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DAVID SYLVIAN
First time on vinyl for ‘Died In The Wool’, the 12 song remix companion to David’s 2009 album, ‘Manafon’, plus the non-album track “When We Return You Won’t Recognise Us”
Features remixes by David Sylvian, Dai Fujikura, Jan Bang & Erik Honoré.
'When We Return You Won’t Recognise Us' was specially commissioned by the 2nd Canary Islands Biennial of Architecture, Art and Landscape 2008-2009.
Features remixes by David Sylvian, Dai Fujikura, Jan Bang & Erik Honoré.
'When We Return You Won’t Recognise Us' was specially commissioned by the 2nd Canary Islands Biennial of Architecture, Art and Landscape 2008-2009.
TRACK LISTING
1. Small Metal Gods
2. Died In The Wool
3. I Should Not Dare (for N.O.)
4. Random Acts Of Senseless Violence
5. A Certain Slant Of Light (for M.K.)
6. Anomaly At Taw Head
7. Snow White In Appalachia
8. Emily Dickinson
9. The Greatest Living Englishman (coda)
10. Anomaly At Taw Head (a Haunting)
11. Manafon
12. The Last Days Of December
13. When We Return You Won’t Recognise Us
First time on vinyl for ‘The Good Son Vs The Only Daughter (The Blemish Remixes), the 9 song remix companion of David’s 2003 solo album, ‘Blemish’.
Featuring remixes by Burnt Friedman, Sweet Billy Pilgrim, Royoji Ikeda, Readymade FC, Yoshihiro Hanno, Tatsuhiko Asano, Akira Rabelais, Jan Bang & Erik Honoré.
Featuring remixes by Burnt Friedman, Sweet Billy Pilgrim, Royoji Ikeda, Readymade FC, Yoshihiro Hanno, Tatsuhiko Asano, Akira Rabelais, Jan Bang & Erik Honoré.
TRACK LISTING
1. The Only Daughter (Remixed By Ryoji Ikeda)
2. Blemish (Remixed By Burnt Friedman)
3. The Heart Knows Better (Remixed By Sweet Billy Pilgrim)
4. A Fire In The Forest (Remixed By Readymade FC)
5. The Good Son (Remixed By Yoshihiro Hanno)
6. Late Night Shopping (Remixed By Burnt Freidman)
7. How Little We Need To Be Happy (Remixed By Tatsuhiko Asano)
8. The Only Daughter (Remixed By Jan Bang And Erik Honoré)
9. Blemish (Remixed By Akira Rabelais)
First time on vinyl for David Sylvian’s 29-track career-spanning compilation from 2000.
Features key songs from Japan and Rain Tree Crow, as well as David’s Virgin Records solo years.
Also includes key collaborations with Ryuichi Sakamoto, Robert Fripp and Alesini & Andreoni.
Alongside the remixes of “Ghosts” and “Bamboo Houses”, the album features tracks such as the beautiful ‘Ride’ from the ‘Secrets of the Beehive’ sessions, two dobro pieces written with Bill Frizell and “Cover Me with Flowers” from the ‘Dead Bees On A Cake’ sessions, plus the classic “Some Kind of Fool’ taken from Japan’s sessions for ‘Gentleman Take Polaroids’.
Features key songs from Japan and Rain Tree Crow, as well as David’s Virgin Records solo years.
Also includes key collaborations with Ryuichi Sakamoto, Robert Fripp and Alesini & Andreoni.
Alongside the remixes of “Ghosts” and “Bamboo Houses”, the album features tracks such as the beautiful ‘Ride’ from the ‘Secrets of the Beehive’ sessions, two dobro pieces written with Bill Frizell and “Cover Me with Flowers” from the ‘Dead Bees On A Cake’ sessions, plus the classic “Some Kind of Fool’ taken from Japan’s sessions for ‘Gentleman Take Polaroids’.
