The US leg of the Everything and Nothing tour wound to a close with a show at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles on 14 May 2002. It wasn’t long before David Sylvian’s attention turned towards new work after an extended period compiling and completing material from the preceding 20 years, firstly for the excellent vocal cd set which gave the tour its name and then for its instrumental companion, Camphor, which came out a couple of weeks after the LA gig.
Immediately following the tour, Sylvian’s brother, Steve Jansen, who had performed as drummer and percussionist in the stage band, took up residence at the New Hampshire property that was home to Sylvian, his wife Ingrid Chavez and their young family. ‘God, it gets increasingly difficult to place events firmly in time,’ wrote Sylvian later when the Nine Horses record – a trio with Jansen and Burnt Friedman – was released in 2005. ‘I’m trying to recall how this project got started. I’m not entirely convinced of the dates nor of the intervals between, but it seems that Steve and I started writing together in the late summer or fall of 2002, at least that’s what the dates on the digital photographs appear to tell me.’
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