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The latest blog article features ‘Steel Cathedrals’. What a stellar line up of musicians: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Robert Fripp, Holger Czukay, Kenny Wheeler, Steve Jansen and Masami Tsuchiya!

It was developed from an earlier piece - ‘Showing the Wound (A Will to Health)’ - from the Japanese Preparations for a Journey video.

Here’s the link: https://sylvianvista.com/2025/08/01/sho ... athedrals/

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A new article has just been posted about ‘Blackwater’ by Rain Tree Crow, recalling the long wait we endured before knowing that the recording sessions between the ex-members of Japan had yielded something that would be released. When ‘Blackwater’ came, I loved the way it sounded.

The article includes both versions of the video (with and without Jansen/Barbieri/Karn) and the link with Annie Lennox’s ‘Why’.

Read it here: https://sylvianvista.com/2025/08/29/blackwater/

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Back to Dead Bees on a Cake for the latest article. Amidst a celebration of many aspects of life, ‘Alphabet Angel’ reflects on the ‘miracle’ of parenthood.

Performed by Sylvian with Ryuichi Sakamoto, the sweetness of the melody is disrupted by an undercurrent of dissonant ‘discolouration’ that creates ‘greater emotional depth.’

Here’s the link: https://sylvianvista.com/2025/09/19/alphabet-angel/