TRACK LISTING
LP1 - Side A
The Scent Of Magnolia (5:36) – David Sylvian
Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II) - Remix ( 5:17) – Ryuichi Sakamoto & David Sylvian
Blackwater (4:22) – Rain Tree Crow
Albuquerque (Dobro #6) (1:22) – David Sylvian
Ride (8:00) – David Sylvian
LP1 - Side B
The Golden Way – Remix (5:54) – David Sylvian, Alesini & Andreoni
Ghosts – Remix (3:47) – David Sylvian & Japan
Pop Song (4:30) – David Sylvian
Every Colour You Are (4:44) Rain Tree Crow
Godman (3:58) – David Sylvian
LP2 - Side C
God’s Monkey (4:09) – David Sylvian & Robert Fripp
Let The Happiness In (5:37) – David Sylvian
I Surrender (9:24) – David Sylvian
Thoroughly Lost To Logic (1:17) – David Sylvian
LP2 - Side D
Jean The Birdman (4:12) – David Sylvian & Robert Fripp
Cover Me With Flowers (6:33) David Sylvian
The Boy With The Gun (5:15) – David Sylvian
Riverman (4:56) – David Sylvian
Aparna & Nimisha (Dobro #5) (0:56) – David Sylvian
LP3 - Side E
Midnight Sun (4:02) – David Sylvian
Orpheus (4:48) – David Sylvian
Some Kind Of Fool -2000 (7:31) – David Sylvian & Japan
Cries And Whispers (2:33) – Rain Tree Crow
Wanderlust (6:41) – David Sylvian
LP3 - Side F
Laughter And Forgetting (2:33) – David Sylvian
Buoy- Remix (5:15) – Mick Karn Featuring David Sylvian
Weathered Wall – Remix (5:43) – David Sylvian
Bamboo Houses – Remix (5:21) - David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto
Come Morning- Remix (3:56) – David Sylvian, Alesini & Andreoni
Mathieu first collaborated with Sylvian at 2011’s Punkt festival in Kristiansand, Norway, when he performed a live remix of Sylvian / Czukay’s ambient classicPlight and Premonition. “I’ve lived with Stephan’s work for many years,” says Sylvian. “After hearing his remix at Punkt I decided he’d be the right person to take an alternate approach to the Blemish files.”
“The recordings have a beautiful clarity about them due to their simple but sturdy frameworks, and their open-ended architecture makes them ideal for a project of this sort.” When Mathieu first heard Blemish, “I was quite amazed by the album, its dark beauty… . When David sent me the files from the sessions one year ago, they were a pool of wonderful material to me, detached from the songs and original album, while very much connected to David at the same time.”
A startling break from Sylvian’s previous work, Blemish is pensive and spare, wrapping a lyrical raw nerve in extended, drone-like song structures. Recorded in a relatively-quick six week burst, Blemish was “cathartic” for Sylvian. An earlier remix album, 2005’s The Good Son vs. The Only Daughter, took the material in varied and lusher directions, but Wandermüde puts it under a microscope. The catharsis of the original is tested and reinvigorated by Mathieu’s treatment, which he performs in real time.
“My work with computers is always live,” Mathieu explains. “I’m feeding selected material into a software process and record the output, which I either take as is, or discard completely. I don’t multi-track, edit or re-arrange, I’m interested in self-evolving sound with all its rough and sometimes faulty qualities. I never use effects like artificial reverb in my music, so what you hear is rather a piling up of spaces that surround the individual inputs used for my processes.
“With David’s recordings I melted them with my instruments, recorded several takes and picked the best ones. While I first processed the recordings quite heavily, it took me a while to notice that I come to better results when David’s performance shines through much more clearly. For instance with the original guitar from Blemish, I only applied a soft processing and made a room recording of playing this version back through two Fender Twin amps.”
A guest from Blemish also makes a return appearance on this album. Guitarist and electronics artist Christian Fennesz contributes to “Deceleration,”. “‘Fire in the Forest,’ just as its sister ‘Transit’ on Fennesz’ Venice album are to me perfect models for what a 21st century song can be,” says Mathieu. “Since he had only a couple of days to work on this, he came up with this rough and very beautiful recording of his guitar playing in the last moment. It was love at first sight for me.”
Wandermüde is exquisitely planned but executed in real time, drawn from old pains but breathing with new life. The title of the album – “tired of wandering” – implies a fatigue, a resignation, and an end; but the music itself crackles with suspense and anticipation, marking a moment of reflection before a journey begins.
“The recordings have a beautiful clarity about them due to their simple but sturdy frameworks, and their open-ended architecture makes them ideal for a project of this sort.” When Mathieu first heard Blemish, “I was quite amazed by the album, its dark beauty… . When David sent me the files from the sessions one year ago, they were a pool of wonderful material to me, detached from the songs and original album, while very much connected to David at the same time.”
A startling break from Sylvian’s previous work, Blemish is pensive and spare, wrapping a lyrical raw nerve in extended, drone-like song structures. Recorded in a relatively-quick six week burst, Blemish was “cathartic” for Sylvian. An earlier remix album, 2005’s The Good Son vs. The Only Daughter, took the material in varied and lusher directions, but Wandermüde puts it under a microscope. The catharsis of the original is tested and reinvigorated by Mathieu’s treatment, which he performs in real time.
“My work with computers is always live,” Mathieu explains. “I’m feeding selected material into a software process and record the output, which I either take as is, or discard completely. I don’t multi-track, edit or re-arrange, I’m interested in self-evolving sound with all its rough and sometimes faulty qualities. I never use effects like artificial reverb in my music, so what you hear is rather a piling up of spaces that surround the individual inputs used for my processes.
