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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