Dai Fujikura is artistic director of the Born Creative Festival being held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre on 28 September 2019. As part of the programme there will be a David Sylvian Room where recordings of instrumental work from David’s catalogue will be played.
Featured will be a previously unreleased work made for the festival by David Sylvian titled ‘Manafon: questionable fidelity (the instrumental edition)’. The piece is c. 50 minutes duration.
Other works include ‘Words with the Shaman’, the ‘Gone to Earth’ instrumentals, ‘When We Return You Won’t Recognise Us’ and the Sylvian/Czukay collaborations.
Full details here.
The full program as listed on the site:
David Sylvian’s Room
David Sylvian provides unreleased sound source only for Bon Cliffs!
Sylvian has many collaboration works with Japanese artists.
Introducing David Sylvian, known as a singer, as a composer this time, focusing on instrumental work.
Sylvian will provide unfamiliar sound sources such as “Manafon: questionable fidelity (the instrumental edition)”, “Surround version: When We Return You Won’t Recognise Us”, and other familiar sound sources. High res sound source!
Holding information
2019.9.28 (Sat) Sat. 28th September 2019
Rehearsal Room L (B2F) Rehearsal Room L
[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, Colorful 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.