Love this track, vocals is not necessary when you got such a tasteful drummer as Steve Jansen. The way his entrance stumbles into this track amazes me.
Here's some interesting information about... "... There is one gem hidden in Sylvian’s back catalogue that remained unfinished, and was only ever released as a B-side. It does, however, remain a highly valued track by Sylvian’s fans, and also more overtly than nearly every (if not every) track that Sylvian has produced in his career, shows a clear jazz influence. This track is Blue of Noon, a track composed and recorded in the Brilliant Trees sessions in 1983, and finally released in 1987 as the B-side to Let the Happiness In from Secrets of the Beehive. Suggestion was that Sylvian planned to rework this track for the Camphor compilation album in 2002 as he felt it needed work to stand on its own two feet, but ran out of funds. The reason Blue of Noon didn’t make the cut on Brilliant Trees was that for Sylvian, it remained incomplete, his initial idea being that it would be a vocal piece. What was released was a Ryuichi Sakamoto performed piano-driven piece of jazz music upon which Sylvian doesn’t actually perform. Video of the Brilliant Trees sessions show Sylvian working with Sakamoto composing the piano “score” describing what he wanted of the piece, but the vocal was never recorded Even a sideways look at Blue of Noon shows that it fitted into the Brilliant Trees groove. As the David Sylvian biography “On the Periphery” describes, it introduced another in a long line of radical free thinkers (references to which littered the album) this time Georges Bataille, whose novel of the same title (“Le Bleu du Ciel”) was written in 1935. Bataille was a pre-eminent figure among French intellectuals at the time, being closely associated with such luminaries as Juan Miro, Pablo Picasso, and Max Ernst, and the philosophical and surrealist underpinnings of his work were heavily influenced by Freidrich Nietzsche. Blue of Noon remains a neglected and now quite rare track in Sylvian’s back catalogue, but it showcases the superb work that Sylvian and Sakamoto produced together. While it remains intriguing to imagine how the piece would have ended up with Sylvian’s planned vocal contribution, even in this form, it remains a beautiful piece." sylvianbiography.com/blog/
Thanks for posting..I have been looking for this song...I lost my 12 inch Ver of "Let the Happiness In"....I have not heard this song since...1988 or so...wow
would loved this to have been on 'Secrets of th Beehive'. can't find the words to say how much I adore this track. easily one of Mr Sylvian's finest moments. dereckvon - 'sublime' is a good place to start x
really, its true, sylvian and sakamoto complement each other sooo perfectly well, its terrible that they probably wont ever do an entire album together.
Amazing track,one of my David's favourite ever! I was only 17 when it was released and i've used to losten very different kind of music comparised my contemporaries. They loved Madonna,Pet Shit Boys,and other amenities...
David Sylvian is an admitted fan of The Pet Shop Boys, and Neil Tenant has cited Sylvian as a big influence on him musically... It's cool you like David Sylvian, but there's no need to shit on other acts
@@DaveAndBeth1978 lol, so if he'd said let's see, Motorhead were crap you would have stroked your beard and nodded sagely in the likelihood that Sylvian wouldn't have been a fan but, because The Pet Shop Boys are somehow inextricably linked by mutual admiration they're OK. It doesn't make it right because of this and everybody is entitled to their opinion. Yes, Pet Shop Boys are shit...😂
Lovely track. Very interesting reading the comments placing it in the Trees era as it has more of the beautiful piano giving a Beehive vibe to my ears. From memory I thought it was on Buoy 12" so there you are. The mind plays tricks after 30 years. It's always great to hear this beautiful piece. Thank You.
Alan and Ken: I remember to have read somewhere that this was originally meant as a vocaltrack. Outtake from brilliant trees sessions as far as I remember. But maybe David wasn't satisfied with the result. So we only got the instrumental; thus David is only responsible for the writing and probably arranging the piece.
Why the re-recorded and inferior version of Forbidden colours was included on the CD of Secrets of the beehive as opposed to this is totally beyond my comprehension. Another thing I find hard to believe is that Sylvian and Sakamoto have never made an entire album together. It would seem so obvious as they seem to bring out the best In each other. I'd like to think that people fully appreciate what a brilliant contribution Sakamoto made to SOTB and of course this here track.
