When David Sylvian released the Sleepwalkers compilation featuring collaborative tracks from the first decade of the 2000s, he told radio host Joe Silva that his aim was to ‘show something of a companion body of work to the solo work that I’ve been doing with Blemish and Manafon.. ..People have been saying I’ve been moving further and further away from melody, traditional melody and traditional forms of popular music. But I wanted to show that this wasn’t necessarily the case. I’ve never really moved that far away from it because I’ve always got my toe dipped into that stream as well as working with more abstract forms.’
Sylvian seemed determined to pursue both the experimental approach of his samadhisound solo albums and the more familiar structures of pop. Asked what future collaborations might follow Sleepwalkers, he talked of further work with artists featured on that album, including ‘a more expansive project’ with Dai Fujikura; surprisingly – given the passage of time – he intimated that Steve Jansen, Burnt Friedman and he were ‘still looking for the common ground for a possible second Nine Horses album’; and confirmed that, ‘Joan Wasser and I have spoken of writing together.’ (2010) Continue reading “Beautiful Country”
