David Sylvian David Sylvian: Discography REASONS Renzo Pietrolungo Da un caro amico, Renzo Pietrolungo, un articolo che rispecchia un grande amore.
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David Sylvian: Discography reasons / Renzo Pietrolungo
When preparing to rebuild the discography of an artist who loves you should be aware that you can only make mistakes, those who know him well already know a few things that you can not already slightly know, but who may know little bored with the passing cold list. And so, despite the prospect of some and annoy others, I'll try to do a discography / list as complete as possible, trying not to be aseptic, perhaps with a few original comment supplied.
1982
After the dissolution of Japan, David Sylvian started his solo and collaborating ago with the musician with whom he split extemporaneously but thoroughly many phases of his career, Ryuichi Sakamoto. DS is steeped in the next twenty years some of the most interesting protagonists of modern music, the only unforgivable exception of Brian Eno.
in that year released the single Bamboo Houses that contains the original song and Bamboo Music - Japanese edition in the songs is added Forbidden Colours, which is the song that still is probably the fan favorite. At first confusing someone's voice with that of DS Bowie, which is rather the main character along with Sakamoto for the film "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence" (in Italy "Fury"). Forbidden Colours is the most poignant of the whole soundtrack of the film.
A brief appearance on the album THE POLLEN Pierre Barouh and DS later this year working with Sandi and The Sunsetz in two songs (Living on the Frontline and Where The Fire Still Burns album immigrants) which consists of the words and participates as an accompanying voice.
A lovely duet (from the album Goodnight TO GA NAKUCHA NE) with Mrs. Sakamoto, Akiko Yano, closes the year, rather gloss over the quality of the other tracks on the album.
1983
The 1983 sees the publication of a single: Forbidden Colours with an instrumental piece on the back of Sakamoto: Seed and The Sower.
Two years of transition, 1982 and 1983, the sign of the influence of Japanese pop music.
1984
In 1984 he began to get serious, preceded by the single Red Guitar (Forbidden Colours as b-sides) released the first albumBRILLIANT TREES:
1. Pulling Punches
2. The Ink in the Well
3. Nostalgia
4. Red Guitar
5. Weathered Wall (Sylvian / Hassell)
6. Backwaters
7. Brilliant Trees (Sylvian / Hassell)
A sparkling debut album and a key location in the DS, which contains the seeds of all future works, great attention to sound and arrangements, ethnic references, distended atmosphere, songs of personal taste, recognizable style and of course the warm and deep vibrato that places him among the most beautiful voices in modern music. The music is heartbreakingly beautiful and often investigates the unknown and evocative.
album together great musicians such as Holger Czukay, Steve Jansen, Richard Barbieri, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Steve Nye, Jon Hassell, Kenny Wheeler, Mark Isham, Phil Palmer, Ronny Drayton, Wayne Braithwaite, Danny Thompson. Many of these musicians will accompany DS along most of his career.
The album is followed by two singles:
The Ink In The Well;
Pulling Punches
The first single includes the b-side instrumental version diWeathered Wall (
of the promo single contains a different version yet, without hat).
1985
In 1985 appears one of the objects of desire of collectors, it is published in the form of LaserDisc Preparations FOR A JOURNEY, which then comes out as a VideoCD (not that this is easier to find):
1. Preparations for a Journey
2. The Women at the Well
3. The Women at the Well (slow version)
4. Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares: Pilentze Pee (traditional)
5. Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares: Kalimankon Denkon (traditional)
6. Showing the Wound (A Will to Health)
The video documented the interest of the DS to work with Polaroid photos will be oggetto della mostra PERSPECTIVE, POLAROIDS 82-84, che mostra assemblaggi e montaggi di foto, un pò nello stile di David Hockney, un po’ come sulla copertina del secondo album dei Talking Heads. Il catalogo della mostra è molto ricercato dai collezionisti.
L’ultimo brano diventerà in seguito Steel Cathedrals colonna sonora di un documentario sulla periferia industriale di Tokyo. The Women at The Well non sarà mai pubblicata successivamente su cd.
Alla fine dell’anno viene pubblicato un singolo importante Words with the Shaman che sviluppa i temi più etnici della musica di BRILLIANT TREES.
