David Sylvian: S/D, C/D?

I was positive there was just a thread on him?

*searches*

Yes.

As well as this and this.

oops sorry. i was too lazy to search

This is like the sixth Sylvian thread in the last couple months; why the flurry of interest all of a sudden? Great as leader of glam-punk-metal-art band, dullsville afterwards.

more interest lately because: he was dropped by his label, started his own, put out a self-recorded avant-electro-experimental album w/ derek bailey and fennesz, lots of exposure because the wire loved it.

also because of the 20 year cycle thingy, him being an alternative to electroclash/punkdisco

More boring than I can analyse. Goodlooking, though.

then there was 2-3 threads on his latest alb.

Geez that was mean of me... it's just I expected good things out of him and have been miserably disappointed many a time.

Great looking, but lost himself up his own rectum in about 1989 unfortunately.

Brilliant Trees is still a fantastic album, though.

The First Day

Search : brilliant trees (but destroy Red Guitar), alchemy, gone to earth, flux + mutability, rain tree crow, the first day, damage, approaching silence

Destroy : secrets of the beehive (except Orpheus), plight and premonition, dead bees on a cake (except God Man), blemish

A lame pun but IMO true:
Search everything and destroy nothing.

Might as well revive this one of all the ones, at least -- got this news today via a mailing list for No-Man:

Just a short note to let everyone know that a new album from David Sylvian,
sometime No-Man drummer Steve Jansen, and Burnt Friedman is scheduled
for release on October 10. The project features Theo Travis on at least one of
the tracks. I have not yet heard the new album, but from a few reviews I have
read, it sounds as if it might appeal to fans of the last couple No-man albums.
The album's title is 'Snow Borne Sorrow.'

Oh, I heard about that one last night!

JAPAN's DAVID SYLVIAN and STEVE JANSEN will release 'Nine Horses' Snow Bourne Sorrow', an album in collaboration with Burnt Friedman, on October 10th. The album features a number of contributors including Sweden's Stina Nordstam and longterm Sylvian collaborator Ryuichi Sakamoto...

That's what I heard about that release.

Anyway. David Sylvian = undisputably classic. What, you think I was going to say any differently?

Arve Henriksen of Supersilent is also on it. I've heard the promo once and it's good - actually kind of trip-hoppy.

Look for an interview with Mr. Sylvian in Pitchfork this October ...

It'll be David Sylvian as you've never seen him before...

Oh please don't do this to me...I've gotten my hopes up twice now...let's not have a third go-around.

japan !

it's been on slsk for a few weeks. i'm not too impressed, but then again the only sylvian i really like (that i've heard) is blemish, which i really really like. then again, i've only given this a few listens, and it definitely sounds nice (the first track with stina nordenstam is lovely), but perhaps not much more than that.

After Blemish the Nine Horses record sounds really ... smooth. But it's catchy! I like it.

So, is this album being billed as Sylvian/Jansen/Friedman or just Sylvian or what?

It's billed as Nine Horses, which is the Rain Tree Crow-like name they give that trio.

Sylvian also said that in some ways this is a step back from the direction he took on Blemish. The material dates back as far as 2000, when he and Steve were working on his next album (a process he interrupted to spend six weeks on Blemish). Sylvian's already working on his next solo album, and he wants to focus even less on conventional song forms, and his collaborators include Fennesz and Keith Rowe.

that's good news! i hope it includes "wouldn't i joe", or whatever that amazing song from the blemish tour is actually called.

the album is good, but yes, it does sound like a step back from Blemish. A couple of the songs never quite take off, but the first track with Stina and the final track are exquisite.

I have an in-depth interview with Sylvian at Pitchfork today.

Really great interview, Chris, sorry I didn't mention that earlier!

Getting back into a bit of a phase with him, but that's actually because of his work via guest appearances -- two of his best ever songs, I feel, appeared on releases not his own over these past couple of years. "Transit," off Fennesz's Venice, is absolutely killer, while on the second Burnt Friedman/Jaki Liebezeit Secret Rhythms disc they do an alternate version of "The Librarian," with Friedman first did with Jansen and Sylvian on the Nine Horses album. Nothing against Jansen but hearing what Liebezeit does with it is wonderful -- as friend Stripey noted last night listening to both, it's almost the treble vs. bass versions.