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[silentwings]

The latest article published is about 'Flux' from David Sylvian's second album with Holger Czukay - Flux & Mutability.

Sylvian felt this track was a struggle to mix and to find the right dynamics - calling in Markus Stockhausen to add flugelhorn after the initial sessions. Divorced from the difficulties of recording it, as a listener I've always enjoyed this instrumental. Jaki Liebezeit's drums differentiate it from the other tracks in the quartet of Plight & Premonition and Flux & Mutability.

It's always a pleasure to revisit these albums.

Here's the link: https://sylvianvista.com/2023/08/11/flux/

[silentwings]

I just published a new article looking back to Japan's 'Life in Tokyo', the collaboration with Giorgio Moroder designed by Hansa to give the band a much-needed hit record.

Moroder had earned fame for his use of sequencers on 'I Feel Love' with Donna Summer, which led to his first movie soundtrack - for which he won an Oscar.

Sylvian worked with Moroder's demo to create the song, which did not chart until much later when it was re-worked and re-released to cash in on the success of Tin Drum.

Here's the link: https://sylvianvista.com/2023/09/01/life-in-tokyo/

[Quiet Visitor]

Thanks for this article. Live In Tokyo wasn't a favorite of mine either. I'm glad it didn't became a hit, because then we might have missed Quiet Life!

For those who like to hear Moroder himself on how he "invented" his sound it's nice to listen to the Daft Punk-song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhl-Cs1-sG4

PS. Just listened to the Steve Nye special 7" remix and yes, Mick is so much more in his strengh on this version!
On the 12" mix Mick's guitar is even in a higher pitch.

Thanks to this article I paid some more attention to this song, so thanks again

[silentwings]

Thanks Quiet Visitor for that link and for the kind feedback.

I've just published a new article about 'Nothing is Happening Everywhere', a track with David Sylvian on vocals that arrived completely unexpectedly in 2012, and which boasted a percussive drive that was absent from Sylvian's solo material of the preceding years.

Sylvian sang over a track created by L A N D - then a duo of Daniel Lea and Matthew Waters - for their album Night Within.

For the article I was able to interview Daniel Lea to learn more about the collaboration and how it came about.

Read it here: https://sylvianvista.com/2023/09/22/not ... verywhere/