Plight & Premonition

David Sylvian, Holger Czukay | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 29, 1992)
• Original Release Date: May 10, 1988
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Virgin Records Us
• ASIN: B000000WGC
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #35,829 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Plight (The Spiraling Of Winter Ghosts)

2. PremonItion (Giant Empty Iron Vessel)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant landscape of sounds, December 11, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Plight & Premonition (Audio CD)

No melodies, no real starting point nor end. Simply a collection of sounds which should hardly work, but incredibly enough does. Pure magic must have happened in the studio when these two men began working together. People who own Sylvian's Secrets of the Beehive may want to add this one to their collection. Putting it into the cd-changer after Secrets give a "warm" winter atmosphere.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing collaborative work, part 1, April 4, 2000

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DAC Crowell - See all my reviews

This review is from: Plight & Premonition (Audio CD)

Holger Czukay and David Sylvian are both astounding, singular musical individuals. And both very idiosyncratic. So this could've either been a total mess, or the disc of bliss that it in fact turned out to be. Here, the duo craft something that's not so much a musical composition as it is a work of pure soundscaping, pure ambience that contains little flecks and fragments of other sonic encounters, like glimpsing little details in the landscape as you speed along in a perpetual twilight. Dark, lush, droning, and chasm-deep, these two works work perfectly both as ambient background as well as something for deep, intense listening...where the deeper you listen, the more little details seem to become apparent. Should be purchased in tandem with its bookend work, "Flux and Mutability".

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars other worldly - alternate reality, May 5, 2002

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Rex Dillon "Contrarian" (Las Vegas, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Plight & Premonition (Audio CD)

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.