David Sylvian, Stockholm, Sept 07

.. A fantastic first night on David Sylvian's The World is Everything Tour. Stockholm setlist: Wonderful World It'll Never Happen Again World Citizen The Day the Earth Stole Heaven Ride Playground Martyrs/Transit Fire in the Forest/Ghosts Snow Borne Sorrow Mother & Child Waterfront Atom & Cell Sugar Fuel Brilliant Trees/Fight the Bullfight/Nostalgia/Fight the Bullfight The Librarian (encore 1) Every Colour You Are/River Man (encore 2) Wanderlust .. .. The concert was great. David and the band were in relaxed form, even if David said they had first night nerves. The audience was very loving and appreciative, and David smiled at the warm reception they received. (Songs divided by a slash denote segues from one song INTO the next without pause). Keith Lowe wore a cool leather kilt, and David's brother Steve continues to amaze on the drums. His playing was fantastic, at times subtle and dynamic, at other times forceful, always sympathethic to the material. David sounded in fine form, sittting on a stool the entire night, a la his friend Robert Fripp. Pianist Takuma Watanabe played with Sakamoto-esque grace. The tour program is a full size (A4ish) book of David's photographs and includes an 11 song sampler from his record label, Samadhisound. Featured amond the tracks are 3 unreleased Sylvian tracks, and a track from brother Steve's soon-to-be released solo cd. (Playground Martyrs from the show is also a Jansen track). Other tracks feature Harold Budd, Akira Rabelais, David Toop, Nine Horses, and Thomas Feiner and Anywhen (who also feature on Steve's cd). David Sylvian's opening track on the cd is a beautiful slice of Blemish-ish electronica called "The World is Everything" and clocks in at a mere 1.45. Track 5 is called "Sleepwalkers" and is 5+ minutes long and also reminescent of Blemish/Christian Fennesz. Sylvian's final unreleased contribution is a track credited as Masakatu Takagi featuring David, and is a more mellow guitar ballad.