DAVID SYLVIAN BIOGRAPHY - ON THE PERIPHERY Only available for worldwide dispatch from WWW.SYLVIANBIOGRAPHY.COM SAMPLES IN THE CAKE. Dead Bees on a Cake was the long awaited solo album from David Sylvian after the decade long gap since Secrets of the Beehive. The album began with I Surrender, which was the centrepiece of the album, in that it encapsulated the overall theme, giving in to love and the divine by letting go of the ego. The roots of the song went back to the very beginning of the Dead Bees project, when Sylvian was writing music for his then wife Ingrid Chavez to respond to in the studio in their house in Minneapolis in 1993 (picture attached). When Chavez gave birth to their first child, Ameera Daya, and retreated from making music, Sylvian picked some of these compositions up himself, I Surrender among them. As Sylvian says in On the Periphery - sylvianbiography) “I think that the nature of that piece influenced some of the subsequent writing…which is very interesting for me. In a sense I’d written a piece of music that I thought would appeal to my wife and inspire her as a writer, but ultimately it inspired me and influenced the musical direction of the album to some degree.” The song, in common with many of the tracks on the album, sampled other artist’s works, this time from the composition You Know You Know from John McLaughlin’s Mahavishnu Orchestra. YOU KNOW YOU KNOW: https://youtube/watch?v=5mdGCqZTres McLaughlin and the orchestra basically defined what “jazz fusion” was all about, presenting in their music a blend of progressive jazz, rock, Indian classical, funk, and European classical music. McLaughlin himself was a legendary guitarist in this genre, and the band also included the keyboard maestro Jan Hammer. You Know You Know came from their first studio album The Inner Mounting Flame released in 1971, and was a beautiful example of McLaughlin’s work, effectively a lilting low key meandering jazz piece which built in interesting guitar shocks and lavish drum solos. Sylvian discussed the use of the sample thus: “Sometimes a sample loop can become something of a catalyst in that it may lead you down a path you may not otherwise have taken. The Mahavishnu loop…formed the basic drum pattern for I Surrender.” Using this sample as its backdrop, the musical feel of the piece mirrored it, being itself a low key and entrancing composition. I SURRENDER - https://youtube/watch?v=ByWEtj9knW8
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