David Sylvian - Maria / Wasn't I Joe?

Live In Japan 2004

[@accidentalfilms]

He’s gigantically creative. No wonder he’s not hugely popular in the US. I ❤ Sylvian. ❤ the music.

[@rebeccahill5872]

I grew up in the 70s & 80s not sure how I missed Japan but I am a new fan. I would have had the biggest crush on David Sylvian what a hottie.

[@misterberko]

This is outrageously good. MR SYLVIAN!!!!!!! MORE PLEASE!!!!!!!!!

[@rosapang2386]

This is a superb track.

[@khanadaazeleia1373]

LOVE HIM!!! Been a fan since the early 80's. I've seen him twice and it's just like this, total silence as if he's captured everyone's soul. Beautiful.

[@martinr1867]

Same here. His music is part of our souls.

[@kentborges5114]

THE TOTAL GENIUS OF DAVID SYLVIAN...Priceless.

[@gerardjansen4702]

'And sometimes life is frightning And everything comes on strong So we're holding on for dear life Till something better comes along !'

[@martinr1867]

Massivest of fans here. So glad that these videos still exist and are up here. Thanks!

[@parousiathelast9464]

far too few appreciate how significant this composition and his others in this theme are. Like the few, so far ahead of where the rest are (even typing as I am in 2015 about a piece composed and performed a decade or more ago). His latest work shows he still positions his compositions in a place where most will be in future years.Sublime.

[@mattkhan5844]

I think they all deserve much more recognition than they get! Such talent.

[@DonHaka]

@@mattkhan5844 completely agree.

[@mrbungle3310]

2021 nothing has changed...true art gets less appreciated but lasts forever

[@nickpatten5263]

Absolutely. His works and talent are extremely underrated by the music industry except by longtime fans (such as myself). Beautiful poetry, musicality and performance.

[@ccavener5625]

Well put.

[@DonHaka]

This song, its so sad in the beginning and later on becomes so angry. truly fascinating piece.

[@ianhinds3480]

Jeez...... this is exceptional. How can anyone dislike this?

[@MsrAlaindeFerrier]

Ethereal spiritual experience, listening to David Sylvian and to be at one of his concerts is 100 times this

[@mattkhan5844]

Beautiful performance! Those brothers are so very talented! Wow! They have their audience in the palm of their hands... Special!

[@sunnysyl7]

❤ stunning

[@rayjennie]

Where would our souls go for rest in this life without works like this?

[@tahatpa4246]

:(

[@alexsalinas32381]

@Raymond Smith great way to explain how I showed up here tonight!

[@ЕленаД-р6э]

Девид Сильвиан бесподобен!!! Была на концерте в ЦДХ в Москве.

[@boboinparadise]

а когда это было? не могу найти информацию

[@ДымКоромыслом-ш7з]

@@boboinparadise В 2004. В 2007 он должен был приехать снова с Nine Horses, но по какой-то причине концерт сорвался. Уже не помню, по какой.

[@KarlHainer]

"In the world of audio/visual art (post Bowie)- The Greatest Living Englishman".

[@leetaylor3304]

I saw his show in Bristol UK and he played this song. First time I had ever heard it. Fantastic!

[@johanneshuiskes310]

Thank you for sharing this…

[@philipford6183]

Been a fan of his for decades now. Personally, I think he's at his best with Sakamoto. Sylvian brings the art house; Sakamoto brings the arrangements to die for.

[@TobaccoPipesJapan]

I agree.

[@alfredrutz7830]

The two of them are : The most harmonious collaboration between East & West !!!

[@CaptainOfTheLostWaves]

Classically bittersweet; such delicacy in his vocal inflections as they ripple over the surface of such a hypnotic musing

[@brufrog]

brillliant

[@tomgirldouble3249]

Adore this everything about this is perfect, sad and beautiful 👍💕😮😥

[@anadjilas6871]

I hope to get a chance to listen to him on a concert again. He is my favorite artist of all times and this is still my favorite phase of his work. Minimalistic, but meaningful❤

[@Bricameron]

I wouldn’t hold your breath on that. Let me tell you. Sylvian wasn’t that great in concert anyway apart from the Fripp concerts.