Karl Hainer was this released as a b-side or a stand alone 12 inch or a deluxe edition CD.? I have never heard this till now xmas eve 2016 but sounds so familiar and awesome.
YES! Just heard it for the first time (and me thinking I'd already heard every note of the Sylvian catalog) and immediately thought I'd love to try to get at least a sketch of it down on guitar. Like hearing "Laughter and Forgetting" from "Gone to Earth" and the interplay between Kenny Wheeler's Flugelhorn and John Taylor's piano, which is a Masters course in single-note lead soloing over chords.
If I'm correct, Sylvian doesn't actually play on this track. His composition of course, but Sakamoto is on piano, Steve on drums and Wayne Braithwaite on bass. Great track.
@@elframo yes OK it seems that Sylvian didn't play here.He wrote and conceived it of course. He could indeed play it well, but he realised that his friend Ryuichi Sakamoto would add and augment his piece. Thankfully David Sylvian has now shared the priceless footage of him teaching Mr Sakamoto the classic "Blue of Noon". Got to 3 minutes in here.... What a wonderful thing this is. czcams.com/video/v-X36Xi8i58/video.html
Oustanding deep songwriting. In a way much stronger than his latest works. But I see how it did not fit into "secrets ..." - it would have broken the style of the record and I think Sylvian was very strict about that.
Bach, Beethoven, Arvo Part, Satie, Bjork, Damon Albarn (though I admit this begrudgingly!) Bowie (1976-79) Mick Karn, Allessandro Scarlatti, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Scott Walker, for starters.
sure they are Geniuses but what have they done better than david sylvians work ... ok satie isnt bad and mick karn ( when love walks in , is very good )
Don't misunderstand me; Sylvian is (partly) responsible for some of my very favourite music and it would be impossible to convey with mere words, just how important a record, Secrets of the beehive is to me. But.......you can't say that Sylvian is a musical genius to compare with the great classical composers. If anything, I believe that his "genius" lies in being able to recognise which musicians are best able to turn his basic ideas into gold, whether they be Karn, Jansen, Dean, Barbieri, Czukay, Sakamoto, Fripp, Danny Thompson, Mark Isham or Jan Bang. I believe these musicians are alchemists of sorts. P.S. I love Sylvian!
After all these years, the album Brilliant Trees still shines so brilliantly, David should reissue the album, with this wonderful track added!
One of my favourites from Sylvian...An absolute gem
the bass playing on this is fantastic
Love this track, vocals is not necessary when you got such a tasteful drummer as Steve Jansen. The way his entrance stumbles into this track amazes me.
Here's some interesting information about...
"... There is one gem hidden in Sylvian’s back catalogue that remained unfinished, and was only ever released as a B-side. It does, however, remain a highly valued track by Sylvian’s fans, and also more overtly than nearly every (if not every) track that Sylvian has produced in his career, shows a clear jazz influence.
This track is Blue of Noon, a track composed and recorded in the Brilliant Trees sessions in 1983, and finally released in 1987 as the B-side to Let the Happiness In from Secrets of the Beehive. Suggestion was that Sylvian planned to rework this track for the Camphor compilation album in 2002 as he felt it needed work to stand on its own two feet, but ran out of funds.
The reason Blue of Noon didn’t make the cut on Brilliant Trees was that for Sylvian, it remained incomplete, his initial idea being that it would be a vocal piece. What was released was a Ryuichi Sakamoto performed piano-driven piece of jazz music upon which Sylvian doesn’t actually perform. Video of the Brilliant Trees sessions show Sylvian working with Sakamoto composing the piano “score” describing what he wanted of the piece, but the vocal was never recorded
Even a sideways look at Blue of Noon shows that it fitted into the Brilliant Trees groove. As the David Sylvian biography “On the Periphery” describes, it introduced another in a long line of radical free thinkers (references to which littered the album) this time Georges Bataille, whose novel of the same title (“Le Bleu du Ciel”) was written in 1935. Bataille was a pre-eminent figure among French intellectuals at the time, being closely associated with such luminaries as Juan Miro, Pablo Picasso, and Max Ernst, and the philosophical and surrealist underpinnings of his work were heavily influenced by Freidrich Nietzsche.
