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Porcupine Tree – Trains – MIDI File

justinrose — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 02:08:32 +0000

In Absentia is the seventh studio album by British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree, first released on 24 September 2002. The album marked several changes for the band, with it being the first with new drummer Gavin Harrison and the first to move into a more progressive metal direction, contrary to past albums’ psychedelic and pop rock sounds. Additionally, it was their first release on a major record label, Lava Records. It was very well received critically and commercially, with it often being considered the band’s crowning achievement, and selling over triple what any of the band’s prior albums had in the past.

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Porcupine Tree – Arriving Somewhere But Not Here – MIDI File

justinrose — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 02:05:20 +0000

Deadwing is the eighth studio album by British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree, released in Japan on 24 March 2005, in Europe on 28 March, and in the US on 26 April. It quickly became the band’s best selling album, although it was later surpassed by Fear of a Blank Planet. The album is based on a screenplay written by Steven Wilson and Mike Bennion, and is a ghost story. Wilson has stated that the songs “Deadwing”, “Lazarus“, “Arriving Somewhere but Not Here”, “Open Car”, and “Mellotron Scratch” were originally intended for the film soundtrack, but when the project failed to find funding they were instead recorded for the next Porcupine Tree album. The album versions of “Lazarus” and “Open Car” essentially remain Wilson solo tracks onto which Gavin Harrison overdubbed drums.

The album produced two singles: “Shallow” and “Lazarus”. “Shallow” also appeared in the movie Four Brothers.^[12] It can be heard as background music in a bar. The album also produced music videos for “Lazarus”, “The Start of Something Beautiful”, and “Glass Arm Shattering”.

The album includes collaborations with King Crimson‘s Adrian Belew, who plays guitar solos on the title track and “Halo”, and Opeth‘s Mikael Åkerfeldt, who adds vocal harmonies on “Deadwing”, “Lazarus”, and “Arriving Somewhere but Not Here”. He also plays the second guitar solo on “Arriving Somewhere but Not Here”.

In 2017, Kscope Records purchased the album as well as the previous album In Absentia; both were remastered and rereleased in 2018 through the label, with the new versions having less compression and an overall improvement in sound quality.^[13]

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Porcupine Tree – Anesthetize – MIDI File

justinrose — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 02:01:04 +0000

Fear of a Blank Planet is the ninth studio album by British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree and their best selling before 2009’s The Incident. It was released on 16 April 2007 in the UK and the rest of Europe by Roadrunner, 24 April 2007 in the United States by Atlantic, 25 April 2007 in Japan by WHD, and 1 May 2007 in Canada by WEA. Steven Wilson has mentioned that the album’s title is a direct reference to the 1990 Public Enemy album Fear of a Black Planet; while the former tackled race issues, the latter is about the fear of losing the current generation of youth to various common threats to their mental and social wellbeing, including broken homes, excessive “screen time“, and narcotic overuse (prescribed and otherwise) to the point of mental and spiritual “blankness”.

The album was written in Tel Aviv and London between January and July 2006. The promotion of the record included a premiere performance of the songs during the shows in support of the Arriving Somewhere… DVD tour between September and November 2006,^[1] and a series of listening parties at New York‘s Legacy Studios,^[2] and London‘s Abbey Road Studios^[3] during January 2007.

Fear of a Blank Planet was followed later the same year by release of the Nil Recurring extended play. An additional track titled “Always Recurring” was demoed yet did not receive a formal release on any of the four records (the Fear of a Blank Planet LP, the Fear of a Blank Planet single, the Way Out of Here single, and the Nil Recurring EP) released by Porcupine Tree during this era. With the release of Insurgentes, Wilson’s debut solo album, Wilson would further develop some of the ideas on which Fear of a Blank Planet is conceived.

The album charted in almost all European countries and entered the U.S. Billboard 200 at #59. The album was highly acclaimed by critics and was awarded “Album of the Year” by Classic Rock magazine in 2007.

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