release on 23/05/2011
The title track, "Died in the Wool," is a similar construction: It began as an experiment with clarinet multiphonics that Fujikura casually sent to Sylvian, who fleshed it out with Manafon outtakes while Bang and Honoré grounded it with samples from a Skúli Sverrisson concert at the Punkt Festival. This mélange of studio and concert material emerges as a single, seamless piece. Says Honoré, "The finished album seems to be remarkably consistent, especially when considering how it was produced. The main reason for this consistency is probably David's choice of musicians and arrangers, who seem to blend very well together, and to expand on each other's ideas in an organic way. There seems to be a kinship of sorts, despite the very different backgrounds of the people involved, both musically and geographically." Disc Two: "when we return you won't recognise us" For the first time, a stereo mix of David Sylvian's audio installation "when we return you won't recognise us," is available on CD. First commissioned for the Biennial of Canaries 2008-2009, the work was inspired by a 2003 genetics research article focusing on the Canary Islands, which discovered that despite Spanish colonization and the slave trade, fully half to three-quarters of the population retains its aboriginal genetic lineage. As Sylvian writes, "My interest lay in the connection between the physical or scientific reality of our biological make-up, the links to lineage (genetic genealogy), location and, to move beyond the realm of science into intuitive logic, the interior life of a community or people. An implied cultural heritage."
Disc 1: Small Metal Gods Died In The Wool I Should Not Dare Random Acts Of Senseless Violence A Certain Slant Of Light Anomaly At Taw Head Snow White In Appalachia Emily Dickinson The Greatest Living Englishman (Coda) Anomaly At Taw Head (A Haunting) Manafon The Last Days Of December
Disc 2: When We Return You Won't Recognise Us