One of my favourite albums in the whole wide world. I once met a guy who had been playing it at on vinyl at 45rpm for years, because he thought it was a 12inch.
@@jan-martinulvag1953 I know one of his tours was cancelled for health reasons and then a DJ at a college station in Boston claimed he had cancer. While he is about as skinny as a man can be I would definitely not accept that as an official announcement. I can't find anything about him having cancer online so I hope like hell he doesn't.
There is a lot of Morse signing going on in the background. Almost 50 years ago when I served in the Dutch army, I could effortlessly decode these, even when there are multiple streams going at the same time like in this case (I could focus on one at a time). I've largely lost this skill, but I can still decode it very slowly and consciously, In addition, the good music distracts a lot!
Plight & Premonition is the first of two collaborative albums by English musician David Sylvian and German musician Holger Czukay. It was released in March 1988. Czukay had come to prominence in the 1960s/70s with the experimental rock group CAN, while Sylvian was the former frontman of the UK group JAPAN before embarking on a solo career. Personnel: David Sylvian - electric guitar, keys, piano, vibraphone, harmonium Holger Czukay - organ, piano, shortwave radio, treatments Jaki Liebezeit - infra sound Karl Lippegaus - radio tuning
Oh my word... I had forgotten this album. I am ashamed! I bought it on cassette when it came out but then my world changed to CDs and the cassettes and Vinyl albums got left. Thanks for the re-introduction.
i have just got this on itunes stunningly beautiful out of this world David and Holger what a sublime collaboration like walking through different dimensions time and space
1:09 It kind of feels like you're entering a dark cave that leads into the Great Unknown, but then again, the whole first song does a great job of doing this. David Sylvian, you never cease to amaze me, sir. Your music always seems to transcend time and space, and leaves me in a stupor. Bravo.
From the time that I used to hear to music through the AM bands in the radio, the mixing of static with the low fi music (usually classic) seemed to me extremely agreeable. This is also the case with this album who sooths and in the same time comes to contact with my past, in a most intriguing way. Bliss.
Listening to shortwave radio stations was magic. A never-ending ambient mix in real time. I used to tune in to the Romanian Radio Free Europe on Sunday afternoons, when they played prog rock albums for hours. Pink Floyd and the like got an extra layer of psychedelia.
Czukay è un genio assoluto di questo genere che proprio tu Silvian cercavi da tempo...Si sente eccome l'armonia il lasciar andare il tempo, il silenzio, la volontà di esprimere e soprattutto si sente la ricerca musicale !!! Non c'è paragone con Fripp....Spero che continuerai su questo genere, c'è l'hai nel sangue !!! C'è poco da dire....Grandi tutti e due !!!
It always take me by surprise whenever I hear the Romanian spoken part. I know it's there, I know it's coming, and I am still taken by surprise every time.
Altri così, nel futuro saranno difficili da sentire,raramente ci sarà qualcuno su questo genere !!! Godiamoceli fino a quando saranno tra noi...Grazie Silvian continua nella ricerca, su questo non ho dubbi. Ho sentito e risentito questo pezzo durante un escursione in montagna !!! Esperienza da fare...subito
Ambient Music can be relaxing And Beautiful if done Right. If not it's boring. Sometimes Ambient can be unsettling in the journey. This record has right mixture. David Sylvian is Brillant from his Vision to his Songwriting and his Glorious Voice. But I do enjoy his Ambient works. Especially with his work with Robert Fripp as well. David is the best kept secret. Underapprecated Artist. Been down Sylvian Rabbithole for 40 yrs. Just Brillant.
I’ve listened to this so many times and it never ceases to amaze me. I always find something new. I’ve just figured out that there’s a faint female voice starting at 19:09 - that’s in Romanian and it sounds like some sort of Christian religious poem. I am curious as to how that recording ended up in this piece.
Holgar used to sit up at nights scanning the airwaves for oddball radio stations around the world and recorded clips of random music and dialogue which the inserted into or wrote music around which brought up little gems like 'Blessed Easter' featuring the pope and 'Persian love' , both well worth looking up from his solo albums as well as his work with can. He was a very eclectic genius.
Questa è una collaborazione azzeccata !!! Perdonami David Silvian,ma Fripp non è proprio un genio,il genio sei tu !!! No ? Lascia parlare e scrivere chi ti vede da fuori !!! Sono sicuro che col senno di poi forse mi dai ragione.
