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In the early eighties while working on Sylvians debut solo album, Brilliant Trees, we are happy to announce the release of one of Ambassadors Hidden Gems. In 1986, David Sylvian of British Art Pop Band Japan and Holger Czukay founding member and bassist in legendary German Cosmic Band Can were ostensibly reconvening for Sylvian to record a vocal for Czukays forthcoming album Rome Remains Rome. But on arriving at Czukays studio a former cinema in Cologne Sylvian began playing freeform, improvising on readily available instruments located in the studio itself. No sooner had Sylvian, on any instrument hed been applying himself, start to structurally define / refine the performance Czukay would stop the recording hed surreptitiously making. Czukay attempted to capture the process of creation without a musicians inclination for refinement. This process, drawn out over two nights, gave birth to the duos first, full-fledged, collaboration, Plight and Premonition.
Having been out of print for some time, the parallels between the original release 30 years ago and now are quite strong; At the time of the Cold War was lifting but still very real after a bitter winter. The names Plight & Premonition and Flux & Mutability are just after instability. In Sylvians words, the statements seemed to be touched on something: A form of music has seemed to have been created while we were absent by instruments, to the earth and the woods, sounded by the coarse winter elements.
The version of Plight and Premonition included here is a new mix by Sylvian from 2002. All the recordings have been fully remastered. The packaging has been redesigned by Chris Bigg with Art Direction by Sylvian with new, previously unseen, photographs by Yuka Fujii, an extensive essay by David Toop.
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