Ancora musicisti di grande calibro come Steve Jansen, Jon Hassell, Kenny Wheeler, Holger Czukay, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Robert Fripp, Masami Tsuchiya, Percy Jones.
Il singolo viene integrato con Steel Cathedrals e Preparations for a Journey ed esce solo per il Giappone con il titolo di ALCHEMY – AN INDEX OF POSSIBILITIES:
1. Words with the Shaman
Part 1: Ancient Evening (Sylvian/Hassell)
Part 2: Incantation (Sylvian/Hassell)
Part 3: Awakening (Sylvian/Hassell/Jansen)
2. Preparations for a Journey
3. Steel Cathedrals (Sylvian/Sakamoto)
ALCHEMY viene rimasterizzato nel 2003 aggiungendo le b-side del singolo Pop Song uscito nel 1989:
1. Words with the Shaman (Ancient Evening) (Sylvian/Hassell)
2. Words with the Shaman (Incantation) (Sylvian/Hassell)
3. Words with the Shaman (Awakening) (Sylvian/Hassell/Jansen)
4. Preparations for a Journey (Sylvian)
5. The Stigma Of Childhood (Kin)
6. A Brief Conversation Ending In Divorce
7. Steel Cathedrals (Sylvian/Sakamoto)
Steel Cathedrals esce anche come video in edizione limitata a 2000 copie e sarà poi ristampato nel 1989 includendo:
1. Preparations for a Journey
2. The Women at the Well
3. Steel Cathedrals
e con questa nota: “This short film was shot in two days of November 1984 in, and around the outskirts of, Tokyo, Japan.A large part of the music was completed during that same month and recorded over a period of three days.I later updated the material in London, in an attempt to elaborate on the theme discussed earlier started in Japan, and to Further Improve the quality of the soundtrack. "DS, Aug 1985.
worth mentioning that DS plays keyboards in the song P-Machinery album A Secret Wish of Propaganda.
1986
A new collaboration with Sandi and The Sunsetz: The album is called BANZAI BABY and the song This Is Not Enough is almost entirely due to Sylvian.
The second part of the year lifts the veil on the second solo work GONE TO EARTH, release under the clear and strongly influenced by Robert Fripp, whom he played in most songs. The music changes direction from the first album which was closed in an ethereal and now the issues became more land.
The album is preceded by the single "Taking The Veil, which also contains Answered Prayers and also in some editions Taking The Veil (Julian Mendelsohn Mix) and A Bird of Prey Vanishes Into a Deep Blue Cloudless Sky - B-sides anticipate issues more ambient that will characterize the second LP / CD. Curiosa edition picture vinyl rectangular. GONE TO EARTH
released as a double LP, but the CD edition will contain all the songs, as usual in Japan goes something different and that the entire edition on 2 CDs. The cover is by Russell Mills, an artist with whom Sylvian will deliver excellent cooperation on several occasions. Musicians are Steve Jansen, Richard Barbieri, Bill Nelson, Robert Fripp, Ian Maidman, Steve Nye, John Taylor, Kenny Wheeler, Harry Beckett, Phil Palmer, Mell Collins, BJ Cole.
The first part of music is highly expressive, the colors are beautiful and materials. In the second part
many songs they could find space in the MUSIC FOR FILM by Brian Eno.
The Japanese edition contains:
1. Taking the Veil
2. Laughter & Forgetting
3. Before the Bullfight
4. Gone To Earth
5. Wave
6.
River Man 7. Silver Moon
8. The Healing Place
9. Answered Prayers
10. Where the Railroad Meets the Sea
11. The Wooden Cross
12. Silver Moon Over Sleeping Steeples
13. Camp Fire Coyote Country
14. A Bird of Prey Vanishes Into a Deep Blue Sky
15. Home
16. Sunlight Seen Through Towering Trees
17. Upon This Earth
Edition on a single CD does not contain the tracks No 12, 13, 14 and 16, which are present in the 2003 remaster, which are added:
1. Riverman (Remix by David Sylvian and Richard Moakes)
2. Gone To Earth (Remix by David Sylvian and Richard Moakes)
3. Camp Fire Coyote Country (Remix by David Sylvian and Richard Moakes)
The year ended with the single "Silver Moon Gone to Earth and that includes a different edition of Silver Moon Over Sleeping Steeples.
