The Ink in the Well
Five Lines Lyrics
On 2010-09-08 in the lazy afternoon, under Recordings
Only six lines of lyrics, but here’s my take on them. You can listen to the sample (along with the other tracks – how many remastering changes can you find?) at the official Sleepwalkers mini-site or just download the 30 second clip directly.
update: I’ve done a rough transcription of the entire song.
Snow White in Appalachia in full
On 2009-08-18 when normal people go to work, 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 when normal people prepare to sleep, 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. I’ve uploaded a quick mp3 rip of the song along with 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.
update: for convenience you can download a zip file of my ripped Small Metal Gods mp3 with samples of the remaining tracks, ID3 tagged w/ cover art.
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 instead of eating dinner, 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.
