Hypergraphia: The Writings of David Sylvian 1980-2014
Hypergraphia:
The Writings of David Sylvian
1980-2014
Samadhisound announces Hypergraphia: The Writings of David Sylvian 1980–2014
14.08.15
Samadhisound is pleased to announce Hypergraphia: The Writings of David Sylvian 1980–2014,
a comprehensive collection of his lyrics and poetry (many published for
the first time), covering the thirty-five years of his career to date,
framed by three interviews and accompanied by an exquisite collection of
artwork curated or made by Sylvian. Art directed by Sylvian and
designed by Chris Bigg. An immaculate and thorough retrospective, Hypergraphia’s
organic structure and its juxtapositions of past and present, formal
and personal, save the book from treating Sylvian’s career as a bust on a
pedestal: instead, we see it as what it is – an extraordinary work in
progress.
638 pages, hard back, full colour. Page size – 150mm x 225mm portrait.Regular edition: £65.00.
Hypergraphia is published in a limited edition of 3,000 copies. An edition of 500 signed and individually numbered copies, by Sylvian and designer Chris Bigg, has already sold out. Randomly included in the remaining 2,500 copies are 50 signed unnumbered copies. Available from 2nd November 2015, on pre-sale now. Click here for more information.
Darkest Dreaming
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Stay tonight
We'll watch the full moon rising
Hold on tight
The sky is breaking
We'll watch the full moon rising
Hold on tight
The sky is breaking
I don't ever wanna be alone
With all my darkest dreaming
Hold me close
The sky is breaking
With all my darkest dreaming
Hold me close
The sky is breaking
I don't ever wanna be alone
With all my darkest dreaming
Hold me close
The sky is breaking
With all my darkest dreaming
Hold me close
The sky is breaking
Songwriters
SYLVIAN, DAVID / GASPARYAN, DAVID
Published by
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
A comprehensive collection of David Sylvian's lyrics and
poetry accompanied by an exquisite collection of artwork curated or made
by Sylvian. Hypergraphia takes the reader through every period of
Sylvian's life as a working musician - from his first days of pop
stardom to such innovative and mature works as "Blemish" and "Manafon".
Mine turned up today ...
Mine turned up today ...
At over 600 pages this is bound to be a weighty tome .
It is beautifully illustrated/curated by long-time collaborator Chris Bigg throughout and features Sylvian's penmanship from 1980 onwards as well as transcripts of conversations with other artists. It's a glorious walk through much of Sylvian's history right up to the end of Samadhisound Records and is illustrated with Bigg's own art as well as images supplied by Sylvian and the odd record cover.
It is surely to become a collectors' item in due course: Hypergraphia is published in a limited edition of 3,000 copies of which 500 were signed and individually numbered copies by Sylvian and Bigg available via Sylvian's own site. However, a further 50 signed copies are randomly include among the remaining 2,500 copies.
hear your voice
Way down inside
A whispering sea
Of towering trees
But no reply
A silence so rare
And more than I can stand
Sweeps like a flood
Through life's flesh and blood
And steals away with it's heart
If I'm losing you
Then there's nothing more that I can say
The fighting is on
And battles are won
Or thrown away
But if I could live
Safe and sound
In God given fields
Or mountains of steel
Then here I'd stay
Till you'd gone
Guilty of stealing
Every thought I own
I will take my turn
To fight the bullfight
Every word's sunk in deep
Like the blades of a knife through my heart
But my strength will return
To fight the bullfight
As time's come to show
I'm told nothing more than I should know
A ship on the sea that threatens to leave
But never goes
This island of blue
Where life clings to your hands
Like water and sand
Will lose it's way
When you're gone
When all's forgiven
Still every fault's my own
I will take my turn
To fight the bullfight
Say a prayer for my release
When every hope in the world is asleep
And my strength will return
To fight the bullfight - See more at: http://www.davidsylvian.net/releases/tracks-poems/60-tracks-davidsylvian/119-before-the-bullfight.html#sthash.sNLY2Ilj.dpuf
Way down inside
A whispering sea
Of towering trees
But no reply
A silence so rare
And more than I can stand
Sweeps like a flood
Through life's flesh and blood
And steals away with it's heart
If I'm losing you
Then there's nothing more that I can say
The fighting is on
And battles are won
Or thrown away
But if I could live
Safe and sound
In God given fields
Or mountains of steel
Then here I'd stay
Till you'd gone
Guilty of stealing
Every thought I own
I will take my turn
To fight the bullfight
Every word's sunk in deep
Like the blades of a knife through my heart
But my strength will return
To fight the bullfight
As time's come to show
I'm told nothing more than I should know
