DAVID SYLVIAN BIOGRAPHY - ON THE PERIPHERY Only available for worldwide dispatch from WWW.SYLVIANBIOGRAPHY.COM DARKEST DREAMING: Lyrically and musically, the song Darkest Dreaming seemed to make the point (through words and general sonic feel) that there was a bleak lonely place that existed before the attainment of spiritual enlightenment. Sylvian explains the theme of the song in the new biography On the Periphery (sylvianbiography), and its link to his then guru Shree Maa’s Praise which also featured on Dead Bees. “The last track Darkest Dreaming throws in some doubt, a sense of isolation, a sense of being alone and wanting what Shree Maa has sung about, wanting that sense of unity, communion, merging with one’s consciousness if you like. This can sound so new age, but there’s no language to describe this stuff. I’m always fishing around for the right words.” The doubt was self evident in the lyric, which consisted of just two verses. Sylvian pleaded for the embrace from his spiritual or physical ally, to protect against the fracturing of the fragile edifice of the peace and tranquillity he had discovered. Stay tonight We’ll watch the full moon rising Hold on tight The sky is breaking I don’t ever want to be alone With all my darkest dreaming Hold me close The sky is breaking Darkest Dreaming, in its short span, showed Sylvian’s Tarkovsky-esque use of light and shade, which drew together the overall tone of Dead Bees on a Cake. Sylvian says: “There is this yearning for a partner in life which can be a physical partner, or partnership with god if you like. It sort of overrides every other emotion that we have. This sense of solitude is unnatural to us, but we have to go through it, live with it until we can find this place within ourselves where we are comfortable with who we are, what we are, and what we are beyond all of that. And that’s kind of what Darkest Dreaming intimates. I hope it sets up a sense of yearning. Sometimes when a piece of music finishes you feel like you’ve just climbed down from a mountain, and just had this liberating experience that incorporated both sadness, happiness, and all the conflicting emotions that we’re capable of and actually being comfortable with them all.” A few years after its release, fans may have been surprised to hear Darkest Dreaming in the score at the end of an episode of American detective series CSI! Join in the conversation with over 12,500 followers of the book at facebook/DavidSylvianBiography DARKEST DREAMING: https://youtube/watch?v=OQlm0Q8HKUE&feature=kp
Posted on: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 08:03:43 +0000
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