1987 is the year of Secrets of the Beehive, but before he writes and sings DS i testi di due brani di DREAMS OF REASON PRODUCE MONSTERS di Mick Karn: Buoy e When Love Walks In. Nell’album suona anche nel brano Land.
Canta in un bel duetto con Virginia Astley in Some Small Hope nell’album HOPE IN A DARKENED HEART, prodotto da Sakamoto. Il brano esce anche come singolo.
Suona anche la chitarra e il piano nel pezzo A Perfect Day dell’album LIFE IN MIRROR di Masami Tsuchiya.
In autunno esce il singolo Let The Happiness In che contiene un remix (più esattamente una extended version) di Buoy ma soprattutto è presente una spettacolare Blue Of Noon: outtake strumentale dalle sessioni di BRILLIANT TREES scritta da DS ma suonata da uno strepitoso Sakamoto al piano.
In novembre esce SECRETS OF THE BEEHIVE, a masterpiece of absolute level, everything is held in a more intimate album than the physical buttons of GONE TO HEART, where even the silence, the long pauses make sense. Great space here has
Sakamoto, present in all songs and curator of the string arrangements. Also play David Torn, Phil Palmer, Mark Isham, Danny Thompson, Steve Jansen, Danny Cummings:
1.
September 2. The Boy with the Gun
3. Maria
4. Orpheus
5. The Devil's Own
6. When Poets Dreamed of Angels
7. Mother and Child
8. Let the Happiness in
9. Waterfront
10. Forbidden Colours and
Forbidden Colours' this in a different version than the original. As usual
the Japanese edition is distinguished by the presence of Promise (The Cult of Eurydice) instead of Forbidden Colours. The LP version contains neither the one nor the other, as well as the CD included in the beautiful box set anthology Weatherbox (see 1990). The remaster of 2003 and contains the promo contains Promise Promise (Instrumental), which is the original version of the song; DS decided to add the vocals only then - a real headache for collectors. 1988
Exits the first of two collaborations with Holger Czukay, master of testing: Plight & Premonition, two long suites recorded during the winter 1986-87 but published later due to legal disputes. The music loses shape in favor of a more improvised and less immediate:
1. Plight (The Spiralling Of Winter Ghosts)
2. Premonition (Giant Empty Iron Vessel)
The year ended with the publication of the individual that Orpheus includeThe Devil's Own and in a different edition Mother and Child.
1989
You publish the second collaboration with Holger Czukay: Flux + mutability.
1. Flux (A Big, Bright, Colourful World)
2. Mutability (A New Beginning is in the offing)
The music recalls the first collaboration. In October, the individual appears
Pop Song:
1. Pop Song
2. A Brief Conversation Ending in Divorce
3. The Stigma of Childhood (Kin)
anticipates Pop Song more electronic arrangements of the collaborations of the most recent period. The last track is a fragment of the composition which was recorded for the play 'Kin', accounted for 8 September 1987.
DS said it has no intention to publish, a record "unofficial" made by an observer it appears that there ..
The year ended with the release of the object of desire for excellence for all the fans, a sumptuous package created by Russell Mills, and Weatherbox summarizes the sum of the DS's discography. The box set includes valuable BRILLIANT TREES, Alchemy (plus the two instrumental tracks from Pop Song), and Gone to Earth Gone to Earth INSTRUMENTAL, SECRETS OF THE BEEHIVE (without Promise or Forbidden Colours). It, along with the book PERSPECTIVE, POLAROIDS 82-84, fought more object of the auctions on Ebay.
1991 is the year of the only meeting of the four ex-Japan, in March, leaving two individual-based Blackwater and that this does not include a song on the album Rain Tree Crow - in the 2003 remaster I Drink To Forget "will instead be added as the last track:
1. Blackwater
2. Red Earth
3. I Drink to Forget
1. Blackwater
2. Rain Tree Crow
3. Red Earth
4. I Drink to Forget
In April comes the RAIN TREE CROW, release batch of great elegance and style that contains some gems, but le carriere dei quattro hanno preso strade diverse e l’esperimento non si ripeterà:
1. Big Wheels in Shanty Town
2. Every Colour You Are
3. Rain Tree Crow
4. Red Earth (As Summertime ends)
5. Pocket Full of Change
6. Boat's for Burning
7. New Moon at Red Deer Wallow
8. Blackwater
9. A Reassuringly Dull Sunday
10. Blackcrow Hits Shoe Shine City
11. Scratching on the Bible Belt
12. Cries and Whispers
Sylvian collabora con Hector Zazou nell’album SAHARA BLUE, ma qualcosa non va per il verso giusto. Due canzoni:
To a Reason e Victim of Stars vengono pubblicate nella prima edizione ma poi vengono tolte dalla successiva;
the reasons for this are still unknown, as stated recently by the same Zazou.
