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18 March 2025: Steven Wilson "The Overview"; Markus Reuter "Aurora Drift"; Nerthus "The Path of the Elder Ones"

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Steven Wilson releases his eighth studio album, The Overview, on Fiction Records on 14th March 2025. The two track, forty-two-minute​ album is his most audacious to date, inspired by the “overview effect” experienced by astronauts looking back at the Earth from space.

The Overview sees Wilson return to expansive, progressive music, a genre he helped redefine and repopularise with both his solo and Porcupine Tree releases. The two wildly ambitious tracks are each made up of distinctive musical sections that flow from one to the other, playing out as unique and continuous pieces. Wilson’s 21st-century progressive music updates the classic ‘prog’ musical palette to incorporate everything from glistening electronics to post-rock and beyond, which brings the genre right into the beating heart of the current musical landscape.

The album also features a set of lyrics by XTC’s Andy Partridge that help drive the story in “Objects Outlive Us”.

The Overview is instantly recognisable as Steven Wilson and will stand alone as an utterly unique release for 2025. Headphones and a wide-open mind are recommended.

TRACKLIST

1. OBJECTS OUTLIVE US (23.17)
● No Monkey’s Paw
● The Buddha Of The Modern Age
● Objects: Meanwhile
● The Cicerones
● Ark
● Cosmic Sons Of Toil
● No Ghost On The Moor
● Heat Death Of The Universe

2. THE OVERVIEW (18.27)
● Perspective
● A Beautiful Infinity I
● Borrowed Atoms
● A Beautiful Infinity II
● Infinity Measured In Moments
● Permanence



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Click here to see the videos for Volumes 1-6: shorturl.at/L0ddJ

This is Vol. 7, "Aurora Drift":

"Where is this place? This temple? This ancient choir? These memories, faces, beings? What is this magic? This spell? The cast is strong, hypnotic, and then it ends as mysteriously as it began..."
(midKnight_Muse)

"Stream for Consciousness" is a concept born from experimenting with various ways to create ethereal ambient soundscapes, targeting different moods and uses. Whether it be for meditation, relieving anxiety, music to sleep or study to, this project aims to create music to ease you into reaching a conscious state, through carefully crafted melodic pieces.

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released February 21, 2025

Composed and played by Markus Reuter
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Erik Emil Eskildsen
Produced by Markus Reuter and Erik Emil Eskildsen

Markus plays Touch Guitars® AU8

Special thanks to Lindsay Jones

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"The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." – The Call of Cthulhu.


Highly recommended for lovers of Lustmord, Schloss Tegal and early productions from Cold Meat Industry.

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FreeForm thanks Raffaele Pezzella for a complimentary copy of this release.

released December 27, 2024

REVIEWS

Avant Music News
avantmusicnews.com/2024/12/22/amn-reviews-nerthus-the-path-of-the-elder-ones-2024-eighth-tower-records

Igloo Magazine
igloomag.com/reviews/nerthus-the-path-of-the-elder-ones-eighth-tower

Ver Sacrum
www.versacrum.com/vs/2025/01/nerthus-the-path-of-the-elder-ones-dei-nerthus.html

Luminous Dash
luminousdash.be/reviews/nerthus-the-path-of-the-older-ones-eight-tower

This Is Darkness
’m a huge fan of all things Lovecraftian, so I was thrilled when I discovered that the ever awesome Eighth Tower Records were releasing this dark ambient / post-industrial album from Nerthus. With eerie, otherworldly tracks full of dark menacing soundscapes and creepy field recordings, this is a wonderfully dark album that does an amazing job of capturing the essential essence of the Lovecraft mythos. Fantastic!



Published by Eighth Tower Records.
Music and Mastering by Nerthus.
Artwork by Nerthus.
Layout by Matteo Mariano.
Cat. Num. ETR054.
© 2024. All rights reserved.

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10 October 2023: Nektar; Markus Reuter; qorakitobchi

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Remember the Future is the fourth album from English progressive rock band Nektar. Much like their debut album Journey to the Centre of the Eye, it is a concept album which is formally divided into ten tracks but in fact consists of one continuous piece of music.

Release

Remember the Future was first released in 1973 by Bacillus (Bellaphon). 

