Brilliant Trees

by David Sylvian

Type: Album
Released: 7 July 1984
Label: Virgin
Country: United Kingdom
Length: 39:47
Community rating: 3.83/5 from 10 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Departing from the glam-adjacent synth-pop of Japan, David Sylvian launched his solo career with an incredibly lush, highly spiritual exploration of ambient art pop. The album features a staggering roster of avant-garde collaborators, including Ryuichi Sakamoto and Holger Czukay, building a deeply rhythmic, atmospheric, and melancholic sonic landscape. 'Brilliant Trees' is a profoundly existential, nocturnal, and pastoral triumph.

Genres

Art Pop

Descriptors: nature, atmospheric, rhythmic, existential, experimental

Tracklist

Credits

David Sylvian - primary artist, guitar, mixed by [assisted by], producer, synthesizer, percussion, vocals, piano [treated], tape [tapes], words by, music by, guitar percussion piano synthesizer, mix, vocal
Steve Jansen - drums, synthesizer, percussion, membranophone percussion synthesizer
Peter Williams - engineer, mixed by [assisted by]
Steve Nye - engineer, mixed by, producer, piano, synthesizer
Holger Czukay - french horn, voice, guitar, French horn guitar, background vocals vocal
Yuka Fujii - photography by
Wayne Brathwaite - bass
Ronald "Head" Drayton - guitar
Richard Barbieri - synthesizer
Danny Thompson - double bass
Kenny Wheeler - flugelhorn
Phil Palmer - guitar
Nigel Walker - mixed by
Matt Butler - mixed by [assisted by]
Ryuichi Sakamoto - piano, synthesizer
Mark Isham - trumpet
Jon Hassell - music by, trumpet