Steven Wilson discography
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This is a detailed discography of Steven Wilson, including solo albums and collaborations with other artists. For a list of Wilson's works with Porcupine Tree, see Porcupine Tree discography.
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[edit] Solo works
[edit] With Altamont
Altamont was Steven Wilson and Simon Vockings. It existed between 1983-84. Wilson was 15/16 years old at that time. All of the music was improvised live onto cassette tapes using primitive analogue synthesizers and a home made echo machine.
| Album | Release date | Label | Format | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prayer for the Soul | September, 1983 | Acid Tapes | Cassette | The cassette was deleted upon Steven's request. |
| Untitled | September, 2002 | Headphone Dust | Vinyl | This LP is limited to 300 copies. |
[edit] With Karma
| Album | Release date | Label | Format | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Joke's On You | October, 1983 | (Private) | Cassette | Contained the tracks "Nine Cats" and "Small Fish", later re-recorded and included on the Porcupine Tree albums On The Sunday Of Life and Up The Downstair. |
| The Last Man To Laugh | 1985 | (Private) | Cassette |
^ a - Note by Steven Wilson: "Counterparts" was 30 minutes of remixes and alternate takes of material from Side A all under the one title. There may also have been an edition of the tape that did not include the "Counterparts" material, I don't recall.
[edit] As Porcupine Tree
The first Porcupine Tree albums are credited as a full band, but it is only Steven Wilson with fictitious band members he created.
- See also: Porcupine Tree discography
| Title | Release date | Label | Format | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tarquin's Seaweed Farm | 1989 1991 |
— Delerium |
Casette CD |
Most of these tracks appeared either on the album On the Sunday of Life... or the limited edition CD Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape. However, for the CD issue tracks 3 and 4/5 were retitled "Third Eye Surfer" and "On the Sunday of Life..." respectively. Also the version of "Mute" here is an earlier mix. |
| Love, Death & Mussolini | 1990 | — | Cassette | 40 minute tape private pressing of only 10 copies. Contains 7 tracks later to appear on The Nostalgia Factory, plus "Out" (later included on the vinyl edition of Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape) and the elsewhere unavailable "It Will Rain for a Million Years" (a completely different track to the one with the same title included on On the Sunday of Life...) |
| The Nostalgia Factory | 1990 1991 |
— Delerium |
Cassette CD |
Most of these tracks appeared either on the album On the Sunday of Life... or the limited edition CD Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape. "Colours Dance Angels Kiss" and "Hokey Cokey" were later retitled "Track 11" and "Execution of the Will of the Marquis de Sade" respectively. "The Nostalgia Factory" is an earlier version to that on On the Sunday of Life... and "Queen Quotes Crowley" and "This Long Silence" are both about a minute longer than the versions later released on CD. An edit of the track "Sinatra Rape Scene" appears on Up the Downstair as "Monuments Burn into Moments". |
| On the Sunday of Life | July, 1991 September, 2004 |
Delerium Snapper |
CD/2LP CD |
It compiles remastered versions of many tracks form Tarquin's Seaweed Farm and The Nostalgia Factory. |
[edit] As Incredible Expanding Mindfuck
[edit] As Bass Communion
[edit] Cover Version
| Album | Release date | Label | Format | Covered Song | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cover Version | March, 2003 June, 2005 |
Headphone Dust Tonefloat |
CD 7" Single |
"Thank U" from Alanis Morissette. | CD edition originally limited of 1,000 copies, but repressed along with in 2006.
Vinyl edition is limited to 500 copies. |
| Cover Version II | October, 2004 June, 2005 |
Headphone Dust Tonefloat |
CD 7" Single |
"The Day Before You Came" from ABBA. | CD edition originally limited of 1,000 copies, but repressed in 2006.
Vinyl edition is limited to 500 copies. |
| Cover Version III | September, 2005 September, 2006 |
Headphone Dust Tonefloat |
CD 7" Single |
"A Forest" from The Cure. | CD edition originally limited of 1,000 copies, but repressed in 2006. |
| Cover Version IV | July, 2006 September, 2006 |
Headphone Dust Tonefloat |
CD 7" Single |
"The Guitar Lesson" from Momus. |
^ b - Note by Steven Wilson: "Today I completed Cover Version IV, and I think it's my favourite so far in the series, I'm very happy. The cover version itself is probably the most obscure yet, and may create some controversy with its subject matter, guaranteed to offend. But also very beautiful I think".
