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Deluxe 10CD Box
samadhisound and UMR are proud to announce the release of samadhisound 2003–2014 – Do You Know Me Now?, a limited edition deluxe 10”x10” 10CD boxset. The box is presented in a stunning slipcase and features a 100-page hardback book with previously unseen artwork and contextual essays by David Sylvian and renowned graphic designer and author Adrian Shaughnessy on the visual aesthetic of the samadhisound label.
In early 2003, having already parted ways with the Virgin label after a record 21 years, there followed a sense of both autonomy and having worked on retrospectives and remixes for the past few years, a change in direction was needed. As a result, that year Sylvian created the samadhisound label for which he claims he created his most liberated, personal and substantial work of his creative life. This newly collected 10CD set contains the entirety of the work Sylvian produced, both solo and in collaboration, over the 11 years of the label’s existence.
The boxset has been beautifully art directed and designed by Sylvian and his partner on all the label’s projects, Chris Bigg. The slipcase features a stunning photograph by Manafon cover artist Ruud Van Empel. There is also a collaboration with artist/musician Lance Austin Olsen for the three of the CD sleeves. The production values of this release are on par with all those that Sylvian and Bigg created for the samadhisound label itself.
samadhisound 2003–2014 – Do You Know Me Now? contains all of David Sylvian’s solo albums released on his independent label, samadhisound, between 2003 and 2014, plus the albums recorded with Nine Horses, Jan Bang and Erik Honoré, and Franz Wright and Christian Fennesz. The set also contains an exclusive compilation CD, “Do You Know Me Now?” featuring non-album tracks recorded with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Nine Horses.
Speaking of his time releasing music via samadhisound, Sylvian says “Although I personally maintain samadhisound is the home of my best work it was produced during a very turbulent period that precipitated some devastating changes in my life. I can’t gloss over this fact as it’s incorporated into, and informs the material in many ways. Maybe that’s why, after all this time, outside of any possible musical innovation, it remains so important to me.”
Tracklist
Disc: 1
1 Blemish
2 The Good Son
3 The Only Daughter
4 The Heart Knows Better
5 She Is Not
6 Late Night Shopping
7 How Little We Need To Be Happy
8 A Fire In The Forest
Disc: 2
1 The Only Daughter (Remixed by Ryoji Ikeda)
2 Blemish (Remixed by Burnt Friedman)
3 The Heart Knows Better (Remixed by Sweet Billy Pilgrim)
4 A Fire In The Forest (Remixed by Readymade FC)
5 The Good Son (Remixed by Yoshihiro Hanno)
6 Late Night Shopping (Remixed by Burnt Friedman)
7 How Little We Need To Be Happy (Remixed by Tatsuhiko Asano)
8 The Only Daughter (Remixed by Jan Bang And Erik Honoré)
9 Blemish (Remixed by Akira Rabelais)
Disc: 3
1 Wonderful World - Nine Horses
2 Darkest Birds - Nine Horses
3 The Banality Of Evil - Nine Horses
4 Atom And Cell - Nine Horses
5 A History Of Holes - Nine Horses
6 Snow Borne Sorrow - Nine Horses
7 The Day The Earth Stole Heaven - Nine Horses
8 Serotonin - Nine Horses
9 The Librarian - Nine Horses
Disc: 4
1 World Citizen (Long Version)
2 World Citizen - I Won't Be Disappointed (Long Version)
3 World Citizen (Ryoji Ikeda Remix)
4 Money For All - Nine Horses
5 Get The Hell Out - Nine Horses
6 The Banality Of Evil (Burnt Friedman Remix) - Nine Horses
7 Wonderful World (Burnt Friedman Remix) - Nine Horses
8 Birds Sing For Their Lives - Nine Horses
9 Serotonin (Burnt Friedman Remix) - Nine Horses
10 Money For All (Version) - Nine Horses
11 Get The Hell Out (Burnt Friedman Remix) - Nine Horses
12 When Monday Comes Around - Nine Horses
13 Do You Know Me Now?
14 Where's Your Gravity?
Disc: 5
1 When Loud Weather Buffeted Naoshima
Disc: 6
1 Small Metal Gods
2 The Rabbit Skinner
3 Random Acts Of Senseless Violence
4 The Greatest Living Englishman
5 125 Spheres
6 Snow White In Appalachia
7 Emily Dickinson
8 The Department Of Dead Letters
9 Manafon
Disc: 7
1 Small Metal Gods (Died In The Wool Version)
2 Died In The Wool
3 I Should Not Dare (For N.O.)
4 Random Acts Of Senseless Violence (Died In The Wool Version)
5 A Certain Slant Of Light (For M. K.)
6 Anomaly At Taw Head
7 Snow White In Appalachia (Died In The Wool Version)
8 Emily Dickinson (Died In The Wool Version)
9 The Greatest Living Englishman (Coda)
10 Anomaly At Taw Head (A Haunting)
11 Manafon (Died In The Wool Version)
12 The Last Days Of December
Disc: 8
1 When We Return You Won't Recognise Us
Disc: 9
1 The God Of Single Cell Organisms - Bang, Jan
2 The God Of Sleeplessness - Bang, Jan
3 The God Of Silence - Bang, Jan
4 The God Of Smaller Gods - Bang, Jan
5 The God Of Small Caresses - Bang, Jan
6 The God Of Black Holes - Bang, Jan
7 The God Of Adverbs - Bang, Jan
8 The Ruminative Gap - Bang, Jan
9 The God Of Crossroads - Bang, Jan
10 The God Of Tiny Islands - Bang, Jan
11 The God Of Gradual Abdication - Bang, Jan
12 I Swallowed Earth For This - Bang, Jan
Disc: 10
1 There's A Light That Enters Houses With No Other House In Sight