“With David’s recordings I melted them with my instruments, recorded several takes and picked the best ones. While I first processed the recordings quite heavily, it took me a while to notice that I come to better results when David’s performance shines through much more clearly. For instance with the original guitar from Blemish, I only applied a soft processing and made a room recording of playing this version back through two Fender Twin amps.”
A guest from Blemish also makes a return appearance on this album. Guitarist and electronics artist Christian Fennesz contributes to “Deceleration,”. “‘Fire in the Forest,’ just as its sister ‘Transit’ on Fennesz’ Venice album are to me perfect models for what a 21st century song can be,” says Mathieu. “Since he had only a couple of days to work on this, he came up with this rough and very beautiful recording of his guitar playing in the last moment. It was love at first sight for me.”
Wandermüde is exquisitely planned but executed in real time, drawn from old pains but breathing with new life. The title of the album – “tired of wandering” – implies a fatigue, a resignation, and an end; but the music itself crackles with suspense and anticipation, marking a moment of reflection before a journey begins.
STAFF COMMENTS
Barry says: Originally released in 2012, this beautiful mixture of atmospheric ambient and organic drone sees David Sylvian's recordings expertly manipulated by one of the leading figures in ambient music production, Stephan Mathieu. Soaring choral echoes and snippets of guitar break through the hypnotic ambient washes, resulting in a wholly meditative and thoroughly stunning end result.TRACK LISTING
A1 Saffron Laudanum 08:36
A2 Velvet Revolution 07:50
B1 Trauma Ward 06:00
B2 The Farther Away I Am 11:10
C1 Dark Pastoral 04:05
C2 Telegraphed Mistakes 14:04
D1 Deceleration 05:22
D2 I Can`t Pretend To Care 08:40
‘Blemish’ was David Sylvian’s first solo album to be released on his own Samadhisound label following his departure from Virgin Records in 2003. This is the first official release on 180gram vinyl.
Working primarily as a solo artist, Sylvian created an impromptu suite of songs for guitar, electronics and voice. The compositions were crafted from improvisational sessions by Sylvian and the acclaimed free-jazz guitarist, Derek Bailey on 3 tracks.
“A Fire In A Forest” features the haunting electronic arrangements by Austrian guitarist / producer Christian Fennesz.
Working primarily as a solo artist, Sylvian created an impromptu suite of songs for guitar, electronics and voice. The compositions were crafted from improvisational sessions by Sylvian and the acclaimed free-jazz guitarist, Derek Bailey on 3 tracks.
“A Fire In A Forest” features the haunting electronic arrangements by Austrian guitarist / producer Christian Fennesz.
TRACK LISTING
Side A
Blemish (13:42)
The Good Son (5:25)
The Only Daughter (5:28)
Side B
The Heart Knows Better (7:52)
She Is Not (0:45)
Late Night Shopping (2:54)
How Little We Need To Be Happy (3:22)
A Fire In The Forrest (4:14)
Trauma (5:42)
David Sylvian describes his 2nd solo album for his own Samadhisound label as being: “A modern kind of chamber music. Intimate, dynamic, emotive, democratic, economical”.
Recorded in London, Vienna and Tokyo, the 8 songs and 1 instrumental on ‘Manafon’ bring together “the world’s leading improvisors, and innovators, artists who explore free improvisation, space-specific performance and live electronics” including Evan Parker, Keith Rowe, Christian Fennesz, Sachiko M, Otomo Yoshihide, John Tilbury and members of Polwechsel.
This is the first time on 180gram vinyl for this 2LP set.
Recorded in London, Vienna and Tokyo, the 8 songs and 1 instrumental on ‘Manafon’ bring together “the world’s leading improvisors, and innovators, artists who explore free improvisation, space-specific performance and live electronics” including Evan Parker, Keith Rowe, Christian Fennesz, Sachiko M, Otomo Yoshihide, John Tilbury and members of Polwechsel.
This is the first time on 180gram vinyl for this 2LP set.
TRACK LISTING
LP1
Side A
Small Gods (5:49)
The Rabbit Skinner (4:42)
Random Acts If Senseless Violence (7:06)
Side B
The Greatest Living Englishman (10:55)
125 Spheres (0:29)
LP2
Side C
Snow White In Appalachia (6:36)
Emily Dickinson (6:25)
The Department Of Dead Letters (2:26)
Side D
Manafon (5:23)
Random Acts Of Senseless Violence – Dai Fujikura Remix (6:24)
Grönland Records announce a revised, remastered reissue of‘Sleepwalkers’ by David Sylvian. Available as a gatefold digipack CD and a gatefold double LP with exclusive art print, this new edition also features the previously unreleased track ‘Modern Interiors’.