DS also plays at other tracks on the album and appears on the cover as "Mr. X ". DS also composed a song, Royauté, contained in a collection of outtakes and alternate versions from Sahara Blue, a collection of difficult to find.
Another box of exquisite, although quite delicate and hard to find in a "mint", again by Russell Mills, EMBER GLANCE is a book that contains 100 pages and the music for the installation of the same name in Tokyo. The ambient music is by setting clear and are functional works exhibited:
1. The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Sylvian / Perry)
2. Epiphany (Sylvian)
Together with DS plays Frank Perry.
There is a private video shot by Yuka Fujii, alongside DS has always been documenting the construction phases of the installation, from the collection of the material in English woods and ending with the full installation.
The video has been duplicated and is traded "Carbonaro" among the most diehard fan.
found DS in Sakamoto Heartbeat and in particular in the beautiful title track Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II) which also houses a stellar speech at the guitar by Bill Frisell, very effective. DS also sings on Cloud # 9. The album also sings
la futura signora Sylvian, Ingrid Chavez, incontrata proprio durante le sessioni di registrazione.
1993
THE FIRST DAY vede una formazione che è in parte King Crimson: sono presenti Fripp, Trey Gunn, David Bottrill, Jerry Marotta, Marc Anderson e Ingrid Chavez. Il suono, le strutture dei brani sono prepotentemente legate alle idee di Fripp, che chiede, senza esito, a DS di diventare il cantante dei King Crimson, ma la collaborazione non riesce ad esprimere tutte le potenzialità degli artisti coinvolti; meglio andrà con l’album dal vivo tratto dal tour in cui oltre a DS sono presenti Fripp, Trey Gunn, Pat Mastellotto, Michael Brook:
1. God's Monkey (Sylvian/Fripp/Gunn/Bottrill)
2. Jean the Birdman (Sylvian / Fripp / Gunn)
3. Firepower (Sylvian / Fripp / Gunn)
4. Brightness Falls (Sylvian / Fripp / Gunn)
5. 20th Century Dreaming (A Shaman's Song) (Sylvian / Fripp / Gunn)
6. Darshan (The Road to Graceland) (Sylvian / Fripp / Gunn / Bottrill)
7. Bringing Down The Light (Fripp)
The album will be two singles now hard to find and contain beautiful songs (especially the first one) published in other formats:
1. Jean the Birdman (Sylvian / Fripp / Gunn)
2. Earthbound / Starblind (Sylvian / Fripp)
3. Endgame (Sylvian)
and
1. Jean the Birdman (Sylvian / Fripp / Gunn)
2. Gone To Earth (1986)
3. Tallow Moon (Sylvian only)
4. Dark Water (Fripp solo)
Following a maxi single with a remix to the song dedicated Darshan
1. Darshan (The Road to Graceland) (Translucent Remix by The Grid)
2. Darshana (Re-constructed by The Future Sound of London)
3. Darshan (The Road to Graceland) 1994
the beginning of 1994 a collection released in USA promotional call RETROSPECTIVE - MONKEY GOD'S SILENCE approaching in September and matched the music to the music of the installation EMBER GLANCE another installation in Tokyo-REDEMPTION Approaching SILENCE edited with Robert Fripp
1. Beekeper
's The Apprentice 2. Epiphany
3. Approaching Silence
Esiste un promo uscito in USA con le stesse musiche ma con timbrica più aperta.
