David Sylvian - Died In The Wool (2011) [FLAC & MP3] Dez16v ( TLS Release )
David Sylvian's MANAFON (2009) appeared as a collection of disciplined art songs that relied on his collaborators to inform not only their textures, but their forms. Those players -- Jan Bang, Evan Parker, John Tilbury, Dai Fujikura, Erik Honore, Otoma Yoshide, and Christian Fennesz among them -- created airy,
often gently dissonant structures for Sylvian's lyrics and melodic ideas.
Died in the Wool (MANAFON Variations) re-employs these players (with some new ones) in the considerable reworking of five of MANAFON's compositions. There
are also six new songs that include unused outtakes, and two poems by Emily Dickinson set to music and sung by Sylvian.
The new music here relies heavily on Sylvian's association with Fujikura: he composed, arranged, and conducted chamber strings that are prevalent. Where
MANAFON's "Small Metal Gods" was orchestrated by acoustic guitar, laptop, electronics, bass, and cello, this one employs a string quartet that provides greatly
expanded harmonics, which underscore the desolate power in Sylvian's lyrics.
On "Snow White in Appalachia," strings shift the tune's original sonic gears into diffused, vaporous sonorities. On the title track, Fujikura uses a composed
clarinet sample to introduce John Butcher's saxophone, a mixing board, an all-but-unrecognizable guitar, cymbals, and samples to stretch a narrative melody to its
ghostly breaking point.
Dickinson's poem, "I Should Not Dare," is a standout; its gentle, accessible melody, accompanied by Sylvian's acoustic guitar, is made sharper by Fennesz's electric and samples from Honore. Parker adds a gorgeous nocturnal saxophone line and Bang provides an unusual string arrangement to create the feeling of deep
longing across great distance. "A Certain Slant of Light," also by Dickinson, is less formal but more moodily cinematic with its layers of samples.
A delightfully fragmented redo of "Emily Dickinson" completes the sonic re-creation of her image as this set's Muse. On "Anomaly at Taw Head," Fujikura's string
abstractions -- introduced by Parker's bluesy saxophone and Tilbury's minimal piano -- add dimension to Sylvian's open field melodic structure. The underlining poetic is tense, but seductive.
There is a bonus second disc, too, in Sylvian's 18-minute sound installation "When We Return You Won't Recognize Us."
It is a stellar, ambient work featuring Arve Henricksen, Butcher, the Elysian Quartet, Eddie Prevost, Toshimaru Nakamura, and Gunter Muller. It should be listened to on headphones to grasp all of its intricacies. Died in the Wool (MANAFON Variations) showcases Sylvian's restless discipline in expanding his music's parameters, and those of song itself, while offering even greater opportunities for his collaborators to influence its creation.
Tracklist:-
Disc 1
01. Small Metal Gods
02. Died In The Wool
03. I Should Not Dare
04. Random Acts Of Senseless Violence
05. A Certain Slant Of Light (for M.K.)
06. Anomaly At Taw Head
07. Snow White In Appalachia
08. Emily Dickinson
09. The Greatest Living Englishman (coda)
10. Anomaly At Taw Head (a haunting)
11. Manafon
12. The Last Days Of December
Disc 2
1. When We Return You Won’t Recognise Us
David Sylvian - Died in the wool (2011) [FLAC & MP3 @ 320kbps]
EAC Rip | 2CDs | FLAC (Tracks) - Cue - Log | Scans Complete | Release: 2011 | 665 MB
Genre: Rock
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