Manafon

by David Sylvian

Manafon cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 14 September 2009
  • Label: Samadhisound
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 49:51
  • Community rating: 3.77/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded across London, Vienna, and Tokyo, this incredibly demanding avant-garde release features highly prominent electroacoustic improvisation supporting the artist's spoken-word poetry. Assembling luminaries of the free-improv scene like Christian Fennesz and Evan Parker, the instrumentation is sparse, unpredictable, and devoid of traditional pop structure. It acts as one of the most challenging, starkly beautiful meditations in his late-career catalog.

Genres

Descriptors: Acoustic, Avant Garde, forest, avant-garde, atmospheric, improvisation, folk, experimental, minimal, vocal

Tracklist

  1. Small Metal Gods (5:48)
  2. The Rabbit Skinner (4:41)
  3. Random Acts Of Senseless Violence (7:06)
  4. The Greatest Living Englishman (10:54)
  5. 125 Spheres (0:29)
  6. Snow White In Appalachia (6:35)
  7. Emily Dickinson (6:25)
  8. The Department Of Dead Letters (2:25)
  9. Manafon (5:22)

Credits

  • Werner Dafeldecker - acoustic bass, music by
  • Marcio Mattos - cello, music by
  • Michael Moser - cello, music by
  • Fennesz - computer [laptop], guitar, music by
  • Ruud Van Empel - cover, artwork by
  • Joel Ryan - effects [live signal processing], music by, effects [signal processing]
  • Burkhard Stangl - guitar, music by
  • Keith Rowe - guitar, music by

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