A fine anno viene pubblicato l’unico album dal vivo DAMAGE, dal tour del ’93: il repertorio guadagna molto dalle esecuzioni live, purtroppo non tutto lo spettacolo viene portato su CD, la produzione è di Fripp:
1. Damage (Sylvian/Fripp/Gunn)
2. God's Monkey
3. Brightness Falls
4. Every Colour You Are
5. Firepower
6. Gone to Earth
7. 20th Century Dreaming (A Shaman's Song)
8. Wave
9. Riverman
10. Darshan (The Road to Graceland)
11. Blinding Light of Heaven
12. The First Day (Sylvian/Fripp/Gunn)
La bella confezione in box , di nuovo curata da Russell Mills comprende un libretto di 32 pagine e il CD oro: sparirà dai negozi quasi subito.
Gli anni che seguono e fino alla pubblicazione di DEAD BEES ON A CAKE vedono DS esprimersi solo attraverso collaborazioni.
Nel 1996 con Nicola Alesini e Pier Luigi Androni nell’album MARCO POLO:
Come Morning
The Golden Way
Maya
Con Andrea Chimenti nell’album L’ALBERO PAZZO:
Ti ho aspettato (I’ve waited for you)
Con Russell Mills nell’album UNDARK:
How Safe Is Deep?
Brano che verrà ripreso nel singolo Godman con il titolo di Shadowland.
Nel 1997 partecipa in un brano dell’album DISCORD di Sakamoto recitando una poesia nel brano finale. It's the same poem recited in Thoroughly Lost To Logic EVERYTHING & NOTHING in the collection to be published in 2000. In 1998
always in Alesina and Andreoni MARCO POLO II with alternate versions of The Golden Way and Maya contained in the multimedia track of the album.
Although not mentioned in the booklet, wrote the music for the album I Was Waving At You ANAVOOG.COM Ana Voog.
1999 is the year of DEAD BEES ON A CAKE preceded by two individual I Surrender:
1. I Surrender
2. Les fleurs du mal
3. Starred and Dreaming
1. I Surrender (edit)
2. Whose Trip Is This?
3. Remembering Julia
In the two individuals are included versioni definitive di 4 dei 6 brani di LITTLE GIRLS WITH 99 LIVES, un CD realizzato in 15 copie per amici di DS: una delle copie fu “sottratta” al legittimo proprietario e poi indebitamente duplicata e distribuita. Gli altri due brani: Lighthouse e Snowfall non sono stati ancora pubblicati. Tutti i sei brani sono leggeri e gradevoli, con la sola voce di Ingrid Chavez.
In marzo esce dopo lunga attesa DEAD BEES ON A CAKE, album complesso, discontinuo e permeato della nuova ricerca spirituale di DS. L’album propone una ricerca stilistica molto raffinata cercando talvolta di coniugare Oriente e Occidente in maniera originale:
1. I Surrender
2. Dobro #1
3. Midnight Sun
4. Thalheim
5. God Man
6. Alphabet Angel
7. Krishna Blue
8. The Shining of Things
9. Café Europa
10. Pollen Path
11. All of My Mother's Names
12. Wanderlust
13. Praise
14. Darkest Dreaming
Musicians are Ryuichi Sakamoto, Tommy Barbarella, Marc Ribot, Bill Frisell, Lawrence Feldman, Kenny Wheeler, John Giblin, Chris Minh Doky, Ged Lynch, Scooter Warner, Steve Jansen, Talvin Singh, Deepak Ram, Steve Tibbetts, Ingrid Chavez, Shree Maa.
A curiosity about the last track: during the 2001 tour, which ended the concert and during the exit of the public, was printed an Instrumental Darkest Dreaming that we hope to have a day on digital media. Some bootlegs of that tour contain valuable trace. In September
leaves the single media Godman, even in limited release (5,000 copies), even though there are many (slightly) higher than this number:
1. God Man
2. Shadowland
3. Godman (Wagon Christ Mix)
4. Shadowland (Northfield)
5. Godman (Guy Sigsworth Remix)
6. Video: Time Spent
(The last title, and 'a video that is already used as an "Electronic Press Kit" for presentation DEAD BEES ON A CAKE.)
also appears in the same month in collaboration with Russell Mills in the beautiful album PEARL + UMBRA
The Rooms of Sixteen Shimmers
(in the album are among others Peter Gabriel and Brian Eno)
2000 October 2000 released the first truly significant collection of pieces of DS with the addition of outtakes from previous albums including the legendary beauty stands out for laughs in all the fans expect us to publish the original version, recorded but not included in SECRETS OF THE BEEHIVE. We know for certain that ingegneree sound recording studio where he recorded the album Dutch have the master. A few years ago, at the insistence, began to
available about thirty seconds of a song, which was assembled and distributed network as the Ride (loop version).