[@lix8331]

How could I live without the warm side of my hart? Thank you, Mr Sylvian

[@Fatima_3_7]

Piece of Heaven

[@stephenbrewis7426]

Yes Sylvian is something else.

[@nigelgoodwin5094]

Pure brilliance. So sad are they who do not know the truth.

[@markroberts5507]

God i wish i was at this concert...😮❤

[@terryanthony9686]

always beautiful

[@paddyocall]

Yeah........David.....be bright, be individual......be YOU!!!

[@edlinpaolone3616]

"I was strong myself when I started. Wasn't I Joe?" Gratitude.

[@lmwilliamsjr1]

Love it ❤🎉

[@TheTimbo335]

wish i'd been at this performance, the only time i like poetry is when it comes from david sylvian's mind.

[@washdog]

Not all his poetry, the opening is Adi Da Samraj

[@maggieloughran5641]

stunning performance

[@christinapeter1001]

Wonderful, wonderful, my heart

[@markweller1892]

Masterpiece!

[@DroffilcRenevac]

One of his many masterpieces. Its about time he showed his face again on a tour around his home country.

[@michaelgrimmer2597]

clifford cavener .

[@zurabdzhidzhilava7161]

how that music even passed me? amazing...

[@markweller1892]

Brilliant

[@MellorDR]

wasnt i joe probably the greatest song ever not to be on a record

[@DeadAccount97]

I really wonder why he ended up discarding the song. This along with For The Love Of Life are for me at least, some of his finest songs.

[@tomgirldouble3249]

Indeed 👍🏻luv this 💜

[@sadderthanyou7793]

@@DeadAccount97 Copyrights, dude.

[@tahatpa4246]

Masterpiece futuristic Themes

[@youremember40]

La tecnología al total servicio de la música. Parece la música de fondo de un sueño.

[@Bricameron]

Steve Jansen’s punk drumming though. Masterful.

[@marcaloud7838]

Beautiful and Hypnotic, almost like you are there.. absolute silence from the audience

[@mattkhan5844]

I so agree!

[@TobaccoPipesJapan]

Takagi Masakatsu is in charge of the videos. He's a famous composer and piano player in Japan.

[@zoltan_dudas]

Wonderful!

[@amarok5048]

Wow!

[@tomgirldouble3249]

Absolutely love this whole piece, music and effects beautiful and IMHO bloody brilliant. 👍🏻😎#luvyadavid

[@markhorobin5819]

such brilliance .

[@orangevideo]

Ascending, and magestic, like Flank Loyd Wright with Falling Waters, David bursts out with a 3rd act modern masterpiece, no doubt influencing others decades back like James Blake and so on.

[@ylyon84]

I wish there was a studio version of this, with high quality sound....

[@joannewilton5348]

there is, i used to listen to it on cassette in the late eighties

[@jackrobin3220]

+Joanne Wilton There isn't a studio version of "Wasn't I, Joe?".

[@christinapeter1001]

It gives, not so good how live... I know it ;)

[@curtis8516]

@@joannewilton5348 JOAANNE!

[@derekrogeirvalbjornsson1440]

Superb!

[@metalchix]

God, this is so good.

[@shadouk6737]

Superb stuff. Such a unique artist and I need to track down more of these archive live recordings that were never shown here in the UK.

[@stillben]

This is quite good

[@mobiuspaw494]

Atmospheric great rhythm !

[@alisonparker4799]

Gorgeous

[@stefanblue660]

This song is a movie

[@gabriel.knight]

Beckett's script reads "Wasn't I, Joe?", same connotation in his German version, as well as in the Japanese subtitles in this video. I wonder why Sylvian chose to erase the comma, which adds a new meaning to the line. Anyway, the original TV play is on KZbin, watch it if you want more context to this fabulous piece of music.

