December Skies

"Just before Xmas last year I was challenged by a friend of mine to write a Xmas song, something I’d never considered doing before. My stuff is way too miserable to make for a joyous Xmas song I reasoned, but with an AI version of myself helping out with some suitably seasonal lyrics, the result was 'December Skies'." ~ Steven Wilson

The track, originally written at very short notice as an experiment after a friend challenged Wilson to create a Christmas song, captures the loneliness and reflective beauty of the winter season, partly thanks to AI assisted lyrics crafted in Steven Wilson’s style.

"The knee jerk reaction to AI is to consider it a threat to a musician like me, but it’s clearly not going away, so this is my experiment to try embracing it and using it as a tool in the creative process. And of course, also to have some fun doing something I would never normally have thought about doing, the archetypal seasonal song. 'December Skies' is the result, swiftly recorded over a weekend and written in collaboration with an Artificial Intelligence version of myself. I wonder what people will make of it. I wonder what I make of it".

Originally given a low key release exclusively on Steven Wilson’s Youtube channel last year, accompanied by a beautiful and appropriately AI-assisted video by Miles Skarin, "December Skies" quickly and quietly racked up in excess of 200 000 views over a few days during last Christmas.

An evocative, seasonal release with a twist, heartfelt and uniquely Steven Wilson, yet intriguingly new. A special limited collector’s edition of Steven Wilson's Christmas song "December Skies". CD in digifile package with 3 exclusive Steven Wilson Christmas cards and an instrumental version of the song. Out now.....