“I told him, ‘If the guitar’s out of tune, you can’t tune it”: Steven Wilson’s bid to avoid “vanilla prog”
- Wilson encouraged dissonance and instruments left out of tune.
- He used instruments he cannot play to find unexpected sounds.
- He and Andy Partridge may revisit the album’s village concept.
Steven Wilson says he set rules for his band while making *Requiem For A Village* to keep its sound unusual and avoid what he calls “vanilla prog”. He wanted to embrace dissonance, imperfections and unexpected sounds, while building a distinctive musical vocabulary rather than following familiar 1970s progressive…