The First Day

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Customer reviews

review by: BassPlayerFromRazorCuts date: 2007-11-04 rating:
Great stuff!
Love this cd! play it loud you'll love it too. br /Jean the birdman - great guitar work! br /

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review by: kevin21549 date: 2006-10-29 rating:
Excellent!!
This is absolutley wonderful stuff. Much much more than the sum of it's parts. Darshan is hypnotically beautiful and although it is quite long I would be happy for it to go on much longer. Brightness falls is a classic. br /Fripp wanted Sylvian to be part of a re-envisaged King Crimson but the latter was not keen to step into those shoes so this became and improvisation based band with fantastic results.

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review by: alvaro_rf date: 2003-10-10 rating:
Not my favourite
When I got this CD I was very disappointed, I couldn't get to like it even though I'm a fan of King crimnson/Fripp and Sylvian.brThe performances are very mechanic and passionless.brGet the live version instead called Damage.


review by: date: 2001-06-17 rating:
Raw synchopated Frippery but no hook from Sylvian
We can only guess what was going through David Sylvian's mind when putting The First Day together in 1993. Probably something along the lines of 'it seemed like a good idea at the time'. After all, Brilliant Trees had been innovative and compelling; Songs from the Beehive was a tear-jerking collection of wickedly incisive poems set to folksy melodies; and Gone To Earth was simply a masterpiece of mind-bending songs and beautiful instrumentals. This time round, it's as if Sylvian thought he'd get back together with Robert Fripp 'for another go' but with a harder edge. The result is some great Fripp fretwork but lacklustre songs from Sylvian that often border on the boring. All credit to Fripp, the reason Gone To Earth had been so good was because so many other musicians had contributed, including the likes of Bill Nelson. Strip them all away, and you have a raunchy but ugly mess of experimentation as Sylvian tries to warble and rattle percussion instruments along to Fripp's evil but aimless riffing.

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