Blue of Noon remains a neglected and now quite rare track in Sylvian’s back catalogue, but it showcases the superb work that Sylvian and Sakamoto produced together. While it remains intriguing to imagine how the piece would have ended up with Sylvian’s planned vocal contribution, even in this form, it remains a beautiful piece."
sylvianbiography.com/blog/
Misty Drop for Wild Daisie
Thanks for the info. Appreciate the efforts. :)
Misty Drop for Wild Daisies thanks!
Ahh, I loved this track from day 1, and now my drummer son seems to have found it and maybe loves it, who knows with 16 yr olds 😂
David should release more instrumentals like this.... albums like Plight and Flux are fascinating but soundscapes like this are poems without words.
A great atmospheric track, with both David's, Steve's and Ryuichi's influences incorporated.
These are the ingredients to a magnificent track.
love this song. This melody in a concert hall like the Elbphilhamonie and I still like it ;-)
Thanks for posting..I have been looking for this song...I lost my 12 inch Ver of "Let the Happiness In"....I have not heard this song since...1988 or so...wow
It's a guidance in my life
would loved this to have been on 'Secrets of th Beehive'. can't find the words to say how much I adore this track. easily one of Mr Sylvian's finest moments. dereckvon - 'sublime' is a good place to start x
More likely to have been on Brilliant trees.
I listened to the analog again and again over twenty years ago.
Still beautiful and touching...
Gratulation ✨✨✨ The Master 💕💕💕 Thanx and kisses from Germany ❤️💥❤️
really, its true, sylvian and sakamoto complement each other sooo perfectly well, its terrible that they probably wont ever do an entire album together.
How prophetic this turned out to be ..
Amazing track,one of my David's favourite ever! I was only 17 when it was released and i've used to losten very different kind of music comparised my contemporaries. They loved Madonna,Pet Shit Boys,and other amenities...
Limitless Maxmode
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David Sylvian is an admitted fan of The Pet Shop Boys, and Neil Tenant has cited Sylvian as a big influence on him musically... It's cool you like David Sylvian, but there's no need to shit on other acts
@@DaveAndBeth1978 lol, so if he'd said let's see, Motorhead were crap you would have stroked your beard and nodded sagely in the likelihood that Sylvian wouldn't have been a fan but, because The Pet Shop Boys are somehow inextricably linked by mutual admiration they're OK. It doesn't make it right because of this and everybody is entitled to their opinion. Yes, Pet Shop Boys are shit...😂
@@DaveAndBeth1978 I very much doubt he's a fan of the pet shop boys...
@@DaveAndBeth1978 I doubt that very much
sakamoto’s piano at its best...
meraviglia!
David genius
Really enjoyed the images and moments created. Brilliant song. Thks!
Just sublime!
Thanks for posting. I've been missing this song for a long time.
Just beautiful x
Truly wonderful, thanks for this.
What a masterpiece.. This song must to be in Secrets of the beehive album. The video is also wonderful
subtiles passages d'un style à l'autre, david, ami rencontré à londres en 84, "silent trees", depuis toujours mon compagnon....
Thanks for sharing, fantastic track!
Grande pezzo, grandi emozioni...
A long forgotten classic b-side which was only the third track on the 12". How many more gems have been buried like this?
Almost none
Beautiful track. It actually dates from the Brilliant Trees sessions.
Are you absolutely sure about that ?
This is indeed the case.
Lovely track. Very interesting reading the comments placing it in the Trees era as it has more of the beautiful piano giving a Beehive vibe to my ears. From memory I thought it was on Buoy 12" so there you are. The mind plays tricks after 30 years. It's always great to hear this beautiful piece. Thank You.
really hope this tune is to be released in CD or digital manner.
Alan and Ken: I remember to have read somewhere that this was originally meant as a vocaltrack. Outtake from brilliant trees sessions as far as I remember. But maybe David wasn't satisfied with the result. So we only got the instrumental; thus David is only responsible for the writing and probably arranging the piece.
rest now professor #ryuichisakamoto
Why the re-recorded and inferior version of Forbidden colours was included on the CD of Secrets of the beehive as opposed to this is totally beyond my comprehension. Another thing I find hard to believe is that Sylvian and Sakamoto have never made an entire album together. It would seem so obvious as they seem to bring out the best In each other. I'd like to think that people fully appreciate what a brilliant contribution Sakamoto made to SOTB and of course this here track.
