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Rating: David Sylvian appears and disappears without making much noise, yet leaving a mark with unique works. Having grown up with Japan and matured solo, it's difficult to say which Album is the most beautiful, but “Dead Bees on a Cake” manages to captivate with its astonishing and indescribable “I Surrender”, 10 minutes of repeated poetry. Sylvian, very reserved and much appreciated by those with a fine musical palate, does not like interviews and continuous concerts, yet he still manages to keep the time steady over the years. Sylvian sweet and simple narrator of enchanted tales with an oriental fragrance blended with the West, his Albums are breathtaking, becoming hard to find, and brought back to the market thanks to the highly demanded reprints; his collaborations are always remarkable, like his right-hand man Ryuichi Sakamoto, and then Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Bill Nelson….
In this Album, we find refinement and brilliance in the sound, the lyrics touch on the theme of religion and familial warmth. It's a dream that can isolate you from reality and take you to a stratospheric dimension beyond everyday life. It’s an endlessly internal journey, real and imaginary, to discover and savor, to traverse and remember fondly over the years. One must sit comfortably and let go, like being carried by the flow of a river at full capacity where the atmosphere will flow into a vast, calm lake. “Surrender,” as I said before, is a unique warm tenderness that must never end. The tracks range from new wave to jazz to ethnic music to blues and new age, the use of acoustic and electronic instruments blended creates the perfect environment for this wonderful journey of pleasure.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 I Surrender (09:24)
I opened up the pathway of the heart
The flowers died embittered from the start
That night I crossed the bridge of sighs and I surrendered
I looked back and glimpsed the outline of a boy
His life of sorrows now collapsing into joy
And tonight the stars are all aligned and I surrender
My mother cries beneath a southern sky and I surrender
Recording angels and the poets of the night
Bring back the trophies of the battles that we fight
Searchlights fill the open skies and I surrender
Outrageous cries of love have called you back
Derailed the trains of thought, demolished wayward tracks
You tell me I've no need to wonder why I just surrender
I stand too close to see the sleight of hand
How she found this child inside the frightened man
Tonight I'm learning how to fly and I surrender
I've travelled all this way for your embrace
Enraptured by the recognition on your face
Hold me now while my old life dies tonight and I surrender
My mother cries beneath the open skies and I surrender
An ancient evening just before the fall
The light in your eyes, the meaning of it all
Birds fly and fill the summer skies and I surrender
She throws the burning books into the sea
"Come find the meaning of the word inside of me"
It's alright the stars are all aligned and I surrender
My mother cries beneath the moonlit skies and I surrender
My body turns to ashes in her hands
The disappearing world of footprints in the sand
Tell me now that this love will never die and I'll surrender
My mother cries beneath the open skies and I surrender
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By coconutty66
Constantly balancing between the unreal and the surreal, the slow advance of this album gently takes you into the dreaming arms of a suspended dimension.
The tracks follow one another without ever straying from their predestined uniformity; this feature is a merit and not a limitation of this masterpiece.
