UnKaTe: David Sylvian Box Set

[John M. Relph <relph@presto.ig.com>]

David Sylvian, _Weatherbox_, Virgin UK, DSCD 1, 5 CD Box Set, November 1989.

Box set contains 5 CDs, one 60 page booklet, and one small fold-out
poster with discography.  The 5 CDs are as follows:

_Brilliant Trees_
  Pulling Punches (5.01)
  The Ink in the Well (4.29)
  Nostalgia (5.39)
  Red Guitar (5.07)
  Weathered Wall (5.40)
  Backwaters (4.49)
  Brilliant Trees (8.35)

_Alchemy_
  Words with the Shaman
    Pt. 1  Ancient Evening (5.14)
    Pt. 2  Incantation (3.28)
    Pt. 3  Awakening (5.16)
  The Stigma of Childhood (Kin) (8.28)
  A Brief Conversation Ending in Divorce (3.28)
  Steel Cathedrals (3.28)

_Gone To Earth_
  Taking the Veil (4.40)
  Laughter and Forgetting (2.40)
  Before the Bullfight (9.45)
  Gone to Earth (3.01)
  Wave (9.13)
  River Man (4.53)
  Silver Moon (6.07)

_Gone to Earth (instrumental)_
  The Healing Place (5.27)
  Answered Prayers (3.09)
  Where the Railroad Meets the Sea (2.51)
  The Wooden Cross (4.59)
  Silver Moon Over Sleeping Steeples (2.21)
  Camp Fire: Coyote Country (3.50)
  A Bird of Prey Vanishes Into a Bright Blue Cloudless Sky (3.15)
  Home (4.30)
  Sunlight Seen Through Towering Trees (2.59)
  Upon This Earth (6.24)

_Secrets of the Beehive_
  September (1.17)
  The Boy with the Gun (5.18)
  Maria (2.50)
  Orpheus (4.48)
  The Devil's Own (3.11)
  When Poets Dreamed of Angels (4.45)
  Mother and Child (3.12)
  Let the Happiness In (5.33)
  Waterfront (3.22)

General Description:
Autumn colours predominate, box is splotchy gold with door that opens
to reveal five CDs and one booklet.  Cover of booklet is embossed
rough light brown paper.  Inside of cover has pocket for small poster
with discography.  Dark blue-grey predominates within the booklet.
All new artwork; no artwork is retained from earlier releases.  Covers
of jewel boxes have printing upon them: splashes of colour.  Each
jewel box has a different pattern on the cover and a different picture
on the single-sheet insert.  Each disc has a different pattern on its
label side.  Discs are all newly mastered (by Nimbus).

_Alchemy - An Index of Possibilities_ was previously only available on
a limited-edition cassette.  The disc of _Alchemy_ also contains "The
Stigma of Childhood (Kin)" which was previously unavailable.

The _Gone to Earth (instrumental)_ disc also contains the tracks left
off of the original CD release of _Gone To Earth_, "Silver Moon Over
Sleeping Steeples", "Camp Fire: Coyote Country", "A Bird of Prey
Vanishes Into a Bright Blue Cloudless Sky", and "Sunlight Seen Through
Towering Trees".  (I'm not sure if any tracks were shortened from
their original album length to fit on the original _Gone to Earth_
CD.)

Me:
Yeah.  This is cool.  Put all five discs in your compact disc changer
and listen for days.  And it looks real nice.  Very well conceived and
well executed artwork.  Something you want to have prominently
displayed.

	-- John