A ship on the sea that threatens to leave
But never goes
This island of blue
Where life clings to your hands
Like water and sand
Will lose it's way
When you're gone
When all's forgiven
Still every fault's my own
I will take my turn
To fight the bullfight
Say a prayer for my release
When every hope in the world is asleep
And my strength will return
To fight the bullfight - See more at: http://www.davidsylvian.net/releases/tracks-poems/60-tracks-davidsylvian/119-before-the-bullfight.html#sthash.sNLY2Ilj.dpuf
hear your voice
Way down inside
A whispering sea
Of towering trees
But no reply
A silence so rare
And more than I can stand
Sweeps like a flood
Through life's flesh and blood
And steals away with it's heart
If I'm losing you
Then there's nothing more that I can say
The fighting is on
And battles are won
Or thrown away
But if I could live
Safe and sound
In God given fields
Or mountains of steel
Then here I'd stay
Till you'd gone
Guilty of stealing
Every thought I own
I will take my turn
To fight the bullfight
Every word's sunk in deep
Like the blades of a knife through my heart
But my strength will return
To fight the bullfight
As time's come to show
I'm told nothing more than I should know
A ship on the sea that threatens to leave
But never goes
This island of blue
Where life clings to your hands
Like water and sand
Will lose it's way
When you're gone
When all's forgiven
Still every fault's my own
I will take my turn
To fight the bullfight
Say a prayer for my release
When every hope in the world is asleep
And my strength will return
To fight the bullfight - See more at: http://www.davidsylvian.net/releases/tracks-poems/60-tracks-davidsylvian/119-before-the-bullfight.html#sthash.sNLY2Ilj.dpuf
Way down inside
A whispering sea
Of towering trees
But no reply
A silence so rare
And more than I can stand
Sweeps like a flood
Through life's flesh and blood
And steals away with it's heart
If I'm losing you
Then there's nothing more that I can say
The fighting is on
And battles are won
Or thrown away
But if I could live
Safe and sound
In God given fields
Or mountains of steel
Then here I'd stay
Till you'd gone
Guilty of stealing
Every thought I own
I will take my turn
To fight the bullfight
Every word's sunk in deep
Like the blades of a knife through my heart
But my strength will return
To fight the bullfight
As time's come to show
I'm told nothing more than I should know
A ship on the sea that threatens to leave
But never goes
This island of blue
Where life clings to your hands
Like water and sand
Will lose it's way
When you're gone
When all's forgiven
Still every fault's my own
I will take my turn
To fight the bullfight
Say a prayer for my release
When every hope in the world is asleep
And my strength will return
To fight the bullfight - See more at: http://www.davidsylvian.net/releases/tracks-poems/60-tracks-davidsylvian/119-before-the-bullfight.html#sthash.sNLY2Ilj.dpuf
Before The Bullfight
I hear your voice
Way down inside
A whispering sea
Of towering trees
But no reply
A silence so rare
And more than I can stand
Sweeps like a flood
Through life's flesh and blood
And steals away with its heart
If I'm losing you
Then there's nothing more that I can say
The fighting is on
And battles are won
Or thrown away
But if I could live
Safe and sound
In God given fields
Or mountains of steel
Then here I'd stay
'Till you'd gone
Guilty of stealing
Every thought I own
I will take my turn
To fight the bullfight
Every word's sunk in deep
Like the blades of a knife through my heart
But my strength will return
To fight the bullfight
As time's come to show
I'm told nothing more than I should know
A ship on the sea that threatens to leave
But never goes
This island of blue
Where life clings to your hands
Like water and sand
Will loose its way
When you're gone
When all's forgiven
Still every fault's my own
I will take my turn
To fight the bullfight
Say a prayer for my release
When every hope in the world is asleep
And my strength will return
To fight the bullfight
Flugelhorn – Kenny Wheeler
Drums, percussion – Steve Jansen
Effects – Richard Barbieri
Electric guitar [Solo], Acoustic guitar – Bill Nelson
Vocals, Keyboards, guitar – David Sylvian
Personnel
Flugelhorn – Kenny WheelerDrums, percussion – Steve Jansen
Effects – Richard Barbieri
Electric guitar [Solo], Acoustic guitar – Bill Nelson
Vocals, Keyboards, guitar – David Sylvian
- See more at: http://www.davidsylvian.net/releases/tracks-poems/60-tracks-davidsylvian/119-before-the-bullfight.html#sthash.wpiqYym9.dpuf
Flugelhorn – Kenny Wheeler
Drums, percussion – Steve Jansen
Effects – Richard Barbieri
Electric guitar [Solo], Acoustic guitar – Bill Nelson
Vocals, Keyboards, guitar – David Sylvian - See more at: http://www.davidsylvian.net/releases/tracks-poems/60-tracks-davidsylvian/119-before-the-bullfight.html#sthash.wpiqYym9.dpuf
Drums, percussion – Steve Jansen
Effects – Richard Barbieri
Electric guitar [Solo], Acoustic guitar – Bill Nelson
