DAVID SYLVIAN - Dead Bees on a Cake (1999)

 

I have to confess that David Sylvian is, in this period, one of the most played artists on my devices.

I have this CD since many years and I found it very relaxing. The best for a quite  sunday morning at home.

Here a FLAC version:  Dead Bees on a Cake

DAVID SYLVIAN - Live in Theatre (1988)

 

David Sylvian live. Here I think he was at the top of his period.

The quality sound is good for this unofficial release on CD. Here a mp3 version I extract from Youtube. I 

These days I am playing this more and more together with "the First day" of 1993 with Robert Fripp. That was another tour performed mainly in theatre and I am happy today I can say "I was there" for both tours.

HERE: Live in theatre 1988

JAPAN - Quiet Life (1979)

 

Today on a Boring Sunday afternoon I started listening to some of my old vinyls. It is really true that what is good is never old. I bought this LP several years ago (probably around '82- '85) in Milan; there is still a stick with the record shop and price (Buscemi disc Lire 7500 around 3,2 €). Among others today I put on the turntable :

-Go Between

-Eric B & Rakim

-Japan  

Now I am listening to Sylvian/Jansen/Barbieri/Karn "Rain Tree Crow" following the Japan/Sylvian way. At the end I can say that this afternoon ........was not so boring.

I post here the link to  Japan "Quiet Life" for you. This is not my rip but a CD version (1979) I had on my Hard disc.

JAPAN Quiet Life

DAVID SYLVIAN - Gone to Earth 1986

David Sylvian here at the top of his career. I don' t like what David is doing now (avantgarde and expermental) so I prefer to remember him like it  "was" years ago.
Here a rip of my original CD. It is only one files because is not so easy to separate the single traces (up to you).

HEAR

THE KILOWATT HOUR - S. Mathieu/D.Sylvian/C.Fennesz (19/9/13 ALcatraz Milano)

Attracted by David Sylvian name I take the ticket for this concert at Milan. I saw D. Sylvian with R. Fripp several years ago and it this was the occasion to see him again.
Reading about the group THE KILOWATT HOUR I was disappointed to see that no voice or songs are part of the performance but electronic experimentalism and ambient music with video clips. I search on the web and I "tried " to listen to some piece (really not easy to listen to). So at the end I go to the concert with very few expectation and ready to attend to a bouring performance......but it was not so!!! It was really worse!!! Unbelievable. One hour and 15 minutes of flat and monothone noise with recorded voice  saying nonsense. Also the video on the back was something ridicolous. The three guys were sitting on their one desk (one for each one) looking at their  laptop video (and really I thought  "are they reading their mails or watching a film?")
Really a very poor experience last night. On the way home driving my car I prefer to listen to a CD. I played the new Franz Ferdinand one ....... Fine!!! That was the best part of last night.