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Not for everyone...
Haunting, romantic, and ultimately self-indulgent, David Sylvian's Gone To Earth is two albums in one. The first is a collection of gossamer adult pop with jazz, world beat, and atonal influences. Sylvian's world-weary voice quavers with emotion, and the tone of the disc's first half suggests Bryan Ferry doing some serious dream-journaling. Standouts are the brief but lulling "Laughter and Forgetting," the ethereal "Before the Bullfight," and "Silver Moon."

After that, things get a bit murkier with a set of nondescript instrumentals that seem ill-placed after 25 minutes of Sylvian's urbane vocal mysticism. If you're a fan of Eno's "Music for Airports," this section should appeal to you greatly. Otherwise, it will put you to sleep. If ambience is your thing, however (and, really, why would you be considering buying a David Sylvian CD if it wasn't?), this is a true classic.

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Achingly beautiful (but with omissions)
It's so hard for me to write about this album. The songs here are so beautiful, so rapt with emotion in their lyrics and the playing, that describing them adequately with words is a hellish exercise. Sylvian, on "Gone to Earth", seems to reach inside himself to such great depths to draw up the works herein. I have seldom heard such work of such emotional power before or since. And the music itself compliments this, shifting atmospheres seamlessly from jazz to ambient, to avant-garde, to quiet rock, and all around, always perfectly setting and setting off Sylvian's lyrics. The moods evoked here are done to perfection, and the songs here are ones which are true landmarks, one which can and should last the test of time. So why only _four_ stars? Well...I _cannot_ give this edition of this album five. It's not the whole album. There are a number of instrumental, ambient tracks missing here, which were originally present on the vinyl and cassette (and a limited import 2 CD version, I think only released in Japan), and which have been excised here for the sake of fitting 'everything' on CD...which, of course, means that not everything is fitted on the CD. In a work of this scope and breadth, such an omission and compromising of the artist's intent and vision should be considered nigh-criminal! For that reason, I can't and won't give this album its full measure of kudos until this critical flaw is corrected, which one can hope Virgin will someday see fit to do. This deserves to be released en toto!

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brush stroked cloudy skies
the plan is simple, lower all lights untill the room is filled with only shades and pale reflections of the city surrounding you.Put your speakers to the maximum of there capability.
be shure to wear nothing more than your bare skin and watch down
from your tower.being that singularity.being above all things.press play and take an awsome ride through the path of your memories.
Time will stop proceeding,walls will dissapear an for a brief moment in a lifetime you'll feel god breathing down your neck.
But do not hesitate, have confidence not looking backwards, it would spoil all effort David Sylvian has putted in his masterpiece.