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Steven WIlson & Mariusz Duda
12+ albums
steven wilsonacousticpoetryProgressive rock
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From Steven Wilson's website: "Myself and my friend Mariusz Duda from Lunatic Soul / Riverside have teamed up to record a song together, and for a very special reason. Alec Wildey was a young fan who for several years had been passionate about our music, actively helping out with promotion as a leading member of the PT and SW street teams from the tender age of 17, and setting up a street team for Mariusz in 2010. Some of you will almost certainly have met Alec, as he attended many of our concerts. If you did you will have found him to be a sensitive, extremely intelligent and articulate young man. He was a devoted and enthusiastic music listener and movie watcher, as well as a self-published poet, with a very bright future ahead of him. Unfortunately on Christmas Eve 2013 Alec learned he had a cancer of the lymphatic system, followed shortly afterwards by an additional diagnosis of liver cancer. He began a course of aggressive chemotherapy and radiation treatment, but alas to no avail. At the end of July when he understood he had only a short time left, he emailed me to ask if it was possible that his two favourite musicians could set one of his poems to music, a long held dream of his. I immediately agreed but told him I would make a deal with him – I would make it happen if he could hang on long enough to hear it. We even discussed the possibility of him playing drums on the song himself. Unfortunately he passed away only a few weeks later on 25th August at the age of j
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# Steven Wilson & Mariusz Duda This collaboration emerges from genuine human connection rather than commercial calculation. Two respected progressive musicians united to honor a devoted fan, creating something that asks whether art can meaningfully commemorate loss while standing as its own complete work. The partnership between Wilson's meticulous production sensibility and Duda's emotionally direct approach generates an unusual creative friction—one worth investigating for anyone interested in how intent shapes artistic outcome. Rather than a predictable tribute, the recording invites listeners to consider what happens when established artists redirect their craft toward something deeply personal, outside the usual industry mechanisms. It's a reminder that music can matter for reasons beyond the music itself.
