David Sylvian’s 2003 (and now reissued on vinyl) album Blemish sounds like work from the deep rural country of the non-existence of civilization or shopping center, at the very least. The Shining comes to mind, so it may not even be an actual location but the landscape in one’s solitude mind. The genius of Sylvian is that he knows how to surround himself with talent that is either equal to his or maybe even more experienced. He has a voice that is very much the DNA of David Sylvian in that it conveys no one except him. Every album he has released, either solo or with his old band
Oh yeah, it was mind-blowing, one of a handful of truly memorable concerts in a long life of music going....at a par with the times I saw Frank Zappa and Ravi Shankar...I've been a Sylvian fan for ages, ever since his Japan days, and then with all his many collaborations...
Dec 12, 2022·edited Dec 12, 2022Liked by Tosh Berman
I love the sound of this reissued album so far. My friend, Irish artist George Bolster did the album cover (and inside cover) for David Sylvian's album "Died in the Wool" several years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obi7d4bijwM
Oh yeah, it was mind-blowing, one of a handful of truly memorable concerts in a long life of music going....at a par with the times I saw Frank Zappa and Ravi Shankar...I've been a Sylvian fan for ages, ever since his Japan days, and then with all his many collaborations...
I love the sound of this reissued album so far. My friend, Irish artist George Bolster did the album cover (and inside cover) for David Sylvian's album "Died in the Wool" several years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obi7d4bijwM
The concert I attended of him performing with Robert Fripp in Toronto at Roy Thompson Hall is still reverberating in my head. Breathtaking.
Sylvian is such an astonishing artist, and a favourite of mine, thanks for sharing this Tosh.