more passive role. After a brief stint of touring in 2014, Wilson stated his intention to leave the band, although Wilson has been shown to be present in sessions for a fifth Blackfield album, tentatively titled Blackfield V.
History
Collaborative era
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. 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. "
Blackfield (album)
Blackfield is the debut album by the art rock band Blackfield, released on the Snapper Music/Helicon labels in February 2004. The album was re-released in August of the same year with an additional three-track bonus disc, followed by a later pressing that contains the album and the three bonus tracks all on one CD.
Two songs are covers in English of earlier Aviv Geffen songs in Hebrew, "Cloudy Now" (עכשיו מעונן) from 1993 and "Scars" (צלקות) from 2000. In the latter case, Aviv's original studio recording was simply re-used with newly sung vocals.
Four singles were released from the album: "Hello", "Pain", "Blackfield" and "Cloudy Now".
Track listing
Bonus disc
There is also a 2-LP version with "Perfect World" and another, LP-exclusive track, "Feel So Low"; the latter is a cover of a Porcupine Tree song from Lightbulb Sun with the first verse sung in Hebrew.
Steven Wilson's SoundCloud page features an extended version of the title-track as a streamable and downloadable WAV file. This version has an extra minute and a half at the end, where the outro groove turns into acoustic guitar strumming and a new vocal line before the song fades out.
Blackfield IV
Blackfield IV is the fourth studio album by Blackfield, the musical collaboration by Aviv Geffen and Steven Wilson. Similar to their third album, Welcome to My DNA, Geffen has taken over more active duties on the album while Wilson focuses on his solo career. The album was released on August 26, 2013.
Background
Over the course of 2010 and early 2011, the two creative directors of Blackfield were split over two musical projects; Steven Wilson wrote and recorded his second solo studio album, Grace for Drowning, and as a result, Aviv Geffen would take more creative control over Blackfield's third studio album, Welcome to My DNA. After both albums' release and promotion, in December 2011, Wilson stated that his various music projects, Blackfield included, would be put on hold, while he focused further on his solo career. Contrary to this announcement, less than a month later in January 2012, Geffen announced his intentions to release a fourth Blackfield album by as soon as May 2012. This prompted Wilson to announce that his role would continue to lessen, with Wilson acting only as a contributor and mixer. Wilson said of the band's future:
Podcasts:
Blackfield
ALBUMS
- Blackfield IV released: 2013
- Welcome to My DNA released: 2011
- Blackfield released: 2011
- NYC: Blackfield Live in New York City released: 2007
- Blackfield II released: 2007
Blackfield IV
Released 2013- Pills (5.1 mix)
- Springtime (5.1 mix)
- X-Ray (5.1 mix)
- Sense of Insanity (5.1 mix)
- Firefly (5.1 mix)
- The Only Fool Is Me (5.1 mix)
- Jupiter (5.1 mix)
- Kissed by the Devil (5.1 mix)
- Lost Souls (5.1 mix)
- Faking (5.1 mix)
- After the Rain (5.1 mix)
- Pills
- Springtime
- X-Ray
- Sense of Insanity
- Firefly
- The Only Fool Is Me
- Jupiter
- Kissed by the Devil
- Lost Souls
- Faking
- After the Rain
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Christenings
by: BlackfieldI met you in a record store.
You had slept in the clothes you wore.
But I knew I'd seen you somewhere before.
What happened to your guitar?
And what happened to the prettiest star?
Can you still play the songs that got you so far?
Hey you with your shadow in the gutter,
how low have you got to go before you're through?
High times and vodka in the mornings,
all your memories are coming out of your shoes.
Black dog sitting in the park,
odd looks from the mothers of the devil's own.
Shoplifting, getting your essentials.
Gatecrashing christenings and funerals,
and weddings too.
I used to see you all the time on MTV.
Read your life story in a magazine.
I guess you thought that's the way it would always be.
But I believe in you.
'Cause I think that you want me to.