A perfect example of how everything comes together in David's music. The harmonies, the lyrics, his voice, exceptional musicians like Fripp and Nelson, all the different genres coming through. A moody masterpiece. David is criminally underrated.
I first heard this when I was 15 and I thought it was beautiful. Now I’m 50 and it’s still magical. Some songs are simply eternal and timeless. Nice one David
How can David sylvian music sound so happy and so sad at the same time ... it's undescribable, and amazing it's what i've felt like my whole life he put into music feelings i've long struggled to understand
I think that' s the best Song EVER. This Song Is EVERYTHING to me. The LOVE and the BEAUTY he spreaded into this .....among many other songs of him...but them doesn't belong to him, they can't. This is an inspiration that comes from ABOVE , from BEYOND. From OTHER plans of the existence. Of being. And he channelled all this wonderful experience happened in the HIGHEST plans into a song ..... that makes all of us feel completely transfixed and deeply moved, THANK YOU ❤️. This is ETERNAL.❤️
This song always take me back to the summer of 86. A melancholy summer of teenage love lost. What a beautiful melody. Stunning. All these years later I’m stiff baffled why Sylvian isn’t touted as one of musics great artists. Plugged his own way, turning away from pop charts and into his own world, doing what he wanted. Always a hero and inspiration!
First heard Brilliant Trees on cassette at 16. Then Gone to Earth on vinyl. It penetrated my soul and at 47, it still stiirs my being in exactly the same way. The innocence of the unkowing and the known. How lost we can become. Thank you David Sylvian for your most excellent of poetic execution. Aka: the bloody bollocks. Your expression rocks the soul and moves. I think as a human being, all we leave behind is that which moves another to love's expression. You capture human love in all of it's profondity, and the immensity of natures hand. Thank you so very much.
There is some kind of law of diminishing returns with popular music.. Nevermind, most people prefer to see a Marvel film than something actually special.
Too bad he's been churning out only self-indulgent experimental trash these days. David has tremendous raw talent but due to poor sales of his albums he's lost direction ever since the late 90s. Only if the man was properly appreciated for this kind of music...
@@yuuya2111 I would not agree with you, cause his world citizen, blemish and manafon are quite special and in these works its seen he's a mature artist for today, also i can notice his appearence on Sakamoto's async - the song called "life, life", which is written by Arseniy Tarkovski. But the most powerful album to me is David's / Sakamoto's "world citizen"
Lyrics: Out upon the open fields The rain is pouring down We're pulling up the sheets again Against the passing tides of love Every doubt that holds you here Will find their own way out I will build a shelter if you call Just take my hand and walk Over mountains high and wide Bridging rivers deep inside With a will to guide you on Your heart will need no one Those days are gone Baby, I can tell you there's no easy way out Lost inside of dreams that guide you on Baby, I can tell you there's no easy way out Soon the guiding moonlight will be gone Out upon the ocean waves subside From the weakness of the tide That punishes in kind, when the heavens open wide Every shore the moon shines on Every word her siren's sung, "believe in no one" Baby, I can tell you there's no easy way out Lost inside of dreams that guide you on Baby, I can tell you there's no easy way out Soon the guiding moonlight will be gone
It would be great to see him doing a greatest hits tour. Come on Dave get out the house and play some gigs. The love is still out there. Some Rain tree crow, Japan, Nine horses and his solo stuff. It’s a dream but you never know.
I think he needed a lot of time off to process his personal life... He experienced a lot of loss in a very short space of time... and losing Mick Karn must have cut deep... he will be back🎋
What an extraordinary PANTHEON of avant guardists and composers and arrangment masterminds from his days in Japan and later Solo career..i mean everyone arround him is a genious and he himself a genious of his own, visionary and poet with this low absolutely unique, mesmerising liquid voice and heavenly looks! what kind of invisible hand joined their courses , made their paths in common and led them together to produce all these extraordinary works..how many universal variables nanotuned for that to happenn!!!!! I mean what are the odds to that in mathematical terms! David Sylvian beats materialism out of me and makes me think that the antropomorphic principle is true or that given enough time the universe will eventually express it self in sheer perfection!
A timeless song. Only maybe Bryan Ferry or Bowie could do this. It’s hard to believe it’s from 1986!!!!! With the arrangement and instruments it is free from the typical 80s click clack production. Sylvian and Japan are incredible.
There were many artists who defied stereotypical Big 80s production values. If you lived in the UK during that time, you would have heard plenty of them.
Ik ben al verslingerd aan de muziek van Japan sinds 1978 en na het verscheiden van die band, wat me nog altijd enorm spijt, aan wat hij daarna op muzikaal gebied heeft gepresteerd...Hoewel ik niet alles even interessant vind...Ook dit is weer zo'n typisch Sylvian-sfeernummer.
Ecouter David, c'est abolir le déferlement de bruits et d'images du quotidien pour entrouvrir l'espace d'un ailleurs où la contingence et la représentation cèdent la place à l'immatérialité du sensible. Une fois refermée la porte sur l'agitation du monde, un silence sous-jacent s'installe, une lenteur saisit, préludes à une dilatation de la perception et de la conscience. Le pouvoir expressif de l'architecture sonore rompt avec toute forme de transcription du réel pour s'attacher à l'expression d'un univers insaisissable .. :-)
This should have been the first single, rather than Taking the Veil. I believe this would have then charted in the top 40 - continuing David's chart career. Oh well, you can't change history.
There are two performances that are key to the sonic appeal of this track. One is the subtle piano of Sylvian himself, which serves as a base for the various guitar parts, and the brilliantly restrained soprano sax solo of Mel Collins. Both magical elements in one of Sylvian's most accomplished solo pieces.
This song is about the realisation that your life is uniquely yours and the meaning of life is what you attribute to it No person religion or state can comfort in the realisation that life is temporary
