by baht habit on Wed Apr 06, 2011 2:14 pm
[/quote]I also wanted to share this, I've been informed that Sylvian had decided to edit the final version of When We Return You Won't Recognise Us from 50 minutes down to 20 minutes for this release.[/quote]
i wonder why he has so drastically cut the run time on this track, being that a whole additional disk has been included to accomodate it's prescence, there is not a time issue is there.[/quote]
I also was a bit confounded as to why the piece came to become so heavily edited, so I inquired into what exactly was going on with all of this and I've received what seems to be a fairly valid explanation.
Certain portions of the original piece were created for the express purpose of utilizing the impressive scope of 5.1 Surround Sound, which was available for use at the installation. As best I was informed, I can tell you that the bulk of these parts of the original work were ambient sections of considerable length written and recorded by Steve D'Agostino, who handled all the mastering of the 5.1 himself.
Yet during the process of creating a brand new stereo mix in order for an official release, Sylvian felt as though these specific sections did not translate as well in comparison to the rest of the piece and actually took away from the work's overall continuity. So basically they were chosen to be excised in order to keep the focus on the ensemble's performance.
The upside is that Sylvian then added more improvised material from earlier takes by Fujikura and the members of the International Contemporary Ensemble not originally included within the piece. So supposedly what we will be hearing when we listen to this track are the original contributions of Fujikura and ICE ---plus additional parts from them which were not on the original...the full contributions from Butcher, Prevost and Muller...and contributions added later on by both Henriksen and Nakamura which were also not on the original.
The piece essentially kept evolving even after it was first debuted for the installation. And even though it is now being presented at a shorter duration, Sylvian views the final product as a more cohesive piece that stands very strongly alongside the rest of the content on both Manafon and the forthcoming Died In The Wool.
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baht habit on Tue May 17, 2011 1:32 pm, edited 1 time in total.