Steven Wilson – Requiem for a Village
Steven Wilson wanted you to hear “the metaphorical thumbprints” on “Requiem for a Village”, his ninth album: analogue synths, lyrics by Andy Partridge and David Tennant’s narration.
Les novetats, cròniques, entrevistes i concerts de rock progressiu —rock progresivo, en castellà—, en català: des dels grans clàssics fins a les bandes que avui construeixen obres extenses i ambicioses, amb capes de so i estructures que trenquen el format cancó. Tótum Revolútum Press hi dedica seguiment i cobertura des del 2015.
Steven Wilson wanted you to hear “the metaphorical thumbprints” on “Requiem for a Village”, his ninth album: analogue synths, lyrics by Andy Partridge and David Tennant’s narration.
Gates Of Kiev released their first full-length on The Laser’s Edge on 6 November: four tracks and 39 minutes, mixed and mastered by White Willow’s Jacob Holm-Lupo.
Asia released “Indigo” on Frontiers on 6 November, their first studio album since 2014, featuring two of John Wetton’s final compositions and Steve Howe as a guest.
Rick Wakeman released “Return to the Red Planet” on 16 October through Madfish: nine tracks about Mars, recorded with the English Rock Ensemble playing together in the studio.
The album’s 50th anniversary reissue will be released by Sony Music, with five unreleased studio recordings and a live set taped by a 19-year-old fan in May 1977.
Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson have announced “Elevate From The Norm”, five nights in Las Vegas between 21 and 30 May, with Anika Nilles, Loren Gold and visuals built for the venue.
Pizarnik and Postludic Manifesto opened the new Tótum Revolútum season at Calàbria 66 on 24 October: a live report and thirty photos by Josep Maria Llovera.
Bassist Martin Mendez says the run that started on 1 November in Santiago, Chile, is the last one for “The Last Will And Testament”, and that the band will stop after it.
Chercán, a quintet from Valdivia, Chile, released “Canto de silicio”, their second album, on 23 October: twelve tracks with saxophones, flute and guest strings on three pieces.
PQR-Disques plusqueréel has reissued both albums by Detroit band October: “October”, recorded in November 1978, and 1980’s “After the Fall”, on double CD, with the first also on vinyl.
Guitarist David Kollar released “Music From The Bag” on 30 July: nine pieces built from ideas gathered over ten years and finished with drums born of experiments with artificial intelligence.
The French progressive rock band release their third studio album on 13 November, with a manga-inspired universe and “Impregnate Me” as the lead single.
Stereophrenics, a progressive metal band from Geneva, released “Paracosm 2.0”, their first full-length album, on 16 October: eight tracks, available digitally.
Third Sign, the Berlin duo of Lars Mindach and Monika Herold, released their debut album, “The Apocalypse Didn’t Happen”, on 19 June; it’s on the German critics’ rock longlist.
Solstice, Andy Glass’s British band, reissued “New Life”, their second studio album, on 19 August: remastered, with new artwork, and three live tracks added on CD and digital.
Isobar, the San Jose instrumental quartet led by former Metaphor members Malcolm Smith and Marc Spooner, released “Isobar V”, their fifth album, on Trope Audio on 4 September.
Norwich trio Stealing The Fire released “Roadmaps And Rituals”, their fourth full-length album, on 31 July: seven tracks inspired by the folklore of rural England.
Glorious Wolf, the studio project of Dutch guitarist Ruud Dielen, released “Elements Of Hope” on OOB Records on 7 June: nine tracks and eight more musicians.
Art in America, the Detroit band of the Flynn siblings, released “Dreams Of The Disappeared”, their fourth album, on 24 September through Iconoclassic Records.
An expanded reissue of “J-Tull Dot Com”, Jethro Tull’s 1999 album: a Bruce Soord remix, a CD of additional material with unreleased tracks and the album’s first vinyl release.
Phideaux Xavier released “AutoMoto Animus” on 6 July: eight songs recorded in Los Angeles between 2021 and 2025 and produced by Paul Roessler.
Aberdeen band Pallas release “A Song For Tomorrow” on Esoteric Antenna: ten songs in which all four members share the lead vocals.
The Hull band Tim O’Connor founded in 1993 releases what it calls its 25th album: eleven songs recorded in summer 2026 in Scotland.
The Norwegian jazz-rock band’s third album, their first without Bernt André Moen and with saxophonist Gisle Johansen as a member. Eight tracks on Is It Jazz? Records.
A 14-CD, three-Blu-ray box with Soft Machine’s five CBS albums, from “Third” to “Seven”, plus BBC sessions, concerts and TV footage, much of it previously unreleased.
The fourth album by Jeremie Arrobas and Thomas Szirmay’s Montreal project, now a quartet with Hansford Rowe and Alain Bellaiche. Nine tracks, the last a Gary Numan cover.
Polyphia, from Plano (Texas), released “Be Not Afraid” on 23 October through Rise Records: a fifth studio album with twelve tracks and RJ Pasin as co-producer.
Enslaved release “Mið” on 30 October through Nuclear Blast: eight tracks, two guests and the first album since “Heimdal” (2023).
Zero Hour release the EP “No Man’s Land” with two songs, “Codes Of Violence” and the title track, plus their instrumental versions, on CD and digital.
Clive Nolan releases “Song Of The Winter Throne”, a concept album about the medieval Norwegian king Håkon Håkonsson, with an earbook edition of 2CD and DVD.
The talk took place in London on 30 September, at the launch of the 45th-anniversary reissue of Collins’s solo debut, with new Dolby Atmos and 5.1 mixes by Wilson.
Cleopatra reissues the Record Heaven album with Pentagram, The Flower Kings and Nik Turner, which revisits the 1972 debut. The Ministry and Peter Hook versions are on the CD only.
Credo released “We The Disconnected” on 23 October on Gargoyle Records: the British progressive rock band’s first album since “Against Reason” (2011).
Carl Westholm’s electronic and progressive rock project will release its third album in just over two years. “In a Crash” is already out and “The Alien” follows on 6 November.
Back To R’lyeh is a progressive metal band from Madrid, formed in 2011, that has released the albums The Awakening / Last Fight of the Primordial (2013) and Chosen (2020) and the EP The Break (2023).
Klamm is a progressive and experimental rock band from Barcelona, formed in 1976, that released the album África Roja (1983) and is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary with a concert on 19 December 2026.
The Paris nine-piece release their ninth album on Friday 30 October, built around UFO abductees who can’t remember what happened to them. The first track, “Quinta del Sordo”, is already out.
Wilson tells Innerviews it’s “a massive chunk of music”, played almost entirely on acoustic instruments. He also talks about the next Porcupine Tree album, two or three years away.
The third track from the new album, out on 6 November, comes with another Village Hall Sessions video. On 10 November he’ll discuss the record with Al Murray at Bush Hall in London.
It came out with the full moon on 26 October, for now only in its Dark-Side mix. Only two songs from “o\i”, due on 27 November, are still to come.
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