Throughout his career, David Sylvian has steadily ventured from his pop origins (Japan) into riskier strains of music. Following his adventures into modern electronic and improvised music on Blemish and Manafon, Sylvian offers remarkable new work with the celebrated contemporary composer Dai Fujikura. Died in the Wool features the fruits of this collaboration, 6 new pieces alongside material derived from and inspired by the Manafon sessions. Old and new friends, including Christian Fennesz, producers Jan Bang and Erik Honore and a stellar roster of musicians and improvisers. Ballads, ambient improvisations, groundbreaking and extreme works come together in an important new collection, featuring for the first time, two Sylvian adaptations of Emily Dickinson poems - the most conventionally beautiful pieces on the record. There is a complete bonus disc with just one long piece. It surely begs a listen with a title like "When We Return You Won't Recognise Us"...! It is actually the audio from a Sylvian art installation commissioned for the Biennial of Canary Islands 2008-2009 and inspired by a genetics research article on the Islands. The work sees star improvisers - John Butcher, Arve Henriksen, Gunter Muller, Toshimaru Nakamura, Eddie Prevost - paired with a string sextet directed by Fujikura.