| David Sylvian & Holger Czukay Sylvian CD :: Vinyl :: Memorabilia Price Guide ~ Nov. 16 Perspectives Search Site The years following the release of Sylvian's SECRETS OF THE BEEHIVE witnessed a remarkable pair of collaborations with Can's bassist, co-founder, producer, and restless experimenter. Czukay and Sylvian receive sole billing on 1988's FLUX AND MUTABILITY, the second of these sessions, but three core members of the (then disbanded) Can--Czukay, Michael Karoli, and Jaki Liebezeit--contributed to these two exquisite tracks. FLUX AND MUTABILITY belongs to that rare category of albums--including such masterpieces as Cocteau Twins' VICTORIALAND, Talk Talk's SPIRIT OF EDEN, and Sylvian's own BRILLIANT TREES--whose impossible beauty suggests the likelihood of angelic intervention. The splendid ambient weave of A Big Bright Colourful World interlaces Sylvian, Czukay, and Karoli's fragile guitar lines, Czukay's radio and dictaphone samplings, Sylvian's warm, lambent keyboards, Liebezeit's nearly subliminal percussion, the multihued flugelhorn of Markus Stockhausen (yes, Stockhausen fils), and Michi's ephemeral utterances. The music develops and matures in timeless suspension befitting the album's title. A New Beginning Is in the Offing features only Sylvian and Liebezeit (on African flute). As mixed by Czukay and Sylvian, the duo's tumbling and unfolding banks of sound conjure open-ended cloudland vistas of the most sublime and celestial aspect. Released by: Virgin, Venture. CDVE 43, 0777 7 86694 2 5, CDVE43. Condition: used - very good. The one on offer here is the 1993 repress (last 5 photos above). Plus I will send a set of 4 Sylvian postcard (all photographed above). April 2017: 1 in stock. Price: Sold ALSO AVAILABLE: amazon.co.uk (direct link to CD) Sylvian CD :: Vinyl :: Memorabilia Price Guide ~ Nov. 16 Top of Page |
