Approaching Silence
Compilation album by David Sylvian
Released	5 October 1999
Recorded	Tracks 1, 2: September 1990, Memphis Studios, engineered at Autonomy, London – Metropolis Studios, London –Track 3: 1994, Atma Sound,Minneapolis, mixed at Synergy Studios,Napa, 1999
Genre	Ambient
Length	73:45
Label	Virgin
Producer	David Sylvian
David Sylvian chronology
Dead Bees on a Cake (1999) Approaching Silence (1999) Everything and Nothing (2000)

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AllMusic	[1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[2]

Approaching Silence is acompilation album ofambient music byDavid Sylvian (along with Frank Perry andRobert Fripp)^[3] collecting the tracks from the 1991 limited releaseEmber Glance: The Permanence of Memory installation soundtrack CD as well as the soundtrack cassette from the installation "Redemption" (with Robert Fripp), whose exhibition ran from 30 August 1994 to 18 September, at the P3 Gallery inTokyo.^[4]

Approaching Silence was released on 5 October 1999 onVirgin Records (CDVE 943).

1. "The Beekeeper's Apprentice" (Perry, Sylvian) – 32:56
2. "Epiphany" (Sylvian) – 2:32
3. "Approaching Silence" (Sylvian) – 38:17

• Robert Fripp – effects (3)
• David Sylvian – art director, engineer (1, 2), instruments, sound, lights (exhibition), installation concept and creation
• Frank Perry – Noan bells, bowed Gong, Finger bells

Technical

• Yuka Fujii – art director
• Shinya Fujiwara – photography (front cover)
• Anton Corbijn – photography (back cover)
• Ari Marcopoulos – photography
• Vaughan Oliver – art design
• Chriss Bigg – design
• Martin Andersen – design
• Dave Kent – engineer (3)
• Noel Harris – engineer (1, 2)

• Approaching Silence atDiscogs (list of releases)

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