David Sylvian Secrets of the Beehive
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EvoHavok
February 13th 2016


8082 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Hard for me to pick a clear favourite.

AnimalsAsSummit
February 24th 2016


6174 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

eternal bump. this is top 10 most beautiful albums ever list material

EvoHavok
February 24th 2016


8082 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Superb choice.

KILL
March 5th 2016


81580 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

glad u dig animals

TheCrocodile
March 11th 2016


2925 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

why is this so fucking good

Frippertronics
Emeritus
March 11th 2016


19513 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

u really asking why

EvoHavok
March 11th 2016


8082 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Bring the love.

altertide0
March 11th 2016


3026 Comments


Almost everything this man has released is great. Even his latest 1h+ ambient tracks are beauties.

Frippertronics
Emeritus
May 15th 2016


19513 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

waaaaaaaalking on a raaaazor's edge unconceeeeeerned

Tyler.
July 5th 2016


19022 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Thanks frip

Frippertronics
Emeritus
July 6th 2016


19513 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

no prob hed man

LotusFlower
July 6th 2016


12000 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

the secret is this is one of the best albums ever

Frippertronics
Emeritus
July 6th 2016


19513 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

his whole discog is v incredible



such a shame he's probably not going to tour ever again

LotusFlower
July 6th 2016


12000 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

I need to explore more of his discog, only heard his "bee" related records.



btw, if you havent, you really need to listen to Thomas Feiner's The Opiates. David Sylvian loved the original cut of it so much he actually went out of his way to track Feiner down in person just to sign and remaster the album. Its that good.

Frippertronics
Emeritus
July 6th 2016


19513 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah, it was reissued on his Samadhisound label from what I saw



Gone to Earth is probably the biggest grower of his early stuff. Love the song-based material (Silver Moon is probably one of his best songs) but the ambient stuff can be a bit of a slog but it's more of transitional record for me, along with Alchemy: An Index of Possibilities, which is a completely ambient record

LotusFlower
July 6th 2016


12000 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Ill check those out when I can.

Frippertronics
Emeritus
July 6th 2016


19513 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

ye man



also, his collab with Robert Fripp is v good



Fripp tried to get Sylvian to be the singer for King Crimson and since he didn't want to join, they just did an album and tour together instead

LotusFlower
July 6th 2016


12000 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

now Sylvian fronting King Crimson is something i want to hear.

Frippertronics
Emeritus
July 6th 2016


19513 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

their album is essentially a lost King Crimson album imo, plus if Sylvian had accepted, I think he would've never progressed into his abstract, noisier works that he's been doing since 2003.



Sylvian was all over the place, and is still is (at least in ambient music)



Did two records with Can's bassist Holger Czukay, recorded a ton of singles with YMO's Ryuichi Sakamoto (most notably, Forbidden Colours), plus had Christian Fennesz on both Blemish and Manafon (the latter has Sachiko M doing something pretty cool on one song).

LotusFlower
July 6th 2016


12000 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Hmmmm, I need to explore Sylvian's discog more. This guy has a lot of talent backing him and working with him.



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