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David Sylvian
All titles on these pages are official releases released in UK & Europe unless stated. Low resolution scans below. The actual item is a 100 times better.
Black shell with silver writing. Chrome tape logo. Picture sleeve.
The LC code is misprinted on the release Virgin = LC 3098
Recorded at Studio Miraval in the south of France.
Produced by Steve Nye.
Of the 3 mainstream albums he released from the mid to late 1980s (Alchemy... & the Czukay collaborations could hardly be termed 'mainstream') this is the most accessible and to anyone trying to get into his work for the first time probaly the perfect introduction. Brilliant Trees is more experimental and Gone To Earth heavy and dark; Secrets of the Beehive by comparison is a long, meandering poem of beauty from the Last Romantic.
The whole album was washed in a beautiful melancholy, from the wistful September (time passing inexorably) to the final tumbling of train carriages to their end of Waterfront. Of course in them days Promise (The Cult of Eurydice was kept from us, certainly in the UK market though the Japanese release included it. Unfathomable why that was so for it is up there with anything on the album. Ditto, Ride, offered to Scott Walker (as I recall, though I might be wrong on that one) - we would have to wait to discover that one.
We weren't to know it at the time but it was a kind of full stop to the commercial aspect of his releases. The ambient albums with Czukay, whilst satisfying if perservered with, were never going to find a mass market nor were they intended to do so; ditto Ember Glance; Rain Tree
Crow was a little too late and Dead Bees on a Cake was far too many years away. Sandwich RTC and DBOAC with The First Day &
Damage and, for my ears, when you consider the abrasiveness of Robert Fripp's input, then that wasn't a path I wanted to tread.
Jean The Birdman, for example, sounded like a song desparate to escape the clanging of its album appearance.
2023: 1 back in stock. 'Used - very good' (see photos). Our ref for storage: d. Dispatched within 1-2 weeks of receipt of payment.
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