David Sylvian - Blemish (2003) {samadhisound sound cd ss001}
David Sylvian - Blemish (2003) {samadhisound sound cd ss001}
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© 2003 samadhisound | sound cd ss001
Experimental / Art Rock / Avant-Garde / Modern Composition / Sound Sculpture
First album released on David's Samadhi Sound label. An impromptu suite of songs for guitar, electronics and voice. An emotionally raw, minimal work, of immediacy and stark beauty with outstanding contributions from Derek Bailey and Christian Fennesz.
The fractured, stark yin to Dead Bees on a Cake's tranquil, sensuous yang, Blemish is an unforeseen detour taken by David Sylvian, who has made eight of his most bare, anguished, and intense songs, all of which are neither pleasant nor the least bit settling. For half of the album, Sylvian is completely alone, accompanied only by his own guitar and electronic treatments. On the others, he is joined by either Derek Bailey or Christian Fennesz, two guitarists with indispensable roles. The opening title track sets the tone, with heavily echoed noise fibers warping and reverberating for nearly 14 minutes. The effects swell and recede at a disquieting but sunken volume, while Sylvian's upfront voice – more stripped and vulnerable than it was in Japan's "Ghosts" – slips in lines like "I fall outside of her," "Give me one more chance to do things right," and "Life's for the taking, so they say – take it away." Bailey's improvised work appears in three songs and is most complementary during "The Good Son," in which his prickles and sudden spasms carry and push, rather than support, Sylvian's voice. "A Fire in the Forest," the album's own "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," lets the listener out with a battered sense of optimism. Featuring an arrangement from Fennesz, a melody struggles to find its way out of twisted fragments and soft beams of noise, as Sylvian sings of his search to reach the sunshine that awaits him above gray skies. Throughout the album, clues are dropped about the events that transpired and the circumstances surrounding them, but it's all left to be pieced together and interpreted by the listener, who will have to sift through the hedged lines, meticulously organized sounds – from rattling shopping carts to handclaps to delicate fragments of guitar – and numerous disfigurations of clear-cut linear thought. Blemish is the kind of record that provokes many longtime followers to throw up their arms in aggravation – it's very much a "final straw" record. A work of beautiful, desolate fragility, Blemish is also the kind of record that will have the opposite effect on a select few, most of whom no doubt obsess over records like Scott Walker's Tilt and Mark Hollis' Mark Hollis.
Personnel
Produced, composed, performed, engineered by david sylvian, except tracks 2/5/7 guitars derek bailey. composed by derek bailey and david sylvian. track 8 electronics and arrangement by christian fennesz
Guitar by Derek Bailey (tracks: 2, 5, 7)
Derek Bailey sessions engineered by Toby Hrycek-Robinson (tracks: 2, 5, 7) at the moat
Mixed by david sylvian
Art direction and design by Yuka Fujii
Cover artwork by Atsushi Fukui
Recorded at samadhi sound studio feb/march 03
Track Listing
01 - Blemish
02 - The Good Son
03 - The Only Daughter
04 - The Heart Knows Better
05 - She Is Not
06 - Late Night Shopping
07 - How Little We Need To Be Happy
08 - A Fire In The Forest
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David Sylvian / Blemish
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EAC extraction logfile from 28. July 2018, 21:25
David Sylvian / Blemish
Used drive : ATAPI iHAS122 F Adapter: 1 ID: 2
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 1024 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
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Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
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1 | 0:00.00 | 13:42.43 | 0 | 61692
2 | 13:42.43 | 5:25.10 | 61693 | 86077
3 | 19:07.53 | 5:28.34 | 86078 | 110711
4 | 24:36.12 | 7:51.70 | 110712 | 146106
5 | 32:28.07 | 0:45.59 | 146107 | 149540
6 | 33:13.66 | 2:54.10 | 149541 | 162600
7 | 36:08.01 | 3:22.20 | 162601 | 177770
8 | 39:30.21 | 4:14.55 | 177771 | 196875
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==== Log checksum 02A6C009B4B59AD0FCDDDD190B801C3C05AD376D56421EEA29BC1C7A4199E949 ====
David Sylvian - Blemish (2003) {samadhisound sound cd ss001}
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