[edit] Unreleased Electronic Music
| Album | Release date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Unreleased Electronic Music Vol. 1 | April, 2004 | Wilson's experiments in rhythmic electronic music between 1990-2003. The CD-R is packed in a DVD case, with unique polaroid and signed index card. The vinyl edition is limited to 500 copies and contains "Shortwave - Remix" (9:11) as a bonus track. |
^ c - Each CD-R copy of Unreleased Electronic Music Vol. 1 contains its own one of a kind original Polaroid photograph taken by Lasse Hoile specifically for the project. David Schroeder has set up a webpage[1] dedicated to displaying Lasse Hoile's polaroids from SW's "Unreleased Electronic Music Vol. 1" in numerical order along with their owner's names. Actual dates of the tracks provided by SW.
[edit] Separate tracks
Tracks released separately by Wilson via internet through his MySpace.
| Release date | Song | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| March, 2006 | "Well You're Wrong" | That was the first thing that Steven Wilson put up on MySpace. |
| August, 2006 | "Cut Ribbon" | This is a pretty well developed Steven Wilson demo for a project he and Mikael Akerfeldt (Opeth) have been planning to put together for a few years now. It has been widely bootlegged, but incorrectly attributed to Porcupine Tree, since it comes from the same period as several demos for the In Absentia album circa 2002. |
| August, 2006 | "Collecting Space" | An instrumental demo made in 2003 during writing sessions for Porcupine Tree's Deadwing album, but never recorded by the band. This piece is not available on any commercially available release at the moment. |
| October, 2006 | "Deadwing Theme" | This is a short piece written for the prospective soundtrack to the film "Deadwing", which exists at present only as a screenplay written by Steven Wilson and film-maker Mike Bennion. This piece is not available on any commercially available release, and is not related to the Porcupine Tree album of the same name. |
| October, 2006 | "Vapour Trail Lullaby" |
^ d - Note by Steven Wilson: "I found this on a CDR of demos from around 2000, and it's an early version of the song that was later recorded for the first Blackfield album with a much more stripped down piano and string quartet arrangement. Here I was obviously going for something a bit more epic (the full version lasts about 16 minutes, but this is the first 6). After Rush called their album "Vapour Trails" I changed the title of the Blackfield version to just Lullaby."
[edit] Guest appearances
| Year | Artist | Album | Contribution | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Richard Barbieri/Tim Bowness | Flame | Guitar on 2 tracks. | Collaboration between Richard Barbieri and SW's collaborator in No-Man, Tim Bowness. |
| 1994 | JBK | Seed | Guitar on "Prey". | |
| 1995 | Psychomuzak | The Exstasie | Steven Wilson produced the album | Psychomuzak is a spacious instrumental guitar based project by songwriter Dean Carter. |
| 1995 | Mick Karn | The Tooth Mother | Plays guitar on 2 tracks. | |
| 1995 | Steve Jansen/Richard Barbieri | Stone To Flesh | Plays guitar on 4 tracks. | |
| 1997 | Indigo Falls | Indigo Falls | Plays acoustic guitar on "The Wilderness". | Indigo Falls is a collaboration between Richard Barbieri and his wife Suzanne. |
| 1997 | Fish | Sunsets on Empire | Produced and co-wrote much of the material. | Two singles were also issued from the album. Later reissues include a bonus track. |
| 1999 | Cipher | No Ordinary Man | Plays guitar and treatments on 2 tracks and mixed the album. | Cipher is a collaborative project between Theo Travis and Dave Sturt. Atmospheric blend of live sax/flute, bass and textures. |
| 1999 | Fish | Raingods with Zippos | Guitar on 3 tracks, including the 25 minute centrepiece "A Plague of Ghosts". | |
