# Money for All

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Money for All is an EP released 2007 by the band Nine Horses, featuring David Sylvian, Steve Jansen and Burnt Friedman. The EP includes three new songs: "Money for All," "Get the Hell Out," and "Birds Sing for Their Lives." The other five tracks are remixes.

## Background

Sylvian said about the project in 2012:
   "It was actually started prior to Blemish. I was building a studio at the time and, upon completion, my brother (Steve Jansen) and I sat in the studio for a couple of weeks and started writing material together. And I was really happy with the material that we were writing together, but we were writing incredibly slowly. Put my brother and I in a room together and we can be very fastidious and really it can take a long time to produce a body of work, and I needed to do something more immediate because I hadn't created new work in such a long period of time. And I felt this burgeoning sense of something needing to be expressed and, you know, it was what was to become Blemish. So I just asked Steve if we could put this project on hold for a six week period and we'd get back to it.
   On the Blemish tour I met up with Burnt Friedmann, and we expressed a desire to work together, so I started working on material with him for a supposedly different project. I finished that project and handed the material to Burnt. Burnt mixed it, and I felt that the material hadn't achieved its full potential, and I asked if he could send me the files so that I could have a bash at the material, and he was generous enough to do that. It kind of began to merge with the material that I was working on with Steve, and I added Steve to a lot of the tracks that Burnt and I had written together, and I think Burnt contributed something to the material that Steve and I had worked on together. So I basically became an overseer of these two separate projects and tried to bring them together as cohesively as I could. And they made sense. They made sense together. They complemented one another nicely.
   And I was really proud of that record. I thought it was again not something that had been planned with a lot of forethought, but over time I became I began to envision it as a whole and managed to pull it together in a way that really made good sense to me. It was a return to the kind of songwriting that I'd been involved with for years. Now I find that I'm able to go back and forth quite easily between more traditional songwriting forms and more improvisational forms. They're just different strands of the work that I intend to continue producing. I don't see that they're at odds with one another. I enjoy the contrast, to be honest…
   I loved working with Stina (Nordenstam). She's super talented. She's got this instrument that she knows perfectly well how to get the best out of."

## Track listing

All lyrics by David Sylvian except "Birds Sing for Their Lives" by Stina Nordenstam; all music by Sylvian and Burnt Friedman except where noted.
* "Money for All" – 4:09
* "Get the Hell Out" (Steve Jansen, Sylvian) – 5:37
* "The Banality of Evil" (Burnt Friedman Remix) – 6:48
* "Wonderful World" (Burnt Friedman Remix) – 7:04
* "Birds Sing for Their Lives" – 7:02
* "Serotonin" (Burnt Friedman Remix) – 4:51
* "Money for All" (Version) – 4:00
* "Get the Hell Out" (Burnt Friedman Remix) (Jansen, Sylvian) – 5:04

## Personnel

* David Sylvian – vocals, electric piano (1, 2, 7), guitar (1, 7), harmonica (1, 7), arrangement (3, 4, 6), mixing, art direction
* Steve Jansen – samples (2, 4, 8), drum programming (2, 8), percussion (4), keyboards (4), synth (8), mixing
* Hayden Chisholm – clarinet (exc. 2, 5, 8)
* Daniel Schröter – double bass (1, 5, 7), bass (6, 8)
* Burnt Friedman – drum programming (exc. 2, 5), synth (1, 3, 6, 7), effects (3, 4, 6), electronics (8)
* Morten Grønvad – vibraphone (1, 7)
* Beverlei Brown, Tommy Blaize – backing vocals (1, 6, 7)
* Andrea Grant, Derek Green – backing vocals (1, 7)
* Claudio Bohorquez – cello (3, 4)
* Thomas Elbern – acoustic guitar (3), electric guitar (4, 6)
* Joseph Suchy – guitar (3, 6)
* Norbert Krämer – timpani (4)
* Stina Nordenstam – vocals (4, 5)
* Tim Motzer – guitar (6)
* Alexander Meyen – violin (8)

## Additional personnel

* Atsushi Fukui – cover artwork
* Chris Bigg – design