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Blackfield Working On Third Album Due For Release In March 2011
Tuesday, 30 November 2010 Written by Jon Stickler
Blackfield Working On Third Album Due For Release In March 2011

Blackfield is the acclaimed collaboration between Steven Wilson
(Porcupine Tree) and the respected Israeli artist Aviv Geffen. The duo
are currently working on their third album together which is due to be
released in March on Kscope and they have just announced a series of
live dates in April to support the release.

They will be playing Leamington Assembly (6th), Manchester Academy 2
(7th) and London O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire (8th) along with a date at
Amsterdam’s Paradiso on the 10th.

These will be the first dates they have played together as Blackfield
for over three years due to both artists’ hectic recent schedules.

Over the past few years Wilson’s Porcupine Tree have made the
transition from solo project to genuine international stars, recently
playing sold out gigs at London’s Royal Albert Hall and New York’s
Radio City Music Hall. However, Porcupine Tree is just one of a
collection of guises that Wilson records under.

Alongside his work with his other projects including Blackfield,
No-Man and Bass Communion, Steven is also a highly sought after
producer and re-mixer working with the likes of Opeth, King Crimson
and Yoko Ono.

During this period Aviv has released his first English language solo
album (produced by Trevor Horn) and has supported U2 and Placebo. The
son of esteemed Israeli poet Yehonatan Geffen and the nephew of Moshe
Dayan, Geffen is Israel’s leading counter culture rock musician. A
huge star in his native country, while his frank political views have
caused huge controversy his records have been greeted with equal
amounts of adulation, earning him a string of gold albums. An
outspoken peace campaigner, he controversially refused to do
compulsory military service and his lyrics have been fiercely critical
of the Israeli military and their actions.

Aviv has worked with various artists, including Elbow and Belle And
Sebastian, throughout his career but it has been his partnership with
Steven that has proved the most fertile and both artists have been
keen to return to their work with Blackfield. Formed after a meeting
in 2000, the partnership blossomed into a cross-cultural collaboration
that has already spawned two albums (2004’s 'Blackfield' & 2007’s
'Blackfield II').

Blackfield will play the following UK shows:

6th April - Leamington Assembly
7th April - Manchester Academy 2
8th April - London O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire

Tickets For Blackfield's April 2011 UK Shows are onsale now.

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