Population Three in Porcupine Tree land: Richard Barbieri on Closure/Continuation, sound design and attention spans

One last Progtalks episode before our summer break: Porcupine Tree’s Richard Barbieri talks about different approaches to composing, sound design and of course the most anticipated album of the year in the Prog world: “Closure/Continuation”. Don’t miss out on the last Progtalks episode before our summer break!

Chapters:

00:55 Porcupine Tree’s growing popularity during the hiatus

02:15 Closure/Continuation: the songwriting origins and process

05:25 exploring ambient sound design worlds in a more metal environment

09:25 combining electronics & acoustics

11:00 combining the melancholic pop era with the abrasive metal riffs: is “Closure/Continuation the definite Porcupine Tree album?

14:25 upcoming live plans

17:30 RIchard’s favourite Porcupine Tree songs

18:48 more Closure? Or more Continuation?

🎵 Porcupine Tree is:

Steven Wilson - guitars, bass, vocals

Richard Barbieri - keyboards, sound design

Gavin Harrison - drums

💿 Discography:

On The Sunday of Life (1992)

Up the Downstair (1993)

The Sky Moves Sideways (1995)

Signify (1996)

Stupid Dream (1999)

Lightbulb Sun (2000)

In Absentia (2002)

Deadwing (2005)

Fear of a Blank Planet (2007)

The Incident (2009)

Closure/Continuation (2022)

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