David Sylvian - The Rabbit Skinner (Manafon, 2009)

The Rabbit Skinner - David Sylvian
MANAFON (2009) *my album of the year*
music: fennesz/mattos/parker/ryan/sylvian/tilbury; lyrics: sylvian; piano: john tilbury; saxophone: evan parker; cello: marcio mattos; laptop guitar: christian fennesz; live signal processing: joel ryan; vocals, acoustic guitar: david sylvian
Lyric here: http://www.davidsylvian.com/texts/lyrics_and_poetry/manafon_lyrics.html

'David Sylvian is a man apart. In a thirty-year career that spans the New Romantic movement, ambient works and progressive rock, and mature and esoteric pop, Sylvian has tested popular styles and bent them to his own vision. But the 00s have seen a more extreme side of his work. While 2003s Blemish startled long-time fans with its emotional rigour, Sylvian has taken the next step with Manafon a work of nuance and stern musicality, that is also intriguing, suspenseful, and horribly beautiful.
On Manafon, Sylvian pursues a completely modern kind of chamber music. Intimate, dynamic, emotive, democratic, economical. In sessions in London, Vienna, and Tokyo, Sylvian assembled the worlds leading improvisers and innovators, artists who explore free improvisation, space-specific performance, and live electronics. From Evan Parker and Keith Rowe, to Fennesz and members of Polwechsel, to Sachiko M and Otomo Yoshihide, the musicians provide both a backdrop and a counterweight to his own vocal performances which, minus one instrumental, are nakedly the center of each piece' Chris Dahlen

For more info and to buy the album please go to:
http://www.samadhisound.com/
http://www.manafon.com/
http://www.davidsylvian.com/
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http://www.davidsylvian.net/
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*cine memento by freccia, that's me. Playing with black and white, shadows, lebenswelt, phänomenologie, mists, motion and stop motion photography, intentionalität, blinks and blanks, man without quality, deconstruction, Derrida and Husserl, imperfection and water*

Category:

Music

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• rabbit
• skinner
• david
• sylvian
• fennesz
• mattos
• parker
• ryan
• tilbury
• deconstruction
• manafon
• po
• cremona
• stop
• motion
• photography

[TheCinemage]

...so you put the Paci's phenomenology of the negative not only in your books, mi querida amiga...

[bulucette]

I think the whole Manafon is a work of Phenomenology. I mean, the eidetic science of consciousness of Husserl and Paci...

[nightporter2005]

Video magnifico....splendido Sylvian

[bulucette]

l'intero Manafon è spettacolare.

grazie

[MrJcocteau]

the video is perfect for the song.

BRAVO BRAVISSIMO

J.

[bulucette]

always too much generous.

Thanks

[SixOneCynic]

Behind him now are bombastic synthesizers and distorted guitars, behind all of us. A tired sound replaced by something alien and difficult which by the comments in this page display clearly the intention of David to test his listener.

This is David Sylvian the Artist moving forward, sculpting a sound not heard on many records, stop looking for 80s David and accept the aging man coming to terms with his own mortality through bleak sonicscapes.

[misterberko]

@SixOneCynic

Have to disagree. After Blemish this (Manofon) is a massive disappointment.

[1sacabutx]

es más duro de tragar que una piedra

[colinraycyrus68]

would it hurt him to record something with a tune , been a japan fan since 1980 and still love them but this solo stuff from dave i just cant get ,sorry folks,,,,no wonder they dont sell many ,,and this is coming from one of japans biggest ever fans,,i know hes not japan anymore and cant be with mick r.i.p but something on the lines of brilliant trees would be a welcome treat to all his fans

[hagstromman345]

so good. time for a bit of tonality though.

[SixOneCynic]

@USSCaprica - I like to think of the "discordance" a strange 'assonance' sort of italicising David's warm, buttery vocals - I must have listened to this song 100+ times since I posted that first comment of mine, everything you hear on Manafon now sounds natural and and in its place, so to speak, everything David Sylvian will ever do after Manafon will be judged intensely by those learned of this record of his; I still think he's more relevant now than ever; and I'm still enchanted after 20 years

[USSCaprica]

@SixOneCynic Sadly you are right... the problem is that David the Artist is producing... what exactly? you tell me what you hear in this....? what you term as bleak sonicscapes is an arty way of exusing tuneless experts, discordant instruments plonking away in the background overlayed with David's brilliant vocals that really don't do or go in any particular direction. I guess it all depends on what you look for in music... if you are looking for a tune, this is not it.

[russellfoureyes]

It's a toss up between Mr Sylvian & Scott Walker...And the biggest tosser is...LOL...they're both wonderful artists...

[ALPQZM654]

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth...

[dunning1977]

I adore Sylvian, but find the album Manafon an extremely difficult lesson.. and I get on with Blemish very well !! You definitely have to listen to this on headphones and in peace... maybe a bit like Mark Hollis' solo album I'd say.