On November 24, 2014, “Samadhi Sound”, label released “There’s a Light That Enters Houses with No Other House in Sight”, the eighth David Sylvian studio album. It was recorded in 2014, and was produced by David Sylvian.
Personnel:
David Sylvian – piano, sampler, computer, electronics, laptop, engineer, art direction
Christian Fennesz – guitar, laptop
John Tilbury – piano
Franz Wright – spoken word
Alfred A. Knopf – recording arrangement
Tony Cousins – mastering
Chris Bigg – design
Nicholas Hughes – cover photography
David La Spina – photography
Track listing:
All tracks by David Sylvian, with prose poems from Kindertotenwaldby Franz Wright.
There’s a Light That Enters Houses with No Other House in Sight
On September 14, 2009, “Samadhi Sound” label released “Manafon”, the seventh David Sylvian studio album. It was recorded 2004–2007, in Vienna, Tokyo and London, and was produced by David Sylvian.
Personnel:
David Sylvian – vocals, acoustic guitar, keyboards, electronics, engineer, mixing, art direction
Burkhard Stangl – guitar
Keith Rowe – guitar
Christian Fennesz – guitar, laptop
Otomo Yoshihide – acoustic guitar, turntables
Tetuzi Akiyama – acoustic and electric guitar
John Tilbury – piano
Werner Dafeldecker – acoustic bass
Evan Parker – saxophone
Franz Hautzinger – trumpet
Marcio Mattos – cello
Michael Moser – cello
Toshimaru Nakamura – no input mixer
Joel Ryan – tape signal processing
Sachiko M. – sine waves
Christoph Amann, Toshihiko Kasai, Sebastian Lexer, Neil Tucker – additional engineering
Yuka Fujii – art direction
Chris Bigg – design
Atsushi Fukui – David Sylvian portrait and related drawings
On August 28, 2020, “House of Mythology” label released “Flowers of Evil”, the twelfth Ulver studio album. It was recorded 2019 – 2020, in Oslo, and was produced by Kristoffer Rygg, Tore Ylvisaker, Ole Alexander Halstensgård and Jørn H. Sværen.
On March 29, 2017, “Commons” and “Milan” labels released “async”, the nineteenth Ryuichi Sakamoto studio album. It was recorded April – December 2016, at “The Studio”, “Germano Studios” and “Museum of Arts and Design” in New York City, “Bastyr University Chapel” in Kenmore, Washington, “Gateway Mastering” in Portland, Maine, “Kyoto City University of Arts” in Kyoto, Japan, and was produced by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Mai Yuda. Magazine “Fact” voted “async” the best album of 2017.
Personnel:
Ryuichi Sakamoto – piano,
Christian Fennesz – guitar, computer
N.S.S. – Singing bowls
Ian Antonio, Levy Lorenzo, Ross Karre – triangle
Ko Ishikawa – Shō
Honjoh Hidejiro – shamisen
Ian Antonio, Levy Lorenzo, Ross Karre – percussion
David Sylvian – spoken word
Andri Magnason, Bernardo Bertolucci, Carsten Nicolai, Christine Leboutte, José Lavat, Keyko Nimsay, Priscilla Leung, Sergei Mihailov, Shirin Neshat, Tang Kit Ming – spoken word vocals
Paul Bowles – words
Luca – vocals
Arseny Tarkovsky – words
Simon James – concertmaster
David Sabee – concertmaster
Alex Venguer, Ryan Kelly, John Winters,.Seigen Ono – recording engineer
Jason Staniulis, Matthew Sim, Alec Fellman – engineer assistant
On November 20, 2015, “ECM” label released “This is Not a Miracle”, the eighth Food album. The album was recorded in June 2013, at “Holand Sound” in Oslo, Norway, and was produced by Manfred Eicher.
Personnel:
Thomas Strønen – drums, electronics, percussion, Moog synthesizer, Fender Rhodes electric piano
On April 13, 2009, “PIAS Recordings” label released “Lovetune for Vacuum”, the debut Soap & Skin album. It was recorded in 2009, and was produced by Anja Plaschg.
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