Blackfield.

sound clips & video.
new dvd.
live review;
Of the Spirit of 66 and photo's of more gigs.

www.blackfield.org is in the air and running, with free samples.

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new video:

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NEWS Jan 2012::
Steven Wilson & Aviv Geffen working with Anathema’s Vincent Cavanagh on Blackfield IV!
Aviv Geffen has revealed on his Twitter that he and Steven Wilson are working with Vincent Cavanagh from Anathema on a brand new Blackfield song. This is very exciting news – Steven mentioned in a Facebook post a while back about the possibility of the new album featuring guest performers. Aviv also confirmed via Blackfield’s official Twitter that Steven will indeed sing vocals on the record, alongside playing an instrument (it wasn’t specified which one). Blackfield’s fourth album is set to be released in May. Vincent’s band Anathema today announced a brand new album, titled ‘Weather Systems’ which will be released on Kscope in April. Read more about that on ShadowsDance.com, StarsDie.com’s sister website dedicated to Anathema.

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Aviv Geffen, a highly successful solo artist in Israel discovered the music of Steve Wilson's band Porcupine Tree in the mid 90's and followed their career development. In 2000 he invited the band to perform some concerts in Israel and met with Steven in London to discuss the idea.
In October 2003 an album was completed and in 2004 it was avaiable in the stores. The collaborative songs alongside songs written by each separately brought a unique meeting of cultures, which resulted in a sophisticated, melodic and mature rock album.
A real "must have" for all Porcupine Tree fans!

Review.
An excellent release, you can hear this a Steve Wilsons production. Steve himself described the Blackfield music as 'Classic melancholic songs with a lush and warm production'. I think that covers the whole album.
The songs are short, 4 minutes is the top... and so the album is short too; 37 minutes. Very nice harmonies and good orchestration. You'll find no long guitar solo's or whatever, the songs are minimalistic in a good Porcupine Tree style.
Wilson mainly plays guitars and bass on the album, with Geffen focussing on keyboards. Vocals are shared between the two, although Geffen only does main vocals on Pain and The Hole in Me.
The video of "Blackfield" fits really in the mood of the song and is enchanged as video track, or you can download him at the Blackfield site. See my links page.
I don't know Aviv Geffens work, so I would say that the album has a strong Porcupine Tree fundament, other bands that came up into my mind were Coldplay, Saybia and yes Pink Floyd is still there too.

Highly Recommended.

End of July there'll be a special edition release of this fantastic album.
Read more: interview with Aviv and Steve.
There is a 4 (!) double elpee of this dvd with one extra bonus track.

They even did some live gigs in Tel Aviv and one in London, 10 September there's another show in the Mean Fidler --> www.meanfidler.com.

Tracks:
1. Open Mind
2. Blackfield
3. Glow
4. Scars
5. Lullaby
6. Pain
7. Summer
8. Cloudy Now
9. The Hole In Me
10. Hello

Bonus Disc:
1. Perfect World
2. Where is My Love?
3. Cloudy Now (live)
4. Enhanced video track ‘Blackfield’

Gavin Harrison,
Chris Maintland and
Jeremy Kaplan - drums,
Daniel Salomon - conductor of the string quartet.

The live band was;
Aviv,
Steve - guitars and vocals,
Daniel Salomon - keyboards and backing vocals,
Seffy Efrati - bass,
Chris Maintland - drums.

Blackfield Competition out of date.
sound clips & video.
live review;
Of the Spirit of 66 and photo's of more gigs.

Blackfield Bonus Tracks

1st September 2004

Perfect World (LP and CD)

Recorded in London in 2001 - a completed track that was planned to be on the album until fairly late in the day, but ultimately left off in favour of Cloudy Now.

Where Is My Love? (CD)

A demo recorded in Tel Aviv in 2002. The track was never progressed any further since it was felt it didn't fit the Blackfield sound (several other songs fell by the wayside for similar reasons).

Cloudy Now (CD)

Recorded live for The Main Stage TV show in Tel Aviv during promotion for the Israeli release of the album in February 2004. The song was one of 4 broadcast and was performed in front of a small studio audience. The band assembled for this promotional trip included former Porcupine Tree drummer Chris Maitland.

Feel So Low (LP)

A version of Steven's Porcupine Tree song recorded at the very first collaborative sessions between Aviv and Steven in Tel Aviv. Aviv was performing his Hebrew translation of the Porcupine Tree song at his shows, so it was decided to record his arrangement. At the time the plan was to make a one-off EP, and this would have been one of 6 tracks on it. This EP was mastered and prepared for release in late 2001, but ultimately abandoned in favour of continuing to work towards a full length album.

