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  • The melody, instrumentalization, lyrics and Sylvian's voice make this song one of the most haunting pieces of music ever recorded.

  • Not many song touch us like this one does and have as much meaning

  • jon hassel on trumpet

  • OH HOW LOVELY

  • after 27 years, this is still so touching...

  • Brilliant!

  • This song means the world to me...

  • Trumpet: John Hassell

  • Im my a crazy iz fan but this is real MUSIC

  • Accabadora

    quality of uploads is stunning! 

  • I'm kind of jealous. Cause I no he does art! I suck @ drawing and singing compared to david s. Very good song.

  • This and all david s. And japan music should be played on radio more

  • Why can't it stay the 80s? :(

  • What a master-piece...Brilliant!

  • This is probably the twentieth time I've replayed this song, and it's the most beautiful song I've ever heard. David Sylvian has a way of describing complexity of human condition, in a way that is incredibly poetic and pure. His voice and melodies are so haunting, and the words stand strong as he uses the space in between the notes. He's talented and gifted and truly an artist. I have a lot of admiration and respect for this man. He brings clarity and magic where life becomes abstract.

  • Satellite radio showed this. My mom and I arrived home in the late night, and this barely began playing. We stayed and listened to it for a little while. Thanks satellite.

  • the best-

    trumpet (john hassell)and keyboards no less

  • @rbhall7ice

    Synthethysers: Ryuichi Sakamoto,

    AMAZING Track, LOVE Sylvian.

  • Want 1000 views per day on your video? I'll get you them for free guaranteed while you sleep, checkout my how to vid /watch?v=uqwhomCAO6o

  • What an amazing curriculum... You must be happy to take a class like that.

    I didn't really love this song when the album had released, I was too young to understand this deepness. But now I appreciate whole of this song and sound :)

  • god remember it from the 80s, classic

  • one of my all time favorites !

  • at school we had to read a short story about a boy who loved David Sylvian's music and especially this song; i became curious and had to check who this Sylvian was... so that's what brings me here. i love this, really beautiful.

  • @xxFromYesterdayxx

    That's exactly why I'm here too!

  • @xxFromYesterdayxx hi, Sylvian's music is briliant, indeed. could you tell what short story you are referring to?

  • @teachsjl the story is "Oppe i treet" by a norwegian author Frode Grytten. and it's from the book "Popsongar"

  • Occasionally, very occasionally, this man's music makes me weep.

  • Such a beautiful song :)

  • I'm only 17, and I can say this music is truly MUSIC.

  • GENIO

  • GENIO

  • This song is hauntingly brilliant. Every time I hear, I get that sensation of simultaneous happiness, regret, introspection, and hope. David's music does that to you. His music has always been very cerebral. It is difficult to fathom bettering this, but he did exactly that with "Secrets of the Beehive". David gave us a preview of his cerebral music writing earlier with the group Japan, and that preview was the song "Ghosts". I love this man....I love his genius.

  • @phantasm1004...... well put

  • Who did the photography?

  • brilliant

  • his best album for me

  • Just beautiful...Loved it when it first came out and still love it

  • inspiredreminds me to the most feelfull moments of my life- nothing inspired

    me more in my darkest and truest moments- thanks a lot david

  • in the cold, cold, ambiance of early 80s Edmonton...some memories are so warm, so full of the promise of everything that was to follow... such prescient richness... beyond wholesomeness and forlornness... and here we still are. Pure joy. 

  • this is the best one!!!

  • Timeless Brilliance

  • My dearest friend in the world sent me this song. <3

    Such an amazingly beautiful song.

  • On of the most personal song ever written. But it is exactly that personal nature of the song that makes it so strong and appealing. It is truly personal for the listener as much as the performer.

  • takes me back to being a student at b'ham poly in the early 80s-huddled around crappy gas fires with mates in freezing cold flats in moseley...

