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"Fortnight Friday Music" on Friday July 11th, and the theme is "Movement".

Hosts: @MarkIngs @bborn
Subject: Movement
Song: "Darshan (The Road to Graceland)" (1993; 17:17)
Performed by: Robert Fripp, David Sylvian

Movement implies, in some cases, the existence of a road –
"One light
One way
One road
To take
We stand
And wait

From cool
To warm
From dusk
'til dawn
From flux
To form

Kneeling on the road to Graceland …"

youtube.com/watch?v=Oh5DDB4Osq

#FortnightFridayMusic #Movement
#RobertFripp #DavidSylvian

A book I just can't bring myself to read again...

Random Acts of Senseless Violence
Jack Womack

kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews

The scariest aspect, for me, is that Womack's vision always, even in the 1990s, felt like it could so easily become reality. Now more than ever.

Plus the (d)evolution of character and language is exceptionally well done.

Themetune by David Sylvian - davidsylvian.net/tracks-poems/

Kirkus ReviewsRANDOM ACTS OF SENSELESS VIOLENCE | Kirkus ReviewsA young girl's diary presents a rioting vision of near- future Manhattan. Twelve-year-old Lola Hart, her sister, Boob, and their perfectly loving parents live on the Upper East Side. Daddy's a failing scriptwriter; Mommy's an unemployed professor; the girls go to private school. Lola begins a diary in February on a note of barely perceived alarm, as several schoolmates contract TB and the smoke and ash from uprisings in Brooklyn and Queens loom over Park Avenue. Something awful is happening out there, but her parents shield her from it. Finally her father's Hollywood work dries up in a nose-diving economy, and the family has to move to the bottom edge of West Harlem. Amid these crises, Lola discovers she likes girls; the rioting worsens; and ``Operation Domestic Storm,'' in which the army, national guard, and local police create martial law, shifts into full gear. Lola makes friends with some black and Puerto Rican girls from her new neighborhood, and they induct her by degrees into their gang, the Death Angels. In a matter of months, as the diary progresses, further violence and family misfortune sharpen and harden Lola. Womack (Elvissey, 1992, etc.) is at his best when Lola is at her toughest: Her good-girl voice, filled with innocent dread, gradually mutates into a kind of terrordome-speak, a lingo that mixes hip-hop cadences and linguistic neologisms on the order of A Clockwork Orange: ``Me and Mama rode back lipstilled the whole way. She vizzed sad like I know I do but nothing was sayable so I hushed and just remembered Boob like I knew her back when we homed in our old place.'' Womack's idea of the near future moves at a gallop: In six months, two presidents are assassinated, the money system changes, and all of Manhattan takes up arms. Womack gets high on violence the way Ballard and Burroughs do: with sickened brio. Tense, knowing, and ambitious, this novel gets New York's class system right as it creates a language informed by every kind of contemporary American extremism.

A cover version of David Sylvian's song "Snow White in Appalachia" from the album "Manafon". The original consists of voice, piano and an improvising string quartet, so I used arpeggiated synthesizers and added drums and some sounds from Reaktor.
The movie cuts were taken from the movie "M -- eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder" directed by Fritz Lang. Starring Peter Lorre as murder and Gustav Gründgens as the boss of the gangsters.

youtube.com/watch?v=BqCcJ2-tCXI

#cover#covers#davidsylvian

Nine Horses - Snow Borne Sorrow

This Sylvian/Jansen/Friedman joint lasted for one LP and one EP in 2005, and was the last “accessible” record Sylvian made (the influence of his brother Steve Jansen is clearly felt).

These are very interesting tracks in general, woven through with natural and synthetic textures, and Sylvian’s voice carrying through all.

Rain Tree Crow - Rain Tree Crow

A Japan reunion in all but name, at David Sylvian’s insistence, and unfortunately the only recording they released (save for a follow-on EP).

It’s clear, given that Barberi, Karn and Jansen collaborated many times in various combinations between and after that the tension was with Sylvian…but, again, at least we got this great album.

Relatively recent re-release (2019) sounds excellent.

#nowplaying#vinyl#japan

Very interesting remix of the tune "A Fire in the Forest" by British artist David Sylvian. mixing in (at the beginning) the voice of an orthodox priest singing, and it fits perfectly! The video consists mostly of black and white family fotos, starting at the end of the 19th century.
The original song was published 2003 on Sylvian's album "Blemish",

youtube.com/watch?v=ZL_tFTOYg8c