Fitter Stoke
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Re: Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 11 November 2017 CE
Nov 13, 2017, 17:34
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I'm sure I read somewhere that Sylvian was unwell a few years back - indeed, didn't he cancel his last tour through illness? Also, after 'Manafon' I remember him saying something along the lines of how he couldn't continue writing songs as the process had become so enmeshed within the free improvisation ethos (or summat). Whatever, it doesn't explain why he's silently deleted that fine album and all his other SamahdiSound releases, which aren't even available as downloads any more. Sad.
Come to think of it, there hasn't been a lot of new music coming from a certain other great English original either...
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thesweetcheat
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Re: Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 11 November 2017 CE
Nov 13, 2017, 19:20
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There was a rather good single track work from 2014 or 2015 called "There's a light that enters houses with no other house in sight", which was the most recent thing I heard from him.
http://davidsylvian.com/theresalight/text.html
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Monganaut
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Re: Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 11 November 2017 CE
Nov 13, 2017, 19:34
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I guess they're both of an age where they feel the need to kick back a bit. Let's be honest, commercially their glory years are long past, though not necessarily artstically. Plus Mr C has started boozing....which is never great fer yer work ethic.
Not for everyone here i realise, but Momus, who is of a similar age still has a crazy work output. In the last 10 years alone there has been an album every year, several books written, various tours and talks/ written articles etc....He's currently moving from Osaka to Germany after being in japan for 10 years or so. There are some great little video diaries he puts up on youtube under the moniker 'Open University' about his life, what he's doing and what's floating his boat aat that point in time. I really enjoy his daffy tunes, esp the wordplay and humour, and he manages to make a bloody scratch video for pretty much every track.
If you follow the various links on his webpage, it leads you all over the place. http://www.imomus.com/
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machineryelf
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Re: Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 11 November 2017 CE
Nov 13, 2017, 20:17
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drewbhoy wrote: machineryelf wrote:
Nazareth -s/t,Exercises
I love this album. Just a shame it didn't get the same treatment as No Mean City, Malice In Wonderland, Rampant etc treatment.
lack of bonus material, Close Enough for RnR/Play n the Game has the same problem, I'm surprised that there is no live material from the 75-78 period, unless I'm missing something, much as I love 'Snaz it's a post punk Nazareth with the 70's rock excess reined in
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drewbhoy
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Re: Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 11 November 2017 CE
Nov 14, 2017, 09:40
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machineryelf wrote: drewbhoy wrote: machineryelf wrote:
Nazareth -s/t,Exercises
I love this album. Just a shame it didn't get the same treatment as No Mean City, Malice In Wonderland, Rampant etc treatment.
lack of bonus material, Close Enough for RnR/Play n the Game has the same problem, I'm surprised that there is no live material from the 75-78 period, unless I'm missing something, much as I love 'Snaz it's a post punk Nazareth with the 70's rock excess reined in
Surprising they couldn't get a hold of radio stuff from the States/Canada but hey ho. The full length version of Snaz is excellent, Let Me Be Your Leader (from The Fool Circle) in particular being superb. New album coming out next year :-)
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