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February 09, 2005 07:22AM
It's two years since David Sylvian's latest album 'Blemish' was released. When I spoke to him in November 2003 he said his next album would be released in 2004...
Apparently he didn't keep his promise. This week though a 'new' album is released. It's called 'The good son vs The only daughter', and it is a remix-album. The press-release says the following:
"On 'The Good Son vs. The Only Daughter Sylvian takes the recordings of 'Blemish', and, in collaboration with a group of remixers including Ryoji Ikeda, Akira Rabelais, Burnt Friedman and Readymade FC, offers a set of radical re-workings of the “originals”, transforming them into yet unheard of delights.
The sheer minimalism of 'Blemish' offers a vast amount of space for collaborators to work with and transform these songs, and in a number of cases on this disc, actually producing somewhat more familiar song-like structures. Sweet Billy Pilgrim’s lovely rebuilding of “The Heart Knows Better” brings out a fiercely pop quality to the song, as does Burnt Friedman’s reworking of “Late Night Shopping”. Yoshihiro Hanno’s work on “The Good Son”, with its Rhodes keyboard sounds, hearkens back to the jazzier textures on Sylvian’s late-1990s classic, Dead Bees on a Cake, but interrupts them in marvellously abstract ways.
On hearing the re-workings of his songs Sylvian says “ I enjoy hearing a distillation of an aspect or aspects of the emotional content (of a composition) explored in a new context. It’s not unlike the re-staging of a play.”
“(The remixes) transform the gorgeously minimal songs of David Sylvian’s acclaimed 2003 release Blemish into everything from classical chamber music, to mutant ambient electronica to beautiful jazzy pop.” Marcus Boon
Well I don't know. It sounds like a rip-off and I'm not to keen on remixes, but I've ordered the cd anyhow. 'Blemish' has got some beautiful tracks, but it's very, very basic material. Therefore I can imagine that the remixes can add something special to it.
So in the end I'm looking forward to hear it, but hopefully David Sylvian will come up with some new material as soon as possible.
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