Burl Veneer’s Music Blog Vox 2008-04-25T02:29:27Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00d4144aef1d3c7f/tags/david+sylvian/ Songs I Like S Convergence: Sakamoto, Satie, Stewart, Sylvian tag:vox.com,2008-04-25:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00f48cf1b06b0002 2008-04-25T02:29:27Z 2008-04-25T02:29:27Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

04 Opus ♫ Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No.1 [piano] ♫ 05 Stranger Somewhere (Orchestral Commercial Version) Sylvian & Sakamoto - Forbidden Colours 07 Forbidden Dub

Item 1: Mrs. Veneer buys Ryuichi Sakamoto's CD of solo piano pieces, BTTB. It's quite beautiful and Sakamoto mostly avoids the New Age clichés that plague so many piano CDs. Some of the pieces are obvious homages to classical works, such as "Opu...

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07-Men Before the Mirror David Sylvian - Red Guitar David Sylvian - Orpheus

Continuing my thread of guys who have played brass instruments on David Sylvian albums, here is Mark Isham, as promised, from his first solo album, Vapor Drawings: That's Isham playing everything, unless there are some drums in there that I can'...

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]]> Ghosts of high school: Japan tag:vox.com,2008-02-07:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398da0a600002 2008-02-07T02:06:16Z 2008-04-05T15:04:35Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Japan: Ghosts Japan - Ghosts

I rarely remember to search for my old favorites on YouTube, so it often happens that I happen upon them while blog surfing. That's how I just turned up a couple lip-synching performances by Japan of the first song I ever heard by them, "Ghosts."...

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]]> C'est Sheik tag:vox.com,2008-01-04:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398ce86f70002 2008-01-04T02:22:59Z 2008-01-12T01:47:18Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Duncan Sheik - She Runs Away (Video) Duncan Sheik - Serena

Duncan Sheik is in the air: I heard "She Runs Away" at Rite Aid on Monday, then again at Citgo on Tuesday. Now that I think about it, I hear him in the grocery store a lot. He must be making a tidy sum on royalties, and he certainly doesn't need...

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