David Sylvian & Robert Fripp-Gone To Earth-UK-SIGNED
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DAVID SYLVIAN
GONE TO EARTH
VIRGIN U.K.
VDL1
2 LP
1986
Signed by both David Sylvian & Robert Fripp!!
A moody, dark, lush album of mature art-pop. Sylvian had set out on a solo career to indulge the more artistic tendencies he had begun revealing in the later Japan releases. Not content to simply write singles, he had been steering the band toward deeper, less commercial waters and it was clear he needed to be unshackled from the environment of a band. After a solo "song" album that flirted with several genres and an album of more ambient explorations, Sylvian fused the two together for Gone To Earth.
One of the reasons the magic of this album is so strong is the choice of musicians Sylvian employed. For starters, three-fourths of Japan show up on various tracks (Sylvian, of course, but the others together only in pairs on a select few,) bassist Mick Karn being the only missing member. King Crimson's Robert Fripp committed to tape some of his most alluring and emotional guitar work with Gone To Earth, but not to be dismissed is Bill Nelson, whose expertise at crafting unique shapes with his odd sense of guitar is equally important to the success of the set. Jazz flugelhornist Kenny Wheeler appears on two tracks, as does jazzy saxophonist (and fellow ex-King Crimson member) Mel Collins.
TRACKLISTING
1. Taking the Veil (4:39)
2. Laughter & Forgetting (2:40)
3. Before the Bullfight (9:45)
4. Gone to Earth (3:02)
5. Wave (9:11)
6. River Man (4:54)
7. Silver Moon (6:08)
8. The Healing Place (5:35)
9. Answered Prayers (3:11)
10. Where the Railroad Meets the Sea (2:53)
11.The Wooden Cross (5:01)
12. Silver moon over sleeping steeples (3:00)
13. Camp fire : Coyote country (3:41)
14. A bird of prey vanishes into a bright blue cloudless sky (3:00)
15. Home (4:31)
16. Sunlight seen through towering trees (3:00)
17. Upon This Earth (6:24)
COVER - VERY GOOD PLUS very minor edge wear
DISCS - MINT
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