Everything and Nothing

Infobox Album
Name = Everything and Nothing
Type = compilation
Artist = David Sylvian


Released = October 2000
Recorded =
Genre = Alternative rock, Jazz
Length =
Label = Virgin Records
Producer = David Sylvian, Steve Nye
Reviews = Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gifwxqe0ld6e]
Last album = Approaching Silence (1999)
This album = "Everything and Nothing" (2000)
Next album = Camphor (album) (2001)

"Everything and Nothing" is a compilation album by British singer David Sylvian. Released in October 2000, the album touches on music from Sylvian's twenty years with Virgin Records.

In addition to old favourites from Sylvian's solo career and earlier with the group Japan ("Ghosts", "Orpheus" and "Let the Happiness In"), the album also includes previously unreleased material ("Some Kind Of Fool", "The Scent of Magnolia", "Ride" and "Cover Me With Flowers" among others) along with collaborations ("Bamboo Houses" and "Heartbeat" with Ryuichi Sakamoto and "Buoy" with Mick Karn). The songs "Come Morning" and "Golden Way" were taken from the 1995 album "Marco Polo" by the World music duo Nicola Alesini & Pier Luigi Andreoni, on which Sylvian provided vocals for three of the songs.

Several tracks on the album were recorded during the making of Sylvian's 1999 album "Dead Bees on a Cake" but did not make the final cut on the album.

In terms of sales the album was not overly successful, but received a positive response from the music critics of the era.

Track listing

"All tracks composed by David Sylvian unless otherwise noted"

Disc one
#"Scent of Magnolia" (Allen, Morton) - 5:36
#* from "Dead Bees on a Cake" sessions, completed 2000
#"Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II)" (remix) (Sakamoto) - 5:17
#* originally from "Heartbeat" by Ryuichi Sakamoto, 1992
#"Blackwater" - 4:22
#* from "Rain Tree Crow" by Rain Tree Crow, 1991
#"Albuquerque (Dobro #6)" (Frisell) - 1:21
#* from "Dead Bees on a Cake" sessions, completed 2000
#"Ride" - 8:00
#* from "Secrets of the Beehive" sessions, completed 2000
#"Golden Way" (remix) - 6:01
#* originally from "Marco Polo" by Nicola Alesini and Pier Luigi Andreoni, 1992
#"Ghosts" (remix) - 3:47
#* originally from "Tin Drum" by Japan, 1981
#"Pop Song" - 4:34
#* single a-side, 1989
#"Every Colour You Are" - 4:46
#* from "Rain Tree Crow"
#"Wanderlust" (Lynch) - 6:47
#* from "Dead Bees on a Cake"
#"God's Monkey" (Bottrill, Fripp, Gunn, Sylvian) - 5:02
#* from "The First Day" by David Sylvian and Robert Fripp, 1993
#"Let the Happiness In" (Cummings) - 5:35
#* from "Secrets of the Beehive"
#"I Surrender" - 9:28
#* from "Dead Bees on a Cake"
#"Thoroughly Lost to Logic" - 1:17
#* recorded 1991/2000

Disc two
#"Jean the Birdman" (Marotta) - 4:12
#* from "The First Day"
#"Cover Me with Flowers" - 6:33
#* from "Dead Bees on a Cake" sessions, completed 2000
#"Boy With the Gun" (Cummings) - 5:14
#* from "Secrets of the Beehive"
#"Riverman" - 4:57
#* from "Gone to Earth"
#"Aparna and Nimisha (Dobro # 5)" (Frisell) - 0:56
#* from "Dead Bees on a Cake" sessions, completed 2000
#"Midnight Sun" (Ribot) - 4:02
#* from "Dead Bees on a Cake"
#"Orpheus" - 4:48
#* from "Secrets of the Beehive"
#"Some Kind of Fool" - 7:31
#* from "Gentlemen Take Polaroids" sessions by Japan, completed 2000
#"Cries and Whispers" - 2:33
#* from "Rain Tree Crow"
#"Godman" (Sylvian, Warner) - 3:58
#* from "Dead Bees on a Cake"
#"Laughter and Forgetting" (Taylore) - 2:33
#* from "Gone to Earth"
#"Buoy" - 5:16
#* from "Dreams of Reason Produce Monsters" by Mick Karn, 1986
#"Weathered Wall" (remix) - 5:43
#* originally from "Brilliant Trees", 1984
#"Bamboo Houses" (remix) (Sakamoto, Sylvian) - 5:21
#* single a-side by Sylvian & Sakamoto, 1982
#"Come Morning" (remix) (Clarinettino) - 3:56
#* originally from "Marco Polo"

A limited edition UK pressing also included a third disc containing the following tracks:

#"The Scent Of Magnolia" (Edit)
#"The Blinding Light Of Heaven"
#"The Scent Of Magnolia" (Portobello Mix)
#"Brilliant Trees" (Version 2000)