  • kippenvel, en niet omdat het vriest buiten.

    muziek moet je voelen het moet je raken vanbinnen. en hij slaagt daar nog steeds in. jaren geleden heb ik hem live gezien, zo'n mooie trip heb ik nooit meer gemaakt.

    wat een stem heeft die man. daar word je gelijk verliefd op.

    dank je wel voor dit cadeau.

    je bent een held

  • Trees Are Brilliant

  • Mooie foto's groeten zapguz

  • Great masterpiece, and the pictures are a beautiful combination.

  • The authentic artist treats and understands their talents as spiritual gifts, enabling self illumination and a seer like ability to see the world as a revelatory phenomena. David Sylvian exemplifies and embodies such a capacity in all that he does . I adore the man.

  • The authentic artist treats and understands their talents as spiritual gifts, enabling self illunination and a seer like ability to see the world as a revelatory phenomena. David Sylvian exemplifies and embodies such a capacity in all that he does . I adore the man.

  • I have this album...it's simply beautiful...and this song is just A M A Z I N G...

    ALMOST THERE ARE NO WORDS TO DESCRIBE THE BEAUTY OF THIS SONG...

  • AWESOME..........

  • So STUNNING

    David Sylvian reaches my soul so deeply. He makes me feel so many emotions and feelings.

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  • @TheNouveauxdecadence CHOICE TUNE

    SO BEAUTIFUL___ I LOVE IT!!!

    EMOTIONALLY SEARCHING !!!

  • What's the building at the beginning of the video?

  • Oh, wow. I am stunned. I never thought I would find this on youtube, but here it is... and wow.... the photographs go with the music so well, and the ending transcends space/time and carries a mystical element that had me frozen to the screen. Thank you to whoever created and posted this. This is one of the best videos on youtube.

  • @no1rnbfan This poster of this vid makes many amazing music/picture creations - if you like this one, you will find many other profoundly beautiful videos by checking out the site.

  • O... I still feel the same when hearing this... Masterpiece... as I guess, back then, it is more than twenty years ago. Beyond Great. It leads me to feeling silent, humble, surrendering... to Life... Enigma... the Brilliant Trees... Neverending... Just. plain Brilliant.

  • Could be a song on my funeral....

  • @jybuys how many funerals do you have planned? :-) another song can be of philip glass called opening,,,try that

  • phealy02 - a wonderful comment full of resonance or me

  • This song is soooo beautiful I feel like I,m having a spiritual experience every time I hear it. Your filmclip is perfect for this song. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Tis is magical.

  • molto bello,grazie

  • getting into the mood to record.......

  • i remember long ago when i obtained this album. It overwhelmed me and really made me think about things that i never usually dwell on. A brilliant work of music if u ask me x

  • Does anybody know what keyboard is being used in this song? I'm thinking about the one in the intro and outtro that sounds kind of like a flute.

  • @ThumbsAtWork the flute-like sound is Jon Hassell's unique way of playing flugelhorn. The only synth is in the background harmonies.

  • @paraplegia Thanks man. Jon Hassell is awesome. (Wouldn't it be nice if you could just buy a synth and sound like him?) ;-)

  • @paraplegia trumpet.

  • beautiful.Thank you.

  • He definitely is a Genius, although I have to say that many of his solo stuff in my point of view indulge too much in melancholy (and I am usually a friend of this emotion...). The freshness of Japan, the surprises and also the fragility of their Music is what I am missing here a bit. This on the other hand might sound more mature, but somehow it feels to one-dimensional to me emotionally.

  • @dustinzk I love yr comments man... Manafon is a most def a failure but the thing is - do we stick this guy? Oh Yeah... I refer you to yr opening comment... So many of us are in exile... lets not do it to him too? Respectfully w 114

  • man i get what you say but, hasn't he always been a bit ahead of the rest of us? i am not crazy about much of his recent stuff, but he was the reason my ears got opened to real music in the first place. his entire career has been predicated on being 5 years ahead of eveyone else, has it not? X

  • @Wittegnstein114 Manafon's not a failure to me, I love it and I'm not the kind of fan who loves everything he does, just most of it! Cheers

  • @chrisnoaro1 Must listen to it again... thanks... :o)

  • @Wittegnstein114 I accept it's pretty weird and probably offputting to fans of Sylvian's more melodic stuff. I guess I've been listening to 'difficult' stuff for years, so it's easier for me to get into. Cheers and happy listening

  • @chrisnoaro1 - i think yr right... thank you! :o)

  • you think 'brilliant trees' is 'one-dimensional... emotionally'? you can't be serious, surely? i get what you say about japan: i love them too. but how can you not love this?

