Steven Wilson - Vapour Trail Lullaby

Artist: Steven Wilson
Title: Vapour Trail Lullaby

http://www.swhq.co.uk/index.cfm

Category:

Music

Tags:

• steven
• wilson
• porcupine
• tree
• blackfield
• vapor
• vapour
• trail
• lullaby

[willregnier]

How did you get this?

[Quandar1]

@willregnier Honestly, I can't remember.

[HATECREWrulz123]

just so that im clear, which came first, the Blackfield version of the Vapour Trail version?

[Quandar1]

@HATECREWrulz123 This one.

[SquishypuffDave]

I like his singing in this so much more than the Blackfield version! The production is more creative too.

[paintbynight]

Yeah...this SW, rough demo I'm guessing, as it is, is still better than the final BF version...this guy is the anti-christ...everyone love his music and is seduced by it! My hands raised!

[WimpyPotato]

I find this version to be better than the Blackfield version. This one is longer, and I like the effects on this one more. Especially the ending :) But I have yet to figure out what this song is about... I guess love and drugs is in the picture.

[sudhiharith]

can someone please tell me what this song is about?

[733quiron]

so that is the one I have decided to include here. Still, it's another part of the 'Insurgentes' story, which saw around 30 songs, both old and new, and in many different styles, considered.

SW - bonus CD single of "Vapour Trail Lullaby" included on the 2 disc DVD edition of Insurgentes. (only for the first orders). And the song is 9:18 min long !

[733quiron]

(you can see me playing it in the film during the piano recording session at St. Bartholomew's church in Brighton), but once again it didn't fit in with my more experimental ideas for the album (in many respects it just sounded too much like PT) so I never finished it, although I did adapt the coda section into the short instrumental album track 'twilight coda'. Even though the new version was much more fully realised, I find still prefer the original demo version from 2001,

[733quiron]

Two years later it was included instead on the first Blackfield  album under the title 'lullaby'. The Blackfield interpretation worked really well but took the song in a very different direction, stripping it down to just voice, piano and strings, so I took the opportunity to revisit the full arrangement of the song during sessions for my first solo album 'Insurgentes'. This time the song went a lot further down the road

[733quiron]

Quoting SW 's : This song was written and demoed for PT prior to the band recording 'In Absentia', a prolific period of writing that resulted in perhaps the best pool of songs that the band has been able to draw from for a studio album to date. But as that album developed in a heavier direction, the song didn't really fit in stylistically, so was dropped quite early on and never recorded by the band.

[BeefcakeMoney]

OMG I love finding new sounds from SW! This is awesome!

[TheFritz92]

@kenny566 Regarding horrific lyrics. Dude, have you actually listened to any of his love songs? Gravity Eyelids comes to mind.. :P