Fwd: NEW DAVID SYLVIAN RELEASE
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From: "AB-CD.com"
Subject: NEW DAVID SYLVIAN RELEASE
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 16:02:16 -0500
NEW DAVID SYLVIAN RELEASE : AN ALBUM OF PERSONALLY COMMISSIONED REMIXES.
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DAVID SYLVIAN
The Good Son vs. The Only Daughter
Samadhi Sound 005
"David Sylvian personally commissioned remixes of material from his critically
acclaimed album Blemish, which was released in 2003. This album of remixes
entitled The Good Son Vs. The Only Daughter includes innovative contributions
from Burnt Friedman, Yoshihiro Hanno, Ryoji Ikeda, Akira Rabelais, Readymade FC,
and more. One of the top 2 'Albums of the Year' for The Wire magazine in 2003,
Blemish was heralded by many as an extraordinary work that cemented Sylvian's
reputation of always challenging himself as well as his audience. The remixers
involved in this project include some of the most creative and globally
respected individuals at the forefront of musical experimentation and sound
manipulation. Presented in a digipak, with artwork by Atsushi Fukui and design
by Chris Bigg this release continues Samadhisound's commitment to creating
beautifully packaged, stunning music."
Tracks:
1. the only daughter
Remixed by Ryoji Ikeda
Featuring: Fabienne Dussenwart: Flute.
Pascal Moreau: French Horn, Wibert Aerts: Violin,
Donminica Eyckmans: Viola, Jean-Paul Zanutel: Cello,
Ryoji Ikeda: Piano.
www.ryojiikeda.com
2. blemish
Featuring: Hayden Chisholm: Clarinet.
Remixed by Burnt Friedman
www.nonplace.de
3. the heart knows better
Remixed by Sweet Billy Pilgrim
Featuring: Alphonse Elsenburg: Clarinet.
www.sweetbillypilgrim.com
4. a fire in the forest
Remixed by Readymade FC
www.readym.com
5. the good son
Remixed by Yoshihiro Hanno
www.yoshihirohanno.com
6. late night shopping
Remixed by Burnt Friedman
Featuring Hayden Chisholm: Clarinet.
www.nonplace.de
7. how little we need to be happy
Remixed by Tatsuhiko Asano
www2.ttcn.ne.jp/~asano/
8. the only daughter
Remixed by Jan Bang and Erik Honore
Featuring: Nils Petter Molvaer: Trumpet.
9. blemish
Remixed by Akira Rabelais
www.akirarabelais.com
AB-CD price $15.47
http://www.ab-cd.com/icbin/media/SAMAD005CD
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David Sylvian is acclaimed for his work in the world of the singer and
songwriter, a world that, despite occasional sonic adventurer's visits, still
exists far apart from that of contemporary remixology. Blemish, Sylvian's first
release for his new label Samadhi Sound took a brave leap into the unknown
collaborating with contemporary improv guitarist Derek Bailey and electronic
musician Christian Fennesz, producing a series of powerful new songs that emerge
from a swirling formlessness.
On The Good Son vs. The Only Daughter Sylvian takes these recordings, and, in
collaboration with a group of remixers including Ryoji Ikeda, Akira Rabelais,
Burnt Friedman and Readymade FC, offers a set of radical re-workings of the
originals, transforming them into yet unheard of delights.
The sheer minimalism of Blemish offers a vast amount of space for collaborators
to work with and transform these songs, and in a number of cases on this disc,
actually producing somewhat more familiar song-like structures. Sweet Billy
Pilgrim's lovely rebuilding of "The Heart Knows Better" brings out a fiercely
pop quality to the song, as does Burnt Friedman's reworking of "Late Night
Shopping". Yoshihiro Hanno’s work on "The Good Son", with its Rhodes keyboard
sounds, hearkens back to the jazzier textures on Sylvian's late-1990s classic,
Dead Bees on a Cake, but interrupts them in marvellously abstract ways.
On hearing the re-workings of his songs Sylvian says "I enjoy hearing a
distillation of an aspect or aspects of the emotional content (of a composition)
explored in a new context. It's not unlike the re-staging of a play."
order now:
http://www.ab-cd.com/icbin/media/SAMAD005CD
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ALSO AVAILABLE ON SAMADHI SOUND AT AB-CD.com
David Sylvian, Blemish
http://www.ab-cd.com/icbin/media/SOUNDCD0001
Ryuichi Sakamoto / David Sylvian World Citizen (ep)
http://www.ab-cd.com/icbin/media/SOUNDCD0002
Akira Rabelais Spellewauerynsherd
http://www.ab-cd.com/icbin/media/SAMAD003CD
Harold Budd Avalon Sutra (*plus bonus disc 'As long as I can hold my Breath')
http://www.ab-cd.com/icbin/media/SAMAD004CD
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