Sylvian appears on New Twinkle3 album
David Sylvian reads poetry, contributes field recordings and designed the artwork for the new album by Twinkle3.
On Upon This Fleeting Dream Clive Bell’s Twinkle3 embraces medieval and 16th century Japanese poems and haiku about death and saying farewell. Twinkle3, consisting of Dave Ross and Richard Scott besides Clive Bell, expand their sonic borders to unknown territory: bringing these pithy epigrams to a new Fourth World where electro-acoustic sounds glitches into an hypnagogic, if not unconscious level of fragile beauty.
The distinctive voice of David Sylvian, who reads the English version of the poems and created field recordings and the artwork for this album, blends in the most organic way with the shakuhachi, Thai reed flutes and mouth organs played by Clive Bell.
The narrative voices of David Sylvian and Kazuko Hohki’s (Frank Chickens, Kahondo Style…) velvet timbre are the cornerstones of this compelling journey while the tangling and abstract rhythms transcending from Dave Ross’ modular synths and Richard Scott’s sampler and analogue electronics, unravel and unfold a mesmerizing universe with unknown dimensions and frequencies of a fleeting dream.
Listen to the fragments below, Sylvian can be heard on ‘Throughout the Frosty Night’ and ‘Empty Handed’.
TRACKLIST:
A1. Twinkle3 feat. David Sylvian & Kazuko Hohki – Upon This Fleeting Dream
A2. Twinkle3 feat. David Sylvian & Kazuko Hohki – I Borrow Moonlight
A3. Twinkle3 feat. David Sylvian & Kazuko Hohki – Throughout The Frosty Night
A4. Twinkle3 feat. David Sylvian & Kazuko Hohki – My Coming, My Going
A5. Twinkle3 feat. David Sylvian & Kazuko Hohki – If I leave No Trace
B1. Twinkle3 feat. David Sylvian & Kazuko Hohki – The Cicada’s Song
B2. Twinkle3 feat. David Sylvian & Kazuko Hohki – Kaite Mitari
B3. Twinkle3 feat. David Sylvian & Kazuko Hohki – Cherry Blossoms Fall
B4. Twinkle3 feat. David Sylvian & Kazuko Hohki – A Poppy Blooms
B5. Twinkle3 feat. David Sylvian & Kazuko Hohki – Empty Handed
Cortizona will release Upon This Fleeting Dream on October 28, 2022