Blackfield download single

20th November 2004

A special Blackfield download single will be released on 12th December'05, featuring 3 different versions of the song "Blackfield".

1. Blackfield (video edit) 3.41
2. Blackfield (unplugged live 13/9/04) 3.37
3. Blackfield (extended version) 6.02

The downloads will be available from this site at a cost 99p per track (SMS quickbuy also available at £1.50), with every download by fans in the UK counting towards the new UK download chart.

 

Blackfield II ('07)

Once (4.03) 1,000 People (3.54) Miss U (4.13) Christenings (4.37) This Killer (4.06) Epidemic (4.59) My Gift of Silence (4.05) Some Day (4.22) Where is My Love? (2.59) End of the World (5.13)

Audio samples as well as a video trailer can be found at the band's myspace site.

Blackfield II is;

Aviv Geffen - keyboards, additional guitars, vocals,
Steve Wilson - guitars, additional keyboards, vocals,
Daniel Salamon - piano,
Seffy Effrati - bass,
Tomer Z - drums, percussion.

Ofer Meiri - additional keyboards and programming on "1.000 people",
Harel Ben Ami / electric and acoustic guitars on "1.000 people",
Hamar Leshem / french horn "1.000 people",
Richard Barbieri / electric piano and stylophone on "Christenings",
Gavin Harrison / drums on "Christenings",
Daniele Pick - backing vocals on "Epidemic",
Eran Mitelman - electric piano on "My gift of silence".

"Welcome to my dna" was the third studio album (2009).

In 2012 there's a new album on the road:
Steven Wilson & Aviv Geffen working with Anathema’s Vincent Cavanagh on Blackfield IV!
Steve will be more involved as producer then as writer.

Or see Snapper Music for more info.

 

Blackfield - nyc (live in new york) (DVD 2007).
Filmed at the Bowery Ballroom in a snowbound New York earlier this year, this is Blackfield's first DVD and includes the full performance of 18 songs.

You can now order the Blackfield DVD from the Burning Shed online store. Filmed at the Bowery Ballroom in a snowbound New York earlier this year, this is Blackfield's first DVD and includes the full performance of 18 songs. The audio was recorded and mixed by SW into stereo and 5.1 surround sound, and the film was edited by Lasse Hoile. Also includes the promo videos for the three singles from the debut album.

The full track listing for the DVD is:

1. Once 2. Miss U 3. Blackfield 4. Christenings 5. The Hole In Me 6. 1,000 People 7. Pain 8. Glow 9. Thankyou 10. Epidemic 11. Someday 12. Open Mind 13. My Gift of Silence 14. Where is My Love? 15. End of the World 16. Hello 17. Once (encore) 18. Cloudy Now Extra Video clips: Hello Pain Blackfield (YouTube) Awesome!!!	Photo by Lasse Hoile More Pictures Blackfield DVD trailer on YouTube. Preview: You can now watch a 4 minute preview from the forthcoming Blackfield DVD "NYC : Live in New York City" on the Blackfield MySpace page. The DVD will be issued on KScope (through Snapper) in October.
Thankyou is a cover from Alanis Morrisette! It's just a great live capture... recorded at one day. So you really see how the band is; sublime! No overloads of extra; "only" three great video clips, tour pictures and that is it. And it is great, this dvd is just like David Gilmours new dvd a high standard of pure enjoyable moments. A must have.

Video:
1 minute mp3 sound clips from the first BLACKFIELD album:

1. Open Mind (geffen/wilson)
2. Blackfield (wilson)
3. Glow (geffen/wilson)
4. Scars (geffen/wilson)
5. Lullaby (wilson)
6. Pain (geffen)
7. Summer (geffen/wilson)
8. Cloudy Now (geffen/wilson)
9. The Hole In Me (geffen)
10. Hello (geffen/wilson)

• Hello
• Blackfield

All audio and video material copyright and courtesy of Helicon Records.

New audio samples as well as a video trailer can be found at the band's
myspace site.

NEWS

Jordan Rudess Dream Theater will be appearing on keyboards with the band, in their east coast acoustic shows next week in the United States (16 March '06).
Pleaee check out the YouTube of "Even Less" from Steve & Jordan.... awesome!

 

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Home again.

Aviv Gefen: To Cry For You Text and Music: Aviv Gefen / translation: Larry Yudelson I am going to cry for you Be strong above My yearnings Are like doors that are opened at night Forever, my brother I will remember you always And we'll meet in the end, you know And I have friends But they too are dimmed Before your crazy light The Blackfield lyrics you can find here.

 

Updated 29-01-12 by Nick.
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