| 1999 | Marillion | marillion.com | Additional production and mix by Steven Wilson on five out of nine tracks. | |
| 2001 | Opeth | Blackwater Park | Steven Wilson produced the album and performed vocals, piano and guitar on many songs. | Rated as #1 album of 2001 on Rate Your Music. |
| 2001 | Theo Travis | Heart of the Sun | Co-produced and mixed by Steven Wilson. | |
| 2001 | Anja Garbarek | Smiling & Waving | Produced by Steven Wilson and Anja Garbarek. | |
| 2001 | Ange | Culinaire lingus | Steven Wilson mixed two tracks on this album, "Jusqu'ou Iront-ils?" and "Cadavres Exquis". | |
| 2001 | JBK | Playing in a Room With People | Guitar on all tracks. | A live album recorded at JBK's 1997 shows in Tokyo and London. |
| 2002 | Cipher | One Who Whispers | Co-produced and mixed by SW. | |
| 2002 | Opeth | Deliverance | Steven Wilson produced the album and performed vocals, piano, mellotron and guitar on many songs. | Deliverance won a grammy in the band's native Sweden. |
| 2003 | OSI | Office of Strategic Influence | Steven Wilson co-wrote and sings on the track "shutDOWN". | |
| 2003 | Opeth | Damnation | Steven Wilson produced the album, provided keyboards, piano, mellotron and vocals, and co-wrote the song "Death Whispered a Lullaby". | Recorded simultaneously with the album Deliverance. |
| 2003 | Yoko Ono | Will I / Fly | Steven Wilson remixed Yoko Ono's "Death of Samantha" from her John Lennon produced 1973 album Approximately Infinite Universe. | Credited as "Porcupine Tree remix". Later released on the Ono's album Yes, I'm a Witch from 2007. |
| 2004 | Ben Castle | Blah Street | Steven Wilson mixed 8 of the 13 tracks. | |
| 2004 | Marillion | Marbles | Two tracks mixed by Steven Wilson. | |
| 2004 | Paatos | Kallocain | Mixed by Steven Wilson. | |
| 2004 | Darkroom | The Dac Mixes | Steven Wilson provided a remix. | Collection of Darkroom remixes including one by Steven Wilson as Bass Communion. |
| 2004 | Vidna Obmana | Legacy | The album concludes with an extended Steven Wilson guitar solo. | |
| 2004 | Theo Travis | Earth to Ether | Mixed by Steven Wilson | |
| 2005 | John Wesley | Shiver | Mixed by Steven Wilson | |
| 2006 | Andrew Liles | In My Father's House are Many Mansions | Steven Wilson (as Bass Communion) provided a remix. | Various artists remixing, re-ordering, adding and subtracting the recordings of Andrew Liles. The Bass Communion mix is called "Something to do with Hans Bellmer in a Pub at Last Orders using 15th Century Rural Magic". |
| 2007 | Theo Travis | Slow Life | Steven Wilson provided the track "Behind These Silent Eyes", which is an 18 minute Bass Communion reconstruction of unreleased material from the original Slow Life sessions. | A 2LP reissue of Theo's Slow Life album, originally released on CD in 2003. |
| 2007 | Vidna Obmana | The Bowing Harmony | Steven Wilson provided vocals. | |
| 2007 | Fovea Hex | Allure | Treated guitar on the title track. | |
| 2007 | Dream Theater | Systematic Chaos | Spoken apologies on the track "Repentance". | The middle section of the song also includes apologies spoken by Corey Taylor, Steve Vai, Chris Jericho, David Ellefson, Steve Hogarth, Joe Satriani, Mikael Åkerfeldt, Jon Anderson, Neal Morse and Daniel Gildenlöw. |
| 2007 | Fear Falls Burning | Once We All Walk Through Solid Objects | An 18 minute Steven Wilson (Bass Communion) reconstruction is on side one. | |
| 2007 | Andrew Liles | Black Sheep | Steven Wilson (Bass Communion) provided the track "537171NR848492C (Elongated)" | |
| 2007 | Jordan Rudess | The Road Home | Vocals on the track "Tarkus" | |
| 2008 | The Use of Ashes | Untitled | The second side features a Bass Communion reconstruction of the Use of Ashes album "The Mousehill Daydream" entitled "Mousehill". |
