SYLVIAN / CZUKAY

Description

Track Listing:
1-1 Plight (The Spiralling Of Winter Ghosts) 16:31
1-2 Premonition (Giant Empty Iron Vessel) 16:34

Companies:
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Virgin Records Ltd.
Copyright © – Virgin Records Ltd.
Recorded At – Can Studio
Published By – Opium (Arts) Ltd.
Published By – Copyright Control
Published By – Spoon Music
Pressed By – EMI Records
Distributed By – Virgin Records Ltd.

More Details:
Probably one of the most underrated ambient albums ... ever!

Plight & Premonition is sublime, particularly Plight with Czukay's hands all over it. Swirling, troubling ... it's as atmospheric as atmospheric gets. An ancient ex-Koln cinema, for that was where it was born, in Czukay's studio; cold winds and Cold Wars, distant whispers of foreign radios, foreign lands, foreboding and of another life, another time. Beyondness, beyond this life ... it takes you to that 'other place', beyond our comprehension. A neverending woodland just beyond the city where the life beyond this life never finishes.

PLIGHT's two expansive instrumental tracks feature only minimal suggestion that humans were even around when they were recorded. The first, Plight, is subtitled The Spiralling of Winter Ghosts and, as the title suggests, seems to exist in a non-corporeal realm of ominous tones where synthesized winds sweep across desolate planes--though there are faint echoes of radio broadcasts and a flute makes a brief appearance. The second track, Premonition, is an altogether warmer affair, lighting a path out of the deserted wilds--its piano even occasionally approaches jazz (but not too closely, mind).

Credits:
Artwork – Mekon
Composed By – David Sylvian, Holger Czukay
Design [Assisted By], Photography By [Assisted By] – Icon
Design, Photography By – Yuka Fujii
Effects [Infra-sound] – Jaki Liebezeit
Electronics [Radio Tuning] – Karl Lippergaüs
Electronics [Radio], Organ, Samples [Piano], Orchestrated By [Orchestral And Environmental Treatments] – Holger Czukay
Lacquer Cut By – JA
Piano, Piano [Prepared], Harmonium, Vibraphone [Vibes], Synthesizer, Guitar – David Sylvian
Producer – Holger Czukay

Barcode and Other Identifiers:
Barcode (Text): 5 012981 250218
Barcode (Scanned): 5012981250218