Camphor [Import]

Product Description
Japanese edition of his 2002 album includes one bonus track, 'Mutability (A New Beginning Is In The Offing / Remixed)'. 15 tracks in all.

Camphor,David Sylvian,Toshiba EMI Japan,Experimental Rock,Pop,Prog-Rock/Art Rock,Rock,Rock/Pop

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Camphor David Sylvian Manufacturer: EMI Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | New Age | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music New Age | Imports | Stores | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000063KG7 Release Date: 2002-06-03

Tracks:

1. All Of My Mother's Names
2. Red Earth (As Summertime Ends)
3. Answered Prayers
4. The Song Which Goves The Key To Perfection
5. new Moon At Red Deer Wallow
6. Praise (Pratah Smarami)
7. Wave
8. Mother And Child
9. Plight
10. Upon This Earth
11. Big Wheels In Shanty Town
12. The Healing Place
13. Camphor
14. A Brief Conversation Ending In Divorce

Album Details

2002 Compilation of Instrumental Tracks from the Former Lead Singer of Japan and Rain Tree Crow. 'wave', 'plight' and 'upon this Earth' were all Newly Remixed by Sylvian. 'red Earth', 'new Moon at Deer Wallow' and 'big Wheels in Shanty Town' were Originally Recorded by Rain Tree Crow.

Average customer rating: The best composer ever

Sviridov: Chorus Concertos Manufacturer: Russian Compact Disc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000004AQB Release Date: 1995-12-12

Tracks:

1. Pushkin's Garland. Conserto For Choir On Verses: Winter Morning
2. Pushkin's Garland. Conserto For Choir On Verses: My Sweetheart
3. Pushkin's Garland. Conserto For Choir On Verses: Mary
4. Pushkin's Garland. Conserto For Choir On Verses: Echo
5. Pushkin's Garland. Conserto For Choir On Verses: Grecian Feast
6. Pushkin's Garland. Conserto For Choir On Verses: Musk And Camphor
7. Pushkin's Garland. Conserto For Choir On Verses: Reveille
8. Pushkin's Garland. Conserto For Choir On Verses: Natasha
9. Pushkin's Garland. Conserto For Choir On Verses: Raise Thee, Timid One
10. Pushkin's Garland. Conserto For Choir On Verses: Magpie Chatter
11. Concerto To The Memory Of A.A. Yurlov: Weeping
12. Concerto To The Memory Of A.A. Yurlov: Parting
13. Concerto To The Memory Of A.A. Yurlov: Choral
14. Three Choral Pieces Of The Music To A.K. Tolstoy's Drama 'Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich': Prayer
15. Three Choral Pieces Of The Music To A.K. Tolstoy's Drama 'Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich': Love Is Sacred
16. Three Choral Pieces Of The Music To A.K. Tolstoy's Drama 'Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich': Poem Of Confession
17. 'Ikon' To Words By Alexander Blok: 'Ikon' To Words

Customer Reviews:

The best composer ever.......2002-01-18

I like Stravinsky, Rachmaninov, Mozart, Gershwin, but Sviridov is the best. It is so depressing that people in the west know nothing about him. The best composer ever!!

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Camphor David Sylvian Manufacturer: Virgin ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | American Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B000LYL1JO

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Camphor David Sylvian Manufacturer: EMI Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | New Age | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music New Age | Imports | Stores | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000066HII Release Date: 2002-05-14

Tracks:

1. All of My Mother's Names
2. Red Earth (As Summertime Ends)
3. Answered Prayers
4. Song Which Gives the Key to Perfection
5. New Moon at Red Deer Wallow
6. Praise (Pratah Smarami)
7. Wave
8. Mother and Child
9. Plight (The Spiralling of Winter Ghosts)
10. Upon This Earth
11. Big Wheels in Shanty Town
12. Healing Place
13. Camphor
14. Brief Conversation Ending in Divorce

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Camphor David Sylvian Manufacturer: Venture ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | American Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B000LYOUPG

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Camphor David Sylvian Manufacturer: Toshiba EMI Japan ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Experimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000066AE0 Release Date: 2002-10-15

Tracks:

1. All of My Mother's Names
2. Red Earth (As Summertime Ends)
3. Answered Prayers
4. Song Which Gives the Key to Perfection
5. New Moon at Red Deer Wallow
6. Praise (Pratah Smarami)
7. Wave [Version]
8. Mother and Child
9. Plight (The Spiralling of Winter Ghosts) [*]
10. Up This Earth [*]
11. Big Wheels in Shanty Town
12. Healing Place
13. Camphor
14. Brief Conversation Ending in Divorce
15. Mutability (A New Beginning Is in the Offing)

Album Description

Japanese edition of his 2002 album includes one bonus track, 'Mutability (A New Beginning Is In The Offing / Remixed)'. 15 tracks in all.

Album Details

The Japanese Edition of his Collection of Instrumental Tracks (A La David Bowie's 'all Saints') features an Extra Track Included: 'mutability'.

