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2011 - Punkt Festival

Kristiansand Norway, Agder Teater

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Date: September 3, 2011

September 3rd 2011

David performed live on Saturday September 3rd at the Punkt Festival in a Special Edition Cartography concert, where the whole album will be performed by Arve Henriksen (trumpet, voice), David Sylvian (lyrics/spoken word), Eivind Aarset (guitars), Anna Maria Friman (vocal), Ingar Zach (percussion) and Jan Bang / Erik Honoré (live sampling, electronics).

Tour information of 2011 - Punkt Festival

Punkt is a music festival in the city of Kristiansand in the south of Norway. The festival concept is centered around a stage/studio hybrid called the Alpha Room. This room is an extension of how the curators of the festival, Jan Bang and Erik Honoré, have worked with a range of Nordic and international improvisational artists over the last years; with live sampling and live electronics, and as record producers and remixers.

David will be creating an audiovisual installation entitled "Uncommon Deities", and will curate an evening of concerts, including the debut live performance of his 1988 release "Plight and Premonition". In addition to David, this concert will feature John Tilbury, Jan Bang, Erik Honoré, Eivind Aarset and Philip Jeck.

David will perform live on Saturday September 3rd at the Punkt Festival in a Special Edition Cartography concert, where the whole album will be performed by Arve Henriksen (trumpet, voice), David Sylvian (lyrics/spoken word), Eivind Aarset (guitars), Anna Maria Friman (vocal), Ingar Zach (percussion) and Jan Bang / Erik Honoré (live sampling, electronics).

Kristiansand Norway, Agder Teater
photo Dirk Tholenaar

Tracklist

	#			Songs
1	2		Before and Afterlife (Special Edition Cartography Concert) We started in the suburbs of smaller cities and as we followed the nomadic call Our nobler instincts led us further from Society's centre, westward, to a cabin hoisted Aloft on faulty foundations far above the Napa Valley Where the rain soaked earth shifted beneath us and trees caught Like kindling smoke clouds ripening A vintner's sun But part of us refused to follow Material distractions beckoned, rallied Snagged we'd return to the cities on day trips and long weekends Self-arversion, anonymity found only in The midst of bricks and mortar the Hustle of strangers We were worldly people after all But the haze of the rural, the agents of pollination Clung to us, sparked like hayseed halos in the western sunlight No one let on they'd noticed But we saw, we knew I watched my parents as they stood in a crowded Euston station Up fresh from the country, suitcases at their sides Waiting on my arrival, illuminated In an otherwise sea of grey Not of this world We were tempted back repeatedly Until the lure of the cosmopolitan Lay beyond reach We moved east, into the forests and the mountains Where life's desires tore us apart How cruel to find oneself alone at that altitude At what point did the fear of numbers set in And the recognition of internal isolation place us outside of belonging? But then wasn't that always the case, weren't we simply Allowed to forget? On Temple Mountain I threw down a rope that others might follow No one came	Before and Afterlife (Special Edition Cartography Concert)	Before and Afterlife (Special Edition Cartography Concert) David participated Arve Henriksen on stage at the live performance of Before And Afterlife and Thermal.