There's a Light That Enters Houses with No Other House in Sight | ||||
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Released | 24 November 2014 [1] | |||
Genre | Experimental · electronic · spoken word | |||
Length | 1:04:22 | |||
Label | Samadhi Sound | |||
Producer | David Sylvian | |||
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There's a Light That Enters Houses with No Other House in Sight is the eighth studio album by David Sylvian, consisting of a single hour-length composition. It features spoken word by Pulitzer Prize winning poet Franz Wright (who died under a year after the release of the album), as well as contributions from electronic multi-instrumentalist Fennesz [2] and pianist John Tilbury. [3] The album was produced by Sylvian, and was released on his Samadhisound label in November 2014.
All tracks are written by David Sylvian, with prose poems from Kindertotenwald [1] by Franz Wright
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "There's a Light That Enters Houses with No Other House in Sight" | 64:22 |
Total length: | 64:22 |
Source: [1]
The album was listed among the best records of 2014 by Bruno Letort of France Musique. [4] A review at The Free Jazz Collective noted that the album marked a new step in Sylvian's exploration of the spoken word. [5]
A review at Tiny Mix Tapes called the music "an ultra-slow jazz" [2] while Steve Smith in the Boston Globe wrote that it "murmur[ed] in edgy assent". [6] Joe Muggs of the Arts Desk found, "It smells of coal and leather, it looks at you through heavy-lidded eyes, it drifts into companionable reveries, before doing scary things to make sure you're still listening." [7] A review by Phil Barnes at AllAboutJazz concluded, "Let's be clear, many are not going to be able to cope with a record with this much ambition, love of language and filmic improvisation. Reviews have been sharply divided between the ecstatic and the hatchet job -but for those prepared to listen this is an intriguing, emotionally unsettling, piece that will challenge, defying categorisation and analysis for many years to come." [8]