New David Sylvian album out in October
Official David Sylvian web site
Having now listened to it. It's very likeable.
Click for Snow Borne Sorrow by Nine Horses
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The new album of David Sylvian, Steve Jansen and Burnt Friedman will
hopefully released on 10.10.05 as Nine Horses with the title 'Snow Borne
Sorrow'.
Tracklisting:
1. Wonderful World
2. Darkest Birds
3. The Banality Of Evil
4. Atom and Cell
5. A History Of Holes
6. Snow Borne Sorrow
7. The Day The Earth Stole Heaven
8. Serotonin
9. The Librarian
stunning new group project featuring david sylvian, steve jansen and burnt
friedman
Nine Horses' 'Snow Borne Sorrow' is a collaboration between David Sylvian,
his brother and frequent collaborator / drummer Steve Jansen (also formerly
of Japan) and electronic composer / remixer Burnt Friedman.
Lyrically and vocally, 'Snow Borne Sorrow' continues the maturing darkness
of Sylvian's last solo release 'Blemish' songs of struggle, doubt and
resolve, Bergman-like glimpses of the realities and difficulties of intimate
relationship, flashes of light and humility and, continuing his engagement
with the political situation in post-0911 America, begun on his 2004 single
with Ryuichi Sakamoto,
World Citizen, caustic words about the excuses our leaders manage to find
not to "love thy neighbor".
'Snow Borne Sorrow' was made with a cast of contributors, including
Norwegian trumpeter and Supersilent member Arve Henriksen, Swedish vocalist
Stina Nordenstam, who adds marvelously elliptical responses to Sylvian's
vocal on the opening "Wonderful World", and Ryuichi
Sakamoto on piano.
On the title for the album Sylvian says: "Winter provokes introspection.
Even more so the long hard winters surrounded by that cushioning, muted,
numbing whiteness. It can also be a time of enormous creativity, of
resolutions, resoluteness, clarity and conviction."
'Snow Borne Sorrow's' sound is expanded, maximalist, full, rooted in
traditional song structures like some of Sylvian's classic discs including
Brilliant Trees, Secrets of the Beehive and Dead Bees on a Cake.