Never was a fan of Sylvian's ambient noodling - I prefer his songwriting. 'Silver Moon', for instance. Nothing fancy, just a fairly traditional song, really, but utterly gorgeous all the same. 'The Boy With The Gun' is still, for me, his absolute best. Simple, easy to follow and well told, with an orchestral arrangement to die for.
Such an odd and anomalous moment. Is it to underscore that this isn't just dreamy background music? Subsequent drone-based pieces have tense and dark passages ('When we return you won't recognize us', for example) but this one just has the one stab of alarm.
I have loved David's music since I was 19, I am 57 and still enchanted and mystified by it.
One of my favourite albums in the whole wide world. I once met a guy who had been playing it at on vinyl at 45rpm for years, because he thought it was a 12inch.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say David Sylvian is an under appreciated talent.
You think? I most definitely agree...😉👍
Most under appreciated!
What is wrong about him? Know anything?
@@jan-martinulvag1953 I know one of his tours was cancelled for health reasons and then a DJ at a college station in Boston claimed he had cancer. While he is about as skinny as a man can be I would definitely not accept that as an official announcement. I can't find anything about him having cancer online so I hope like hell he doesn't.
@@jan-martinulvag1953 what do you mean ? Have you heard something ?
This and Gone to Earth - imaginative and spiritual roads for me. Greetings from Poland.
One of the top ten ambient albums ever made imho
There is a lot of Morse signing going on in the background. Almost 50 years ago when I served in the Dutch army, I could effortlessly decode these, even when there are multiple streams going at the same time like in this case (I could focus on one at a time). I've largely lost this skill, but I can still decode it very slowly and consciously, In addition, the good music distracts a lot!
This album is like entering a beautiful dream , absolutely outstanding album (RIP Holger Czukay)
Plight & Premonition is the first of two collaborative albums by English musician David Sylvian and German musician Holger Czukay. It was released in March 1988. Czukay had come to prominence in the 1960s/70s with the experimental rock group CAN, while Sylvian was the former frontman of the UK group JAPAN before embarking on a solo career.
Personnel:
David Sylvian - electric guitar, keys, piano, vibraphone, harmonium
Holger Czukay - organ, piano, shortwave radio, treatments
Jaki Liebezeit - infra sound
Karl Lippegaus - radio tuning
Their two albums are now available as a double on vinyl
One of the very best ambient albums on earth ... and other planets
This music takes me to a place that is well beyond the power of (my) words to describe. Amazing.
I revised to my A-levels listening to this album, over and over and over again. A really important piece of music.
These two pieces- single handedly- have had the most impact upon me sonically, than anything else I have ever heard.
how do you do?
@@prestonik 😏
Im happy to share some of my findings which may be as pleasant as this one.
I wrote hundreds of letters using this as mood. I received hundreds of letters back.
Heard of My Bloody Valentine?
This album is embedded in my soul since 1988
Oh my word... I had forgotten this album. I am ashamed! I bought it on cassette when it came out but then my world changed to CDs and the cassettes and Vinyl albums got left. Thanks for the re-introduction.
i have just got this on itunes stunningly beautiful out of this world David and Holger what a sublime collaboration like walking through different dimensions time and space
Yes, that's exactly what I thought, too.
Thanks for reminder…this music was so spiritual for me as I listened to it so long time ago first time..
1:09 It kind of feels like you're entering a dark cave that leads into the Great Unknown, but then again, the whole first song does a great job of doing this. David Sylvian, you never cease to amaze me, sir. Your music always seems to transcend time and space, and leaves me in a stupor. Bravo.
From the time that I used to hear to music through the AM bands in the radio, the mixing of static with the low fi music (usually classic) seemed to me extremely agreeable. This is also the case with this album who sooths and in the same time comes to contact with my past, in a most intriguing way. Bliss.
Yes! Dark Ambient fog rust
Listening to shortwave radio stations was magic. A never-ending ambient mix in real time. I used to tune in to the Romanian Radio Free Europe on Sunday afternoons, when they played prog rock albums for hours. Pink Floyd and the like got an extra layer of psychedelia.
Czukay è un genio assoluto di questo genere che proprio tu Silvian cercavi da tempo...Si sente eccome l'armonia il lasciar andare il tempo, il silenzio, la volontà di esprimere e soprattutto si sente la ricerca musicale !!! Non c'è paragone con Fripp....Spero che continuerai su questo genere, c'è l'hai nel sangue !!! C'è poco da dire....Grandi tutti e due !!!
I think he’s finished with music
Great interview with Sylvian in Uncut magazine about his Holger Czukay collaborations
www.uncut.co.uk/blog/interview-david-sylvian-106403
That album cover is significantly ahead of its time
very 4ADish, although contemporary of them i reckon, this is from 80's too
It's very similar in style to Sylvian's "Secrets of the Beehive" cover art.