  • Meravigliosa canzone,una carezza per l'anima.

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  • brilliant

  • Music of angels. No musian has touched me more than Sylvian.

  • yes this was and is sublime, although iv'e been touched by classical many times

  • this is pure music 2 me. loved it when i first had it in the eighties and still love it now. nothing compares.

  • yes i agree ,remember listening to this on my walkman in a park in maida vale london in the rain, better than any feeling

  • beautiful

  • Please upload the other videao, cause the others don't have the same sound quality as yours. Thank you, I love it !

  • Utter brilliance.

  • I have listened to David Sylvian for near on 30 years now and the listening experience is just as rewarding today as it was all those years ago. Brilliant Trees the album/cd is my most treasured piece of music which introduced me to the world of possibilities.

  • the video is very evocative

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  • Amazing! Thanks for sharing!

  • Pure.

  • fking genius

  • @jellybeafter  I respect your views,but i think he is better than this. Only wish more people would open their ears to his music, it has kept me going since the 80,s

  • 1984, a key turning point in my own evolution. Age 15 I bought the album from the import section & submerging myself in the exquisite cover photography of Yuka Fujii & hand-written liner notes I delayed as long as possible putting the record in & closing the lid of the linear tracking turntable: I was crushed! I would never forgive this betrayal. By the 5 or 6th listening I was no longer smoldering & felt strangely possessed. I listened only to Brilliant Trees only for the next 2 months.

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  • Truly one of the most beautiful songs i've ever heard. I loved it the first time I heard it 25 years ago. It never loses its beauty.

  • I had the record and played it until it skipped...still good to this day

  • love the dead trees!

  • Love this magical song. Paris, 1984. Hundreds of albums in a shop window. This one caught my eye and my soul. 25 years...seems like a second.

  • none of my friends enjoyed japan or sylvian's work but when I played this to them late one night they took notice.

  • How old are your friends? This song is very deep.

  • When this album came out, I remember sitting down and listening to it with a few friends... and during this song we all fell silent... did not utter one sound... and were all reduced to tears.

  • That says it all. . .thank you. . What resonance, what warmth, that voice & the words - all of it -  and seeming security midst a new understanding of things. .. and after all these years. . its so great to listen too.

  • @hersenlozeslet

    That's sweet. How moving.

  • Truly beautiful imagery, matching perfectly with Sylvian's song. To me, one of his most loved songs. Still and forever a big fan.

  • leading my life back to the soil.

  • David Sylvian.....what can you say about the man. Keep on exploring and pushing YOUR boundaries !

  • did you take the photos? they're beautiful

  • Great song. Great artist!

  • Wonderful Music and Video-Performance!

  • the initial instrumental sounds very much like some of the tracks from POSSIBLE MUSICS by Eno and Jon Hassell

  • I believe it's Jon Hassel on this album as well. It's an electronic effect on a trumpet I think

  • yes . . . and yes . . . brilliant, eh wot?!?

  • no it's a flugelhorn. (like a big trumpet). that's how it sounds, perhaps with a touch of reverb, that's all.

  • not sure about the flugelhorn, I've seen him on stage (video)

  • kenny wheeler (great jazz trumpet & flugelhorn player) played flugelhorn on the brilliant trees album. as any fule kno. that's what gave it its distinctive sound, it's lower and softer than the trumpet.

  • the song of my 18 years,the best song for me.

  • One of my favourite song of all time. If not my absolute favourite.

  • Simply too beautiful for words

  • As a naturally analytic and critical person, I must make a comment that stands in contrast to those of a similar nature, if not a similar open-mindedness... this music not only brings back memories, but brings back moisture to dry eyes, a sweet sadness to my memories of forgotten times, and an untainted remembrance of lost friends. I am truly moved.

