release date: May 27, 2002
format: 2 cd (LTD.)
[album rate: 2,5 / 5]
producer: David Sylvian
label: Virgin Records - nationality: England, UK
Compilation album by David Sylvian. This is rather different from the compilation album Everything and Nothing from 2000 as this is concentrating on Sylvian's more experimental instrumental compositions only and not trying to include all of his many projects into one. The album was released as a single-disc album and a Limited Deluxe Edition with three long bonus tracks. The 'normal' edition feature two tracks from Dead Bees on a Cake (1999), three from the album Rain Tree Crow (1991) with former Japan members, and one track from the solo album Alchemy: An Index of Possibilities (1986).
I don't think, Sylvian's best work is in his instrumental compositions, which explains the 2,5 stars, but the album works fine as a whole, and in that way the music is listenable in one long take.
[ allmusic.com 1,5 / 5 stars, Pitchfork Media 66 / 100 ]
