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Label info: Samadhisound sound cd ss020 50999 648240 2 4 Japan: P-Vine Records PVCP-8790 Date: September 27, 2010 Type: CD Copyright: 2010 Samadhi Sound

ShareTweet David's compilation of collaborative recordings made over the past decade or so and entitled 'Sleepwalkers' will be available from Sept 27th.

A number of the tracks (tracks: 3, 8, 9, 10) have been given a subtle remix by David to bring them in line with his personal requirements while others have been given more obvious updates and changes. All the material has been completely remastered.

The digipak is a really beautiful 6 panel design.

Cover artwork by Kristamas Klousch
Art direction - David Sylvian
Compilation producer - David Sylvian at samadhisound 2010.
Design - Chris Bigg
Mastered by Tony Cousins

My gratitude to my collaborators. Dedicated with immeasurable love and gratitude to Richard Chadwick. David Sylvian is managed exclusively by Opium (Arts) Ltd.

Sources (as per liner notes):
1: David Sylvian, 2007.
2: Taken from the EP 'Money For All' by Nine Horses (2006).
3: Taken from the album 'Slope' by Steve Jansen.
4: Taken from the album 'Crime Scenes' by Punkt (2001). Used courtesy of Punkt.
5: Taken from the album 'Chasm' by Ryuichi Sakamoto. Used courtesy of KAB America / Warner Music Japan
6: David Sylvian, 2010. (New track for this compilation.)
7: Taken from the album 'Snow Borne Sorrow' by Nine Horses (2005).
8: Taken from the album 'Slope' by Steve Jansen (2007).
9: Taken from the album 'Coieda' by Takagi Masakatsu (2004). Used courtesy of WK Tokyo Lab
10: Taken from the album '2AM Wake Up Call' by Tweaker (2004). Used courtesy of Waxploitation.
11: Taken from the album 'Snow Borne Sorrow' by Nine Horses (2005).
12: Taken from the album 'Venice' by Christian Fennesz (2004). Used courtesy of Touch.
13: David Sylvian, 2007.
14: Taken from the album 'Cartography' by Arve Henriksen (2008). Used courtesy of ECM Records.
15: Taken from the album 'Bold' by Readymade (2001)
16: Bonus track taken from the limited vinyl pressing of 'Blemish'. David Sylvian, 2003.

Personal note from David on davidsylvian.com:

As many of you will already be aware, despite relatively continuous work on solo albums, I've maintained strong ties with a number of musicians throughout my life and have continued to produce collaborative work in one context or another. The most important of these in recent times has been the Nine Horses project with Burnt Friedman and Steve Jansen. On this new collection, Sleepwalkers, a selection of collaborative work produced over the last decade or so, I've included compositions by Nine Horses as well as more fleeting flirtations and one offs. Neglected offspring. Represented also is long term friend and writing partner, Ryuichi Sakamoto, as well as more recent, but potentially equally productive, partnerships such as Christian Fennesz, Jan Bang and Erik Honoré, Arve Henriksen and contemporary classical composer Dai Fujikura. Dai and myself are currently putting the finishing touches on a radically reinterpreted version of Manafon that features original orchestration by Dai and a number of fresh compositions which extend the themes of the original album (after one has abandoned a belief in god, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life’s redemption: wallace stevens), to be released early 2011.

In the meantime, I hope you enjoy the work presented here, personally selected, remixed and sequenced and entirely remastered. These are the orphans, abused, estranged, exotic, migrating from diverse corners of the globe, brought together under one roof which they're learning to share despite their differences.

We contain multitudes. We're nothing if not contradictory.

(Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life: Aldous Huxley)

David Sylvian

Sleepwalkers digipack front	Sleepwalkers digipack inner left panel	Sleepwalkers digipack inner middle panel
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Sleepwalkers Sleepwalkers inlay front	Sleepwalkers Sleepwalkers inlay back	Sleepwalkers The obi from the Japanese release

