The Underrated David Sylvian (Ex Japan)

[Guest kab]

For redbook these two are fantastic.

[Ian McP]

https://www.discogs.com/artist/22799-Ryuichi-Sakamoto-David-Sylvian

great doco on David Sylvian collaborator, musician/composer Ryuichi Sakamoto that I caught at MIFF

http://miff.com.au/program/film/ryuichi-sakamoto-coda

https://coda.mubi.com/

< One of the most important artists of our era, Ryuichi Sakamoto has had a prolific career spanning over four decades. From techno-pop stardom to Oscar-winning film composer, the evolution of his music has coincided with his life journeys. Following Fukushima, Sakamoto became an iconic figure in Japan’s social movement against nuclear power. As Sakamoto returns to music following a cancer diagnosis, his haunting awareness of life crises leads to a resounding new masterpiece. RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: CODA is an intimate portrait of both the artist and the man. >

regards Ian

 

[metal beat]

Look what turned up at work today.  Vinyl looks great and they come in covers33 polylined inners    just cleaning the 4 slabs of vinyl now before giving them a spin.  Artwork and the gatefold packaging seem just about perfect.  Lets hope the sonics match the rest of the package.

 

[cafe67]

Very nice 

 

I see Steve Jansen has a new band and album out soon via bandcamp 

[cafe67]

On 03/09/2018 at 3:52 PM, metal beat said:

Look what turned up at work today.  Vinyl looks great and they come in covers33 polylined inners    just cleaning the 4 slabs of vinyl now before giving them a spin.  Artwork and the gatefold packaging seem just about perfect.  Lets hope the sonics match the rest of the package.

 

Hey MB, where did you get these from and how much?  Haven’t been able to find any locally here , eBay prices are all over the place? 

[metal beat]

6 minutes ago, cafe67 said:

Hey MB, where did you get these from and how much?  Haven’t been able to find any locally here , eBay prices are all over the place? 

 

I pre ordered them from amazon uk before the embargo. $40 each.

 

 Juno uk has them.

[cafe67]

On 09/09/2018 at 7:52 PM, metal beat said:

 

I pre ordered them from amazon uk before the embargo. $40 each.

 

 Juno uk has them.

Back again, did you get the 2 x 45rpm records, there’s also seems to be a 1 x 33rpm  erosion floating around. 

[metal beat]

8 hours ago, cafe67 said:

Back again, did you get the 2 x 45rpm records, there’s also seems to be a 1 x 33rpm  erosion floating around. 

 

I got the 45rpm.

[Darren69]

I have Brilliant Trees and Secrets Of The Beehive ripped at home but haven’t listened yet, might give them a burl this arvo 

[cafe67]

2 hours ago, Darren69 said:

I have Brilliant Trees and Secrets Of The Beehive ripped at home but haven’t listened yet, might give them a burl this arvo 

Be interesting to hear what you think - for me I think Gone to Earth is one of his best albums

[Bronal]

3 hours ago, Darren69 said:

I have Brilliant Trees and Secrets Of The Beehive ripped at home but haven’t listened yet, might give them a burl this arvo 

Approach the rest with caution.  He can be highly pretentious.

[metal beat]

1 hour ago, bronal said:

Approach the rest with caution.  He can be highly pretentious.

 

He can be highly pretentious?

 

He is highly pretentious!!   

 

Blemish and Manafon are as pretentious as they come, and they are wonderful albums. 

[Darren69]

4 hours ago, bronal said:

Approach the rest with caution.  He can be highly pretentious.

I am a bit of a Robbie Williams fan so am hardened against such things

[cafe67]

Robbie williams and David Sylvian in the same breath.........wow 

[metal beat]

11 minutes ago, cafe67 said:

Robbie williams and David Sylvian in the same breath.........wow 

 

Cafe, you are sounding a bit pretentious 

[Darren69]

34 minutes ago, cafe67 said:

Robbie williams and David Sylvian in the same breath.........wow 

Hahaa!! I haven't had a listen yet! Was responding to Al's comment.

 

...or does DS sing about himself all the time as well??  

[Darren69]

Well the first five songs of Brilliant Trees have been enjoyable, love the melancholy of 'Nostalgia'.

 

Easy listening. Not something I would sit and listen to but would certainly have it on if I was poking around the house doing quiet stuff etc.

 

Good recording too. The song structures certainly keep your attention.

 

Looking forward to 'Secrets Of The Beehive' if it is allegedly darker.

 

Just having a quick mini-listen over lunch.

Edited September 16, 2018 by Darren69

[cafe67]

Steve Jansen has a new band and album.

