New David Sylvian Album

September 15 will see the release of a new David Sylvian album, Manafon. The new music from the old new romantic (follow that)?, is described as, "a completely modern kind of chamber music. Intimate, dynamic, emotive, democratic, economical."

Reflecting upon the album track, "Manafon", about British poet R. S. Thomas., Sylvian remarked that it is "a description of a man of faith, who struggles with that faith, who imposes an order on the external world in the hope of finding it internally. A man who embraces the morals and values of his faith and lives by them but who also struggles with the silence that burns inside his own heart and mind. God's silence. He's a man out of time who begins to look, on the surface, more like some tragicomic figure as time passes. While he seems to be an insufferable individual in many ways there's a quixotic element in his quest for knowledge, for upholding morals and values that even he struggles with when it comes to believing in their efficacy." And he further ruminates about the albums content, stating, "Maybe I'm attracted to the stories of individuals who search for meaning on their own terms," says Sylvian. "But what I'm fascinated by is the devotion to a creative discipline. The meaning with which the work imbues the life regardless of its reception and, to a certain extent, its importance."