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Tracklist

	#		Songs
1	1	Sleepwalkers Your poetry describing me It doesn't come close You work the handle You smear and turn But you come no closer to meaning It's your vanity That's obvious It embarasses Those that adore you But who's gonna talk Oh how it'll hurt You were always unstable But you've gotten worse You looked into mirrors Where death was at work Of that you were certain But it was all surface And surface is numb Something to wake us From cultural slumbers You fucking sleepwalkers Go on and sleep Go on and sleep This is tomorrow	Sleepwalkers	Sleepwalkers Bonus track on the The World Is Everything 2007 tourbook sampler and re-issued on Sleepwalkers.
1	2	Money For All Wanna step on through Can I check that bag Is there something inside here That could help you relax Did you find something You were looking for Freedom has its price now Wanna buy some more I'll take that coat Remove them shoes Should a guy like me Be afraid of a man like you All change All change Wipe your nation's shame from you It's not where you're born, It's the things that you do Money for all Money for all Revolution, socialism Read it in the rag There's a gun at your head Put the money in the bag Money for all Have you tried this game When you're feeling tired Keeps you entertained 'Till your card expires So you missed the broadcast Or do you feel the same Only someone said this city's gone Down in flames in our name All change All change Let gasoline fumes fill the air Let's show that 'mother how much you care All change All change Wipe your nation's shame from you It's not where you're born, It's the things that you do Money for all Money for all Hey there soldier Who's your concubine? With a trigger-happy finger and a nicotine flame She's a diamond mine All change All change Let revolution fill the air Let's show that monkey how much you care Money for all There's a mean-looking elephant pounding at your door It's dining at your table, Sleeping on your floor Money for all Money for all Revolution, socialism Read it in the rag There's a gun at your head Put the money in the bag	Money For All	Money For All Track from the Money For All EP
1	3	Ballad Of A Deadman Oh honey take me out I’m a deadman Oh baby bake me something sweet Oh honey take me out I’m a deadman Oh baby give me bread to eat There are places in the damp Northwest where The bodies lie down head to feet There were losses in the California sunshine Tell you stories that you can’t repeat In the winter when the valley’s flooded Those were times where the rooms were cheap The summer dirt lines the corner’s of your pockets I’m still buried there ten feet deep Papa don’t place this curse on me Heaven knows I can’t use it Papa don’t place this stone on me Mama there’s no future in it We travel on the back roads lightly Through Castle City and through the hills beyond Me and Joan on the Sacramento Me and Joan this is where we’re from Oh honey take me out I’m a deadman Oh baby bake me something sweet Oh honey take me out I’m a deadman Oh baby give me bread to eat Papa don’t place this curse on me Heaven knows I can’t use it Papa don’t place this curse on me Mama there’s no future in it Oh honey take me out I’m a deadman Oh baby bake me something sweet Oh honey take me out I’m a deadman Oh baby give me bread to eat Oh honey where’s the colours of the springtime? The pale green of an organdy dress Her shadow grows in the California sunshine But nothing else in the south south-west lyrics taken from brokensky.net	Ballad Of A Deadman	Ballad Of A Deadman Great track featuring Joan Wasser (Joan As Policewoman). On the Sleepwalkers re-issue, the voice of Joan Wasser is far more distinctive than on the Slope version.
1	4	Angels High in the architecture Something’s moving Unrecognisable spirit Dislocated It’s the wrong climate No humidity Humming humidity It’s fate belongs to another time Another place Projections on fallen masonry Ghosts of a once pagan place Standing empty I stand empty Dead echoes don’t come back His stopped cut out Fuck you Nothing ever happens Unbelieving no one’s receiving A vessel filled Held and spilled Nothing A trace from another time Another place It’s simple You don’t exist You can’t possess me You lose on a technicality High in the architecture Something’s moving Nothing	Angels	Angels David's commission on Crime Scenes from Punkt
1	5	World Citizen - I won't be disappointed / looped piano What happened here? The butterfly has lost its wings The air's too thick to breathe And there's something in the drinking water The sun comes up The sun comes up and you're alone Your sense of purpose come undone The traffic tails back to the maze on 101 And the news from the sky Is looking better for today In every single way But not for you World Citizen World Citizen It's not safe All the yellow birds are sleeping Cos the air's not fit for breathing It's not safe Why can't we be Without beginning, without end? Why can't we be? World Citizen World Citizen And if I stop And talk with you awhile I'm overwhelmed by the scale Of everything you feel The lonely inner state emergency I want to feel Until my heart can take no more And there's nothing in this world I wouldn't give I want to break The indifference of the days I want a conscience that will keep me wide awake I won't be disappointed I won't be disappointed I won't be. I saw a face It was a face I didn't know Her sadness told me everything about my own Can't let it be When least expected there she is Gone the time and space that separates us And I'm not safe I think I need a second skin No I'm not safe World Citizen World Citizen I want to travel by night Across the steppes and over seas I want to understand the cost Of everything thats lost I want to pronounce all their names correctly World Citizen World Citizen I won't be disappointed I won't be. She doesn't laugh We've gone from comedy to commerce And she doesn't feel the ground she walks upon I turn away And I'm not sleeping well at night And while I know this isn't right What can you do? I won't be disappointed I won't be disappointed I won't be.	World Citizen - I won't be disappointed / looped piano	World Citizen - I won't be disappointed / looped piano Originally found on Ryuichi Sakamoto Chasm album
