David Sylvian is a man apart. In a thirty-year career that spans the New Romantic movement, ambient works and progressive rock, and mature and esoteric pop, Sylvian has tested popular styles and bent them to his own vision. But the '00s have seen a more extreme side of his work. While 2003's Blemish startled long-time fans with its emotional rigor, Sylvian has taken the next step with Manafon - a work of nuance and stern musicality, that is also intriguing, suspenseful, and horribly beautiful. On Manafo...   [ read more ]

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REISSUE. During the flurry of recording activity which took up most of 1985, Sylvian was carefully seeding his second solo album with the help of a couple of new collaborators. For Gone To Earth he got in touch with guitarists Robert Fripp and Bill Nelson, both of whom had played key roles in defining progressive rock. Gone to Earth, a double album containing seven vocal tracks and ten instrumental pieces, attracted the same critical acclaim as Brilliant Trees when it was released in September 1985.

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The next 18 months proved to be a fertile period in terms of songwriting, and David Sylvian soon found himself with a new collection of material. This time he arranged the songs mainly for acoustic instruments with strings, woodwind and brass. His long time ally Ryuichi Sakamoto worked closely with him on the recordings which were produced at Studio Miraval in the South of France by Steve Nye. As usual Sylvian had put together a crack team of players including Danny Thompson on double bass, Phil Palmer on ...   [ read more ]

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