David Sylvian – Sleepwalkers (2010)

Posted By: v3122

Date: Oct. 16, 2010

David recently completed work on a compilation cd featuring some of the best of his collaborative work of the last decade or so. Entitled 'Sleepwalkers' it contains fresh remixes by David and a new composition with classical composer Dai Fujikura entitled 'Five Lines'.
A number of the tracks have been given a subtle remix by David to bring them in line with his personal requirements while others have been given more obvious updates and changes. All the material has been completely remastered.

Press

In the 00s, DAVID SYLVIAN produced two of his strongest and most solitary statements, "Blemish" and "Manafon". But those records don't tell the whole story. In the same period, Sylvian created a more playful body of work: a series of collaborations and side projects with leading talents of pop and improv, electronic and contemporary classical music. The best of these recordings are gathered here on "Sleepwalkers", meticulously sequenced and remixed: the fruits of one-off meetings and lifelong partnerships, they jump from bliss to intrigue, romance to sensuality, as arch-experiments lead into the lushest pop.

The single "World Citizen (I Won't Be Disappointed)", written with RYUICHI SAKAMOTO, is a sublime example, with an impeccable melody and lyrics warmed by Sylvian's gorgeous tenor. Sylvian has worked with Sakamoto for close to three decades. By contrast, on "Pure Genius", a collaboration with Chris Vrenna aka TWEAKER, he sounds like he's walked into a heist flick, singing the part of a delusional, dangerous bedroom genius. As Sylvian explains, tracks like this "give me a chance to write in a way that's completely non-personal, playful. It's an exercise of some kind, working within the parameters of a given assignment."

Sylvian's longest-running partnership is with his brother, drummer and electronics artist STEVE JANSEN, and two of their projects find their way here: the NINE HORSES trio with BURNT FRIEDMAN, and Jansen's debut album (and Samadhisound release) "Slope". "Sleepwalkers" also spotlights the innovators who contributed to "Manafon" and "Blemish". CHRISTIAN FENNESZ hangs a crackling, shimmering curtain behind the vocal on "Transit", matching his signature mass of sui generis sounds to Sylvian's stately performance, and the title track began with an instrumental handed to Sylvian by MARTIN BRANDLMAYR of POLWECHSEL, soon after the first recording session for "Manafon". Spite crackles in the gaps between the percussion, and onkyo artists TOSHIMARU NAKAMURA and SACHIKO M set the stage for the scathing lyrics in the chorus.

Like 2000's "Everything and Nothing", "Sleepwalkers" is a retrospective of the past decade – but it's also an eye-opening complement to his solo releases. As Sylvian explains, "Some collaborations seem to be a one-off exchange but you can never be too certain of that fact. Others have been long term. Ryuichi comes to mind as, of course, does Steve. And then there's others with whom you hope to continue working as you feel you've barely scratched the surface. Other times offers come out of the blue, welcome, inspired. Regardless, it's wonderful to have so many possibilities to juggle with. Each collaboration seems timely. It's as if there's a rightness to the exchange at a given moment in time."

David Sylvian:

Born: February 23, 1958, Lewisham, London, England
Active: '70s, '80s, '90s, 2000s
Genres: Rock
Instrument: Keyboards
Representative Albums: "Secrets of the Beehive", "Weatherbox", "God's Monkey: Retrospective"
Representative Songs: "Forbidden Colours", "I Surrender", "The Boy With the Gun"

Following the 1982 dissolution of Japan, the group's onetime frontman David Sylvian staked out a far-ranging and esoteric career that encompassed not only solo projects but also a series of fascinating collaborative efforts and forays into filmmaking, photography, and modern art. Born David Batt in Kent, England, on February 23, 1958, Sylvian formed Japan in 1974 and served as primary singer/songwriter throughout the group's eight-year existence. Just prior to Japan's breakup, Sylvian began working with composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, with whom he released the single "Bamboo Houses" in 1982, marking the beginning of a longstanding musical relationship.

After 1983's "Forbidden Colours," another joint effort with Sakamoto composed for the film Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, Sylvian released his 1984 solo debut, Brilliant Trees. The first step in his music's evolution from Japan's post-glam synth pop into richly textured, poetic ambience, the album featured contributions from Sakamoto as well as Jon Hassell and Can alumnus Holger Czukay. That year, Sylvian also published his first book of photographs, Perspectives: Polaroids 82/84; in 1985, he released Preparations for the Journey, a documentary filmed in and around Tokyo, as well as the EP Words With the Shaman.

Gone to Earth, an ambitious double LP recorded with assistance from Robert Fripp and Bill Nelson, followed in 1986, while 1987 marked the release not only of the beautiful Secrets of the Beehive album but also the book collection Trophies: The Lyrics of David Sylvian. At the same time, he began composing the score for modern dancer Gaby Abis' Kin, which premiered at London's Almeida Theater that September; another collaboration with Abis, Don't Trash My Altar, Don't Alter My Trash, bowed in November 1988. Also in 1988, Sylvian reunited with Holger Czukay for the instrumental LP Plight and Premonition; the duo re-teamed in 1989 for Flux + Mutability. Ember Glance: The Permanence of Memory, an installation of sculpture, sound, and light created by Sylvian and Russell Mills, was staged in Tokyo Bay, Shinagawa, in 1990; a year later, he and the other members of Japan, who had briefly reunited under the name Rain Tree Crow, issued a self-titled album.

In 1994, Sylvian emerged in tandem with Robert Fripp for both an album, The First Day, and Redemption, another sound-and-image installation exhibited in Japan. The superb Dead Bees on a Cake followed in 1999; Approaching Silence, a collection of instrumental material, appeared later that fall. In fall 2000 Sylvian returned with the double-disc Everything and Nothing, which made for an excellent introduction to some of Sylvian's projects that had finally taken shape after the composition completion, financial settlements, and time constraints throughout his solo career. He reappeared in 2003 with Blemish, an unsettling disc of new material featuring appearances by avant guitar legend Derek Bailey and electronica experimentalist Christian Fennesz. It took six long years for Sylvian to record a follow-up to Blemish, but he did so with Manafon in 2009. Fennesz appeared on the set, as did vanguard musicians Evan Parker, John Tilbury, Otomo Yoshihide, Polwechsel, and Keith Rowe.

~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi

David Sylvian – Sleepwalkers (2010):

Tracklist:

01. Sleepwalkers [5:16] (with Martin Brandlmayr)
02. Money for All [4:08] (with Nine Horses)
03. Ballad of a Deadman [5:31] (with Steve Jansen)
04. Angels [4:00] (with Jan Bang and Erik Honoré aka Punkt)
05. World Citizen (I Won't Be Disappointed) [6:06] (with Ryuichi Sakamoto/Chasm mix)
06. Five Lines [3:52] (with Dai Fujikura/ previously unreleased)
07. The Day the Earth Stole Heaven [3:17] (with Nine Horses)
08. Playground Martyrs [2:39] (with Steve Jansen)
09. Exit / Delete [3:28] (with Masakatsu Takagi)
10. Pure Genius [4:02] (with Tweaker)
11. Wonderful World [5:59] (with Nine Horses)
12. Transit [4:52] (with Christian Fennesz)
13. The World Is Everything [1:43] (with Takuma Watanabe)
14. Thermal [2:19] (with Arve Henriksen)
15. Sugarfuel [4:15] (with Readymade FC)
16. Trauma [5:40] (solo outtake from Blemish)

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