Everything and Nothing

Everything and Nothing
Compilation album by David Sylvian
Released	October 2000
Recorded	1980—1999
Genre	Alternative rock, jazz
Label	Virgin Records
Producer	David Sylvian, Steve Nye
David Sylvian chronology
Approaching Silence (1999) Everything and Nothing (2000) Camphor (2002)

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Everything and Nothing is a compilation album by David Sylvian. Released in October 2000, the album touches on music from Sylvian's twenty years with Virgin Records. The record peaked at no.57 in the UK albums chart.^[1]

It was released in two versions. A standard 2CD jewel case (CDVD 2897) and (in the UK) as a limited edition 3CD digipak (CDVDX 2897).

In addition to old favourites from Sylvian's solo career and earlier with the group Japan ("Ghosts"), the album also includes previously unreleased material ("Some Kind of Fool", "The Scent of Magnolia", "Ride" and "Cover Me with Flowers" among others) along with collaborations ("Bamboo Houses" and "Heartbeat" with Ryuichi Sakamoto and "Buoy" with Mick Karn). The songs "Come Morning" and "Golden Way" were taken from the 1995 album Marco Polo by the World music duo Nicola Alesini & Pier Luigi Andreoni, on which Sylvian provided vocals for three of the songs.

Several tracks on the album were recorded during the making of Sylvian's 1999 album Dead Bees on a Cake but did not make the final cut on the album.

In terms of sales the album was not overly successful, but received a positive response from the music critics of the era.

Track listing

All tracks composed by David Sylvian unless otherwise noted

Disc One

1. "The Scent of Magnolia" – 5:36
   • from Dead Bees on a Cake sessions, completed 2000
2. "Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II)" (remix) (David Sylvian, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Arto Lindsay) – 5:17
   • originally from Heartbeat by Ryuichi Sakamoto, 1992
3. "Blackwater" (David Sylvian, Steve Jansen, Mick Karn, Richard Barbieri) – 4:22
   • from Rain Tree Crow by Rain Tree Crow, 1991
4. "Albuquerque (Dobro #6)" (David Sylvian, Bill Frisell) – 1:21
   • from Dead Bees on a Cake sessions, completed 2000
5. "Ride" – 8:00
   • from Secrets of the Beehive sessions, completed 2000
6. "The Golden Way" (remix) (David Sylvian, Nicola Alesini) – 6:01
   • originally from Marco Polo by Nicola Alesini and Pier Luigi Andreoni, 1992
7. "Ghosts" (2000 remix) – 3:47
   • originally from Tin Drum by Japan, 1981
8. "Pop Song" – 4:34
   • single a-side, 1989
9. "Every Colour You Are" (David Sylvian, Steve Jansen, Mick Karn, Richard Barbieri) – 4:46
   • from Rain Tree Crow
10. "Wanderlust" – 6:47
    • from Dead Bees on a Cake
11. "God's Monkey" (David Sylvian, Robert Fripp, Trey Gunn, David Bottrill) – 5:02
    • from The First Day by David Sylvian and Robert Fripp, 1993
12. "Let the Happiness In" – 5:35
    • from Secrets of the Beehive
13. "I Surrender" – 9:28
    • from Dead Bees on a Cake
14. "Thoroughly Lost to Logic" (David Sylvian, Keith Tippett) – 1:17
    • recorded 1991/2000

Disc Two

1. "Jean the Birdman" (David Sylvian, Robert Fripp, Trey Gunn) – 4:12
   • from The First Day
2. "Cover Me with Flowers" – 6:33
   • from Dead Bees on a Cake sessions, completed 2000
3. "Boy with the Gun" – 5:14
   • from Secrets of the Beehive
4. "River Man" – 4:57
   • from Gone to Earth
5. "Aparna and Nimisha (Dobro # 5)" (David Sylvian, Bill Frisell) – 0:56
   • from Dead Bees on a Cake sessions, completed 2000
6. "Midnight Sun" (David Sylvian, Johnny Moore, Charles Brown, Eddie Williams) – 4:02
   • from Dead Bees on a Cake
7. "Orpheus" – 4:48
   • from Secrets of the Beehive
8. "Some Kind of Fool" – 7:31
   • from Gentlemen Take Polaroids sessions by Japan, completed 2000
9. "Cries and Whispers" (David Sylvian, Steve Jansen, Mick Karn, Richard Barbieri) – 2:33
   • from Rain Tree Crow
10. "Godman" – 3:58
    • from Dead Bees on a Cake
11. "Laughter and Forgetting" – 2:33
    • from Gone to Earth
12. "Buoy" (David Sylvian, Mick Karn) – 5:16
    • from Dreams of Reason Produce Monsters by Mick Karn, 1986
13. "Weathered Wall" (remix) (David Sylvian, Jon Hassell) – 5:43
    • originally from Brilliant Trees, 1984
14. "Bamboo Houses" (remix) (David Sylvian, Ryuichi Sakamoto) – 5:21
    • single a-side by Sylvian & Sakamoto, 1982
15. "Come Morning" (remix) (David Sylvian, Nicola Alesini) – 3:56
    • originally from Marco Polo

Disc Three (limited edition only)

1. "The Scent of Magnolia" (Edit) – 5:04
2. "The Blinding Light of Heaven" – 4:42
   • from sessions for The First Day by David Sylvian and Robert Fripp, 1993
3. "The Scent of Magnolia" (Portobello Mix) – 5:42
4. "Brilliant Trees" (Version 2000) – 8:32
   • originally from Brilliant Trees, 1984

Personnel

This is a list of guest musicians exclusively about the unreleased tracks. For the other tracks, see respective albums.

• "The Scent of Magnolia": Bill Frisell (guitar), Ingrid Chavez (vocals), John Giblin (bass), Ryuichi Sakamoto (string arrangement, sampler, piano), Andreas Allen (drum programming), Sebastian Morton (drum programming).
• "Albuquerue (Dobro #6)": Bill Frisell (dobro).
• "Ride": Ryuichi Sakamoto (piano, string arrangement) Steve Jansen (drums), Danny Thompson (double bass), David Torn (electric guitar), Mark Isham (trumpet), Phil Palmer (acoustic guitar).
• "The Golden Way": Damiano Puliti (cello), Nicola Alesini (soprano sax, keyboards, drum programming), Steve Jansen (drum programming), Pier Luigi Andreoni (keyboards).
• "Pop Song": John Taylor (piano), Steve Jansen.
• "Thoroughly Lost to Logic": Keith Tippett (piano), Mark Sanders (drums)

• "Cover Me with Flowers": Steve Jansen (percussion), Steve Tibbetts (guitars).
• "Aparna and Nimisha (Dobro # 5)": Bill Frisell (dobro).
• "Some Kind of Fool": Ingrid Chavez (vocals), Ann O'Dell (string and brass arrangement) Mick Karn (sax, brass arrangement), Rob Dean (guitar), Richard Barbieri (piano), Simon House (violin).
• "Buoy": Steven Jansen (drums, vocals), Mick Karn (vocals, saxophones, keyboards)
• "Come Morning": Arturo Stalteri (bouzouki), Nicola Alesini (keyboards, clarinet, drum programming, sax), Pier Luigi Andreoni (keyboards, percussion)
• "The Blinding Light of Heaven" (studio): Jerry Marotta, Marc Anderson, Trey Gunn.

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