Sounds and Zounds

Nine Horses is David Sylvian, Steve Jansen and Burnt Friedman and is a exploration of modern pop and textured sound. This project is probably the most approchable David Sylvian work since his 1999 recording Dead Bees on Cake, but lyrically continues on some of the themes of relationships, raising children and living in America during war time that he started with “Blemish�. The opening track “Wonderful World� is rich with textures but keeping a jazzy walk threw the happiness and sorrow of the world. Examining the perplexed relationship between war and peace, awareness and blindness of all that is going on in the world. This album is complex with emotion that I would expect from Mr. Sylvian, it also brings pain and hope to the future. Amazing disc with layers and layers of findings.