Pitchblack Premiere: Steven Wilson 'Requiem For A Village' album listening session in the dark - Wednesday 14 October @ The Aster Hotel Cinema, Hollywood, Los Angeles

Please arrive by event start time as latecomers will not be admitted and refunds will not be offered Immerse yourself in an exclusive pre-release premiere of Steven Wilson's epic new album 'Requiem For A Village' at our listening session in the dark. Hear this stunning album played loud in uncompressed audio on The Aster Hotel’s intimate cinema sound system. No talking; no signing; no phones; no distractions; just you and the music. "This sounds great” — Rick Rubin "A fabulous idea" — Jay Kay, Jamiroquai "The optimal way to listen to an album" — Max Richter "This might just be my favourite new thing to do" — Nihal, BBC Radio 5 Live Ticket includes Pitchblack Playback eye mask for extra darkness. We do not issue tickets; your name will be on the guestlist on the night. Please note that we only offer a 24-hour grace period for ticket refunds. As recommended by The Guardian, GQ, Time Out and BBC 6 Music. Album duration: 54 minutes Venue address: The Aster Hotel Cinema, 1717 Vine St, Los Angeles, CA 90028 "Swirl in a lark’s eye, sparks alive her swooping soul…“ If Steven Wilson’s eighth album The Overview explored the depths, distances, and desolation of deep space, Requiem For A Village narrows its focus to a tiny, unknown corner of the British Isles. It steps back from the modern world and ventures into the unfamiliar, setting down in a village that exists beyond time and place. In imagining a realm entirely divorced from modernity — and in creating music that willingly embraces both the macabre and the possibilities of studio mistakes— Wilson adopted a similarly unorthodox recording approach. Eschewing AI and corrective studio technologies, he turned instead to organic instrumentation (whether pristine or imperfect), embracing mistakes to see where they might lead. Recorded with regular collaborator and multi-instrumentalist Randy McStine and drummer Russell Holzman (on the tracks Requiem For A Village, Now Departing, A Basket Of Bees and Wheel), the album is intimate, ambitious, richly imaginative, and knowingly eccentric, featuring a hugely compelling narration written by Andy Partridge (XTC) and voiced by one of the country’s finest actors, David Tennant. Set in a Wicker Man landscape where the paintings of Stanley Spencer hang in the local art gallery, the stories of M. R. James and Algernon Blackwood sit on the shelves of the public library, and the children of the stones play in the market square, Requiem For A Village is a sepia-toned snapshot of a hidden neverland — a 54-minute piece of cinema for the ears. “…you will all blow away, dandelion sneeze/the hills will grow higher, with each dying breeze.“ Released via Fiction Records, 6th November 2026