Everything and Nothing


Everything and Nothing is a compilation album by David Sylvian. Released in October 2000, the album contains previously released and unreleased, re-recorded, and alternate versions of tracks from Sylvian's twenty years with Virgin Records. The record peaked at no.57 in the UK albums chart.

Release formats

It was released in two versions, a standard 2CD jewel case and as a limited edition 3CD digipak.

Background

In addition to tracks from Sylvian's solo career and earlier with the group Japan, the album also includes previously unreleased material along with collaborations. The songs "Come Morning" and "Golden Way" were taken from the 1995 album Marco Polo by the World music duo Nicola Alesini & Pier Luigi Andreoni, on which Sylvian provided vocals for three of the songs.
"Thoroughly Lost to Logic", a piece written 1991, contained Sylvian reading a poem, which appeared on Ryuichi Sakamoto's composition "Salvation" from his work "Discord" released in 1998. This version was completed in 2000.
Four tracks on the album were recorded during the making of Sylvian's 1999 album Dead Bees on a Cake but did not make the final cut on the album. The compilation additionally derives its title from a line in the Dead Bees on a Cake song "Thalheim".

Personnel

This is a list of guest musicians exclusively about the unreleased tracks. For the other tracks, see respective albums.