David Sylvian - Manafon

[silentwings]

There are some interesting comments on twitter from those who have heard the album. I hope the posters don't mind me repeating their comments here. Anil Prasad from the Innerviews says: 'Taking in David Sylvian's Manafon now. Wow. Heavy stuff. More thoughts soon-ish.' And then 'David Sylvian's new album progresses from Blemish. Very interesting, intriguing, imaginative, inspiring, anything with an "i" stuff.'

Another says: 'New David Sylvian - Manafon, 9/15. 1st impression: next step after Derek Bailey & Fennesz cuts on Blemish'.

Sounds very promising to me - looking forward to this very much.

[anortherncod]

thats what i mean it didnt copy your name right baht habit

i copied it 3 rows underneath but it still split your name in 3 sections i give up...


and everyone thinks im stupid with a art degree great this finshed me off

totally embaresing every post

silvermoon hates me as well




i think its better when i dont post anymore

Neo, no one thinks you are stupid and no one has a problem with your level of English. But sometimes you post things I (and I think others) find inappropriate. I would say that intimating the site owner here 'hates' you wasn't perhaps the best move...

[FlyingPig]

"On one listen I found "Manafon" totally embarrassing, but my similar reaction to Scott Walker's "The Drift" suggests I've grown out of a tolerance for this sort of stuff.

For all the interesting people on "Manafon", they're working very minimally, and a very long way down the mix behind Sylvian, who just sounds excruciatingly laboured to me"

oh dear...this doesn't bode well. The comment about his vocals is also concerning me.I've felt that about him for some time now.

Oh Boy Did I hate that Walker's record. That's not good news, I was hoping for something in the likes of World Citizen or The World is everything sampler.
As a musician, The Drift or Blemish have always striked me as poet's records not musician's. A bit like the latest Iggy Pop rambling. I leave 'a fire in the forest' out of the lot, that song saved the record, that was the incentive to go through the previous songs...
Whatever the experimentation, music needs passion and some drama, it cannot be just sound processing, pings and pangs.
But I haven't heard Manafon yet, so I'll make my own judgement about this record later on.

[camphorvan]

Not sure if this has been posted yet:

http://bandweblogs.com/blog/2009/07/29/ ... m-manafon/

CV

[Silver Moon]

silvermoon hates me as well

I want to make it clear that I don't hate anyone on this forum. I think we have a great group of people here. I'm here to try to keep the peace.

-K-

[Bern]

Come on Neo give yourself a break it's not easy to post when English isn't your first language and Silver Moon apparently doesn't hate anyone on the forum...certainly made my day
Neo don't forget "follow the white rabbit"

[neonico]

thanks missouriman and bern when i post someting and translate it back in my own language it is so direkt and sounds terrible i just want to make a joke like you guys do. but by me it not the same it comes across terrible and everyone is upset on the forum.

i said quote the whole family is on internet and then someone wrote that im a stalker but a new post sayes i like the twitter
from ingrid.

its the same as what i wrote but better wrote

i love this forum

but i dont think anyone can speak eygpt

sorry

the only thing i want from david is new pics i find him handsome

is this wrong?

and naturally i dont want the dvd when hes not on it

because i love the way he moves

i just find him sexy and im quiet young you know

and hes so cuddely

your are all older than me thats why i cant get into the japan stuff

what did you write as a fan 30 years ago or how did you feel

did anyone wrote so nutty stuff like me

did anyone feel like me.

everyone says i look like a doll quiet thin lots of hair big braun eyes and very shy.

[anortherncod]

I can only speak for myself, of course. But I repeat; no one has a problem with anyone for whom English is not a first language. I'm a linguist myself.

I find it a little odd that people would want to find David's daughters on the Internet; they're only young and I'm sure would want to lead their lives their own way rather than being labelled as 'David Sylvian's daughters' and get attention they don't want.

I think people may get cross with the repeated requests for things to be scanned when, as far as I know, you (Neo) live in Germany which doesn't strike me as a place where it would be hard to source magazines.

And for my part I never found David sexy at all - again I don't think it's that in itself that causes a problem, but maybe some of your more explicit posts? I won't repeat them again here but I'm sure you know which ones I mean.

Is this making sense so far?

[missouriman]

I look like a doll also. One of those dolls you practice mouth to mouth resus on. I never sexualise Davis Slyvian too. His mouth is like putty and his legs move independant of his mind. With great loving I am fond of the Karn, but he too has eyebrows that scare animals from food. Porcupine Trees are for porcupines! Releese them! Nothing gives us joy but the one with the musics. Manafon is without Davis is music without. Understand this!

[Simonp]

I think David's a big shag and I wouldn't kick him out of bed for farting

[camphorvan]

Neo - would something like this help?

http://www.systranet.com/

[neonico]

im not from germany and wih the reference from his daughters the tagg i got from his forum ha ha

[neonico]

I can only speak for myself, of course. But I repeat; no one has a problem with anyone for whom English is not a first language. I'm a linguist myself.

I find it a little odd that people would want to find David's daughters on the Internet; they're only young and I'm sure would want to lead their lives their own way rather than being labelled as 'David Sylvian's daughters' and get attention they don't want.

I think people may get cross with the repeated requests for things to be scanned when, as far as I know, you (Neo) live in Germany which doesn't strike me as a place where it would be hard to source magazines.

And for my part I never found David sexy at all - again I don't think it's that in itself that causes a problem, but maybe some of your more explicit posts? I won't repeat them again here but I'm sure you know which ones I mean.

Is this making sense so far?

There are some interesting comments on twitter from those who have heard the album.



ok and i never mentioned twitter (see above) or his daughters and about my more unusal posts....... like the most of you posted about the pic happy but thats ok .........

[inkinthewell]

My wife (who is not really a Sylvian fan, has heard a fair amount of his stuff that I've played when we're in the car or whatever, and likes the occasional song and would likely not be a "Manafon" fan) and I have started to refer to my condition as "Manafonia". Many others' partners may notice signs of this cropping up over the next month or so...

Strangely enough, all that sounds very very very familiar.

[inkinthewell]

Oh! I hadn't noticed there was a page 10!