Released October 2000 Release date October 2000 | Recorded 1980—1999 | |
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Everything and nothing by the boom circuits
Everything and Nothing is a compilation album by David Sylvian. Released in October 2000, the album contains previously unreleased, re-recorded, and lesser-known tracks from Sylvian's twenty years with Virgin Records. The record peaked at no.57 in the UK albums chart.
Contents
- Everything and nothing by the boom circuits
- Hammock everything and nothing
- Track listing
- Personnel
- Songs
- References
It was released in two versions. A standard 2CD jewel case (CDVD 2897) and (in the UK) as a limited edition 3CD digipak (CDVDX 2897).
In addition to old favourites from Sylvian's solo career and earlier with the group Japan ("Ghosts"), the album also includes previously unreleased material ("Some Kind of Fool", "The Scent of Magnolia", "Ride" and "Cover Me with Flowers" among others) along with collaborations ("Bamboo Houses" and "Heartbeat" with Ryuichi Sakamoto and "Buoy" with Mick Karn). The songs "Come Morning" and "Golden Way" were taken from the 1995 album Marco Polo by the World music duo Nicola Alesini & Pier Luigi Andreoni, on which Sylvian provided vocals for three of the songs.
Several tracks on the album were recorded during the making of Sylvian's 1999 album Dead Bees on a Cake but did not make the final cut on the album.
In terms of sales the album was not overly successful, but received a positive response from the music critics of the era.
Hammock everything and nothing
Track listing
All tracks composed by David Sylvian unless otherwise noted
Disc One
- "The Scent of Magnolia" – 5:36
- from Dead Bees on a Cake sessions, completed 2000
- "Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II)" (remix) (David Sylvian, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Arto Lindsay) – 5:17
- originally from Heartbeat by Ryuichi Sakamoto, 1992
- "Blackwater" (David Sylvian, Steve Jansen, Mick Karn, Richard Barbieri) – 4:22
- from Rain Tree Crow by Rain Tree Crow, 1991
- "Albuquerque (Dobro #6)" (David Sylvian, Bill Frisell) – 1:21
- from Dead Bees on a Cake sessions, completed 2000
- "Ride" – 8:00
- from Secrets of the Beehive sessions, completed 2000
- "The Golden Way" (remix) (David Sylvian, Nicola Alesini) – 6:01
- originally from Marco Polo by Nicola Alesini and Pier Luigi Andreoni, 1992
- "Ghosts" (2000 remix) – 3:47
- originally from Tin Drum by Japan, 1981
- "Pop Song" – 4:34
- single a-side, 1989
- "Every Colour You Are" (David Sylvian, Steve Jansen, Mick Karn, Richard Barbieri) – 4:46
- from Rain Tree Crow
- "Wanderlust" – 6:47
- from Dead Bees on a Cake
- "God's Monkey" (David Sylvian, Robert Fripp, Trey Gunn, David Bottrill) – 5:02
- from The First Day by David Sylvian and Robert Fripp, 1993
- "Let the Happiness In" – 5:35
- from Secrets of the Beehive
- "I Surrender" – 9:28
- from Dead Bees on a Cake
- "Thoroughly Lost to Logic" (David Sylvian, Keith Tippett) – 1:17
- recorded 1991/2000
Disc Two
- "Jean the Birdman" (David Sylvian, Robert Fripp, Trey Gunn) – 4:12
- from The First Day
- "Cover Me with Flowers" – 6:33
- from Dead Bees on a Cake sessions, completed 2000
- "Boy with the Gun" – 5:14
- from Secrets of the Beehive
- "River Man" – 4:57
- from Gone to Earth
- "Aparna and Nimisha (Dobro # 5)" (David Sylvian, Bill Frisell) – 0:56
- from Dead Bees on a Cake sessions, completed 2000
- "Midnight Sun" (David Sylvian, Johnny Moore, Charles Brown, Eddie Williams) – 4:02
- from Dead Bees on a Cake
- "Orpheus" – 4:48
- from Secrets of the Beehive
- "Some Kind of Fool" – 7:31
- from Gentlemen Take Polaroids sessions by Japan, completed 2000
- "Cries and Whispers" (David Sylvian, Steve Jansen, Mick Karn, Richard Barbieri) – 2:33
- from Rain Tree Crow
- "Godman" – 3:58
- from Dead Bees on a Cake
- "Laughter and Forgetting" – 2:33
- from Gone to Earth
- "Buoy" (David Sylvian, Mick Karn) – 5:16
- from Dreams of Reason Produce Monsters by Mick Karn, 1986
- "Weathered Wall" (remix) (David Sylvian, Jon Hassell) – 5:43
- originally from Brilliant Trees, 1984
- "Bamboo Houses" (remix) (David Sylvian, Ryuichi Sakamoto) – 5:21
- single a-side by Sylvian & Sakamoto, 1982
- "Come Morning" (remix) (David Sylvian, Nicola Alesini) – 3:56
- originally from Marco Polo
Disc Three (limited edition only)
- "The Scent of Magnolia" (Edit) – 5:04
- "The Blinding Light of Heaven" – 4:42
- from sessions for The First Day by David Sylvian and Robert Fripp, 1993
- "The Scent of Magnolia" (Portobello Mix) – 5:42
- "Brilliant Trees" (Version 2000) – 8:32
- originally from Brilliant Trees, 1984
Personnel
This is a list of guest musicians exclusively about the unreleased tracks. For the other tracks, see respective albums.
Songs
1The Scent of Magnolia5:35
2Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II)5:17
3Blackwater4:21