It always take me by surprise whenever I hear the Romanian spoken part. I know it's there, I know it's coming, and I am still taken by surprise every time.
Altri così, nel futuro saranno difficili da sentire,raramente ci sarà qualcuno su questo genere !!! Godiamoceli fino a quando saranno tra noi...Grazie Silvian continua nella ricerca, su questo non ho dubbi. Ho sentito e risentito questo pezzo durante un escursione in montagna !!! Esperienza da fare...subito
Ambient Music can be relaxing
And Beautiful if done Right.
If not it's boring.
Sometimes Ambient can be unsettling in the journey.
This record has right mixture.
David Sylvian is Brillant from his Vision to his Songwriting and his Glorious Voice.
But I do enjoy his Ambient works.
Especially with his work with Robert Fripp as well.
David is the best kept secret.
Underapprecated Artist.
Been down Sylvian Rabbithole for 40 yrs.
Just Brillant.
Sylvian...
The flute sounds a bit nervous, then a distant train & a cold wind.
That *"death rattle"* catches me every time! 0:32 👻 Genius!
One of the best albums i heared in my life
I’ve listened to this so many times and it never ceases to amaze me. I always find something new. I’ve just figured out that there’s a faint female voice starting at 19:09 - that’s in Romanian and it sounds like some sort of Christian religious poem. I am curious as to how that recording ended up in this piece.
Holgar used to sit up at nights scanning the airwaves for oddball radio stations around the world and recorded clips of random music and dialogue which the inserted into or wrote music around which brought up little gems like 'Blessed Easter' featuring the pope and 'Persian love' , both well worth looking up from his solo albums as well as his work with can. He was a very eclectic genius.
@@martinjefferies666 What solo albums of Czukay's tend to be the most similar to this?
Most favorite recording ever.
Just let it wash over you & mash your brain... Wonderful full on Sylvian
Ambient Music allows its creators a giggle at the accolades
My cd copy of this has holes inside it,such a beautiful piece I must buy it again.
Along with Oxygen this album is my go to in times of emotional turbulence ❤
this was always a transport
*magnifique!*
宇宙空間にいるような、深海にいるような、メディテーション音楽のような、不思議な音楽？
ホルガーシューカイとのもう一枚のアルバムは持っていたがこちらは持っていなかったので聴いてみるとこちらの方がスッキリとした感じ。まあどちらのアルバムも聴き込んだとは言えないのでまたコメントしますね！
Excellent!!!
The description is missing the subtitle of "Premonition", which is "Giant empty iron vessel".
Listening to this in the Odenplan Espresso House, trying to write episode 10.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who tries different playback speeds from 0.25X to 2X. The slowest is my fave.
tres bien, bravo!
I miss the 80s and the new experimentation. Everything now seems pretty shallow and designed for easy consumption.
Yup😥
love this
Super duper
I definitely think this is better of the two.
@@Warp75 I agree. 👍
Questa è una collaborazione azzeccata !!! Perdonami David Silvian,ma Fripp non è proprio un genio,il genio sei tu !!! No ? Lascia parlare e scrivere chi ti vede da fuori !!! Sono sicuro che col senno di poi forse mi dai ragione.
genius
The flute section starting at about 2:15 is one of the eeriest things I've ever heard,anyone know where it comes from...sample or original piece?
Might even be a sakuhachi sample
i have the tape of this album. bought on 1989 🙂
This Album is a dream of Epic :)
Never was a fan of Sylvian's ambient noodling - I prefer his songwriting. 'Silver Moon', for instance. Nothing fancy, just a fairly traditional song, really, but utterly gorgeous all the same. 'The Boy With The Gun' is still, for me, his absolute best. Simple, easy to follow and well told, with an orchestral arrangement to die for.
00:32
Such an odd and anomalous moment. Is it to underscore that this isn't just dreamy background music? Subsequent drone-based pieces have tense and dark passages ('When we return you won't recognize us', for example) but this one just has the one stab of alarm.
Like a synthesized Gollum..
Reminds me of an effect from Alien
27:47
We meet again 🙃
27:18 to 27.23.
Bref, il faut toujours dire quelque chose sur tout, en l' occurrence ici même, je m' abstiens !!!
Me dejó las pelotas absolutamente escaldadas, carajo!
Oniric
This is another David Sylvian from another universe, NOT the David Sylvian from planet Earth. Yawn.........