Tag: Melaine Dalibert interview

Musique pour le Lever du Jour

‘a counterpoint of timbre, of colour’

My previous conversation with Melaine Dalibert came at the culmination of his four albums on Yuko Zama’s elsewhere label. From the opening disc, Musique pour le Lever du Jour (Music for the Break of Day), released in 2018, to Night Blossoms in 2021, each instalment had a connection with David Sylvian. The sleeve art for each cd was provided by Sylvian, who also proffered production advice and project titles, a track was dedicated to him, and he contributed electronic ‘sound work’ to the tracks ‘Yin’ and ‘Yang’ on the final release in the series. (Read that interview with the full background to the elsewhere series here.)

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Yin – Yang

Sound as aura

In January 2018, David Sylvian contacted Jon Abbey and Yuko Zama in New York to gauge their interest in releasing some music by the Berlin-based musicians Biliana Voutchkova and Michael Thieke. Jon’s Erstwhile Records is home to recordings by some of the foremost innovators and improvisers in the contemporary scene, with his wife Yuko involved in production and taking a lead in design. The label’s output had been one of the resources that Sylvian had explored whilst preparing for the Manafon project, and the AMPLIFY 2004: addition festival in Germany – co-curated by Abbey and Keith Rowe – was where David met some of the musicians who would feature on that record for the very first time (see ‘Snow White in Appalachia’).

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