Sounds like a new track coming this November…
Touch Records newsletter #312.
Looking further ahead… August (approx): Jacaszek “Gardenia” (vinyl) – see below for more detail. September: Cleared “Hexa” and Fennesz “Mosaic”. October: Claire M Singer – part two of the trilogy which began with “Saor”. November: Philip Jeck tribute album with original tracks from Hildur Guðnadóttir & David Sylvian, Philip Jeck, Fennesz, Jana Winderen, Chris Watson, Rosy Parlane, Claire M Singer, Faith Coloccia and others, and a contribution from Jah Wobble & Deep Space…
David Sylvian + Hildur Guðnadóttir DUET
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Re: David Sylvian + Hildur Guðnadóttir DUET
More information on this track and album on https://sylvianvista.com/about-vista/
NEW SYLVIAN TRACK ON PHILIP JECK TRIBUTE ALBUM
The Touch label has announced a tribute album for Philip Jeck who passed away in 2022. Philip appeared with David Sylvian at Punkt 2011, performing for the only live performance ever given of Plight & Premonition.
The album, scheduled to be released in November, includes a track by Hildur Guðnadóttir & David Sylvian.
Hildur won an Oscar for the Best Original Score for the film Joker (2019).
Below: Philip Jeck with his customary turntables at Punkt 2011
Re: David Sylvian + Hildur Guðnadóttir DUET
Thanks for flagging. Another spoken word piece from David. Hildur's cello playing here reminds me of Sakamoto's soundtrack for The Revenant.
Re: David Sylvian + Hildur Guðnadóttir DUET
Emily Dickinson
I measure every Grief I meet
I measure every Grief I meet
With narrow, probing, eyes –
I wonder if It weighs like Mine –
Or has an Easier size.
I wonder if They bore it long –
Or did it just begin –
I could not tell the Date of Mine –
It feels so old a pain –
I wonder if it hurts to live –
And if They have to try –
And whether – could They choose between –
It would not be – to die –
I note that Some – gone patient long –
At length, renew their smile –
An imitation of a Light
That has so little Oil –
I wonder if when Years have piled –
Some Thousands – on the Harm –
That hurt them early – such a lapse
Could give them any Balm –
Or would they go on aching still
Through Centuries of Nerve –
Enlightened to a larger Pain –
In Contrast with the Love –
The Grieved – are many – I am told –
There is the various Cause –
Death – is but one – and comes but once –
And only nails the eyes –
There's Grief of Want – and grief of Cold –
A sort they call "Despair" –
There's Banishment from native Eyes –
In sight of Native Air –
And though I may not guess the kind –
Correctly – yet to me
A piercing Comfort it affords
In passing Calvary –
To note the fashions – of the Cross –
And how they're mostly worn –
Still fascinated to presume
That Some – are like my own –
I measure every Grief I meet
I measure every Grief I meet
With narrow, probing, eyes –
I wonder if It weighs like Mine –
Or has an Easier size.
I wonder if They bore it long –
Or did it just begin –
I could not tell the Date of Mine –
It feels so old a pain –
I wonder if it hurts to live –
And if They have to try –
And whether – could They choose between –
It would not be – to die –
I note that Some – gone patient long –
At length, renew their smile –
An imitation of a Light
That has so little Oil –
I wonder if when Years have piled –
Some Thousands – on the Harm –
That hurt them early – such a lapse
Could give them any Balm –
Or would they go on aching still
Through Centuries of Nerve –
Enlightened to a larger Pain –
In Contrast with the Love –
The Grieved – are many – I am told –
There is the various Cause –
Death – is but one – and comes but once –
And only nails the eyes –
There's Grief of Want – and grief of Cold –
A sort they call "Despair" –
There's Banishment from native Eyes –
In sight of Native Air –
And though I may not guess the kind –
Correctly – yet to me
A piercing Comfort it affords
In passing Calvary –
To note the fashions – of the Cross –
And how they're mostly worn –
Still fascinated to presume
That Some – are like my own –
