Sylvian & Sakamoto - Heartbeat (1992) [FLAC]

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Format:CD, Maxi-Single
Box Set, Limited Edition
Country:UK
Released:Jun 1992
Genre:Electronic, Rock
Style:House, Art Rock, Synth-pop, Ambient

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[font=Optima][SIZE=6] 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 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.
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1 David Sylvian / Ryuichi Sakamoto* Featuring Ingrid Chavez - Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II - Returning To The Womb) 5:18
Lyrics By [Words] - David Sylvian And Ryuichi Sakamoto*
Music By - Arto Lindsay , Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Sylvian*
Vocals [Featuring] - Ingrid Chavez
Voice [Talking] - John Cage
2 David Sylvian / Ryuichi Sakamoto* - Forbidden Colours 5:56
Written-By - David Sylvian / Ryuichi Sakamoto*
3 Ryuichi Sakamoto - Heartbeat I 4:41
Lyrics By [Words] - Jeffrey Cohen
Music By - Ryuichi Sakamoto , Satoshi Tomile*
4 Ryuichi Sakamoto - Nuages 2:16
Arranged By - Sakamoto*
Written-By - Traditional



Credits
Artwork By [Calligraphy] - Ruth Roland
Artwork By [Package Designed By] - David Crow
Photography - Andrew Cameron
Photography [Portrait Of David Sylvian] - Kevin Westenberg
Photography [Portrait Of Ryuichi Sakamoto] - Michel Comte
Notes
℗ 1992 Virgin Records America inc
© 1992 Virgin Records America inc
Manufactured in the UK

UPC# 5 012985 005722

Featuring "Forbidden Colours" (1987 Recording).
Package includes new photographs of Sylvian & Sakamoto, box includes 4 page inlay plus 2 color inserts.
Tracks 1, 3 & 4 appear on the album "Heartbeat" by Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Track 4 based on a traditional song.

Artists credited as "Sylvian / Sakamoto" on box & inlay, credited as David Sylvian/Ryuichi Sakamoto on disc.

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