“IT WAS THE greatest moment of my life, except for the birth of my son,” Rasmus Sjøgren tells Prog, remembering the email he received back in 2020. The Copenhagen-based songwriter is recalling the moment when he asked Porcupine Tree/The Pineapple Thief/King Crimson percussion maestro Gavin Harrison to play on one of Celestial Son’s latest tracks.
The composition in question, is a brooding synthwave meditation, all thanks to a shared acquaintance – visual artist and longtime Steven Wilson collaborator Lasse Hoile. Sjøgren’s fellow Dane has made videos and done photo shoots for Celestial Son for some years now, and was party to Celestial Son’s frontman and chief songwriter’s ponderings over a possible real-life drummer to replace some of the electronic percussion on the record. “I said, sort of as a joke, ‘Imagine if we had Gavin Harrison on there,’ and Lasse said, ‘Well, why don’t you ask him?’”
