when david sylvian's album "blemish" came out, it left many of his listeners struggling to make the adjustment from their previous experience which led many to become accustomed to and then even to expect his usually lush, careful and precisely orchestrated music. blemish laid bare many of the assumptions in david's music just as david had been laid bare by life.
almost entirely a solo album with the addition of christian fennesz and derek bailey, blemish maintains high rotation here at golden fish world headquarters some six years after its release.
an excellent and insightful review of this album can be read here.
one of the highpoints of david sylvian's music for me is the track "wasn't i joe?" released a year after "blemish" but sonically and emotively connected, this song is described by one reviewer as "an electronic suite of emotional dismay, slowing like a stopping heartbeat, then growing to a techno blur, as sylvian and a sampled woman sigh lyrics to some invisible bartender."
"holding on for dear life - 'till something better comes along......"
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2 comments:
Wasn't I Joe? isn't on blemish
you're absolutely right! while it has a lot of the sonic and emotional flavour of "blemish i believe it appears on a dvd of a performance of the blemish songs in tokyo (2004). thanks for checking in! steven
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