godisinthesilences wrote:wow baht you have a crazy wonderful knowlege on all this! Thank you for sharing.
You're welcome - I'm glad you appreciated the info.
I can totally understand how some fans will be disappointed by Sylvian's move away from 'beauty' and 'melody'. I myself was totally anti-'blemish' when I first listened to it - oh my goodness, those first few tracks - I thought Sylvian had flipped his lid from the New Hampshire winter. With time I realized that my initial reaction dealt more with what I wanted to hear rather than what I was listening to at the time.
I am just glad he actually went through with the Nine Horses project - as excellent as the NH material is, I get the feeling he was not fully focused on what was being created. His interests may have lied somewhere else all along and we will have a chance to hear where he is truly coming from very soon. I am sure that many would disagree, but I am of the opinion that his brother and Burnt Friedman really were the catalysts that drove the entire project - both taking turns creating the foundations, recording the musicians and devising the forms for Sylvian to work his magic over.
In regards to the forthcoming release, I will venture a guess that it won't be 'blemish II' as Sylvian doesn't ever work that way, does he? I am hopeful that the material will be similar in tone to Sleepwalkers --- that I can deal with. In any matter, I am bracing myself for the worst, so how bad can it really be?
