Died in the Wool (Manafon Variations)

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All Music Guide - Thom Jurek
David Sylvian's MANAFON (2009) appeared as a collection of disciplined art songs that relied on his collaborators to inform not only their textures, but their forms. Those players -- Jan Bang, Evan Parker, John Tilbury, Dai Fujikura, Erik Honoré, Otoma Yoshide, and Christian Fennesz among them -- created airy, often gently dissonant structures for Sylvian's lyrics and melodic ideas. Died in the Wool (MANAFON Variations) re-employs these players (with some new ones) in the considerable reworking of five of MANAFON's compositions. There are also six new songs that include unused outtakes, and two poems by Emily Dickinson set to music and sung by Sylvian. The new music here ...
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All Music Guide - Thom Jurek
David Sylvian's MANAFON (2009) appeared as a collection of disciplined art songs that relied on his collaborators to inform not only their textures, but their forms. Those players -- Jan Bang, Evan Parker, John Tilbury, Dai Fujikura, Erik Honoré, Otoma Yoshide, and Christian Fennesz among them -- created airy, often gently dissonant structures for Sylvian's lyrics and melodic ideas. Died in the Wool (MANAFON Variations) re-employs these players (with some new ones) in the considerable reworking of five of MANAFON's compositions. There are also six new songs that include unused outtakes, and two poems by Emily Dickinson set to music and sung by Sylvian. The new music here relies heavily on Sylvian's association with Fujikura: he composed, arranged, and conducted chamber strings that are prevalent. Where MANAFON's "Small Metal Gods" was orchestrated by acoustic guitar, laptop, electronics, bass, and cello, this one employs a string quartet that provides greatly expanded harmonics, which underscore the desolate power in Sylvian's lyrics. On "Snow White in Appalachia," strings shift the tune's original sonic gears into diffused, vaporous sonorities. On the title track, Fujikura uses a composed clarinet sample to introduce John Butcher's saxophone, a mixing board, an all-but-unrecognizable guitar, cymbals, and samples to stretch a narrative melody to its ghostly breaking point. Dickinson's poem, "I Should Not Dare," is a standout; its gentle, accessible melody, accompanied by Sylvian's acoustic guitar, is made sharper by Fennesz's electric and samples from Honoré. Parker adds a gorgeous nocturnal saxophone line and Bang provides an unusual string arrangement to create the feeling of deep longing across great distance. "A Certain Slant of Light," also by Dickinson, is less formal but more moodily cinematic with its layers of samples. A delightfully fragmented redo of "Emily Dickinson" completes the sonic re-creation of her image as this set's Muse. On "Anomaly at Taw Head," Fujikura's string abstractions -- introduced by Parker's bluesy saxophone and Tilbury's minimal piano -- add dimension to Sylvian's open field melodic structure. The underlining poetic is tense, but seductive. There is a bonus second disc, too, in Sylvian's 18-minute sound installation "When We Return You Won't Recognize Us." It is a stellar, ambient work featuring Arve Henricksen, Butcher, the Elysian Quartet, Eddie Prevost, Toshimaru Nakamura, and Gunter Muller. It should be listened to on headphones to grasp all of its intricacies. Died in the Wool (MANAFON Variations) showcases Sylvian's restless discipline in expanding his music's parameters, and those of song itself, while offering even greater opportunities for his collaborators to influence its creation.
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  • Release Date: 5/31/2011
  • Label: Samadhi Sound Uk
  • UPC: 633367774927
  • Catalog Number: 21
  • Sales rank: 49,350

Album Credits

Performance Credits
David Sylvian Primary Artist, Acoustic Guitar, Guitar, Keyboards, Saxophone, Vocals, Sampling, electronics
Evan Parker Saxophone
Eddie Prévost Percussion
Emma Smith Violin
John Butcher Saxophone
Steve Jansen Cymbals
Marcio Mattos Cello
Keith Rowe Guitar
Sachiko M Sampling
John Tilbury Piano
Otomo Yoshihide Turntables
Werner Dafeldecker Acoustic Bass
Michael Moser Cello
Christian Fennesz Guitar
Franz Hautzinger Trumpet
Tetuzi Akiyama Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar
Erik Honore Synthesizer, Cello, Sampling
Arve Henriksen Trumpet
Wendy Richman Viola
Helge Sten Guitar
Ståle Storløkken Synthesizer
Christian Wallumrød Piano
Katinka Kleijn Cello
Laura Moody Cello
Jan Bang Sampling
Jennymay Logan Violin
Hildur Guðnadóttir Cello
Chris Gross Cello
Michi Wiancko Violin
Claire Chase Bass Flute
Kate Romano Clarinet
Dai Fujikura Conductor, Sampling
Ros Stephen Violin
Charlie Cross Viola
Jennifer Curtis Violin
Erik Carlson Violin
Margaret Dyer Viola
Vincent Sipprell Viola
Technical Credits
Bang Composer
Rupert Coulson Engineer
Fred Kevorkian Mastering
David Sylvian Producer, Art Direction
Rowe Composer
Fennesz Composer
Emily Dickinson Lyricist
Erik Honore Arranger
Jan Bang Arranger, String Arrangements
Yoshihide Composer
Sachiko Composer
Dai Fujikura Composer, Director, String Arrangements, Flute Arrangement
Sylvian Composer, Lyricist
Henriksen Composer
Aniyama Composer
George Bolster Cover Art
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