"After 22 years on the Virgin label, as a member of Japan and as a solo artist, David Sylvian has finally called time on his association with the company that has been his home for nearly his entire recording career. Acting as a companion piece to the last year’s retrospective 'Everything and Nothing', 'Camphor', a collection of mainly instrumental tracks culled from the last 18 years of his career, is the full stop on a career that has straddled the boundaries between chart success and challenging experimental music like few other of his contemporaries. (...) Camphor features contributions from luminaries such as Robert Fripp, Bill Nelson and Holger Czukay, and tracks written with his former Japan cohorts such as Rain Tree Crow. (...) It’s not all perfect however. There's pomposity occasionally lurking near the surface, represented by the song titles, The Song Which Gives The Key to Perfection. And he occasionally breaks into worrying bursts of guitar virtuosity - wailing solos that distract from the atmosphere. One can only imagine the pained grimaces on the face of the guitarist in the studio as each extended note is over-emoted. But thankfully these disturbing lapses are few and far between, and certainly not enough to distract from the album as a whole."-- John Power, musicOMH.com

Notes: Compilation compiled & produced by David Sylvian
Musicians:
1. Scooter Warner: Drums; Chris Minh Koky: Double Bass; Talvin Singh: Tabla, Percussion; Marc Ribot: Guitars; Ryuichi Sakamoto: Rhodes; David Sylvian: Keyboards, Guitar, Samples
2. Steve Jansen: Ceramic Drums, Percussion; Michael Brook: Bass Conga; Mick Karn: Bass Guitar, Tabla; Richard Barbieri: Synthesizers; David Sylvian: Slide Guitar, Synthesizers, Indian Drum; Phil Palmer: Acustic Guitar; Brian Gascoigne: Orchestration
3. Bill Nelson: Acoustic Guitar; David Sylvian: Guitar, Voice
4. Shree Maa: tamboura; David Sylvian: Vocal, Rhodes, Guitar, Bass
5. Steve Jansen: Moroccan Clay Drums, Fan Drums, Percussion; Mick Karn: Bass Clarinet; Richard Barbieri: Synthesizers; David Sylvian: Guitars, Bass
6. Shree Maa: Vocal; David Sylvian: Guitars
7. Steve Jansen: Drums; Robert Fripp: Guitar; Simon Jeffes: Original Orchestration; David Sylvian: Hammond Organ, Synthesizers, Bass
8. Remix by Jan Bang & Erik Honore; Danny Cummings: Percussion; Danny Thompson: Double Bass; Ryuichi Sakamoto: Piano, Hammond Organ; David Torn: Acoustic Guitar; Nils Petter Molvaer: Trumpet, Treatments
9. Holger Czukay: Shortwave Radio, Organ, Piano, Orchestra, Treatments; David Sylvian: Harmonium, Guitar, Synthesizers
10. Robert Fripp: Guitar; David Sylvian: Guitars, Synthesizers
11. Steve Jansen: Drums, Percussion, Hammond Organ; Mick Karn: Pulse Bass, Wah Wah Bass, Bass; Richard Barbieri: Synthesizers; Bill Nelson: Guitar; David Sylvian: Hammond Organ, Guitars, Shortwave Radio, Electric Piano, Vocals
12. Bill Nelson: Solo Guitar; David Sylvian: Guitars, Synthesizers
13. David Sylvian: All Instruments
14. Jahn Taylor: Piano; David Sylvian: Synthesizers, Guitars

Tracklisting:
01.All of My Mother's Names [6:06]
02.Red Earth (as summertime ends) [3:34]
03.Answered Prayers [2:45]
04.The Song Which Gives the Key to Perfection [5:52]
05.New Moon at Red Deer Wallow [5:14]
06.Praise (Pratah Smarami) [3:55]
07.Wave (version) [3:58]
08.Mother and Child [4:03]
09.Plight (the spiralling of winter ghosts) - detail [2:30]
10.Upon This Earth [4:14]
11.Big Wheels in Shanty Town [6:56]
12.The Healing Place [4:52]
13.Camphor [3:10]
14.A Brief Conversation Ending in Divorce [3:27]