Blackfield – Open Mind: The Best Of Blackfield CD

Blackfield – Open Mind: The Best Of Blackfield

Blackfield is the collaboration between Israeli songwriter & musician Aviv Geffen & British musician & producer Steven Wilson. The collaboration, extending from their self-titled debut in 2004 to their superb return with album ‘V’ produced with Alan Parsons in 2017, has proven to be a prolific partnership for creating striking & affecting music.

The pair makes for a formidable musical force; Geffen has worked with legendary producers Tony Visconti & Trevor Horn, has also recently performed with & hosted Jake Bugg, played as support for Biffy Clyro & was a judge on the Israeli TV show ‘The Voice’. Wilson, after a long tenure as the leader of the hugely influential band Porcupine Tree, has since embarked on a highly successful solo career, most recently earning a #3 album in the UK Charts & #2 in the DE Charts, as well 4 Grammy nominations.

This collection, curated by Wilson & Geffen, selects the best works from an impressively rich Blackfield catalogue with each of the five records combining both sweet & tart elements. It’s an uncommonly potent mixture. Perhaps the debut album’s Lasse Hoile cover art—a bottled elixir lurking in the gloomy shadows of an apothecary—signifies that Blackfield is a dark medicine to be administered through the listener’s ear. There’s no recipe on the aged & frayed label of the bottle. Yet some lyrical ingredients can be discerned within the mix: Take a dash of childhood memory, sprinkle in some heartbreak, pour in a drop of blood from an open vein, add a pinch of angry conscience (carefully weighed), puree the dew of a kiss & then garnish with the bitter tears of adult disillusionment. Stir carefully & name it after the very first Blackfield collaboration: "Open Mind".

Steven Wilson - “Blackfield appealed to me because it was a chance to focus firmly on the art of the classic pop song with concise songs & strong melodies, harmonies, orchestration & a very lush ‘golden’ production.”

Tracklist:
1. Blackfield
2. Family Man
3. Open Mind
4. 1,000 People
5. Oxygen
6. Hello
7. Once
8. How Was Your Ride?
9. Waving
10. From 44 To 48
11. Pain
12. October
13. Faking
14. Dissolving With the Night
15. End of the World

Label: Kscope
Released: 2018/2022