The Ink in the Well
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.
Brokensky.net is reborn - alpha version
On 2009-04-22 during his lunch break, under Site
The new redesign started with the little download page for my Paris recording… it’s nowhere near complete, but there’s enough static mockup that I thought about tossing the old “I Surrender” and “Orpheus” sections in and releasing what is here.
For now it’s optimized for the latest (beta) versions of firefox and safari – anything else is unsupported at this point but there shouldn’t be major issues as long as you’re using something recent. I’m using this to learn a new content management system (expression engine) as well as play around behaviour, so expect things to change and occasionally not work.
Here is Somewhere
On 2004-08-27 when normal people prepare to sleep, 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).
