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David Sylvian 2009

• David Sylvian - "Sleepwalkers"
  

  SamadhiSound sound-cd ss020
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• Sleepwalkers now available for Pre-ordering
  

  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)

  I miss your company.

  Keep listening.
  David

  
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• Sleepwalkers release date
  

  

  David's compilation of collaborative recordings made over the past decade or so and entitled 'Sleepwalkers' will be available from Sept 27th. We'll be taking pre-orders from the end of August. We'll post more details closer to the actual date.

  A number of the tracks 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.

  As previously reported the track listing is as follows:

  01. Sleepwalkers (with Martin Brandlmayr)
  02. Money for all (with Nine Horses)
  03. Ballad of a deadman feat. Joan Wasser (with Steve Jansen)
  04. Angels (with Jan Bang and Erik Honoré aka Punkt)
  05. World citizen - I won't be disappointed (with Ryuichi Sakamoto/Chasm mix)
  06. Five lines (with Dai Fujikura/ previously unreleased)
  07. The day the earth stole heaven (with Nine Horses)
  08. Playground martyrs (with Steve Jansen)
  09. Exit/delete (with Masakatsu Takagi)
  10. Pure genius (with Tweaker)
  11. Wonderful world (with Nine Horses)
  12. Transit (with Christian Fennesz)
  13. The world is everything (with Takuma Watanabe)
  14.Thermal (with Arve Henriksen)
  15. Sugarfuel (with Readymade FC)
  16. Trauma (solo outtake from Blemish)

  Compilation produced by David Sylvian.

  
  
  
• Little Girls With 99 Lives by Ingrid Chavez
  

  The four songs written and recorded by David Sylvian and Ingrid Chavez in the mid to late 90's, which were previously only available on the B-sides of various singles released by Virgin Records, are collected here for the first time. Available in a new digipak designed by Sylvian and, in keeping with some of the intimate themes addressed in the material, the artwork features images of Ingrid as a young girl. Each copy is signed and numbered by both Sylvian and Chavez and the pressing is strictly limited to 1000. There will be no reprinting of the edition once it has sold out.

  

  The edition is released on Ingrid's 10 Windows imprint and is available exclusively from the DGM Store.

  Watch a video of 'Remembering Julia' directed by Marzio Mirabella here.

  
  
  
• Photographs vol 20
  

  a devil's tail

  

  community

  

  confused?

  

  cosmos

  

  cramped quarters

  

  dai 'n ICE 1

  

  dai 'n ICE 2

  

  dai 'n ICE 3

  

  day in the life

  

  day out

  

  defused

  

  demon

  

  despair

  

  didn't know what hit him

  

  director's chair

  

  disrepair

  

  easy target

  

  everywhere USA

  

  fond

  

  fucking little liar

  

  gold standard

  

  grime vs humanity

  

  health insurance

  

  hikikomori

  

  idle talk

  

  insurmountable object

  

  item

  

  lost

  

  magic

  

  malfunction

  

  mother

  

  nature vs conference center

  

  product placement

  

  recycling trash (or the downfall of major labels)

  

  romance

  

  salvation

  

  small pond

  

  staple

  

  tannoy

  

  tarred, feathered

  

  the girl in the mirror

  

  the solitary kind

  

  the view from here

  

  time to Dai

  

  twelve fifty four

  

  untitled 1

  

  viral

  

  welcome clichés vol 1

  

  who would be king

  

  who's dreaming?

  

  without trees