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Thanks, David. Have read it with the utmost interest as ever.

My ears are hearing a 'self-steal' at one point among the ethereal cacophony of the instrumental backing - a muffled, yet direct sample of "Ghosts" itself. Anybody else?

Finally, it's official that there's a double vinyl LP of Snow Borne Sorrow coming up as a RSD release - but the only unreleased material is a Burnt Friedman remix of Atom and Cell:

https://www.recordstoreday.co.uk/record/Snow%20Borne%20Sorrow

https://www.davidsylvian.net/news/latest-news/nine ...

Fripp recently got in possession of the whole Sylvian/Fripp material (a fact somewhat lamented by DS himself). This is a blessing as far as archive material is concerned, as Fripp's m.o. is a huge boxset containing every ounce of recorded material for the time period in question. I would not be ...

Lucrecia Dalt is recording a new album and soundtrack work at her and Sylvian's current HQ, a modest place somewhere near Santa Fe (New Mexico) according to one of the comments.

Nice lot of instruments and recording tools visible - that must be her usual live setup since she's just finished a world ...

Steve has a new website chronicling his work, musical and otherwise. It's here:

https://www.stevejansen.net/

Check out the other collaborations section, with several Asian-located ones unmentioned elsewhere iirc.

Hi, fellow Sylvian nonproductivity mourners :smt090

The resemblance in Bang's voice is very striking, yes, but I detect a whole lot of Scott Walker in it as well.

Anyway, you'll be glad to know this one's not really his first vocal album since 1998: solo-billed, yes, but recently he had put out ...

David reported that he will be on a Sakamoto-tribute album, to be released in December.
https://www.davidsylvian.net/news/latest-news/sylvian-contributes-to-sakamoto-tribute-album/
https://twitter.com/davidsylviannet
And here he is.
He hasn't lost his voice in all this time:

https://www.youtube ...

Like I’m sure many of you here, I have both albums on LP (the limited editions from the first time around) and, to be fair, they sound way better on CD to me. (Been thinking about selling them actually, from time to time...)
I think it doesn't make much sense stretching Manafon on 2LPs with that one ...

Wonderful as usual, David - thanks. I'm going to relish reading this one as P&P is one of my favourite records as well.

I bought the LP in 1989 aged 16 as part of an introductory Sylvian buying spree that included Gone to Earth, Secrets of the Beehive, Pop Song, and Flux+Mutability. I remember ...

'L'Albero Pazzo' is finally available on vinyl from Chimenti's website - the first batch already sold out, with more copies due in from the 27th of this month. This is the link to order the LP from:

https://www.andreachimenti.it/#elementor-action%3Aaction%3Dpopup%3Aopen%26settings ...

L’Albero Pazzo is finally available on vinyl, from his website http://www.andreachimenti.it

Edit: oh gosh, sold out already

Thanks javier, very interesting to read your motivations for your own reshuffling of DBoaC. I might try your sequence to hear how it works.

Mine is different, as I attempted to cover all bases: ears first above all else, I strove to preserve at least half of the original 1999 cd sequence which I've ...

I think the release of the new vinyl edition of L'Albero Pazzo is still in the works/postponed, as it's still nowhere to be found on Amazon, Discogs, etc.

On a related subject, during the past year's lockdown I immersed myself in his as-yet latest album, Yuri (2015), which won me over to the point ...

Thanks again, David J.

Your interpretation of several passages of the song's lyrics are insightful, and also interesting because I have for myself come to think this song actually marked a dent in the overall positivity of the love intoxication narrated throughout Dead Bees - a thematically ...

Those are most obviously CD-Rs for three 2007 shows (the title is a spin on the tour's name, "The World Is Everything"). I'm sure there is nothing in there that the completists here haven't heard 10+ years ago. All three shows are sure to be audience recordings. They were found on various fan pages ...