Artist: Male solo artist
Career: recording since 1978
Language: English
Genre: Art singer-songwriter
Sylvian may just be the most elegant and stylish man working in music. He’s not recording in search of answers, he’s recording the answers. I’d like a suit and a guru just like him. Even on his outtakes (collected on this double disc anthology-style overview) he’s several miles more suave and sophisticated than we can ever hope to be.
But damn, he can take a soundscape and drape his voice over it like butter on a side of bread. This anthology serves as a great (alternative) introduction to the many phases of his career: Japan, his solo albums, collaborative albums, guest spots and unreleased material, remixes of some of his better known work. It’s all there, except for ‘Forbidden colours’ (arguably the highpoint of his career), but such is the overall quality that you hardly miss it.
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