Gone to Earth

by David Sylvian

Gone to Earth cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 13 September 1986
  • Label: Virgin
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:30:44
  • Community rating: 4.14/5 from 10 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A sprawling double album, 'Gone to Earth' divides its focus between exquisitely crafted, vocal-driven art pop and expansive, instrumental ambient soundscapes. Featuring heavy guitar contributions from Robert Fripp, the record is steeped in a lush, highly atmospheric warmth. David Sylvian delivers a spiritually resonant, mysterious masterpiece that masterfully blurs the line between sophisticated pop and new age meditation.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, ambient, spacious, dreamy, minimal

Tracklist

  1. Taking The Veil
  2. Laughter And Forgetting
  3. Before The Bullfight
  4. Gone To Earth
  5. Wave
  6. River Man
  7. Silver Moon
  8. The Healing Place
  9. Answered Prayers
  10. Where The Railroad Meets The Sea
  11. The Wooden Cross
  12. Silver Moon Over Sleeping Steeples
  13. Camp Fire: Coyote Country
  14. A Bird Of Prey Vanishes Into A Bright Blue Cloudless Sky
  15. Home
  16. Sunlight Seen Through Towering Trees
  17. Upon This Earth

Credits

  • David Sylvian - primary artist, instruments, mixed by [assisted by], producer [produced by], vocals, keyboards, guitar, electronics [radio], written-by, vocals, effects [atmospherics], vocals, keyboards, guitar [guitars], vocals, guitar
  • Russell Mills - artwork [art], design
  • Catherine Wilson - coordinator [recording co-ordinator, assisted by]
  • Richard Chadwick - coordinator [recording co-ordinator]
  • Nick Blundell - engineer [assisted by]
  • Noel Haris - engineer [assisted by]
  • Steve Nye - engineer [engineered by], mixed by, producer [produced by], piano
  • David Buckland - photography by
  • Phil Palmer - acoustic guitar
  • Ian Maidman - bass guitar, bass [bass harmonics]
  • Steve Jansen - drums, percussion, percussion, bass [sampled bass]
  • Robert Fripp - guitar [guitars], guitar [guitars], electronics [frippertronics], written-by, guitar [solo guitars], loops [frippertronics], guitar [sky-saw], loops [frippertronics], guitar [solo], loops [frippertronics], guitar [solo guitar]
  • Kenny Wheeler - flugelhorn
  • John Taylor - piano
  • Richard Barbieri - effects [atmospherics], electronics [atmospherics]
  • Bill Nelson - electric guitar [solo], acoustic guitar, guitar [guitars], guitar [solo guitar], written-by
  • Harry Beckett - flugelhorn
  • Mel Collins - soprano saxophone
  • BJ Cole - pedal steel guitar

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