Approaching Silence is a compilation album

Compilation album

A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

 of ambient music by David Sylvian

David Sylvian

David Sylvian is an English singer-songwriter and musician who came to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead vocalist and main songwriter in the group Japan...

 (along with Frank Perry and Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp is an English guitarist, composer and record producer. He was ranked 42nd on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and #47 on Gibson.com’s "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time". Among rock guitarists, Fripp is a master of crosspicking, a technique...

) collecting the tracks from the 1991 limited release Ember Glance: The Permanence of Memory

Ember Glance: The Permanence of Memory

Ember Glance: The Permanence of Memory is effectively the soundtrack of a collaboration between David Sylvian and Russell Mills.The pieces were written to accompany an installation of sculpture and experimental exhibitions, conceived and produced by national and international artists at the...

installation soundtrack CD as well as the soundtrack cassette from the installation "Redemption" (with Robert Fripp), staged in August 1994 at the P3 Gallery in Tokyo

Tokyo

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.

It was released on October 5, 1999 on Virgin Records

Virgin Records

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 (CDVE 943).

Track listing

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

Personnel

• Robert Fripp
  Robert Fripp
  Robert Fripp is an English guitarist, composer and record producer. He was ranked 42nd on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and #47 on Gibson.com’s "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time". Among rock guitarists, Fripp is a master of crosspicking, a technique...
  
   - effects (3)
• David Sylvian
  David Sylvian
  David Sylvian is an English singer-songwriter and musician who came to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead vocalist and main songwriter in the group Japan...
  
   - art director, engineer (1, 2), instruments, sound, lights (exhibition), installation concept and creation
• Frank Perry - Noan bells, bowed Gong, Finger bells
• Yuka Fujii - art director
• Shinya Fujiwara - photography (front cover)
• Anton Corbijn
  Anton Corbijn
  Anton Corbijn is a Dutch photographer, music video and film director. He is the creative director behind the visual output of Depeche Mode and U2, having handled the principal promotion and sleeve photography for both for more than a decade...
  
   - photography (back cover)
• Ari Marcopoulos
  Ari Marcopoulos
  Ari Marcopoulos is an Amsterdam-born photographer and filmmaker, living and working in New York and California. As a photographer, film artist and adventurist, Marcopoulos, who began his career in New York City assisting Andy Warhol, transplants himself into the intimate lives of people living...
  
   - photography
• Vaughan Oliver
  Vaughan Oliver
  Vaughan Oliver is a British graphic designer based in Epsom, South of London. Oliver is most noted for his work with graphic design studios 23 Envelope and v23...
  
  - art design
• Chriss Bigg - design
• Martin Andersen - design
• Dave Kent - engineer (3)
• Noel Harris - engineer (1, 2)