There's a Light That Enters Houses with No Other House in Sight

There's a Light That Enters Houses with No Other House in Sight
Studio album by David Sylvian
Released	24 November 2014
Genre	Experimental, spoken word
Length	1:04:22
Label	Samadhi Sound
Producer	David Sylvian
David Sylvian chronology
A Victim of Stars 1982–2012 (2012) There's a Light That Enters Houses with No Other House in Sight (2014)

There's a Light That Enters Houses with No Other House in Sight is the eighth studio album by David Sylvian, consisting of a single hour-length composition. It features spoken word by Pulitzer Prize winning poet Franz Wright (who died under a year after the release of the album), as well as contributions from electronic multi-instrumentalist Fennesz and pianist John Tilbury. The album was produced by Sylvian, and was released on his Samadhisound label in November 2014.

Track listing

All tracks are written by David Sylvian, with prose poems from Kindertotenwald by Franz Wright

No.	Title	Length
1.	"There's a Light That Enters Houses with No Other House in Sight"	64:22
Total length:		64:22

Personnel

Source:

Musicians

• David Sylvian – piano, sampler, computer, electronics, laptop
• Christian Fennesz – guitar, laptop
• John Tilbury – piano
• Franz Wright – spoken word

Production

• Chris Bigg – design
• Tony Cousins – mastering
• Nicholas Hughes – cover photography
• Alfred A. Knopf – recording arrangement
• David La Spina – photography
• David Sylvian – art direction, engineering, production

Reception

The album was listed among the best records of 2014 by Bruno Letort of France Musique. A review at The Free Jazz Collective noted that the album marked a new step in Sylvian's exploration of the spoken word.

A review at Tiny Mix Tapes called the music "an ultra-slow jazz" while Steve Smith in the Boston Globe wrote that it "murmur[ed] in edgy assent". Joe Muggs of the Arts Desk found, "It smells of coal and leather, it looks at you through heavy-lidded eyes, it drifts into companionable reveries, before doing scary things to make sure you're still listening." A review by Phil Barnes at AllAboutJazz concluded, "Let's be clear, many are not going to be able to cope with a record with this much ambition, love of language and filmic improvisation. Reviews have been sharply divided between the ecstatic and the hatchet job -but for those prepared to listen this is an intriguing, emotionally unsettling, piece that will challenge, defying categorisation and analysis for many years to come."