Those few seconds were enough to ignite the curiosity of fans.
The library, the tracks are remastered, remixed some ed altri ricantati da DS. Il titolo è EVERYTHING AND NOTHING:
1. The Scent of Magnolia ('Dead Bees' outtake; nuovo mix e voce 1999/2000)
2. Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II) (remixed 1999/2000)
3. Blackwater
4. Albuquerque (Dobro # 6) ('Dead Bees' outtake)
5. Ride ('Secrets of the Beehive' outtake; nuovo mix e voce 1999/2000)
6. The Golden Way (remixed 1999/2000)
7. Ghosts (nuovo mix e voce 1999/2000)
8. Pop Song
9. Every Colour You Are
10. Wanderlust
11. God's Monkey
12. Let the Happiness In
13. I Surrender
14. Thoroughly Lost To Logic (inedito del 1989; mixed 1999/2000)
1. Jean the Birdman
2. Cover Me with Flowers ('Dead Bees' outtake; new mix voice and 1999/2000)
3. The Boy with the Gun
4. Riverman
5. Aparna and Nimish (Dobro # 5) ('Dead Bees' outtake)
6. Midnight Sun
7. Orpheus
8. Some Kind of Fool ('Gentlemen Take Polaroids' outtake; new mix voice and 1999/2000)
9. Cries and Whispers
10. Godman
11. Laughter and Forgetting
12. Buoy (1987 remix)
13. Weathered Wall (remixed 1999/2000)
14. Bamboo Houses (remixed 1999/2000)
15. As Morning (remixed 1999/2000)
bonus limited edition CD:
1. The Scent of Magnolia (edit)
2. The Blinding Light of Heaven (studio version - unpublished)
3. The Scent of Magnolia (Portobello Mix)
4. Brilliant Trees (Version 2000)
DS also sung in the album Cinemag Sakamoto Forbidden Colours.
2001 A collaboration with the French musician Readymade BOLD album is the first release in 2001 with the song "Sugar Fuel.
DS involved in the project promoted by Sakamoto No More Landmine - Zero Landmine released single:
1. Zero Landmine
2. Zero Landmine (Piano + Vocal version)
3. Zero Landmine (Piano + Cello version)
4. Zero Landmine (Short version)
5. Zero Landmine (Piano version)
6. Zero Landmine (The Track)
The track (20 minutes) is performed live coordinating artists from different backgrounds in geographically distant places (Japan, Mozambique, USA) that are connected via satellite. A major organizational effort and technology that is transmitted by Japanese TV. The following is a reprint of
DAMAGE, edited by DS this time that changes the mix and balance of sound, making it softer: they feel better even the guitar parts of Michael Brook, Darshan DS off and enters Jean The Birdman.
Another collaboration, this time with Chris Vrenna of Nine Inch Nails track in Linoleum included on the album THE ATTRACTION TO ALL THINGS uncertain. Vrenna and the album 'in the name Tweaker.
The track will then be taken up in a remix EP with different:
Linoleum (edit)
Linoleum (The Josh Wink Interpretation)
Linoleum (Wamdue 2-Step Vocal Experience)
Linoleum (King Britt's Scuba Mix)
Linoleum (Teargas & Plateglass remix)
Linoleum (Paul Leary Remix)
2002
In 2002 another collection, this time reserved for instrumental tracks: Camphor. Also here are some remixes:
1. All of My Mother's Names
2. Red Earth (As Summertime Ends)
3. Answered Prayers
4. The Song Which Gives the Key to Perfection ('EVERYTHING AND NOTHING TourBook / CD 2001)
5. New Moon at Red Deer Wallow
6. Praise (Pratah Smarami)
7. Wave (Version) (new mix)
8. Mother and Child (remixed by Jan Bang + Erik Honoré)
9. Plight (The Spiralling of Winter Ghosts) (nuovo mix)
10. Upon This Earth (nuovo mix)
11. Big Wheels in Shanty Town
12. The Healing Place
13. Camphor ('EVERYTHING AND NOTHING TOURBOOK/CD 2001)
14. A Brief Conversation Ending in Divorce
Bonus CD:
1. Plight (The Spiralling of Winter Ghosts) (nuovo mix)
2. Mutability (A New Beginning is in the Offing) (nuovo mix)
3. Premonition (Giant Empty Iron Vessel) (nuovo mix)
Nel brano Mother And Child è presente Nils Petter Molvaer alla tromba. La raccolta è l’ultima uscita per la Virgin: la casa discografica detiene l’intero catalogo che verrà ripubblicato rimasterizzato nel 2003, in confezioni arricchite rispetto agli originali. I rapporti fra Virgin e DS non sono mai stati idilliaci ma recentemente Sylvian ha dichiarato che non ci sono mai stati comunque nemmeno grossi contrasti, piuttosto una sorta di indifferenza.