Vocals, Keyboards, guitar – David Sylvian - See more at: http://www.davidsylvian.net/releases/tracks-poems/60-tracks-davidsylvian/119-before-the-bullfight.html#sthash.wpiqYym9.dpuf
hear your voice
Way down inside
A whispering sea
Of towering trees
But no reply
A silence so rare
And more than I can stand
Sweeps like a flood
Through life's flesh and blood
And steals away with it's heart
If I'm losing you
Then there's nothing more that I can say
The fighting is on
And battles are won
Or thrown away
But if I could live
Safe and sound
In God given fields
Or mountains of steel
Then here I'd stay
Till you'd gone
Guilty of stealing
Every thought I own
I will take my turn
To fight the bullfight
Every word's sunk in deep
Like the blades of a knife through my heart
But my strength will return
To fight the bullfight
As time's come to show
I'm told nothing more than I should know
A ship on the sea that threatens to leave
But never goes
This island of blue
Where life clings to your hands
Like water and sand
Will lose it's way
When you're gone
When all's forgiven
Still every fault's my own
I will take my turn
To fight the bullfight
Say a prayer for my release
When every hope in the world is asleep
And my strength will return
To fight the bullfight - See more at: http://www.davidsylvian.net/releases/tracks-poems/60-tracks-davidsylvian/119-before-the-bullfight.html#sthash.sNLY2Ilj.dpuf
Way down inside
A whispering sea
Of towering trees
But no reply
A silence so rare
And more than I can stand
Sweeps like a flood
Through life's flesh and blood
And steals away with it's heart
If I'm losing you
Then there's nothing more that I can say
The fighting is on
And battles are won
Or thrown away
But if I could live
Safe and sound
In God given fields
Or mountains of steel
Then here I'd stay
Till you'd gone
Guilty of stealing
Every thought I own
I will take my turn
To fight the bullfight
Every word's sunk in deep
Like the blades of a knife through my heart
But my strength will return
To fight the bullfight
As time's come to show
I'm told nothing more than I should know
A ship on the sea that threatens to leave
But never goes
This island of blue
Where life clings to your hands
Like water and sand
Will lose it's way
When you're gone
When all's forgiven
Still every fault's my own
I will take my turn
To fight the bullfight
Say a prayer for my release
When every hope in the world is asleep
And my strength will return
To fight the bullfight - See more at: http://www.davidsylvian.net/releases/tracks-poems/60-tracks-davidsylvian/119-before-the-bullfight.html#sthash.sNLY2Ilj.dpuf
hear your voice
Way down inside
A whispering sea
Of towering trees
But no reply
A silence so rare
And more than I can stand
Sweeps like a flood
Through life's flesh and blood
And steals away with it's heart
If I'm losing you
Then there's nothing more that I can say
The fighting is on
And battles are won
Or thrown away
But if I could live
Safe and sound
In God given fields
Or mountains of steel
Then here I'd stay
Till you'd gone
Guilty of stealing
Every thought I own
I will take my turn
To fight the bullfight
Every word's sunk in deep
Like the blades of a knife through my heart
But my strength will return
To fight the bullfight
As time's come to show
I'm told nothing more than I should know
A ship on the sea that threatens to leave
But never goes
This island of blue
Where life clings to your hands
Like water and sand
Will lose it's way
When you're gone
When all's forgiven
Still every fault's my own
I will take my turn
To fight the bullfight
Say a prayer for my release
When every hope in the world is asleep
And my strength will return
To fight the bullfight - See more at: http://www.davidsylvian.net/releases/tracks-poems/60-tracks-davidsylvian/119-before-the-bullfight.html#sthash.sNLY2Ilj.dpuf
Way down inside
A whispering sea
Of towering trees
But no reply
A silence so rare
And more than I can stand
Sweeps like a flood
Through life's flesh and blood
And steals away with it's heart
If I'm losing you
Then there's nothing more that I can say
The fighting is on
And battles are won
Or thrown away
But if I could live
Safe and sound
In God given fields
Or mountains of steel
Then here I'd stay
Till you'd gone
Guilty of stealing
Every thought I own
I will take my turn
To fight the bullfight
Every word's sunk in deep
Like the blades of a knife through my heart
But my strength will return
To fight the bullfight
As time's come to show
I'm told nothing more than I should know
A ship on the sea that threatens to leave
But never goes
This island of blue
Where life clings to your hands
Like water and sand
Will lose it's way
When you're gone
When all's forgiven
Still every fault's my own
I will take my turn
To fight the bullfight
Say a prayer for my release
When every hope in the world is asleep
And my strength will return
To fight the bullfight - See more at: http://www.davidsylvian.net/releases/tracks-poems/60-tracks-davidsylvian/119-before-the-bullfight.html#sthash.sNLY2Ilj.dpuf
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