1	6	Five Lines Five lines Five lines With which he marked time Five lines flared from the ovens He pulled the ribbons from their hair With melodies beaten from the sheets of his mother Songs for the end of time Five lines Return the birds to their singing The sun fell, should we leave it to the foxes? The sun fell from the sky Leave it to its wits and its devices The sun fell from the sky in the form of a stag Buried deep in the forest And that’s where he felled it A blow to the head That left it unconscious Nothing further was said We’ll set a place for him We’ll set a place then For he had tried Blood, bone, feathers to the sky Even in flight Nothing could have spared him Five lines Five lines flared from the oven Five lines with which he marked out time Leave him for the foxes Leave him for the foxes lyrics provided with kind permission by brokensky.net	Five Lines	Five Lines with Dai Fujikura
1	7	The Day The Earth Stole Heaven Let me tell you about a friend She contends she will always love me It’s this ability to lie and deceive That has lost me completely I could remind her of the facts Make her calm down and relax But why bother? It’s the shallowest defense To my utter astonishment it is over That little girl she wants to leave me That little girl wants something more. I’m optimistically inclined Given time she’ll change her mind It’s unlikely Let me tell you about a friend She contends she will always love me If you look at her sideways She will let you know Today’s the day the earth stole heaven If you look at her sideways She will curse you out Today’s the day the earth stole heaven If you look at her sideways There can be no doubt It’s over	The Day The Earth Stole Heaven	The Day The Earth Stole Heaven Originally by Nine Horses
1	8	Playground Martyrs You run to the gate but you'll be marked late it's for your own good it's for your own good You're likely to make the grandest mistakes you suffer alone in the skin and the bones Let's sharpen those new sets of arrows for the next generation of playground martyrs And joining the game of intolerable shame 'cause everyone shares innocence of their fathers School bell rings single file in trade you my unhappily ever after So bring out those things to hammer the wings of the next generation	Playground Martyrs	Playground Martyrs Originally found on Steve Jansen album Slope.
1	9	Exit/Delete Feels like an ending She's winding her way towards a conclusion That never comes Caroline feels uncomfortably numb She's in deep Surrendering to the promise of sleep Almost done Caroline plays an audience of one And it isn't polite She won't even try A problem to no one A problem to none How can it be as quiet as this This close to the edge? Caroline says she's nobody's friend How can you breathe Embarrassed to be this far left of alone? Caroline knows there's nobody home It's ending Winding it's way to a conclusion Nearly done Caroline knows there's nothing to come When in doubt She wanted it get it all down in writing Didn't count Better if someone else works it out The files are deleted No resisting at all Already defeated (as printed on the COIEDA slipcase)	Exit/Delete	Exit/Delete On the dvd of COIEDA, the video Exit/Delete_first_sight features an instrumental version of this track.
1	10	Pure Genius oh, the lights are blinking here’s the great deceiver bling, bling all bets are off it goes unnoticed if not for me it goes unnoticed find another record play another record it could be anything I play the jukebox I play the dj I could be vice, FBI I played the imbecile And no one noticed And no one noticed oh boy, come see the plans they’re pure genius pure genius oh boy, come see the plans oh, you wouldn’t notice here they come see them tumble my lucky numbers here they come i’ve got lots of secrets man, I’ve lots of secrets you’re my number one and you’re my number one oh boy, come see the plans they’re pure genius pure genius oh boy, get with the program, man come see the plans they’re pure genius you understand, you understand oh, the lights are blinking turn off the stereo it wears the batteries they’re double A’s come morning I’ll sleep like a dog And dream of numbers My lucky numbers Here they come	Pure Genius	Pure Genius The second colaboration between tweaker (Chris Vrenna) and David Sylvian.
