David Sylvian - Weatherbox (1989)

Posted By : Serial | Date : 16 Dec 2005 02:28:09 | Comments : 24 |

David Sylvian - Weatherbox (1989) MP3 320Kb CBR 447Mb

Biography by Jason Ankeny

Following the 1982 dissolution of Japan, the group's onetime frontman David Sylvian staked out a far-ranging and esoteric career that encompassed not only solo projects but also a series of fascinating collaborative efforts and forays into filmmaking, photography, and modern art. Born David Batt in Kent, England, on February 23, 1958, Sylvian formed Japan in 1974 and served as primary singer/songwriter throughout the group's eight-year existence. Just prior to Japan's breakup, Sylvian began working with composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, with whom he released the single "Bamboo Houses" in 1982, marking the beginning of a longstanding musical relationship.

After 1983's "Forbidden Colours," another joint effort with Sakamoto composed for the film Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, Sylvian released his 1984 solo debut, Brilliant Trees. The first step in his music's evolution from Japan's post-glam synth pop into richly textured, poetic ambience, the album featured contributions from Sakamoto as well as Jon Hassell and Can alumnus Holger Czukay. That year, Sylvian also published his first book of photographs, Perspectives: Polaroids 82/84; in 1985, he released Preparations for the Journey, a documentary filmed in and around Tokyo, as well as the EP Words With the Shaman.

Gone to Earth, an ambitious double LP recorded with assistance from Robert Fripp and Bill Nelson, followed in 1986, while 1987 marked the release not only of the beautiful Secrets of the Beehive album but also the book collection Trophies: The Lyrics of David Sylvian. At the same time, he began composing the score for modern dancer Gaby Abis' Kin, which premiered at London's Almeida Theater that September; another collaboration with Abis, Don't Trash My Altar, Don't Alter My Trash, bowed in November 1988. Also in 1988, Sylvian reunited with Holger Czukay for the instrumental LP Plight and Premonition; the duo re-teamed in 1989 for Flux + Mutability. Ember Glance: The Permanence of Memory, an installation of sculpture, sound, and light created by Sylvian and Russell Mills, was staged in Tokyo Bay, Shinagawa, in 1990; a year later, he and the other members of Japan, who had briefly reunited under the name Rain Tree Crow, issued a self-titled album.

In 1994, Sylvian emerged in tandem with Robert Fripp for both an album, The First Day, and Redemption, another sound-and-image installation exhibited in Japan. The superb Dead Bees on a Cake followed in 1999; Approaching Silence, a collection of instrumental material, appeared later that fall. In fall 2000 Sylvian returned with the double-disc Everything and Nothing, which made for an excellent introduction to some of Sylvian's projects that had finally taken shape after composition completion, financial settlements, and time constraints throughout his solo career. He reappeared in 2003 with Blemish, an unsettling disc of new material featuring appearances by avant guitar legend Derek Bailey and electronica experimentalist Christian Fennesz.

Released: 1989
Genre: Electronic
Style: Experimental, Ambient
Notes: 5 CD box set spanning David's career and his many collaborations. Each release in a specially themed sleeve & embossed CD case:
1. Brilliant Trees (1984)
2. Alchemy (1985)
3. Gone To Earth (1986)
4. Gone To Earth (Instrumental)(1986)
5. Secrets Of The Beehive (1987)

Disc 1 - Brilliant Trees

1-01 Pulling Punches (5:01)
1-02 Ink In The Well (4:29)
1-03 Nostalgia (5:39) Featuring - Holger Czukay
1-04 Red Guitar (5:07) Featuring - Ryuichi Sakamoto
1-05 Weathered Wall (5:40) Featuring - Jon Hassell
1-06 Backwaters (4:49)
1-07 Brilliant Trees (8:35)

Disc 2 - Alchemy

2-01 Words With The Shaman (Songs From The Tree Tops) Pt. 1 Ancient Evening (5:14)
2-02 Words With The Shaman (Songs From The Tree Tops) Pt. 2 Incantation (3:28)
2-03 Words With The Shaman (Songs From The Tree Tops) Pt. 3 Awakening (5:16)
2-04 The Stigma Of Childhood (Kin) (8:28)
2-05 A Brief Conversation Ending In Divorce (3:28) Keyboards - John Taylor
2-06 Steel Cathedrals (18:52) Featuring - Robert Fripp

Disc 3 - Gone To Earth

3-01 Taking The Veil (4:40)
3-02 Laughter And Forgetting (2:40) Keyboards - John Taylor (2)
3-03 Before The Bullfight (9:45) Featuring - Bill Nelson
3-04 Gone To Earth (3:01)
3-05 Wave (9:13)
3-06 Riverman (4:53)
3-07 Silver Moon (6:07)

