Newsgroup: it.arti.musica.rock.progressive
Titolo: David Sylvian

Un mio amico ieri mi chiedeva che fine ha fatto David Sylvian, o meglio che
sta facendo in questo ultimo periodo, dopo le collaborazioni con Fripp
(damage e the firs day) e dopo il suo ultimo disco solista che risale al
1987 (mi pare).
Io ovviamente non ho saputo rispondergli.
Se qualcuno sa, parli.
Ciao KH

 1987 (mi pare).
E' una notizia UFFICIALE che la data di uscita del nuovo album è il 2 FEBBRAIO,
con un singolo in uscita il 18 Gennaio dal titolo "I SURRENDER"  (fonte:
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/K.vanBunningen/music/sylvian/information/update.html
)
L'album, pare, DOVREBBE chiamarsi *DEAD BEES ON A CAKE" ed una descrizione data
è la seguente:
***Well I've just had my first few listens to this and I'd just thought I'd
post up my impressions.
As you all must know by now there are 4 tracks: "I Surrender", "Midnight Sun",
"Thalheim" and "Krishna Blue".
I've listened to the whole thing about 4 times now, and it's
definitely a grower, not an instant hit. Some tracks are more instant than
others but ...
Starting at the beginning:
"I Surrender": Well my copy is missing the first few seconds (as though the
person recording it, forgot that there was a header on the tape !) but apart
from that, this is an amazing track. Probably the most instantly accessable it
reminds be of a combination of "Heartbeat", SOTB and Brilliant Trees (thelatter
coming from the wonderful brass solos in there -
probably Jon Hassell again). The amazing thing is that the
whole track is so positive. He appears to have lost the
introspective depression of SOTB, he's just kept the wonderful
melodies and made the whole thing considerably more upbeat.
Lyrically it's strong - but the real hook is how well the vocals
match the tune - no dischord's just wonderful harmonies (a bit
of a change for DS I guess !)
"Midnight Sun": Wow ... on to a completely different tack. If
any of you have heard the sound track to "Twin Peaks: Fire
Walk With Me" this reminds me of some of the more insane
bluesy tracks from that. Vocally and musically it's rather
wonderful but lyrically it's really not up to the usual standard.
However, DS on a bad day is better than most at their best, so
no real complaints.
"Thalheim": This one took me a few listens to get in to, but
now it's probably my favourite. Another combo song - this is
going for an upbeat, melodic, feel with a lot of elements of
Gone To Earth (album, not track). It starts off with a soul feel
to the vocals (which is probably what took getting used to).
When the vocals pick up about (4 minutes in) it really does
compare to the best DS has ever done - whilst being different
from all of it. Incidentally this is another happy song ... married
life obviously agrees with him.
"Krishna Blue": Now this is odd. I really don't think I like this
one. The vocals are wonderful, singing lyrics (which are fairly
bad by DS standards) in fantastic tones. But they just don't go
with the music which is very reminiscent of Alchemy. In fact
this really sounds like two songs which have been mixed
together by mistake - 'cause the music is stunning in it's own
right too (in fact I hope he does an instrumental version!).
When Ingrid (I assume it's her) comes in on the vocals, things
start to look up - and indeed the track ends a lot better than it
started. Maybe, this one isn't finished yet (I can hope). But
then again maybe it'll grow on me ...
Overall though - worth the wait. I kind of hope that Krishna
Blue ends up as a B side rather than as an album tracks - it's
well worth having, but I think it would bring the rest down.
Given that these 4 tracks together are only about 5 minutes
shorter than the whole of SOTB, I wonder how much more
there will be to the whole album (maybe it'll be a double, like
GTE :-))
Overall 8/10 (full marks for "I Surrender" and "Thalheim" but
only half marks for "Midnight Sun" and "Krishna Blue"
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Spero che il tutto soddisfi le curiosità del tuo amico.
bye stànz