28 DAVID SYLVIAN & HOLGER CZUKAY Plight & Premonition/Flux & Mutability gROENLAND

2018 was a good year for David Sylvian. His 1999 solo album, Dead Bees On A Cake,

finally made its vinyl debut, while there were also halfspeed vinyl remasters for Japan’s

Gentlemen Take Polaroids and Tin Drum. Key, though, were these reissues of his two collaborative albums with Can’s Holger Czukay, from 1988 and ’89, that made use of found sounds to generate austere but beautiful ambient soundscapes.

Bowie in his ‘difficult superstar’ period