Limited Offer Sylvian, David Died In The Wool: Manafon Variations (reissue) UMR vinyl record

2011 Downbeat Electronica, Ethereal Experimental Cuts – First time on 2×12″ – Vinyl for ‘Died In The Wool’, the 12 song remix companion to David’s 2009 album, ‘Manafon’, plus the non-album track “When We Return You Won’t Recognise Us”
Features remixes by David Sylvian, Dai Fujikura, Jan Bang & Erik Honoré.
‘When We Return You Won’t Recognise Us’ was specially commissioned by the 2nd Canary Islands Biennial of Architecture, Art and Landscape 2008-2009.
Manafon by David Sylvain of Japan fame is an underrated gem. The electroacoustic improvisation, complete lack of drums, coupled with Sylvain’s voice right at the front of the mix, makes for an ambient, freeform and highly experimental sound. The art-pop sonics that saw him gain success in the 70s and 80s is left firmly in the past and he’s doing exactly the music he wants hear – not what’s expected of him commercially. Now, on vinyl for the first time, comes remixes by classical contemporary genius Dai Fujikura – he wrote the string parts – of six songs from said album. There’s also new songs, heavily influenced by Fujikura and an 18-minute piece (‘When We Return You Won’t Recognise Us’) culled from a much longer sound installation that Fukikura and Sylvain created together for the 2008-09 Biennial of Canaries in Gran Canaria. How music this sublime hasn’t been on vinyl from the start is beyond us. Thankfully, that’s now rectified.