Thank you, Mark 🙏🏻

Thanks so much 🙏🏻

@@hans-christianmalecha4188 demasiado icónica e perfeita. (Para já) só vou trabalhar neste álbum (“Manafon”) e quem sabe depois no “Blemish”. 🙏🏻

Thanks for you words, José. Really appreciate them. I’m ok with people not liking these works. I cannot please everyone, but then, there are some over-purists (let’s call them like that) which see themselves as an authority over everything that is not “official”. I can relate to a certain extent, but I won’t go down the road of telling then not to. I simply ignore. Each of these recompositions takes a serious amount of time and dedication from me to fine tune them. I don’t just simply throw a vocal stem over an instrumental piece that I write and perform; I write the music around DS voice and then have to work word metrics in order to transform an experimental non-structured song into its complete paradox, always respectful to the artist and the source material, even when I don’t get a penny from it. I don’t do this for commercial reasons. I just feel they’re good and respectful enough to be shared. 🙏🏻🖤

Thank YOU, Jan 🙏🏻

Thank you so much 🙏🏻

Thank you 🙏🏻

Thanks so much for your words, Steve 🙏🏻

Thanks so much for your words 🙏🏻

Thank you so much, Marco! 🙏🏻

I thank you 🙏🏻

Thank you so much 🙏

Thank you so much, Mark. I will (on due time) 🙏🏻

Thanks so much for your words, Steven. When I composed and presented this live, Sakamoto was still alive in the flesh. He’ll always remain alive in our hearts and minds 🙏🏻

@@IggyGoesPop666 as far as I’m concerned, Spotify can burn to the ground

@@alexfxpt 🤣🤣🤣Amen brother

@@arkadymarto9440 thank you so much

Thank you so much! 🙏🏻

Thanks so much, Rob. 🙏🏻 A lot of hard (dedicated) work, mainly using frequency separation.

@@tonydunne8424 Thank you so much, Tony 🙏🏻

Muito obrigado 🙏🏻

@@markweller1892 Thanks so much 🙏🏻

Thank you, Mark 🙏

Thanks. You can check the EP featuring the music from this performance at my Bandcamp page. Your support is much appreciated. alexfx.bandcamp.com/album/hell-is-empty-and-all-the-devils-are-here-ep-bandcamp-edition

You mean how many I did so far?

Thank you so much. 🙏🏻

Thank you, Ivan 🙏🏻

@@mico5678 Thank you 🙏🏻

@@ZJProz well, since I wrote this new arrangement after the original composition (even when the original is an open structure experimental piece), we can consider it as a recomposing procedure, since I had to figure out the basic notes consonant with David vocal takes and build around it. I don’t take the easy road of dropping a vocal part over an instrumental track and call it a remix or whatever. I work really hard on each of the (4 until now) recompositions I did for him. I don’t get any profit from this. I do it out of much love and respect for his work and as a humble homage to him in life.

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@@garethde-witt6433 Dear Gareth, thanks for your message. In terms of copyright, the music is mine and I’m not charging or receiving any penny from it, as I’m not selling nor profiting from it. All credits are presented as being originally from David and Universal Music. I know my rights just as well as the artist’s. Just as much as you are entitled not to appreciate them. You just don’t have the right to tell me to do otherwise. You have the simple option of not listening and not liking it and I’ll be fine with that. Kind regards. Alex

@@garethde-witt6433 more so, the fact that Universal allows the reworks to be online (yes, they know about it) proves that for each view they (and David) get their share.

Thanks a lot 🙏🏻

Very much so. Thanks so much for your words. I do find all the beauty on the original versions but recomposing them does open new perspectives, despite the immense hard work on doing them. I hope I can finish doing all of the Manafon tracks (4 so far), but it’s a mammoth task I want to complete while we still have him alive. 🙏🏻

@@mico5678 thank you so much 🙏🏻

@@alexfxpt I’m truly speechless... I wish you could rearrange Sylvian’s entire discography 😊

@@mico5678 I thank you for the encouragement but his body of work is beyond outstanding. Rearranging from original open structure compositions such as the ones on Manafon is a mammoth task I took upon myself. At the moment, 4 are already done. More to come (on their due time).

@@alexfxpt can’t wait to hear them... thank you

Wow, thank you! Muito obrigado, José!! 🙏🏻

Thanks so much! 🙏🏻

Thank you so much! 🙏🏻

Thank you so much! 🙏

Thank you so much for your words, Peter! Yes, I've already done 4 versions/recompositions (you can find the other 3 on this channel). I'll be trying my best to do all of the "Manafon" album.

Thank you! :)

@@YuriPronin-tb9qx Thank you very much, Yuri 🙏🏻

@@tommasodamore9969 Thanks so much for your kind words 🙏🏻

Thank you for your words. Re process: I don’t trust in AI to fully accomplish that sort of task, because it simply processes without understanding - pure mathematics - so I do it via frequency separation - a lot harder but much more rewarding in terms of the final product. There’s also the fact that the original material consists of voice and assorted noises and some occasional (tonal) instruments. I divide the original song in verses and place them alongside my music, first to work the voice timings/metrics of it and only after I go to work on the parts that need more absence of the original recorded noises. There are times I use the original noises on the recomposed versions. It’s hard work, trust me, but I do it gladly.

Thank you so much 🙏🏻

Thank you 🙏🏻

Thanks again for your words. Random footage edited by me. The music was composed and played by myself. Not sure if Sylvian knows about it but I seriously doubt he’s not aware of ;)

Thanks for your words. Random footage from NY and Tokyo (I presume). I edited the video.

I played the instruments live. Sylvian’s voice was pre-recorded