''Everything and Nothing'' is a

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David Sylvian David Sylvian (born David Alan Batt; 23 February 1958) is an English musician, singer and songwriter who came to prominence in the late 1970s as frontman and principal songwriter of the band Japan (band), Japan. During his time in Japan, Sylvia ...

. Released in October 2000, the album contains previously released and unreleased, re-recorded, and alternate versions of tracks from Sylvian's twenty years with

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. The record peaked at no.57 in the

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Release formats

It was released in two versions, a standard 2CD

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(CDVD 2897) and (in the UK) as a limited edition 3CD

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(CDVDX 2897).

Background

In addition to tracks from Sylvian's solo career and earlier with the group

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"), the album also includes previously unreleased material ("Some Kind of Fool", "The Scent of Magnolia", "Ride" and "Cover Me with Flowers", among others) along with collaborations (" Bamboo Houses" and " Heartbeat" with

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and "Buoy" with

Mick Karn Andonis Michaelides (Greek: Αντώνης Μιχαηλίδης; 24 July 1958 – 4 January 2011), better known as Mick Karn, was a British musician who rose to fame as the bassist for the art rock/ new wave band Japan. His distinctive fretles ...

). The songs "Come Morning" and "Golden Way" were taken from the 1995 album ''Marco Polo'' by the

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duo Nicola Alesini & Pier Luigi Andreoni, on which Sylvian provided vocals for three of the songs. "Thoroughly Lost to Logic", a piece written 1991, contained Sylvian reading a poem, which appeared on Ryuichi Sakamoto's composition "Salvation" from his work "Discord" released in 1998. This version was completed in 2000. Four tracks on the album were recorded during the making of Sylvian's 1999 album '' Dead Bees on a Cake'' but did not make the final cut on the album. The compilation additionally derives its title from a line in the ''Dead Bees on a Cake'' song "Thalheim".

Track listing

Personnel

''This is a list of guest musicians exclusively about the unreleased tracks. For the other tracks, see respective albums.'' *"The Scent of Magnolia":

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(guitar),

Ingrid Chavez Ingrid Julia Chavez (born January 21, 1965) is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and visual artist. Early life Chavez was born on January 21, 1965, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and raised in Marietta, Georgia. She is of Mexican-American desce ...

(vocals),

John Giblin John Giblin (26 February 1952 – 14 May 2023) was a Scottish musician who worked as an acoustic and electric bass player spanning jazz, classical, rock, folk, and avant-garde music. He was a member of Simple Minds from 1985 to 1988, and w ...

(bass),

(string arrangement, sampler, piano), Andreas Allen (drum programming), Sebastian Morton (drum programming). *"Albuquerue (Dobro #6)": Bill Frisell (

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). *"Ride": Ryuichi Sakamoto (piano, string arrangement) Steve Jansen (drums),

Danny Thompson Daniel Henry Edward Thompson (born 4 April 1939) is an English multi-instrumentalist best known as a double bassist. He has had a long musical career playing with a large variety of other musicians, particularly Richard Thompson and John Ma ...

(double bass),

David Torn David M. Torn (born May 26, 1953) is an American guitarist, composer, and producer. He is known for combining electronic and acoustic instruments and for his use of looping. Background Torn has contributed to recordings by artists as diverse ...

(electric guitar),

Mark Isham Mark Ware Isham (born September 7, 1951) is an American musician and composer. A trumpeter and keyboardist, Isham works in a variety of genres, including jazz and electronic music, electronic. He is also a prolific and acclaimed composer of Film ...

(trumpet),

Phil Palmer Philip John Palmer (born 9 September 1952) is a British rock sideman and session guitarist who has toured, recorded, and worked with numerous artists. He is best known for his work with Eric Clapton and Dire Straits. Biography Palmer grew up ...

(acoustic guitar). *"The Golden Way": Damiano Puliti (cello), Nicola Alesini (soprano sax, keyboards, drum programming), Steve Jansen (drum programming), Pier Luigi Andreoni (keyboards). *"Pop Song": John Taylor (piano), Steve Jansen. *"Thoroughly Lost to Logic":

Keith Tippett Keith Graham Tippetts (25 August 1947 – 14 June 2020), known professionally as Keith Tippett, was a British jazz pianist and composer. According to AllMusic, Tippett's career "...spanned jazz-rock, progressive rock, improvised and contemporar ...

(piano), Mark Sanders (drums) *"Cover Me with Flowers": Steve Jansen (percussion),

Steve Tibbetts Steve Tibbetts (born 1954) is an American guitarist and composer. He views the recording studio as a tool for creating sounds. Most of his albums include percussionist Marc Anderson. Style Tibbetts plays acoustic and electric guitar and exot ...

(guitars). *"Aparna and Nimisha (Dobro # 5)": Bill Frisell (dobro). *"Some Kind of Fool": Ingrid Chavez (vocals), Ann O'Dell (string and brass arrangement) Mick Karn (sax, brass arrangement),

Rob Dean Rob Dean (born 23 April 1955) is a British musician turned professional illustrator, who rose to prominence playing lead guitar as a member of the English New wave music, new wave band Japan (band), Japan from 1975 to 1981. Biography He is fr ...

(guitar),

Richard Barbieri Richard Barbieri (born 30 November 1957) is an English musician, composer and sound designer. Originally a member of new wave band Japan (and their brief 1989–1991 reincarnation as Rain Tree Crow), he became the keyboard player in the prog ...

(piano), Steve Jansen (drums), Simon House (violin). *"Buoy": Steve Jansen (drums, vocals), Mick Karn (vocals, saxophones, keyboards) *"Come Morning": Arturo Stalteri (

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), Nicola Alesini (keyboards, clarinet, drum programming, sax), Pier Luigi Andreoni (keyboards, percussion) *"The Blinding Light of Heaven" (studio):

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, Marc Anderson, Trey Gunn.

References

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