This wasn't a Secrets track. It was a Brilliant Trees track. It belongs as a bonus track there.
Wasn't the different version of Forbidden Colors included as a b side to Red Guitar?
@@EnnuiOn both you and the OP are correct; iirc it was the b-side to red guitar, then included as a bonus track on secrets of beehive
Spero in un album ufficiale di rarities
Now for a change MisThorpe i absolutely agree, not just one album but two maybe three even!
una carezza un vento di emozioni x l IMMAGINE
meravigliosa sensuale
Great inst track from the Beehive sessions
Karl Hainer was this released as a b-side or a stand alone 12 inch or a deluxe edition CD.? I have never heard this till now xmas eve 2016 but sounds so familiar and awesome.
It's from the Brilliant Trees sessions
@@aaronrojas5399 It was the B-side of Let the Happiness in if I recall correctly
Preciosa
ryuichi at its best...
Does anyone have a tab/chord sheet for this worked out? Would love to learn this. Thanks in advance
YES! Just heard it for the first time (and me thinking I'd already heard every note of the Sylvian catalog) and immediately thought I'd love to try to get at least a sketch of it down on guitar. Like hearing "Laughter and Forgetting" from "Gone to Earth" and the interplay between Kenny Wheeler's Flugelhorn and John Taylor's piano, which is a Masters course in single-note lead soloing over chords.
il piano e una carezza un solletico all udito :-)
like :o)
:))
If I'm correct, Sylvian doesn't actually play on this track. His composition of course, but Sakamoto is on piano, Steve on drums and Wayne Braithwaite on bass. Great track.
I think he does play, surely that's him coming in on synth at 2:20? He was a great synth player!
@@allisterainsworth9090 No it's Sakamoto...
Out of interest, what bit is David responsable for. The piano is Sakamoto, and Sylvian is'nt recognised as a percussionist?
ken shabby Good question! According to the vinyl single i have Steve Jansen is on percussion and Wayne Braithwaite on double bass.
Sylvian cant play piano like you hear in this.
Sylvian IS playing here, on synthesiser starting at 2:20.
@@allisterainsworth9090 He isn't
@@elframo yes OK it seems that Sylvian didn't play here.He wrote and conceived it of course. He could indeed play it well, but he realised that his friend Ryuichi Sakamoto would add and augment his piece. Thankfully David Sylvian has now shared the priceless footage of him teaching Mr Sakamoto the classic "Blue of Noon". Got to 3 minutes in here.... What a wonderful thing this is.
czcams.com/video/v-X36Xi8i58/video.html
Oustanding deep songwriting. In a way much stronger than his latest works. But I see how it did not fit into "secrets ..." - it would have broken the style of the record and I think Sylvian was very strict about that.
It was recorded during the Brilliant Trees sessions.
if david sylvian isnt a genius i would like to know who is
Bach, Beethoven, Arvo Part, Satie, Bjork, Damon Albarn (though I admit this begrudgingly!) Bowie (1976-79) Mick Karn, Allessandro Scarlatti, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Scott Walker, for starters.
sure they are Geniuses but what have they done better than david sylvians work ... ok satie isnt bad and mick karn ( when love walks in , is very good )
Don't misunderstand me; Sylvian is (partly) responsible for some of my very favourite music and it would be impossible to convey with mere words, just how important a record, Secrets of the beehive is to me. But.......you can't say that Sylvian is a musical genius to compare with the great classical composers. If anything, I believe that his "genius" lies in being able to recognise which musicians are best able to turn his basic ideas into gold, whether they be Karn, Jansen, Dean, Barbieri, Czukay, Sakamoto, Fripp, Danny Thompson, Mark Isham or Jan Bang. I believe these musicians are alchemists of sorts.
P.S. I love Sylvian!
I agree
And he even knows when no lyrics are needed, as in this track ;-)