- 2023-09-13
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MUSIC
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Steven Wilson & Ninet Tayeb Team Up for New Song “Rock Bottom”
London-based singer-songwriter Steven Wilson teamed up with Israeli singer-songwriter Ninet Tayeb to release a new song “Rock Bottom” on September 12, 2023.
The song is the third single off of his upcoming seventh studio album “The Harmony Codex”, which is out on September 29, 2023.
The track was co-written by Steven Wilson and Ninet Tayeb. Produced by Josef E-Shine. The accompanying music video was directed by Nimrod Peled.
On the track, London-based guitarist Niko Tsonev played guitar solo.
Steven Wilson told UNDER THE RADAR MAGAZINE about Niko Tsonev, “He (Niko Tsonev) is amazing. This comes back to this whole thing about how I can't really articulate exactly why and when and how, but I just knew that he was going to be the right person for The Harmony Codex. I kept sending him tracks and saying, 'Give me strange, beautiful.' I don't want something willfully atonal and unpleasant, but at the same time I want you to pick notes that are not the obvious notes. I want you to give me something beautiful, but not conventional, not obvious, not in that pentatonic blues, classic-rock style. And every time he delivered.”- The new album “The Harmony Codex” is based on a short story he wrote with the same title.
Steven Wilson told UNDER THE RADAR MAGAZINE about the album in an interview, “I've always seen my music in cinematic terms. But something about this record has taken that aspect, I think, to another level. Maybe it's the fact it was based on the short story. Maybe it's the fact that every song seems distinctly different to every other song, and it has its own sort of internal musical world and musical vocabulary, and yet it still seems to form a cohesive whole, a cohesive journey.” -
He continued, “It's a piece of dystopian sci fi. Dystopian in the sense that it's a science fiction [story], but it takes place in a world that is just about recognizable as our own. But it's very surreal and like a lot of dystopian sci fi-like a lot of sci fi, period-it is a metaphor for the world we live in. And in this case, the central metaphor is the never-ending staircase. It has a direct relationship to some songs on the record in the sense that some songs are drawn from the characters and the situations. And then there are other songs on the record that are more obliquely related to the subject matter in the sense that they relate to this idea of 'it's about the journey, it's not about the destination.'”
Photo by Hajo Mueller - source : Apple Music
