Released as a b-side (to 'The Ink In The Well') this instrumental version of the track creates a mood of isolation and contemplation, a wailing prayer sample emerging out of one section.
'Brilliant Trees' emerged from the burst of energy and activity that followed Sylvian's exit from what he felt were the confines of the band Japan. Leaving a pop band to explore his core artistic impulses, it freed him to pursue a less commercial path though, to be fair, Japan took some distinctly uncommercial music into the charts ('Ghosts' and 'Nightporter' for starters) and made some great records, particularly 'Gentlemen Take Polaroids', 'Tin Drum' and the live send-off 'Oil On Canvas'.
Recorded with musicians like Kenny Wheeler, Holger Czukay, Danny Thompson, Mark Isham and Jon Hassell, 'Brilliant Trees' is a much more primal, groove-based music than subsequent albums which dealt in ambience, jazz-influences, progressive rock and latterly the avant garde. 'Weathered Wall' represents a pretty good balance of these impulses.
Download David Sylvian 'Weathered Wall (Instrumental)' (instrumental, experimental, alternative mp3) (Mediafire)
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