The Ink in the Well
Snow White in Appalachia in full
On 2009-08-18 during the witching hours, under Recordings
Thanks to someone pointing out that Snow White in Appalachia is streaming in full on the samadhisound shop pages for Manafon, I was able to dig up a direct 192kbps mp3 rip of the song from the source of the flash player. My take on the lyrics.
Small Metal Gods in full + Manafon Samples
On 2009-08-13 in the lazy afternoon, under Recordings
Information on Sylvian’s feature in the latest issue of Wire is up on davidsylvian.net – including a streaming music video for Small Metal Gods, described as the most accessible track on Manafon. Here’s my take on the lyrics. MP3 samples from the album Manafon are now up at the relaunched manafon.com site – you can find quick transcriptions of what’s up there under “manafon” on the selected lyrics by release page of this site.
Perhaps less useful in audio form than video, but I also have an mp3 of the trailer for Amplified Gesture.
Jacqueline (new unreleased track)
On 2009-07-13 during his lunch break, under Recordings
Thanks to a heads up from Gerrit I found a copy of the 2009 Believers music issue at a newstand. You can download a one minute mp3 sample of the song – a quick transcription of the lyrics (as heard by me) are up. More info about the song at it’s ds.net entry.
PS – I tried loading the CD into OS X a few times and my machine spit it back out at me… I loaded up a Windows VM and it read the CD fine. What’s odd is after disconnecting the disc drive from my VM OS X read the disc fine. Not sure if that’s of any help to people, but that’s what worked for me.
Here is Somewhere
On 2004-08-27 in the lazy afternoon, under Recordings
A high quality version of Somewhere from the TIAA-CREF Commercial that Sylvian sang for is now online. The lineage is Tivo > VHS (TDK HS Preimium Quality, SP) > Toshiba W512 VCR (4-Head Hi-Fi) > Composite RCA Out > Sound Blaster Live! Platinum > Adobe Audition 1.5 > APE (High Compression) & MP3 (Fraunhoffer IIS 70% VBR).
Reliving the Dream
On 2004-04-17 in the lazy afternoon, under Recordings
A momentous occasion… a recording of the Wiltern LA (E&N Leg 2 – 2002) has finally surfaced! Thanks to Versaece for contacting me and putting up with the comitragedy of transferring the show, and Renzo for quickly cleaning and remastering it. The show is available in FLAC format on dimeadozen.org, mp3s as usual are on the downloads page.