2003
Nel 2003 DS pubblica per la propria etichetta, Samadhi, il suo primo lavoro post-Virgin. BLEMISH è un album che poco allo spettacolo e che trasmette disagio da ogni nota - numerosi ascolti sono necessari per entrare in sintonia con queste musiche. In tre brani suona Derek Bailey e nel bellissimo A Fire In The Forest è presente Christian Fennesz.
Quest’ultimo brano dà il nome al tour che si svolge negli ultimi mesi dell’anno:
1. Blemish
2. The Good Son
3. The Only Daughter
4. The Heart Knows Better
5. She Is Not
6. Late Night Shopping
7. How Little We Need To Be Happy
8. A Fire in the Forest
So as not to lose the habit, the Japanese edition and the edition limited vinyl include an additional track entitled Trauma. The song, incomplete, has been available for download (in error) from a page of data store the first version of the official website . Despite good intentions declared at the site, from the beginning, 'available for download only a live version of Orpheus from the 1988 tour.
To date, the last work published is a maxi-single: World Citizen, again, as often happened in 21 years, written in two hands with Sakamoto
1. World Citizen (I will not be disappointed) (short version)
2. World Citizen (short version)
3. World Citizen (I will not be disappointed) (long version)
4. World Citizen (Long Version)
5. World Citizen (Ryoji Ikeda Remix)
the song has been published in a looped piano version and a re-cycle the Japanese version of the album of Sakamoto Chasm - album due out in May 2004 in Europe with enriched content. VENICE
The album of Christian Fennesz, released in early March, Sylvian sings in the song Transit, in which the backing track pushes his voice to a melancholic tone and emotional stark contrast.
DS involved in the project CHAIN \u200b\u200bMUSIC Sakamoto, who is currently involved in this chain ten musicians. Each one adds something to the score it receives, then passing it to the next musician, "chain" network.
Finally, in early April made Sylvian For The Love Of Life, ending theme of the television series of the successful Japanese manga Monster.
During all these years Sylvian sounds on tour in 1988: In Praise Of Shamans, 1992: The First Day, 1993: The Road To Graceland, 1995: Slowfire, 2001: Everything & Nothing Europe, 2002: Everything & Nothing USA, 2003: In Fire The Forest.
During the tour are performed songs that have not yet been published and, in particular, Under Ingrid's Wheel, The House in Which We Live tour in 1992, I Do Nothing and It'll never happen again by Tim Hardin in 1995 and tour Blue Skinned Gods Was not Joe and I? tour in 2003. Today
David Sylvian is an artist who no longer depends on a major label and you can imagine for him greater freedom of action and expression. The projects for which you have news at the moment (mid-March 2004) is a new collaboration with Chris Vrenna under the name "tweaker" (the song is called Pure Genius), a song on the new album by Masakatsu Takagi (with Sylvian and Jansen in 'last tour to treat the visual part) and an album with his brother Steve Jansen, work stopped for the creation of blemish.
reached the end I would like to thank Vittorio Pio asked me to prepare this article, and I want to thank my friend Gerrit Hillebrand to be back this summer to keep alive what we all consider the reference site to David Sylvian and that . The site is a complete embarrassment and is a real treasure trove of information and many new visitors to confuse it with the official site, at least to read the messages in the guestbook.
Renzo Pietrolungo