1	11	Wonderful World It’s a wonderful world And you take and you give And the sun fills the sky In the space where you live It’s a day full of dreams It’s a dream of a day And the joy that it brings Nearly sweeps her away It’s a wonderful world As the buildings fall down And you quicken your step ‘til your feet leave the ground And you’re soaring above All the sorrow below And you’re falling in love With those you don’t know And your heart feels so wide And your heart fills so strong It was never a place That you felt you belonged It’s a wonderful world Full of wonderful things And the people fall down And abandon their dreams (I hear him, he’s talking out loud Sometimes he whistles while walking How could he know any better? I weep for him, I weep for him now) It’s a wonderful world It’s a real crying shame Cos she’s hurting herself In a violent way And there’s people she knows That won’t even try And they’re trapped in their lives Feeling terrified And it’s in times like these That she promised to call But the scale of our love Is diminished and small It’s a wonderful world And she doesn’t know why She wakes up each day And continues to cry (He’s sleeping his troubles away He’s finding it too hard to bear I’m with him every step of the way I weep for him, I weep for him now) It’s a wonderful world And you take and you give And the sun fills the sky In the space where you live	Wonderful World	Wonderful World Beautiful track on first Nine Horses album
1	12	Transit I have listened repeatedly I have listened very well No one interrupts the harmful When they're speaking To wonder why of Europe Say your goodbyes to Europe Swallow the lie of Europe Our shared history dies with Europe (follow me, won't you follow me?) A future's hinting at itself Do you fear what I fear? All those names of ancestry Too gentle for the stones they bear Someone somewhere wants to see you Someone's traveling towards us all To wonder why of Europe To live, love, and cry in Europe Say your goodbyes to Europe Our history dies with Europe (follow me, won't you follow me?) The lights are dimming The lounge is dark The best cigarette is saved for last We drink alone We drink alone	Transit	Transit David's first commission on a Fennesz album after Christian's marvellous textures on Fire In A Forest.
1	13	The World Is Everything The world is everything The world is everything And I move close But you move closer And out of the spring And into the summer And out of the dark Into the blessing of others The table of goods The bright bolt of lightning And she loves him there once But she's still not through fighting And you can't swallow it But you can't spit it out It's there in her hair It's coming out of her eyes To taste her is bitter But the world is alive And the world is everything The world is everything The world is everything	The World Is Everything	The World Is Everything Bonus track on the The World Is Everything 2007 tourbook sampler.
1	14	Thermal Morning, you lay sleeping Your small body clinging tightly to mine With frightening dependency Life defining, impossible to betray And with that… The mattress rose Set adrift on the burgeoning emotional tide Colliding with the once stationary objects Of an uninhabited life What had been concealed Was exhaled from god knows where Colour-drained, unsalvageable Shape shifting And, with function relinquished Resigned from service Two blue sleeping bags Nudged against one another Bearing the once warm imprint of our bodies The sun-baked stone garden Retracted its promise It was cold in that place of perpetual summer If you were afraid you didn’t show it You who were born bearing the face Of irrepressible grief So as not to disappoint you I lay motionless Rapt by the rise and stall of your breathing Your fingertips and thighs Quietly affirming my place at your side.	Thermal	Thermal From Arve Henriksen's album Cartography
1	15	Sugarfuel There are many rooms and many faces When you're on the run, you run out of places I'm on your side I am your sugar fuel I'll find where it hurts I'll be the wound in you I'm on your side When the drugs take hold I will touch you I will touch you When the words fall short I will kiss you I will kiss ….. I'm on your side So let me punish you I'm on your side I'll be your sugar fuel When all your thoughts are dark And all your dreams are blue I'm with you You're on your stomach You can't speak You're suffocating in this heat Well if we suffer is that wrong? What doesn't kill us makes us strong Were you pushed or did you slip? I'm tasting blood upon your lips The door is locked The floor is greased And if your screams should break the peace I'm on your side So let me finish you I'm on your side So let me punish you I'm on your side I'll be your sugar fuel When all your thoughts are dark And all your dreams are blue I'm with you I'm with you Sugar When all your thoughts are dark And all your dreams are blue I'm with you	Sugarfuel	Sugarfuel Brilliant track from Readymade FC
1	16		Trauma	Trauma Intended bonus track but became accidently available as download.

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Sleepwalkers

Personal note from David on davidsylvian.com:

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Buy it at Amazon:

Download album at Amazon US

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Tracklist

Sleepwalkers

Sleepwalkers

Money For All

Money For All

Ballad Of A Deadman

Ballad Of A Deadman

Angels

Angels

World Citizen - I won't be disappointed / looped piano

World Citizen - I won't be disappointed / looped piano

Five Lines

Five Lines

The Day The Earth Stole Heaven

The Day The Earth Stole Heaven

Playground Martyrs

Playground Martyrs

Exit/Delete

Exit/Delete

Pure Genius

Pure Genius

Wonderful World

Wonderful World

Transit

Transit

The World Is Everything

The World Is Everything

Thermal

Thermal

Sugarfuel

Sugarfuel

Trauma

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