[@Healingestures]

❤

[@janboon6634]

❤️❤️❤️

[@markweller1892]

Quality

[@philiphayes7014]

Great is this available on DVD?

[@blackmore4]

Well, that was a bundle of laughs.

[@fumocamel]

pezzone pazzesco

[@dirtypearl]

Just wish WASN'T I, JOE had appeared on blemish. it would have been the standout track for sure

[@planOrama]

✨🖖😎🖖✨

[@woobiehastelly]

Does anyone know any similar songs to these and Idioteque by Radiohead? I love the concept of glitchy drums/electronic over vocals.

[@stefanopellegrini7094]

Song "Vitamin C" by CAN definitely has some Idioteque vibes. For more Sylvian music I suggest you listen to the album Blemish and Died in the Wool (this one has one of my favorite Sylvian songs: "I Should Not Dare" which is very glitchy sounding)

[@stefanopellegrini7094]

Was this ever released officialy?

[@michaelkovalenko9955]

А, прэкти с Robert Fripp?

[@paddyocall]

FFS please be happy!!

[@johnnyconnelly7278]

She really broke him up.. Maybe now he knows a little of what M K felt..only Mick lost two people.

[@gr4cezd_]

Who?

[@johnnyconnelly7278]

​​@@gr4cezd_ Sylvian was devastated when his wife Ingrid Chavez told him it was over. The suspicion was she had met someone else and the coldness of the sudden seperation and the effect it had on him is all there on 'Blemish' and also this song 'wasn't I joe'. In 1981 Mick Karns then girlfreind Yuka fujii suddenly left him and moved in with Sylvian devastating Karn and effectively ending Japan as a band. Being betrayed by a woman is bad enough, but also by your freind since childhood and band mate was considerable. Karn lost two people that day and never really got over it. Karn died in 2011 from brain cancer. He was broke having earnt nothing from Japan despite their success and his Genius as a bass player and musician. Japan as a band were a sum of their parts and Karn contributed so much to the sound and the songs of the best and most unique band of the era.

[@gr4cezd_]

@@johnnyconnelly7278 I know! I read a little of Mick Karn's book. There's a lot of things David did wrong i hope that he's now changed and learned from his errors and now doesn't work upon them

[@KACIARO]

Sapete chi sussurra il testo in italiano?

[@hughcavener6101]

DS is like Marmite you either love him or hate him

[@rebeccarosehirschfield7386]

Not quite, as I adore everything about Japan - but strongly suspect that his utterly narcissistic need to be a pretentious ambient solo artist (and a mediocre one at that) was tragically destructive to a magnificent and zeitgeist-shifting band. Remarkable how, them both being in their mid-forties, it's Steve who's now the looker - not once-sublime David. Such a waste of grand talent, all of it.

[@tomgirldouble3249]

Rebecca Rose Hirschfield gotta disagree still think David’s bloody gorgeous and a great musician and of course Steve is gorgeous too 👍🏻😂

[@alfredrutz7830]

​@@rebeccarosehirschfield7386 You suspect !!! Your suspicions are based on ..... Female intuition - from afar ???

[@codedreamer8]

Open. The. Pod. Bay. Doors. Please. Hal?

[@amdby]

Love it. Part of me wishes he would leave the instruments to others, who can do it much better. He's shy on stage and needs something to hide behind, but the guitar here just distracts him from the vocals.

[@mikeneylon1843]

Why did Sylvian go even more dark and depressing after Japan..I loved brilliant tree's but not much after that 👎

[@ccavener5625]

Poetry, he is hurting after his marriage break up.

[@Papa-Anvil]

Everything he’s done since breaking up Japan has been total crap!!!!

[@stuartwray6175]

@toolsgear2695 🥱🙄 🤡