Julian Cope presents Head Heritage

David Sylvian ‘Blemish’ - Mr Batt’s career high (IMHO of course) sees the musical abstraction and self-alienation of ‘Ghosts’ taken to extreme levels. What could be just another break-up album is here delivered in a completely unique and personal way, devoid of conventional chord sequences or anything more complex than a pulse rhythm (itself apparent on only a couple of tracks). Sylvian gently intones his near-perfect voice over sparse, obtuse and fragmented guitar lines (courtesy of avant-garde masters Derek Bailey and Christian Fennesz) and achieves true emotional catharsis without a hint of frenzy; in fact, the album rarely budges from a steady adagio or middling dynamics. Like late period Scott Walker, this is a tough nut to crack but, given due concentration, rewards immensely. In fact, this may just be my favourite album so far this century, as well as the best confessional epic since Peter Hammill’s ‘Over’. Yes, I really think it’s that good;

My 1st Soundtrack post, here goes:

Schulze/Namlook - The Dark Side of the Moog Vol 4.
Klaus Schulze - Picture Music
Klaus Schulze - Trancefer
Stomu Yamash'ta - Go
Baraka - OST
Lou Reed - New York
The Gun Club - Miami
Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk
The Blue Nile - Hats
Hope & Social - Sleep Sound
Enya - Dark Sky Island
Numan - Scarred (live)
Cope - Floored Genius
Curtis Mayfield - Never Say You Can't Survive
Dire Straits - Alchemy (side 1 and 2)
David Sylvian - A Victim of Stars (CD1)

Thank you

Not the last I hope!

Not heard this, I never bought the reissue as I have the old vinyl fold out album, and didn't think I needed it. I am kinda curious, but also a little baffled as to why you'd remix such a classic album. Is it one of those 5.1 mixes he does, or just a re-imagining of the record?

It's strange, it does its best to highlight everything that isn't Brock and Lemmy, screams muso nerd to me but then pretty much everything Wilson does strikes me the same way. Totally misses the point of Hawkwind as far as I'm concerned but I find myself listening to it as much as the original mix just for different outlook. It has a dvd with the 5.1 mix on it, but as my 5.1 system has been off for a while can't remember if it's anything special

edit listening to the Wilson mix now , he's very keen on sax and seagulls, he's certainly paid a lot of attention to the sax, flute and electronics