Plight & Premonition / Flux & Mutability David Sylvian & Holger Czukay SKU: LPGRON193 Barcode: 5060238634632 21.00 £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Gronland Released Date: 19th June 2018 Buying Format: 2LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Originally released separately, ‘Plight & Premonition’ and ‘Flux & Mutability’ are now packaged in a 2LP set. The version of ‘Plight & Premonition’ included here is a new mix by Sylvian from 2002. All the recordings have been fully remastered. The packaging has been redesigned by Chris Bigg with Art Direction by Sylvian with new, previously unseen, photographs by Yuka Fujii, accompanied by an extensive essay by David Toop. “This is one way to hear it, the hindsight strategy. On its [‘Plight & Premonition’s] release in 1988, delayed by record company recalcitrance, the emotional effect was, as I recall, more personal, more wrapped up in the floating bliss of it, its yearning and searching. Then there was the history that might give it context, a brief history comprised only of approximations: Jon Gibson’s ‘Visitations’, Basil Kirchin’s two ‘Worlds Within Worlds’ LPs, Alvin Curran’s ‘Songs’ and ‘Views From The Magnetic Garden’, Brian Eno’s ‘On Land’ and from 1969, ‘Canaxis 5’ by Technical Space Composer’s Crew (actually Holger Czukay with Rolf Dammers). All of these records were beatless, atmospheric, using techniques that we would now describe as sampling, all uncertain of a place within established categories of music unless they claimed new territory for themselves, as with Eno and ambient. As records, they opened windows to the sounds outside and the sounds inside, rendering the distinction meaningless. “‘Flux & Mutability’ was recorded […] after what Sylvian describes as his dispiriting solo tour of 1988. The setting had changed: a new mixing console, a recording engineer, new lighting: ‘Everything was brighter.’ Jaki Liebezeit played a high-pitched, handheld drum (harmonized down in pitch), Michael Karoli added his guitar to the numerous guitar overdubs played by Sylvian and Czukay. Faced with instructions to reduce harmonic variations and expression, Marcus Stockhausen played incisive, poised flugelhorn. The feeling is clearer, more ‘musical’, perhaps more satisfying for those who like to have a road to follow. “But ‘Plight & Premonition’, Sylvian says, is one of the few works that he could actively return to and objectively enjoy as a listener. From the influence of film, musique concrète, and his admiration for Foley artists he was able to build a sense of non-linear narrative. The legacy can be heard in more recent recordings, such as ‘When Loud Weather Buffeted Naoshima’ and ‘Playing The Schoolhouse’. ‘These are direct descendants of what was unearthed over a period of two nights,’ he says, ‘animated by a primal spirit, in a converted cinema on the outskirts of Köln, over thirty odd years ago.’ – David Toop Artist David Sylvian & Holger Czukay Genre Rock And Pop Label Gronland Buying Options 2LP Format 2LP Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings Plight (The Spiralling Of Winter Ghosts) Premonition (Giant Empty Iron Vessel) Flux (A Big, Bright, Colourful World) Mutability (A New Beginning Is In The Offing) Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View Billy Bragg Life’s a Riot With Spy vs Spy (30th Anniversary) Rock And Pop | Cooking Vinyl | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 21st October 2013 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Billy Bragg Life’s a Riot With Spy vs Spy (30th Anniversary) £14.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Cooking Vinyl SKU: COOKLP596 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 21st October 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View PJ Harvey White Chalk Rock And Pop | Island | 1LP, 45rpm Released 2nd April 2024 £30.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations PJ Harvey White Chalk £30.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Island SKU: nn283702 Formats: 1LP, 45rpm Released Date: 2nd April 2024 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Caffiends Caffiends Rock And Pop | Baldylonghair | 1LP Released 1st September 2014 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Caffiends Caffiends £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Baldylonghair SKU: CAFFIENDS1 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 1st September 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Nathaniel Rateliff Falling Faster Than You Can Run Rock And Pop | Mod Y Vi Records | 1LP Released 20th January 2014 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nathaniel Rateliff Falling Faster Than You Can Run £14.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Mod Y Vi Records SKU: MYV0011 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 20th January 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Frank Turner Tape Deck Heart Rock And Pop | Polydor | 1LP Released 22nd April 2013 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Frank Turner Tape Deck Heart £17.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Polydor SKU: 3729605 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 22nd April 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Dantalian's Chariot Chariot Rising Rock And Pop | Wah Wah | 180g, 1LP Released 31st March 2013 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Dantalian's Chariot Chariot Rising £24.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Wah Wah SKU: LPS113 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 31st March 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Blue Oyster Cult Tyranny and Mutation Rock And Pop | Speakers Corner | 180g, 1LP Released 30th September 2016 £34.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Blue Oyster Cult Tyranny and Mutation £34.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Speakers Corner SKU: 4260019715159 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 30th September 2016 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Ben Harper/Blind Boys Of Alabama There Will Be a Light Rock And Pop | Capitol Vaults | Miscellaneous Released 1st April 2009 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ben Harper/Blind Boys Of Alabama There Will Be a Light £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Capitol Vaults SKU: AVIR67934 Formats: Miscellaneous Released Date: 1st April 2009 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Calvin Harris Stay With Me Rock And Pop | Columbia | 12", Picture Disc Released 25th November 2022 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Calvin Harris Stay With Me £15.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Columbia SKU: 19658762051 Formats: 12", Picture Disc Released Date: 25th November 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Laura Cox Burning Bright Rock And Pop | Earmusic | 180g, 1LP Released 17th June 2022 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Laura Cox Burning Bright £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Earmusic SKU: 0217771EMU Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 17th June 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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