In the 00s, David Sylvian produced two of his strongest and most solitary statements, ‘Blemish’ and ‘Manafon’, but those records don’t tell the whole story. During that the same period, Sylvian created an alternate body of work: a series of collaborations and side projects with leading talents of pop and improv, electronic and contemporary classical music. The best of these recordings are gathered here on ‘Sleepwalkers’, meticulously sequenced and remixed. The fruits of one-off meetings and lifelong partnerships, they jump from bliss to intrigue, romance to sensuality, as arch experiments lead into the lushest pop.
The single ‘World Citizen - I Won’t Be Disappointed’, written with Ryuichi Sakamoto, is a sublime example, with an impeccable melody and lyric warmed by Sylvian’s gorgeous tenor. Sylvian has worked with Sakamoto for close to three decades.
“As many of you will already be aware, despite relativelyc ontinuous work on solo albums, I’ve maintained strong ties with a number of musicians throughout my life in one context or another. On this new collection, let’s call it ‘Sleepwalkers 2.0’, a selection of collaborative work produced over the period encompassing Blemish through to Manafon, I’ve included compositions by Nine Horses as well as more fleeting flirtations and one-offs. Neglected offspring. Represented also is long term friend and writing partner, Ryuichi Sakamoto, as well as more recent but potentially equally productive partnerships such as Christian Fennesz, ArveHenriksen and contemporary classical composer Dai Fujikura.
In the 00s, David Sylvian produced two of his strongest and most solitary statements, ‘Blemish’ and ‘Manafon’, but those records don’t tell the whole story. During that the same period, Sylvian created an alternate body of work: a series of collaborations and side projects with leading talents of pop and improv, electronic and contemporary classical music. The best of these recordings are gathered here on ‘Sleepwalkers’, meticulously sequenced and remixed. The fruits of one-off meetings and lifelong partnerships, they jump from bliss to intrigue, romance to sensuality, as arch experiments lead into the lushest pop.
The single ‘World Citizen - I Won’t Be Disappointed’, written with Ryuichi Sakamoto, is a sublime example, with an impeccable melody and lyric warmed by Sylvian’s gorgeous tenor. Sylvian has worked with Sakamoto for close to three decades.
“As many of you will already be aware, despite relativelyc ontinuous work on solo albums, I’ve maintained strong ties with a number of musicians throughout my life in one context or another. On this new collection, let’s call it ‘Sleepwalkers 2.0’, a selection of collaborative work produced over the period encompassing Blemish through to Manafon, I’ve included compositions by Nine Horses as well as more fleeting flirtations and one-offs. Neglected offspring. Represented also is long term friend and writing partner, Ryuichi Sakamoto, as well as more recent but potentially equally productive partnerships such as Christian Fennesz, ArveHenriksen and contemporary classical composer Dai Fujikura.
TRACK LISTING
1. Sleepwalkers
2. Money For All
3. Do You Know Me Now?
4 .Angels
5. World Citizen - I Won’t Be
6. Disappointed
7. Five Lines
8. The Day The Earth Stole
9. Heaven
10. Modern Interiors
11. Exit / Delete
12. Pure Genius
13. Wonderful World
14. Transit
15. World Citizen
16. The World Is Everything
17. Thermal
18. Sugarfuel
19. Trauma
"Plight & Premonition, Flux & Mutability", both titles are predicated on instability. Meanings are equally mutable, perhaps the beginning of a spiritual journey, a climate of uncertainty, the experience of improvisation, a door opening (that may quickly close again). That first nocturnal session in the Can studio began unconsciously, or at least without initial awareness that music was being made, Sylvian enjoying the opportunity to play a pump organ, then growing aware of a slippage in the room as Czukay played orchestral samples through the fold back system: “I fell into a trance.” Ethereal sounds looped through the space. He moved to the piano, searching for something concrete. After ten or fifteen minutes he found it, only to hear Czukay tell him to move on: “He’d only wanted the process, the uncertainty, the ambiguity of the searching out of ideas.” The night wore on; as soon as fixity or some compositional motif crept in, so the machines would be taken out of record, as if establishing an equilibrium between the transience of making and the indelibility of recording.
STAFF COMMENTS
Patrick says: Two superbly esoteric electronic recordings from the very late eighties get their first ever vinyl reissue thanks to those fine folks at Gronland. The work of musical auteurs David Sylvian and Holger Czukay, these four pieces offer a purity of sound, progressive approach to audio and immersive arrangement. Far out!TRACK LISTING
A1. Plight (The Spiralling Of Winter Ghosts)
B1. Premonition (Giant Empty Iron Vessel)
C1. Flux (A Big, Bright, Colourful World)
D1. Mutability (A New Beginning Is In The Offing)