Plight and Premonition

Track Listings

1. Plight (The Spiralling of Winter Ghosts)

2. Premonition (Giant Empty Iron Vessel)

Plight and Premonition,David Sylvian,Holger Czukay,Virgin Records,Experimental Rock,Prog-Rock/Art Rock

Tracks:

Plight (The Spiralling of Winter Ghosts)
Premonition (Giant Empty Iron Vessel)

Average customer rating:

Brilliant
Yin
other worldly - alternate reality
This one grows on you
I Predict...

Plight and Premonition
David Sylvian , and Holger Czukay
Manufacturer: Virgin Records Us
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000000WGC
Release Date: 1992-06-29

Tracks:

Plight (The Spiraling Of Winter Ghosts)
PremonItion (Giant Empty Iron Vessel)

Customer Reviews:

Brilliant.......2006-08-06

This is really the best stuff that Sylvian has done outside of Japan in my opinion. Also I am not usually that fond of Czukay's stuff but this here is simply breathtaking. Simple long peices of athmospheric mood music that are the natural extension of some of Brian Eno's more ambient work. It also improves on Eno's work to some degree (if that is possible, but it is also slightly different).

Yin.......2002-09-10

An exercise in pure atmospherics, Plight & Premonition is one of those albums that's more ambience than music. There are almost no melodies and no prominent instruments, apart from some hazy synths played in a way that suggests a minimum of human involvement. I sometimes get the impression that David and Holger could have just set up some equipment in a quiet haunted place and left for a few hours to see what it recorded. In the same way that instrumental songs create impressions without words, this album paints its pictures in sound without music. The background haze is a constantly shifting cloud; murky, dark and chilly. Random odd noises come and go: faint radio waves, icy chimes, shimmering tones that suggest barely-visible ghosts floating around the room. A quick flute or a few piano notes dart in and out from time to time, but fade as quickly as they come. The overall impression I get is that it's like part of a horror movie soundtrack, where someone's suddenly dropped into a scary place and you know something very bad is going to happen.. eventually.. but in the meantime the film is content to extend the suspense and thoroughly creep you out. Hitchcock probably would have been more than happy to use this album as a score.

If this seems like a staggeringly dull 34 minutes of sound to listen to all on its own, well.. it probably is. It's meant to create a subdued background, not to grab all of your attention. I use it to create an atmosphere for sitting down with the right kind of book, a time-out from normal music or a quiet nest of sound for when I go to sleep. If chilly winter ambience isn't your first preference, you'd be better served to look into Sylvian & Czukay's followup, Flux & Mutability.

other worldly - alternate reality.......2002-05-06

This CD and the accompanying "Flux and Mutability" are excellent backdrops for your imaginings. Like a painting that one sits and contemplates, after a period of time, the viewer or in this case the listener of this music will find him or herself in the midsts of the work. Some may find this haunting, to others releasing, to still others it creates a space that is simply not the day to day. Buy these, and Harold Budd's "the Pearl" and the "White Arcades," sit back, close your eyes, relax and drop into another reality.

This one grows on you.......2000-11-11

Two beautiful sonic landscapes from a productive period in David Sylvian's fascinating career. Music that needs time and space, but rewards repeated listenings, this confirms Sylvian as a major contributor to ambient and electronic music. Listen to this in conjunction with 'Secrets of the Beehive', and 'Flux and Mutability', the latter another compelling ambient project.

I Predict..........2000-04-18

If there is any music that Eno would have loved to have been in on, it would be this CD. "Spiralling..." is spellbinding and I don't think Sylvian has done anything as gorgeous since. I've listened to it so much. I can smell the creaky house, I can see the brilliant flash of the ghost as it swishes past my eye; its sound signature is startingly ingenious. "Giant Vessel" is wonderful as well. Here Czukay has added his trademark radios, etc. Very interesting listen