Steven Wilson has released a new track from his forthcoming album Requiem For A Village. A Basket Of Bees is bucolic folk music played as the day turns, with darkness creeping in around the edges. The track’s spiral of guitars and voices initially swirl and swoop like flecks of dust in fading sunlight, before they give way to a pounding rock’n’roll band who up the pace as the track plays on. This is music for rituals, straight from the heart of the British countryside.
A Basket Of Bees is the third track from Steven Wilson’s incredible ninth album Requiem For A Village. The video is part of a series of Village Hall Sessions, which sees tracks from the album recreated in an appropriately retro studio environment by Steven, Randy McStine and Russell Holzman, and all captured on film by regular collaborator Miles Skarin (The Overview).
Following the release of Requiem For A Village on November 6, Steven will take part in a very special one-off event in London to help tell the story behind the album. On Tuesday, November 10, Steven will sit down with Al Murray (The Pub Landlord) for an evening’s conversation at the Bush Hall (310 Uxbridge Road, Shepherd’s Bush, W12 7LJ) hosted by Rough Trade. The pair will talk about Requiem For A Village and the wider world that the album sits in. Al Murray has been a fan of Steven Wilson’s since Porcupine Tree, and has previously described himself as ‘completely beguiled’ by Steven‘s work in interviews. After the talk, Steven Wilson will sign copies of Requiem For A Village.
