After the release of four David Sylvian 1987 deluxe vinyl albums, spanning the period 1984, 1987, a deluxe vinyl reissue of 1991’s Rain Tree Crow album is released on 29 March 2019!
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Ember Glance, The Permanence of Memory, Japan 1990 (with Russell Mills)
Art & Exhibitions, Recording, 0Artwork by Russell Mills, installation by Russell Mills and David Sylvian, assisted by Ian Walton.
Superb box with 96 page book and CD with the soundtrack of the installation of sculpture, sound and light by Russell Mills and David Sylvian at The Temporary Museum on Tokyo Bay, Japan (29.9.90 – 12.10.90).
An exclusive davidsylvian.net interview with Russell Mills. Russell talkes about the releases of the Still Moves series (published by Slow Fuse Sound), Ember Glance, Undark and his current work and ambitions. Interview was recorded live in Ambleside (UK), August 2018.
Unofficial video by me, a season greeting for the fans of David Sylvian for 2018. Archive reasons only for being listed here.
February 22nd, 2019 sees the deluxe vinyl release of four David Sylvian albums spanning the period 1984 to 1987. David Sylvian’s intermediary album, made up of two entirely separate projects from 1985, is to be released for the first time on 180gram vinyl.
Rain Tree Crow interview.
A book by Anthony Reynolds which should be at home with every fan of Japan, David Sylvian and RTC. Wonderful layout, 212 pages and features a lot of previously unknown, unpublished pictures.
First of three books, Like Planets, a photographic essay by Yuka Fujii. Hard cover, 260mm x 220mm Landscape. 170 pages. Designed by Chris Bigg in a limited edition of 1,500. The first 500 copies are signed and numbered by Yuka Fujii and David Sylvian. Randomly included in the remaining 1,000 copies are 15 signed unnumbered copies.
News by David Sylvian and Samadhi Sound on Facebook and Twitter: Currently in the design stage, Universal’s vinyl reissues of Sylvian’s albums of the 1980’s with new artwork and design by Yuka Fujii and Chris Bigg. The digital download of ‘dead bees….’ with accompanying PDF artwork should be with us Nov. 9th. Excellent news! Picture: Nagarkot by Yuka Fujii.
Like Planets, a photographic essay by Yuka Fujii. Hard cover, 260mm x 220mm Landscape. 170 pages. Available from 2nd November 2018. Designed by Chris Bigg in a limited edition of 1,500. The first 500 copies are signed and numbered by Yuka Fujii and David Sylvian. Randomly included in the remaining 1,000 copies are 15 signed unnumbered copies. Regular edition: £50, signed
Hard to find vinyl US promo.
Phil Collins – My Heart’s In My Hand, And My Hand Is Pierced, And My Hand’s In The Bag, And The Bag Is Shut, And My Heart Is Caught.
Compilations, Recording, 0Phil Collins yes, but not that one.This is a strange collaboration/compilation of ambient, electronical, kraut, experimental, industrial, etc.. music with artists like Pye Corner Audio, Heroin In Tahiti, Demdike Stare, David Sylvian just to name few. A sound installation and collaborative project with a survival station for the homeless in Cologne (color vinyl).
CRIES AND WHISPERS is the follow up to Anthony Reynolds’ acclaimed 2015 biography on Japan, A Foreign Place. It covers in depth and in detail the works of David Sylvian, Mick Karn, Rob Dean, Steve Jansen and Richard Barbieri both solo and collaboratively between 1983 and 1991.
Following on from the success of the RSD 2018 white vinyl edition of David Sylvian’s 1999 album Dead Bees on a Cake, Universal now present the album on 180gram black vinyl, expanded with the additional four tracks that Sylvian intended for the original release, ‘The Scent of Magnolia’, ‘Albuquerque (Dobro #6)’, ‘Cover Me With Flowers’ and ‘Aparna and Nimisha ( Dobro
Just announced by Universal…David Sylvian ‘Dead Bees On A Cake’ 180g double black vinyl for October release date. Released 19th October 2018.
As sold by David’s daughter on eBay…
Last album on Samadhisound. Album features 1 track. This is the release of David Sylvian’s long form composition; ‘there’s a light that enters houses with no other house in sight.’ A unique collaboration with American Pulitzer Prize winning poet Franz Wright, featuring contributions from Christian Fennesz and John Tilbury.