DAVID SYLVIAN
DEAD BEES ON A CAKE (1999)
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Perhaps the finest achievement of David Sylvian's enigmatic career, Dead Bees on a Cake represents a graceful personal and spiritual exploration. Set to a lush, ethereal, engaging bed of distinctive and sophisticated pop arrangements, it combines the best qualities of Sylvian's post-Japan work. Four years in the making, it is artful and tasteful from the opening Bryan Ferry-style ballad "I Surrender" to the bluesy "Midnight Sun" and the delightful "Krishna Blue." There are contributions from sometime collaborator Ryuichi Sakamoto as well as a classy, eclectic group of musicians including Bill Frisell, Marc Ribot, Talvin Singh, and Sylvian's brother, Steve Hansen, but Sylvian is definitely in the fore here. Dead Bees on a Cake will be a surprising discovery for fans of Sade, John Martyn, and the Blue Nile, and it may afford Sylvian overdue recognition as an uncommonly gifted pop composer and singer.
1. I Surrender
2. Dobro #1
3. Midnight Sun
4. Thalheim
5. God Man
6. Alphabet Angel
7. Krishna Blue
8. The Shining Of Things
9. Café Europa
10. Pollen Path
11. All Of My Mother's Names (Summers With Amma)
12. Wanderlust
13. Praise (Pratah Smarami)
14. Darkest Dreaming
7 comments:
A Fantastic album
I agree Sylvians best ever solo effort - no question.
weird... another 0.2 KB?
Download it and you'll see it's worth more than it shows... ;)
Thank you for swinging my moods!
Silly me, it was all "a box in a box with a key..."
Yeah, sorry 'bout that but that's the only solution I found to keep people from reporting my links to Rapidshare. I know it's not as easy as on other blogs but, at least, it proves those downloading really want the music. ;)
Thanks, for letting me know! I don't think it is a big problem with the text link, it was just me being to daft to even check the contents of the rar and assuming that something was amiss. And a very nice album well worth fuzzing a bit for...
Thanks again for sharing!
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