Disc 4 - Gone To Earth (Instrumental)

4-01 The Healing Place (5:27) Featuring - Bill Nelson
4-02 Answered Prayers (3:09) Featuring - Bill Nelson
4-03 Where The Railroad Meets The Sea (2:51) Keyboards - Steve Nye
4-04 The Wooden Cross (4:59)
4-05 Silver Moon Over Sleeping Steeples (2:21)
4-06 Camp Fire: Coyote Country (3:50) Featuring - Robert Fripp
4-07 A Bird Of Prey Vanishes Into A Bright Blue Cloudless Sky (3:15)
4-08 Home (4:30)
4-09 Sunlight Seen Through Towering Trees (2:59) Featuring - Bill Nelson
4-10 Upon This Earth (6:24) Featuring - Robert Fripp

Disc 5 - Secrets Of The Beehive

5-01 September (1:17) Featuring - Ryuichi Sakamoto
5-02 The Boy With The Gun (5:18) Featuring - David Torn
5-03 Maria (2:50)
5-04 Orpheus (4:48)
5-05 The Devil's Own (3:11)
5-06 When Poets Dreamed Of Angels (4:45)
5-07 Mother And Child (3:12)
5-08 Let The Happiness In (5:33) Featuring - Steve Jansen
5-09 Waterfront (3:22) Featuring - Ryuichi Sakamoto

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Posted By: maxxx Date: 16 Dec 2005 04:09:05

Great post, man!

For those of you who don't know, this set is virtually impossible to buy. Download while you can!

Posted By: mojabe Date: 16 Dec 2005 05:45:18

Super upload Serial. I'd say that you are on a roll now! What more can bully say this time:-) Five sixpacks! Thank you very much.

Posted By: Serial Date: 16 Dec 2005 06:13:02

@ mojabe

Five sixers.... were do you upload them?

What can Bully say... No vinylrips here. dont even think he smells this one.. :-)

Good to hear you like this one. I just played these five albums again and again when i got the box about 15 years ago.. Wonder where David Sylvian has been when i listen to the lyrics. He have seen something! (maybe his been "outside") And the music...Perfection is the word. These guys are the best.. Fripp, Hassel, Jansen and Sakamoto.

Did i say i love these albums? Well i do :-)

Posted By: wireless Date: 16 Dec 2005 11:18:03

@Serial
Tremendous super mega post of the last year (ok...almost). Extra thanks man for this rare gem...of course nothing compares to owning the real thing and showing it of to your friends that know...but it's the next best thing. On behalf of all the true music lovers of avax ...I salute you!

Posted By: standelf Date: 16 Dec 2005 13:18:19

This is a marvelous post, Serial. Thanks a lot.
Now if only someone could post a new album by Nine Horses, which is Sylvian's latest project.

Posted By: mojabe Date: 16 Dec 2005 15:03:02

@Serial:
Sorry bout the sixers! I tried opfe's suggestion of using megaupload instead of rapid... disastrous! ...think of something a lot worse than alejx's previous pix... you get the idea:-)

I listened to his music only briefly in 80s. Strange but true?? avaxhome is the best place for me to start rediscovering some lost musical past! So this post fits in beautifully. For that I thank you. I tend to agree with you regarding his music/lyrics. Pretty far out! ("outside" seems apt!). I haven't listened to all yet (how could we...damn avaxhome, you have too much good content:-)) but so far it has been a real pleasure.

For those wanting to know a bit more about Sylvain's "journey" here's a link to his November 2003 "Adventures Of The Spirit" interview with Darren Middleton about the search for truth, meaning and transcendence. I find it quite interesting the way some of his songs are referred to.

_http://www.spikemagazine.com/davidsylvian/spikemagazinecom_davidsylvianinterview.pdf

Cheers!

Posted By: spinato Date: 16 Dec 2005 15:32:26

Acually Iwas looking for some King Crimson files. When
I red Robert Fripp I thought: Hmm, who's David Sylvian?
Wow, GREAT!
Thanks a lot for your HARD work.
It's a highlight.

