Dai Fujikura was artistic director of the Born Creative Festival held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre on 28 September 2019. As part of the programme there was ‘David Sylvian’s Room’ where recordings of instrumental work from David’s catalogue were played.
A previously unreleased work made for ‘David Sylvian’s Room’ by Sylvian was featured, titled ‘Manafon: questionable fidelity (the instrumental edition)’. The piece is c. 50 minutes duration.
Other works included ‘Words with the Shaman’, the ‘Gone to Earth’ instrumentals, ‘When We Return You Won’t Recognise Us’ and the Sylvian/Czukay collaborations.
Additionally the recording of ‘When We Return You Wonʼt Recognise Us’ (18:24) was played on the main stage.
The full program for ‘David Sylvian’s Room’ as listed on the site:
【1】 11:00～11:50
When We Return You Won’t Recognise Us
Words With The Shaman (Part1) Ancient Evening
Words With The Shaman (Part2) Incantation
Words With The Shaman (Part3) Awakening (Songs From The Tops)
Flux (A Big, Bright, Colourful World)
【2】 12:00～12:50
Manafon : questionable fidelity (the instrumental edition)
【3】 13:00～13:40
The Healing Place
Answered Prayers
Where The Railroad Meets The Sea
The Wooden Cross
Silver Moon Over Sleeping Steeples
Camps Fire Coyote Country
The Bird Of Prey Vanishes Into A Bright Cloudless Sky
Home
Sunlight Seen Through Towering Trees
Upon This Earth
【4】 17:00～17:50
Manafon : questionable fidelity (the instrumental edition)
【5】 18:00～18:50
When We Return You Won’t Recognise Us
Plight (The Spiralling Of Winter Ghosts)
Premonition (Giant Empty Iron Vassel)
Sylvian 24bit album remasters engineered and supplied by Tony Cousins @Metropolis Studios, London.
from Dai Fujikura’s twitter:
‘I always wanted to present David as a composer. Hence, we are presenting as much instrumental works by David as possible (previously unreleased works, unreleased High Res, unreleased multichannel tracks, etc – all given by David himself). Only in ‘Born Creative Festival’ 28Sept.’
