David Sylvian is an English singer/composer who started life in the New Wave band Japan in the late 1970s. Since releasing his first solo album Brilliant Trees in 1983 his musical journey has taken many paths, more lately exploring the ambient tonality of free jazz and electronica in albums like Manafon & there's a light that enters houses with no other house in sight featuring readings by the late American poet Franz Wright.

David is one of my musical heroes. Not afraid to test his own or society’s musical boundaries, he treats his music as works of art and his voice as an instrument – which it truly is. To do a retrospective of someone of David’s calibre is a daunting undertaking and took me many years to start and several more to complete to a level of satisfaction that I can now present to you in this album.

I have tried to reinterpret the songs in a sensitive manner and to preserve their implausible beauty. The songs cover a long time period from 1980 (Night Porter from Japan’s Gentlemen Take Polaroids) to 2013 (Do You Think You Know Me?). Some versions sound completely different to the original (Ghosts) and some are very similar (Darkest Birds). On the song Blemish I simply could not do the original version justice so you will hear the original track heavily edited and remixed with added instrumentation. I hope that this retrospective introduces David Sylvian’s work to a new generation of listeners and life-long fans.

02 Darkest Birds

05 Laughter & Forgetting

06 Dobro #1

07 Blue Skinned Gods

08 World Citizen

09 Blemish (Mello Mix)

10 Do You Know Me ?

01 Nostalgia

04 Night Porter

Here is an ambient piece I have composed using Radiohead's Daydreaming as inspiration. Some sample audio reversing & time stretching is complemented with additional live piano & cello. I hope you like it.....

Night Dreaming

Ambient track based on a Tibetan singing bowl meditation.

In Between (for Tibet)

New Dawn

Here is my acoustic one-take version of Yazoo's song Only You. In my opinion if a pop song holds up well with just an acoustic guitar its a good song. I hope you agree.

SnowBorne

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