Average customer rating: Perfection on at least one track Not much bang for the buck I think I've been here before... Good. Messing with the goods

Camphor (Bonus CD) (Dig) David Sylvian Manufacturer: Virgin Records Us ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | New Age | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Approaching Silence Money for All Snow Borne Sorrow ASIN: B000063KG8 Release Date: 2002-06-18

Tracks:

1. All My Mother's Names
2. Red Earth (As Summertime Ends)
3. Answered Prayers
4. The Song Which Gives The Key To Perfection
5. New Moon At Red Deer Wallow
6. Praise (pratah Smarami)
7. Wave (Version)
8. Mother And Child
9. Plight (The Spiralling Of Winter Ghosts) Detail
10. Upon This Earth
11. Big Wheels In Shanty Town
12. The Healing Place
13. Camphor
14. A Brief Conversation Ending In Divorce

Tracks:

1. Plight (The Spiralling Of Winter Ghosts)
2. Mutability (A New Beginning Is In The Offing) Detail
3. Premonition (Giant Empty Iron Vessel)

Album Details

Limited Edtion 2002 Compilation of Instrumental Tracks from the Former Lead Singer of Japan and Rain Tree Crow. 'wave', 'plight' and 'upon this Earth' were all Newly Remixed by Sylvian. 'red Earth', 'new Moon at Deer Wallow' and 'big Wheels in Shanty Town' were Originally Recorded by Rain Tree Crow. The Bonus Disc Includes Three Tracks Originally by Sylvian and Holger Czukay, Newly Remixed by Sylvian.

Customer Reviews:

Perfection on at least one track.......2003-08-08

"Everything and Nothing" is a much better Sylvian compilation, but "The Song that Gives the Key to Perfection" is nearly worth the price of this set alone. It's a stunning, haunting, spacious setting of a Hindu sacred text, with bare, exquisite accompaniment. I listened to this track after the death of a good friend and gained much solace from it. It's as sincere and as profound a track as you will find in modern music.

Not much bang for the buck.......2002-11-03

I should have heeded the reviews instead of buying every compilation Sylvian puts out. Guess I liked Everything and Nothing so much I thought this would feature a good mix of old and new instrumentals, plus a lot of remixes. Boy, was I wrong.

There's very little new here, aside from slightly reworked, prettier versions of Wave, a more accessibly jazzy Mother and Child, and The Healing Place. And that's it, out of 13 songs! Oh, yes, there's a new Indian praise hymn The Song Which Gives the Key to Perfection, and Camphor, which Sylvian used as the introductory music to his live concert tour this year. But if you bought the souvenir tour CD, you already own those tracks.

Not to mention the bonus CD features Plight and Premonition, not one of my favorites among Sylvian's admittedly spotty instrumental work.

If you're a diehard Sylvian fan like I am, you'll find all the rest of the songs from this compilation on Rain Tree Crow, Dead Bees On a Cake, Plight and Premonition, Flux and Mutability, and the instrumental side of Gone to Earth.

All I can say is, this is Sylvian's most disappointing output to date. Heed my advice: save your money for Everything and Nothing or the real album to come-- something I should have done.

I think I've been here before..........2002-08-21

Aaaaarrrrrrggghh. I can't believe I blithely purchase everything with David Sylvian's name on it. With the exception of a remix or two (Wave is nice, but did I really need another version?) and 'The Song Which Gives The Key To Perfection', I already have everything from other sources. Conceptually, it doesn't even work as a collection because there is no flow or consistent tone to the pieces. Ambient here, vocal there, experimental after that. Bleah.

In the same purchase from Amazon, I also ordered JBK 'Playing in a Room With People', so it was kind of a double whammy for me. Now I have 'Big Wheels In Shanty Town' on three CDs. If JBK and Sylvian love this piece so much to release it three times, perhaps this is proof that they should record another album together.

After Everything and Nothing, Approaching Silence, and now Camphor, I'm ready for some new music.

Good........2002-08-16

The remixes are better than the originals. I don't see this as a failed ambient compilation at all. I would be bored if it were all ambient. Also, I like tracks where Sylvian doesn't sing once in a while. We need more of the yoga chants, too.

Messing with the goods.......2002-07-11

An ok but not stellar introduction to Sylvian's instrumental work. Another reviewer tore this as not succeeding as an ambient collection -- since several of the tracks are far from "ambient" this is not surprising. Perhaps, if Sylvian had stuck to a purely ambient retrospective this would have worked better. As it is, he has co-joined the squawk of his Miles-as-Pimp-era composition All My Mother's Names with serene and often beautifully woven pieces like Answered Prayers and Plight, and thrown in some of his arty but annoying stuff for good measure (Camphor, A Brief Conversation). The instrumental takes on songs are fine, and again I'm reminded what a phenomenal album the Rain Tree Crow project produced, but somehow it doesn't all hang together and there isn't much justification for material like The Song Which Gives the Key to Perfection when so much other material is around. Interested listeners would be better directed to some of the source material: Flux and Mutability is readily available as a budget item, the second half of Gone To Earth is hard to find and expensive but contains the best encapsulation of Eno's music for films next to the master himself, and the Rain Tree Crow album is superb.

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