Damage: Live

Damage: Live
Live album by David Sylvian and Robert Fripp
Released	1 October 1994
Recorded	December 1993, mixed at Real World Studios, Box, Wiltshire, March 1994
Genre	Alternative rock
Label	Virgin
Producer	David Bottrill, Robert Fripp
David Sylvian and Robert Fripp chronology
Darshan (The Road To Graceland) (1993) Damage: Live (1994) Dead Bees on a Cake (1999)

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Damage is a live recording of a 1993 tour by David Sylvian and Robert Fripp. It is taken from the final show of the tour.

This album, originally mixed by Fripp, was first released in 1994 as a limited edition box set: a 24-carat gold CD and 32-page colour booklet in a jewel box inside a cardboard slipcase. It was remixed by David Sylvian and re-released in standard jewel case packaging with different artwork (see article illustration) in 2001. The song "Darshan: The Road to Graceland" was replaced by "Jean the Birdman" on the reissued version and the track order was slightly changed.

For several years this was the only place one could find the song "Blinding Light of Heaven." Since then the studio version has been released, on the limited edition third disc of Sylvian's compilation Everything and Nothing.

Track listing

1994 release

1. "Damage" (Fripp, Gunn, Sylvian) – 4:31
2. "God's Monkey" (Bottrill, Fripp, Gunn, Sylvian) – 6:42
3. "Brightness Falls" (Fripp, Gunn, Sylvian) – 6:29
4. "Every Colour You Are" (Barbieri, Jansen, Karn, Sylvian) – 5:40
5. "Firepower" (Fripp, Gunn, Sylvian) – 7:02
6. "Gone to Earth" (Fripp, Sylvian) – 2:28
7. "20th Century Dreaming (A Shaman's Song)" (Fripp, Gunn, Sylvian) – 8:03
8. "Wave" (Sylvian) – 6:11
9. "River Man" (Sylvian) – 5:01
10. "Darshan (The Road to Graceland)" (Bottrill, Fripp, Gunn, Sylvian) – 10:47
11. "Blinding Light of Heaven" (Fripp, Gunn, Sylvian) – 4:15
12. "The First Day" (Fripp, Gunn, Sylvian) – 4:44

2001 re-release

1. "God's Monkey" (Sylvian, Fripp, Gunn, Botrill) – 6:39
2. "Brightness Falls" (Sylvian, Fripp, Gunn) – 6:29
3. "Every Colour You Are" (Sylvian, Karn, Jansen, Barbieri) – 5:44
4. "Jean the Birdman" (Sylvian, Fripp, Gunn) – 4:03
5. "Firepower" (Sylvian, Fripp, Gunn) – 7:09
6. "Damage" (Sylvian, Fripp, Gunn) – 4:26
7. "Gone to Earth" (Sylvian, Fripp) – 2:29
8. "Twentieth Century Dreaming (A Shaman's Song)" (Sylvian, Fripp, Gunn) – 7:54
9. "Wave" (Sylvian) – 6:17
10. "River Man" (Sylvian) – 4:58
11. "Blinding Light of Heaven" (Sylvian, Fripp, Gunn) – 4:36
12. "The First Day" (Sylvian, Fripp, Gunn) – 5:22

Personnel

• David Sylvian – vocals, guitar, keyboard instruments, tapes
• Robert Fripp – guitar, frippertronics
• Trey Gunn – chapman stick, vocals
• Michael Brook – infinite guitar
• Pat Mastelotto – drums

Additional personnel

• David Kent - sound engineer
• David Bottrill - mixing
• David Singleton - digital editing, assistant producer
• Stuart White - keyboard and recording technician
• Alan Pollard - keyboard and recording technician (U.K. and Europe)
• Steve Flewin - monitor engineer
• John Sinks - guitar technician
• Clint Lockyer - stick/drum technician
• Dave Newton - stage manager, keyboard/guitar technician
• Haruki Kaito - light and stage design
• Phil Wiffen - light operator
• Tim Hook - tour manager

Art work

• David Sylvian - art director
• Yuka Fuji - art director, visual projects co-ordinator
• Russell Mills - design
• Michael Webster - design assistance
• Masataka Nakano - artwork
• Shinro Ohtake - artwork (details)
• Kevin Westenburg - photography (live)

References

External links

• David Sylvian's discography - albums