Nine Horses – Snow Borne Sorrow 2LP black vinyl 2025 edition

Snow Borne Sorrow by David Sylvian | Nine Horses will be released on black vinyl for the first time on June 13, 2025. Initially released on Sylvian’s Samadhisound label in October 2005, it was previously only available digitally and on CD until Record Store Day 2024, when a limited edition white vinyl version was issued and instantly became a collector’s item. An exclusive signed artcard from designer Chris Bigg is included with purchases made though the official David Sylvian store.

Snow Borne Sorrow was David Sylvian’s project with Steve Jansen and German musician/producer Bernd Friedmann, aka Burnt Friedman. It also features contributions from the late Ryuichi Sakamoto, Swedish singer Stina Nordenstam, saxophonists Theo Travis and Hayden Chisholm, and trumpeter Arve Henriksen.

The 2-LP set features the nine tracks from the original album plus one track from the follow-up EP Money For All (‘Birds Sing For Their Lives’), the rare B-side of the ‘Wonderful World’ single ‘When Monday Comes Around’ and a previously unreleased until 2024 Burnt Friedman remix of ‘Atom and Cell’.

The 2025 edition of Snow Borne Sorrow has been designed by Sylvian collaborator Chris Bigg (23 Envelope/4AD) and is housed in a gatefold sleeve with printed inner bags.

Tracklist:

A1: Wonderful World (6:04)
A2: Darkest Birds (5:05)
A3: The Banality of Evil (8:01)

B1: Atom and Cell (7:08)
B2: The History of Holes (8:04)
B3: Snow Borne Sorrow (6:25)

C1: The Day The Earth Stole Heaven (3:21)
C2: Serotonin (5:56)
C3: The Librarian (9:01)

D1: When Monday Comes Around (5:58)
D2: Birds Sing For Their Lives (7:02)
D3: Atom and Cell (Burnt Friedman Ambient Mix) (5:05)