Posted By: Helden Date: 17 Dec 2005 02:53:18

I have these... Are you interested?
Japan - Quiet Life - 1980
Japan - Oil On Canvas - 1983
David Sylvian & Robert Fripp - The First Day -1993
David Sylvian & Robert Fripp - Damage - 1994
David Sylvian - Approaching Silence - 1999
David Sylvian - Dead Bees On A Cake - 1999
David Sylvian - Camphor - 2002
David Sylvian - Blemish - 2003
David Sylvian - Gone To Earth (2003 Reissue)

Posted By: Serial Date: 17 Dec 2005 03:37:25

@ Helden,

"I have these... Are you interested?" YES
Well i begin with you so you can get going upload :-)
I have some Japan/Sylvian stuff myselfe too that i want to share with you all..
I got a couple of the albums above:
David Sylvian & Robert Fripp - The First Day -1993
David Sylvian - Dead Bees On A Cake - 1999
Maybe others are interested in them, i was planing post these two also..
So now, go to work.. We are keeping breath waiting for you :-)))

Posted By: Serial Date: 17 Dec 2005 03:41:49

@ spinato,

Thanks to you too :-)
What King Crimson files was you looking for? (please dont answer all!!)
Maybe i can help you with that you know.. :-)

Posted By: Serial Date: 17 Dec 2005 03:56:46

@ mojabe,

We have continue the search for an beer-upload server we can use .-)))

"I tend to agree with you regarding his music/lyrics. Pretty far out!"

Or maybe he is "far inside". I felt when i got that box in 1992 that i also found an friend on the way to inner secrets. It was necessary for me to take that trip at that time. You know, meditiation, beeing alone, get answers to some deeper questions. At that time David Sylvian was there (in the stereo) to keep me company. Well enough about me. :-)

Many thanks for the link. Have downloaded the document and hope to get time to read it soon. :-)

Posted By: Serial Date: 17 Dec 2005 04:11:04

@ standelf & wireless & maxxx,

Thank you all for giving me the pleasure to share this with you :-)

Posted By: Helden Date: 17 Dec 2005 16:25:47

@ Serial
Ok, partner, I'll upload, asap...
David Sylvian & Robert Fripp - Damage - 1994
David Sylvian - Approaching Silence - 1999
David Sylvian - Camphor - 2002
David Sylvian - Blemish - 2003
:)))

Posted By: Serial Date: 17 Dec 2005 22:40:46

@ Helden,

Three of these albums are new to me,so thanks! :-)

Im searhing the web now for cover pic and info
about the other Sylvian stuff i have.
Can maybe be ready tonight or at least tomorrow
to get it up.
What Sylvian stuff i got?

Thats an secret you will find out beeing here at avaxhome :-))

See you partner :-)

Posted By: Bully Date: 18 Dec 2005 00:14:04

WOA ... impressive ... TNX Opfe Serial!!

Hope you don't mind that I download it :-))

Yep, you see, I finally readched the upload from Dec 16th :-)

"What can Bully say... No vinylrips here. dont even think he smells this one.. :-)"

My nose stll has to rest from the smell of froglegs and bananas :-)) NAh, I try hard. Until end of year I will be back to realtime processing new uploads. At least I hope so :-)

Posted By: Serial Date: 18 Dec 2005 00:55:19

@ bully67,

Good to see you got so far as Dec 16th already.
I have seen your comments on other posts, and
been wondering about what you will say about my
largest up until now, if anything. Large in Megas and in content.

Please go on and get it down, Bully. Enjoy :-)

(playing this will remove the smell of froglegs and bananas. Even the smell of vinylrips gos away :-)))

Posted By: Helden Date: 18 Dec 2005 05:39:45

David Sylvian's Discography:
http://www.davidsylvian.net/mod.php?mod=artiste&op=show&cat=2
:-)

Posted By: maxxx Date: 22 Dec 2005 21:50:03

Is anyone interested in Nine Horses? I could upload it in a day or two. The format could be:

a) mp3 VBR as per ubernet.org specifications
b) EAC image file (wav/cue) which would be identical to original CD, but probably a 700MB deal.

Posted By: maxxx Date: 23 Dec 2005 13:48:20

I am uploading Nine Horses (VBR mp3, over 80MB) ti rapidshare in three rar files. Depending on how long avax takes to process a new upload you should see this album here in a day or two.

Season greetings all!

Posted By: llamamama Date: 23 Dec 2005 16:39:58

What a fantasic post! Thank you, Serial!

Posted By: llamamama Date: 23 Dec 2005 17:37:24

Not the greatest scans in the world, but these are better than nothing:

http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?what=R&obid=156948

Posted By: Serial Date: 24 Dec 2005 01:15:55

@maxxx

Look forward to "Nine Horses". An album new to me.

@llamamama

Do think the pics your link points at, are the same as those in the archives i posted.

Merry xmas to you all :-)

Posted By: llamamama Date: 24 Dec 2005 01:41:18

Thanks, Serial. I haven't finished downloading them yet, so I didn't know. Excellent posts like yours have convinced me it's time to get a Premium account at Rapidshare! :)

Posted By: piikea Date: 21 Nov 2010 02:41:28

these links are soooooooooooooooo dead

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