  • I couldn't have said it better myself. But I can never forget those lost times and friends. Thank God for Sylvian. One of the few artists who has moved me so deeply for most of my life...Never a dry eye when I hear him.

    Thanks for sharing, it is good to hear from somebody who is obviously a kindred soul.

    Peace to you...

  • I think what I love so much about Sylvian's work is not only the emotion it evokes in people, myself included, but more importantly how it brings like minded people together.

  • @phealy02 why are your eyes dry?

  • @phealy02 That doesn't make sense.

  • @crowscarer people like him love to use big words to say absolutely nothing.

    nothing but smoke.

  • @phealy02 yes!!!

  • Sorry, forgot to mention the artists of Fourth World.....Hassell & Eno

  • It is sonically the most beautiful song ever. It's a hymn of the modern era.

  • Sylvian has certainly played with some great established muscians, if you like the background trumpet played by Jon Hassell, take a listen to Fourth world Possible Musics,

  • *sigh*

  • I bought a casset tape of this album when I was in the U.K. in 91 and brings back so much memory...

  • piango di felicità...genio

  • BEAUTYFUL!!! SIMPLY BEAUTYFUL!!

    Thanks for posting this

  • Great is not enough.....it's beautiful!

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  • Great Video!

  • alberi brillanti, alberi brillantissismi !!!!

  • me encanta...fue amor a primera vista..para mi un despertar..un hito en mi vida..lindas palabras

  • Grande, intensissima, poetica...W David.!!

  • breathtaking

    simply stunning

    god bless you david

  • Stunning!

  • perfect *.*

  • szép

  • Simply beautiful!

  • I'm listening to this right now because I'm writing an analysis of a novel on which the main character's favorite song is this one.

    Now I understand the novel a lot better.

    Thank you.

  • May I ask you what the title of this novel is? Thank you!!

  • Yes, it's in finnish though, or the version I have is in finnish. It's called Ylhäällä puussa and it's by Forde Grytten. Hopefully this helped you :3

  • Thank you!! I believe I have found a translation in Dutch. I am looking forward to reading it!

  • Meikä kirjotti myös ihan samasta novellista analyysin.

  • Lukio <3

  • just tänään piti analysoida toi kokeessa :P

  • Aah, tuli sentää 40 pistettä analyysista. :) Vaikka laatu oli mitä oli...

  • I understand it was the era of the music, but my only criticism would be the synth horn section. It would have sounded much better as either strings or a real brass section. So far, For the Love of Life is still my favorite Sylvian. I discovered him from the anime Monster of all things.

  • I think the 'synth' horn section is actually Jon Hassel playing real trumpet, though heavily treated.

  • I also prefer the more acoustic sound.

    But this is beautiful nonetheless.

  • ++++++++++

  • Black & White images contribute alot to the pleasing melancholic mood.

    Excellent video!!! 5*

  • Sylvian had something. Problem was we had no time to think!

    He never sold out despite the dodgy beginings!

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  • I listen to this record back in 84 when my father died in Cancer.

    Can`t listen to it today, the whole record is like an umbilical cord to emotions i have hidden deep long ago.

    Now when i found D.S on youtube i couldn`t dodge away.. thnx for a nice video

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  • One of my favorite songs of all time!

    The pictures in this video are beautiful as well!

  • Fantastic images.

  • Sylvian at his best.

  • This song is Something Great.. And with this video you made it ever more wonderful..

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  • take root in the soil

    be exposed to the weather

    broken a branch off

    take it on the chin

    fruit well

    have bird eaten

  • Fascinating. Thanks so much.

  • "Even the greatest darkness is nothing as long as we share the light"

  • Che dire....

  • Utterly beautyful.

  • very well done.

  • Great and atmospheric selection of pictures. Thank you so much.

  • thanks allot ACCABADORA your videos make my moments very special......thanks.

  • Absolutely Sylvian's masterpiece!

  • ....come fare l'amore.... è assoluto..... magnifico...

  • quanto è vero...

    anzi: PER fare l'amore...