Camphor (album)
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| Compilation album by David Sylvian | ||||
| Released | 27 May 2002 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock, ambient | |||
| Label | Venture, Virgin | |||
| Producer | David Sylvian | |||
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| Pitchfork | 6.6/10 |
Camphor is a David Sylvian compilation album released in 2002 as a companion to Everything and Nothing. The focus is on his instrumental work. The album, nonetheless, has two previously unreleased tracks: "The Song Which Gives the Key to Perfection" and "Camphor".
"Wave" has been cut to the last segment of the original song, so that the vocal parts have been deleted, and it has been orchestrated. In "Mother and Child", the vocal parts have been replaced by the trumpet. "Upon This Earth" is shorter and re-recorded.
It was released in two versions. A standard single disc jewel case (CDVE 962) and as a limited edition 2CD digipak (CDVEX 962).
Disc one:
Exclusively about the unreleased or re-recorded tracks.
"The Healing Place" and "Answered Prayers" are both mastered improperly in two ways: they were 44,100Hz recordings that were mistakenly played back during mastering at 48,000Hz; their waveforms are inverted, though the channel assignments are correct. Upon playing they appear to be shorter (4:52.173 vs. 5:18.074 for The Healing Place and 2:45.426 vs 3:00.137 for Answered Prayers) and play as if in a different key. The recordings can be fixed by upsampling Camphor's versions to 48,000Hz then setting the resulting file's sample rate to 44,100Hz then inverting the sample data. This would result in essentially the same files as would be found on the remastered version of Gone To Earth
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