Sylvian, David The Good Son vs The Only Daughter (The Blemish Remixes) UMR vinyl record Big Sale

2005 Ethereal Downbeat Electronica, Experimental LP 1st Time on Vinyl – ‘The Good Son Vs The Only Daughter (The Blemish Remixes), the 9 song remix companion of David’s 2003 solo album, ‘Blemish’.
Featuring remixes by Burnt Friedman, Sweet Billy Pilgrim, Royoji Ikeda, Readymade FC, Yoshihiro Hanno, Tatsuhiko Asano, Akira Rabelais, Jan Bang & Erik Honoré.
You can go one of two ways as an artist when you’ve had pop success early in life: you keep the wheel because the wheel isn’t broken. Or you change the wheel and reinvent yourself and make music that’s true to yourself and not guided by commercial expectation. David Sylvain has done the latter with aplomb. At the time of making this album, which is the companion album to Blemish (2003) and now on vinyl for the first time, he was free from the shackles of a major label and diving headfirst into improvisation. You can’t even faintly hear echoes of the band that made his name – new wave icons Japan. For these remixes Sylvian worked with the likes of Ryoji Ikeda, Burnt Friedman, and Readymade FC, although some songs were re-recorded rather than remixed. ‘Late Night Shopping’, remixed by Friedman, is a great entry point to this work, with dark beats and eerie noises, making for an atmospheric triumph. This is an album that pushes music as an artform forward. Long may Sylvain continue.