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Titolo: [Il nuovo di Sylvian] già commentato brano per brano!

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Nine Horses - Snow Borne Sorrow
© 2005 
davidsylvian.net
, Gerrit Hillebrand (4 september 2005)
The long awaited album with Sylvian involved will be 
released on Samadhi Sound (SS006)on October 10th 2005. As 
the band named Nine Horses, David Sylvian, Steve Jansen and 
Burnt Friedman have produced a remarkable and accessible 
album called Snow Borne Sorrow.
I say band, as this is definitely a collaboration between 
the three artists and not a Sylvian solo album.
After the dark Blemish album, David might have lost some 
fans because they found the album inaccessible. An album 
with electronic tracks on the edge of what fans could/would 
appreciate juiced with strong statements about his difficult 
domestic period. But I think that David was right. David 
doesn't compromise. He does his things as he wants to.
Same on Snow Borne Sorrow. But with Snow Borne Sorrow, 
there's an album with easier listen-able and accessible 
tracks but still with the same ironic, (sometimes) bitter 
lyrics that forces us to look at the world from another 
perspective.
Overall, with Snow Borne Sorrow, David gets a lot of fans 
back. I'm sure.
The influence of Steve and Burnt is very present. And before 
I forget, the contributions of Ryuichi Sakamoto and 
Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen (Supersilent) is of great 
importance for the whole album.
Snow Borne Sorrow is a highly recommended collaboration of 
three great musicians that deserves to be found in many 
record shops and not only in their 'Sylvian'-section!
Wonderful World [6:04]
     The track starts with a cinematic, jazzy rhythm 
structured with superb bass playing of Keith Lowe. Wonderful 
World has a catchy melody with Stina Nordenstam filling in 
the gaps between Sylvian's ironic looks at the world of 
today. What Stina is singing/saying isn't clearly to me as I 
can hardly understand a word she's saying. The choice of 
Stina is remarkable as her style of performing on this track 
sounds a lot like Ingrid Chavez. Maybe a purposeful move of 
Sylvian. One of my favorite tracks of this album.
Darkest Birds [5:05]
     A strong, radio-friendly track which reminded me 
immediately of the Dead Bees On A Cake album. Bitter, 
cynical lyrics on an up-tempo Jansen beat with great guitar 
work of David himself. Arve Henrikson's trumpet sounding 
like Jon Hassell and Nils Petter Molvaer. A dark but moving 
and brilliant track! One that many Sylvian fans will appreciate.
The Banality Of Evil [8:01]
Atom And Cell [7:08]
     For me, the two most uninteresting tracks of this album 
are the third and fourth track. The Banality Of Evil is 
another message of David to America's politics after the 
9/11 terror and Atom and Cell is a track which was just too 
long for me. The reason for this might be that I have 
problems with the backing vocals, obviously. For me, the 
background vocals are too present on both tracks.
A History Of Holes [8:04]
     Do you know the occasions when a song you hear for the 
first time doesn't impress you very much but after listening 
a second time and listening carefully to the lyrics, the 
song kind of grabs you and is growing after repetitive 
listening's? A History Of Holes is such a track. A 
reflection of David on excellent music by Burnt Friedman. 
Keith Low is playing bass, Tim Motzer on electric guitar and 
Theo Travis on flute and saxophone.
     Great track and together with Wonderful World and the 
title track my absolute favorite.
Snow Borne Sorrow [6:25]
     I was in the fortunate position of listening to this 
track (a rough demo) three months ago and I was immensely 
impressed. After hearing the final track on this album I was 
even more impressed. I can only say; this will be a classic! 
Written by Steve Jansen with lyrics and vocals by David 
Sylvian, combined with sensitive additions of Ryuichi on 
piano and the Hassell-like trumpet playing of Arve Henriksen 
makes this track a treat that could easily be placed on 
albums like Brilliant Trees and Secrets Of The Beehive.
     Unlike Blemish, this is the only track on the album 
which features heavily used electronic elements by Steve's 
Apple.
     One minor point: this track is too short! The track is 
ending at a moment where you expect some 
Jansen/Henriksen/Sakamoto session for many minutes more. 
Hopefully this whish will be fulfilled at a future live 
performance.
The Day The Earth Stole Heaven [3:21]
Serotonin [5:56]
     Maybe it's not appropriate to take these two tracks 
together, but both are written by Burnt Friedman (the first 
together with Tim Motzer). Very accessible tracks which give 
plenty of room for Sylvian's lyrics. Both tracks make 
heavily use of Friedman related musicians: Daniel Schroeter 
(bass) and Hayden Chisholm (clarinet).
The Librarian [9:01]
     A new, better mix of the track that can be found on the 
Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit vinyl EP Out In The Sticks. 
This version is based on Steve's rhythm and besides Keith 
Lowe and Tim Motzer use is made of the contributions from 
Hayden Chisholm (clarinet) and Morten Grønvad (vibraphone).
     One reason alone to buy this album.

"stanz" <st...@altro.quando> ha scritto
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qualche frammentino-ino ascoltabile quivi:
http://www.dotshop.se/ds/release.php?code=SS006CD&rand=166556375
(grazie a TWL per la segnalazione)
che dire? doveva essere il "nuovo livello" di elaborazione dei suadentissimi
soundscapes di "Blemish" ed invece pare un passo indietro (con
banalizzazione ritmica annessa) alla Torta delle Api Morte, io poi la
Nordenstam non la reggo proprio, sorry. I "si dice" di corridoio parlano di
registrazioni vecchiotte lasciate in cantina e c'è il rischio siano andate
in aceto. (Il tutto col beneficio d'inventario dell'ascolto sbrindellato
dalle scruso-casse del pc, logico che il Sylviano meriti approfondite e
ripeture ricognizioni).