 

just arrived yesterday - slow burning songs, very well recorded, lead singer sounds like............David Sylvia’s with a deeper voice

 

@Grizzly. 

 

 

Edited January 7, 2019 by cafe67

[cafe67]

One of his less known songs , but I’m think it’s one of his. Best 

 

 

[cafe67]

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For people who might be interested , there are 2 good books available for Japan and David sylvian. Etc . Both by Anthony  Reynolds  

A foreign place mostly details the band early years to their break up and early solo stuff. I found it well written and an interesting read.

 

Cries and whispers details with all the later solo projects. Got that on order, if the first  was anything to go by, should be a good read. 

[cafe67]

The exit north album is getting some serious playing here, one of the best albums I've heard for a while . If you are a little jaded by DS recent offering, this may be the tonic you need. Bit more vibrant and varied. Musicianship is spot on and for those people so included you can get it on vinyl now. 

 

 

Edited October 24, 2018 by cafe67

[Bell Ringer]

17 hours ago, cafe67 said:

The exit north album is getting some serious playing here, one of the best albums I've heard for a while . If you are a little jaded by DS recent offering, this may be the tonic you need. Bit more vibrant and varied. Musicianship is spot on and for those people so included you can get it on vinyl now. 

 

 

The singer Thomas Feiner did a very moody album a few years ago called the Opiates with a band called Anywhen. Has one of my favourite songs, Scars and Glasses. Classic sad boy cryrock. 

[cafe67]

Might have to go find it 

[Bell Ringer]

10 hours ago, cafe67 said:

Might have to go find it 

Sylvian's Samadhi label reissued it a few years ago on CD. Probably discontinued. Check out Discogs. 

[Ian McP]

news from

http://www.samadhisound.com/

 

< Yuka Fujii “Like Planets” now available to preorder

25.09.18: Permalink » Yuka Fujii “Like Planets” now available to preorder

Osmosis UK and Opium Arts in cooperation with Eyesencia present Like Planets, a photographic essay by Yuka Fujii. Hard cover, 260mm x 220mm Landscape. 170 pages. Designed by Chris Bigg in a limited edition of 1,500. The first 500 copies are signed and numbered by Yuka Fujii and David Sylvian. Randomly included in the remaining 1,000 copies are 15 signed unnumbered copies. Regular edition: £50, signed edition: £65. Available from 2nd November 2018. >

 

< Following on from the success of the RSD 2018 white vinyl edition of David Sylvian's 1999 album Dead Bees on a Cake, Universal now present the album on 180gram black vinyl, expanded with the additional four tracks that Sylvian intended for the original release, ‘The Scent of Magnolia’, ‘Albuquerque (Dobro #6)’, ‘Cover Me With Flowers’ and ‘Aparna and Nimisha ( Dobro #5)’.

The artwork, designed by Chris Bigg, differs from the RSD edition featuring a cover portrait by David's ex-wife, Ingrid Chavez, with additional rare photographs by Anton Corbijn.

Pre-order “Dead Bees On A Cake” (2018 Standard Edition) here >

 

< Grönland Records are proud to announce the reissue of one of ambient music's hidden gems, by two unique musicians whose paths originally crossed in the early-eighties while working on Sylvian’s debut solo album, Brilliant Trees. In 1986, David Sylvian - of British Art-Pop band Japan - and Holger Czukay - founding member and bassist in legendary German Kosmiche band Can - were ostensibly reconvening for Sylvian to record a vocal for Czukay's forthcoming album Rome Remains Rome. But on arriving at Czukay's studio - a former cinema in Köln - Sylvian began playing freeform, improvising on readily available instruments located in the studio itself. No sooner had Sylvian, on whatever instrument he’d been applying himself, start to structurally define/refine the performance than Czukay would stop the recording he’d surreptitiously been making. Czukay had attempted to capture the process of creation without a musician's inclination for refinement. This process, drawn out over two nights, gave birth to the duos first, full-fledged, collaboration, Plight and Premonition.

Having been out of print for some time, the parallels between the original release 30 years ago and now are quite stark; at the time of recording the Cold War was lifting - but still very real - after a bitter winter. The names Plight & Premonition and Flux & Mutability themselves hint at an instability. In Sylvian's words, the sessions seemed to touch on something: “A form of music that seemed to have been created while we were absent by instruments abandoned to the earth and the woods, sounded by the coarse winter elements.”

The version of Plight & Premonition included here is a remix by Sylvian from 2002. All the recordings have been fully remastered. The packaging has been redesigned by Chris Bigg with art direction by Sylvian with new, previously unseen, photographs by Yuka Fujii, accompanied by an extensive essay by David Toop.

Originally released separately, they are now packaged in a 2CD / 2LP set.

groenland.com >