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On the Periphery: David Sylvian · A biography | The Solo Years
Auteur: Christopher E. Young
Hardcover met stofomslag, 24 x 16 cm, 384 blz.
Uitgever: Malin Publishing Ltd, Londen
Taal: Engels
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This book – which has taken 3 years to complete – tracks the period of Sylvian's solo career from 1982 to 2013.

Tracking Sylvian's solo years, the book provides an extensive and comprehensive analysis of his solo career 1982-2013. Every solo work, group work, and every collaborative work is reviewed, and every song analysed as the book explains and interprets Sylvian's fascinating personal, spiritual, and musical evolution.

Today one of music’’smost innovative and enigmatic men, Sylvian has taken his audience on an intriguing journey from the heart of the pop machine to the outer reaches of musical composition. At the same time, he has become more and more reclusive, and has himself moved to the periphery. This is the place where he feels most comfortable, and where he finds the space he needs to be creative and innovative.

What led to this shift? What were the motivations? What aspects of Sylvian's personal life affected this journey? How has Sylvian's spirituality fed into his life and work, and how has it developed? What is it that makes the artist tick, and what is he consistently trying to convey to his audience and why? Answers to these questions are at the heart of this extensive biography. The book will be a touch-stone for anyone with a profound or passing interest in Sylvian's career to date, and gives an insight into the man and his work that will enhance the appreciation of his back catalogue.

On the Periphery covers the entire course of David Sylvian's solo career, knitting together the story of his musical, spiritual, and personal growth from 1982 to 2013. The book covers all Sylvian's solo and collaborative works in this thirty-year period, including detailed analysis of the making of, meaning behind, influences on, and messages contained within:

Solo Works:
Brilliant Trees; Alchemy; Gone to Earth; Secrets of the Beehive; Dead Bees on a Cake; Everything & Nothing; Camphor; Blemish; When Loud Weather Buffeted Naoshima; Manafon; Sleepwalkers; Died in the Wool

Group:
Collaborations: Rain Tree Crow, Nine Horses, The Kilowatt Hour

Individual Collaborations: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Holger Czukay, Sandii & the Sunsetz, Virginia Astley, Mick Karn, Hector Zazou, Russell Mills, Robert Fripp, Nicola Alesini & Pier Luigi Andreoni, Andrea Chimenti, Readymade, Tweaker, Christian Fennesz, Blond Redhead, Takagi Masakatsu, Punkt, Steve Jansen, Joan as Policewoman, Arve Henriksen, Land, Jan Bang & Eric Honoré, and Stephan Mathieu.

The 384-pages hardback book is split into three parts.

Part 1 deals with the period 1982 to 1987. This was a relatively prolific time for Sylvian, and there was some coherence between the main compositions produced, Brilliant Trees, Alchemy, Gone to Earth, and Secrets of the Beehive.

Part 2 deals with the period 1988 - 2002, dominated by a number of joint-venture projects, leading into his next solo work, Dead Bees on a Cake, and culminating in the release of retrospective compilations (Everything and Nothing and Camphor) associated with the split from Virgin.

Part 3 takes us from 2003 to the present day, beginning with Blemish, working through the Nine Horses period, Manafon, Sleepwalkers, Died in the Wool and more recent works with Jan Bang and Stephan Mathieu.

The book interprets Sylvian's music as a reflection of his personal life and spiritual evolution.

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