Side oneNo.    Title    Length
1.    "Remember the Future (Part 1)"

    a. "Images of the Past"
    b. "Wheel of Time"
    c. "Remember the Future"
    d. "Confusion"

    16:40
Side twoNo.    Title    Length
2.    "Remember the Future (Part 2)"

    a. "Returning Light"
    b. "Questions and Answers"
    c. "Tomorrow Never Comes"
    d. "Path of Light"
    e. "Recognition"
    f. "Let It Grow"

    19:00


Hopeless Angels Origins released December 24, 2022

Written and performed by Markus Reuter
Markus Reuter: Touch Guitars S8, Live Looping

Recorded on July 26 2022 by Arno Jordan at
Castle Studios, Röhrsdorf, Germany

Mixed and Mastered by Markus Reuter, December 23, 2022

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qorakitobchi's album "Ruins of Uzbekistan" is a relentless sonic journey that seems to have emerged from the very heart of Central Asia's unforgiving deserts. It resonates as if it were forged in the crucible of nomadic noise musicians, whose sonic expressions are as abrasive as the winds that sweep across the arid expanse. Enveloped by layers of dust, battered by the relentless desert gales, and occasionally swallowed by the shifting sands, qorakitobchi's compositions evoke a powerful and unyielding experience, akin to navigating a monolithic wall of sound amidst the captivating mystique of Central Asia.

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released September 21, 2023
Our thanks to Raffaele Pezzella for providing FreeForm with a copy of this release.
REVIEWS

Luminous Dash
luminousdash.be/reviews/qorakitobchi-ruins-of-uzbekistan-unexplained-sounds



qorakitobchi is the brainchild of Anvar Kalandarov, a musician hailing from Uzbekistan. Since its inception in 2012, this project has boldly ventured into uncharted sonic territories. Anvar has crafted a sonic experience that melds the harsh, unyielding essence of industrial, drone, and noise elements from Western origins with the primal and unrefined qualities of traditional Uzbek musical instruments, including the tanbur, the rubab, and the sato.


Published by ©Unexplained Sounds Group.
Curated and mastered by Raffaele Pezzella.
Cat. Num. USG088
Cover Picture: ruins of the medieval walled city Dzhanpik-Kala
unexplainedsoundsgroup.bandcamp.com
© 2023. All rights reserved

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28 February 2023: Stick Men Umeda, Live in Osaka 2022

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 Recorded live at BBL in Osaka, Japan, July 14, 2022.

AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY at STICK MEN CONCERTS and MOONJUNE's BANDCAMP, until the official release of the CD in May of 2023.

stickmenband.com
www.youtube.com/@officialstickmen
www.facebook.com/stickmenofficial

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released February 3, 2023

Tony Levin: Chapman Stick, Voice
Pat Mastelotto: Acoustic and Electronic Drums & Percussion
Markus Reuter: Touch Guitars@ U8 Custom, Soundscapes

Written and produced by Stick Men

Recorded and mixed by Robert Frazza
Mastered by Lee Fletcher

Cover artwork by Brother Bow
Layout by Bernhard Wöstheinrich

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20 October 2015: Steven Wilson & Markus Reuter

Featuring songs recorded between 2003-2015, Transience is a personally curated introduction to the more accessible side of Steven Wilson's monumental solo output.

A limited edition vinyl only issue scheduled to coincide with the second leg of the Hand. Cannot. Erase. tour, Transience contains a new recording of the Porcupine Tree classic "Lazarus", which Steven has been performing on tour recently with his stellar live band. The new version is based on a live recording, subsequently overdubbed and edited in SW's private studio in July 2015.
Tracks
Side 1:

1) Transience - single version (3.10)
2) Harmony Korine (5.07)
3) Postcard (4.27)
4) Significant Other (4.31)
5) Insurgentes (3.54)

Side 2:

1) The Pin Drop (5.01)
2) Happy Returns - edit (5.11)
3) Deform to Form a Star - edit (5.53)
4) Thank You (4.39)

Side 3:

1) Index (4.47)
2) Hand Cannot Erase (4.13)
3) Lazarus - 2015 recording (3.57)
4) Drive Home (7.33)

Side 4:

Etching
Released October 12, 2015

Markus' parts recorded live in concert with Stick Men in Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay, May and early June 2015. Post-production and restoration by Erik Emil Eskildsen.

Overdubbed by my musician friends, who were present at at least one of the performances of my recordings: As a Stick Men member, Pat was at all shows. Fernando, Wayne, and Alex were in the audience at the show in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Lilian and Luciano were our opening act at the concert in Mendoza, Argentina.

Wayne Krantz: Electric guitar (Track 6)
Alex Anthony Faide: Electric guitar (Tracks 2, 5, and 8)
Fernando Kabusacki: Electric guitar (Tracks 4 and 9)
Lilian Giubetich: Cello (Tracks 3 and 10)
Luciano Pietrafesa: Electric guitar (Tracks 7 and 10)
Pat Mastelotto: hotel/van/plane laptop drumming (Track 1)

Produced, mixed, and mastered by Markus Reuter for Unsung Productions, September and October 2015

MADE WITH LOVE

Markus plays Touch Guitars® AU8 and Red Panda pedals.

Download this album for free by clicking here.