Tracklist (CD)
| | E | | | | 1-1 | | The Scent Of Magnolia | | 5:37 | | 1-2 | | Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II) | | 5:17 | | 1-3 | | Blackwater | | 4:23 | | 1-4 | | Albuquerque (Dobro #6) | | 1:22 | | 1-5 | | Ride | | 8:00 | | 1-6 | | The Golden Way | | 6:01 |
See more tracks| 1-7 | | Ghosts | | 3:48 | | 1-8 | | Pop Song | | 4:47 | | 1-9 | | Every Colour You Are | | 6:17 | | 1-10 | | Wanderlust | | 6:47 | | 1-11 | | God's Monkey | | 5:02 | | 1-12 | | Let The Happiness In | | 5:36 | | 1-13 | | I Surrender | | 9:29 | | 1-14 | | Thoroughly Lost To Logic | | 1:17 | | | N | | | | 2-1 | | Jean The Birdman | | 4:12 | | 2-2 | | Cover Me With Flowers | | 6:33 | | 2-3 | | The Boy With The Gun | | 5:15 | | 2-4 | | Riverman | | 4:57 | | 2-5 | | Aparna And Nimisha (Dobro #5) | | 0:57 | | 2-6 | | Midnight Sun | | 4:03 | | 2-7 | | Orpheus | | 4:49 | | 2-8 | | Some Kind Of Fool | | 7:31 | | 2-9 | | Cries And Whispers | | 2:34 | | 2-10 | | Godman | | 3:58 | | 2-11 | | Laughter And Forgetting | | 2:34 | | 2-12 | | Buoy | | 5:15 | | 2-13 | | Weathered Wall | | 5:44 | | 2-14 | | Bamboo Houses | | 5:21 | | 2-15 | | Come Morning | | 3:57 |
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Review
David Sylvian is best remembered as the pale-faced, lipstick-wearing, bleached-hair frontman for New Romantic pioneers Japan. These art-rock pretty boys were the prototype for the Duran Duran revolution, but in 1982, as Japanmania peaked, the group imploded and a disillusioned Sylvian retreated into a prolific-yet-sporadic solo journey. The long-overdue 1999 album Dead Bees on a Cake was his first solo venture in twelve years. Everything and Nothing, the follow-up, is an illuminating two-CD compilation that collects highlights from… Read More the past twenty years of his career -- including previously unheard tracks, enlightened moments from collaborations with Robert Fripp, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Bill Frisell, among others, and stirring work from the ill-fated Japan reunification project Rain Tree Crow. Highlights include the stunning late-Eighties ballad "Orpheus," the string-laden lament of last year's "The Scent of Magnolia," and the poetic introspection, exotic Far Eastern tones and synth atmospherics of the Japan hit "Ghosts." As the title suggests, Everything and Nothing cannot be considered a Sylvian "best of." Pre-1981 Japan classics, such as the synth-disco masterpiece "Quiet Life" and his mesmerizing Sakamoto collaboration "Forbidden Colours," are sadly missing. But previously unreleased gems, such as the moving "Some Kind of Fool," should satiate devotees and even evoke wistful memories of the age of frilly shirts and feathered hairdos. (RS 862) SARAH PRATT
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