Damage is a live recording of a 1993 tour by David Sylvian

David Sylvian

David Sylvian is an English singer-songwriter and musician who came to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead vocalist and main songwriter in the group Japan...

 and Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp is an English guitarist, composer and record producer. He was ranked 42nd on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and #47 on Gibson.com’s "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time". Among rock guitarists, Fripp is a master of crosspicking, a technique...

. It is taken from the final show of the tour.

This album, originally mixed by Fripp, was first released in 1994 as a limited edition box set: a 24-carat gold CD and 32-page colour booklet in a jewel box inside a cardboard slipcase. It was remixed by David Sylvian and re-released in standard jewel case packaging with different artwork (see article illustration) in 2001.

For several years this was the only place one could find the song "Blinding Light of Heaven." Since then the studio version has been released, on the limited edition third disc of Sylvian's compilation Everything and Nothing

Everything and Nothing

Everything and Nothing is a compilation album by David Sylvian. Released in October 2000, the album touches on music from Sylvian's twenty years with Virgin Records.It was released in two versions...

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Track listing

1994 release

1. "Damage" (Fripp, Gunn, Sylvian) – 4:31
2. "God's Monkey" (Bottrill
   David Bottrill
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   , Fripp, Gunn, Sylvian) – 6:42
3. "Brightness Falls" (Fripp, Gunn, Sylvian) – 6:29
4. "Every Colour You Are" (Barbieri
   Richard Barbieri
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   , Jansen
   Steve Jansen
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   , Karn
   Mick Karn
   Andonis Michaelides , better known as Mick Karn, was an English multi-instrumentalist musician and songwriter, who came to fame as the bassist for the art rock band Japan, from 1974 to 1982....
   
   , Sylvian) – 5:40
5. "Firepower" (Fripp, Gunn, Sylvian) – 7:02
6. "Gone to Earth" (Fripp, Sylvian) – 2:28
7. "20th Century Dreaming (A Shaman's Song)" (Fripp, Gunn, Sylvian) – 8:03
8. "Wave" (Sylvian) – 6:11
9. "River Man" (Sylvian) – 5:01
10. "Darshan (The Road to Graceland)" (Bottrill, Fripp, Gunn, Sylvian) – 10:47
11. "Blinding Light of Heaven" (Fripp, Gunn, Sylvian) – 4:15
12. "The First Day" (Fripp, Gunn, Sylvian) – 4:44

2001 re-release

1. "God's Monkey" (Sylvian, Fripp, Gunn, Botrill) – 6:39
2. "Brightness Falls" (Sylvian, Fripp, Gunn)– 6:29
3. "Every Colour You Are" (Sylvian, Karn, Jensen, Barbieri) – 5:44
4. "Jean the Birdman" (Sylvian, Fripp, Gunn) – 4:03
5. "Firepower" (Sylvian, Fripp, Gunn) – 7:09
6. "Damage" (Sylvian, Fripp, Gunn) – 4:26
7. "Gone To Earth" (Sylvian, Fripp) – 2:29
8. "Twentieth Century Dreaming (A Shaman's Song)" (Sylvian, Fripp, Gunn) – 7:54
9. "Wave" (Sylvian) – 6:17
10. "River Man" (Sylvian) – 4:58
11. "Blinding Light of Heaven" (Sylvian, Fripp, Gunn) – 4:36
12. "The First Day" (Sylvian, Fripp, Gunn) – 5:22

Personnel

• David Sylvian – vocals
  Singing
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  , guitar
  Guitar
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  , keyboard instruments, tapes, art director
• Robert Fripp – guitar, frippertronics
• Trey Gunn
  Trey Gunn
  Trey Gunn is an American musician, known for his membership in progressive rock band King Crimson from 1994 to 2003, playing Warr Guitar and Chapman Stick.-Biography:...
  
   – chapman stick
  Chapman Stick
  The Chapman Stick is an electric musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman in the early 1970s. A member of the guitar family, the Chapman Stick usually has ten or twelve individually tuned strings and has been used on music recordings to play bass lines, melody lines, chords or textures...
  
  , vocals
• Michael Brook
  Michael Brook
  Michael Brook is a Canadian guitarist, inventor, producer, and film music composer. He plays in many genres, including rock, electronica, world music, minimalism and film scores....
  
   – infinite guitar
  Infinite Guitar
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• Pat Mastelotto
  Pat Mastelotto
  Pat Mastelotto is a rock drummer who has worked with Mr. Mister and King Crimson, amongst others. For King Crimson he initially formed part of the "double trio" lineup, joining Bill Bruford on drums...
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
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Additional personnel

• Yuka Fuji - art director, visual projects co-ordinator
• Russell Mills
  Russell Mills
  Russell Mills is a British artist who was born in Ripon, Yorkshire, UK in 1952. He paints, creates multimedia installations, designs stage sets and lighting and has produced record covers and book covers for Brian Eno, the Cocteau Twins,Michael Nyman, David Sylvian, Peter Gabriel, and Nine Inch...
  
  - design
• Masataka Nakano - artwork
• Kevin Westenburg - photography (live)
• Michael Webster - design assistance
• Shinro Ohtake - artwork (details)
• David Singleton - digital editing], assistant producer
• David Kent - sound engineer
• David Bottrill - mixing
• Haruki Kaito - light and stage design
• Tim Hook - tour manager
• Phil Wiffen - light operator
• Steve Flewin - monitor engineer
• Dave Newton - stage manager, keyboard/guitar technician
• John Sinks - guitar technician
• Clint Lockyer - stick/drum technician
• Stuart White - keyboard and recording technician
• Alan Pollard - keyboard and recording technician (U.K. and Europe)

External links

• David Sylvian's discography - albums