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The Distance Between the Killer and the Killing

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David Sylvian

Label: Nanoq Records
Released: 2027
Duration: 00:46:00
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The Distance Between the Killer and the Killing.

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The Distance Between the Killer and the Killing it is the first album Sylvian has released in 15 years.
Comprised of sessions recorded between 2012 and 2025, the album is based on recomposed improvisational sessions with a variety of artists ranging from Otomo Yoshihide, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Biliana Voutchkova and Miako Klein, to Jamie Drouin, Lance Austin Olson and more. The 46-minute instrumental is unlike anything tackled by Sylvian before and is seen by Sylvian himself as the official follow up to his 2009 album Manafon.

In Pauline Nadrigny’s essay on the album, she describes something of the listening experience. “…voices surge that belong to no one in particular. One that hoots and hums across a violin, worked until it loses its voice, becomes mere matter among other matter. A voice inside the breath of a clarinet or a recorder. Grunts, gurgles, distant cries, somewhere between man and bird, woman and nuthatch. Fragments of choirs, far off, snatches of a song long since lost. Too far to be recovered.”

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