There Is No Love (2017)

"David Sylvian has long divided opinion. For every passionate supporter there are many who will decry his moves as pretentious. This 30-minute spoken word piece, a collaboration with Mark Wastell and Rhodri Davies, is unlikely to change how Sylvian is perceived, being closer to 2014's "There Is A Light..." than "Gone To Earth". The text that Sylvian carefully enunciates is by Bernard-Marie Koltes, and part of a 1985 play, "In The Solitude Of Cotton Fields", featuring a dialogue between two shadowy characters: the dealer and the client. Broadly this concerns a transaction, the nature of which is hinted at but not revealed. The name 'the dealer' suggests drugsor a pimp perhaps; maybe even a devil harvesting souls...but nothing is explained. Davies and Wastell are longstanding improvising partners having played with high profile Sylvian collaborators like Derek Bailey and Evan Parker. Their work here is atmospheric and unsettling without distracting from the text." (Phil Barnes, AllAboutJazz; 4,5 uit 5 sterren)