DAVID SYLVIAN ON HIS MUSICAL AND SPIRITUAL JOURNEY AS A WORLD CITIZEN Interview by Hugh Bohane, New Internationalist August 2007.
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Anthony Reynolds, author of the upcoming book Japan A Foreign Place, was kind enough to answer a few questions for us. A Foreign Place is a comprehensive biography of the influential band Japan by musician and author, Anthony Reynolds. Chronicling the rise and fall of one of the 1980s most respected and beloved bands, the book lifts the veil on
SAMADHISOUND ANNOUNCES HYPERGRAPHIA: THE WRITINGS OF DAVID SYLVIAN 1980–2014 638 pages, hard back, full colour. Page size – 150mm x 225mm portrait. Regular edition: £65.00. Signed edition: £85.00 (the signed edition has sold out).
A Foreign Place is a comprehensive biography of the influential band Japan by musician and author, Anthony Reynolds. Chronicling the rise and fall of one of the 1980s most respected and beloved bands, the book lifts the veil on the creative processes and personal histories of a fascinating group of introspective musicians whose activities have frequently been shrouded in secrecy.
Guest performance by David Sylvian and Ingrid Chavez at Ryuichi Sakamoto’s Heartbeat tour performing Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II)
Memorbilia in all its forms. Please let me know if have something worth to publish.
Presskit pictures.
David Sylvian will release a new album called “Playing The School House” in September 2015 on Confront Recordings.
Record Store Day (April 18th 2015) sees Universal release a 7” of Bamboo houses / Bamboo music (2000 remix). The release is limited to 1000 copies and is in a sleeve art directed by David, designed by Chris Bigg, and featuring images by Yuka Fujii. It contains a printed inner sleeve and, as with all of David and Chris’ design
Italian translation of the book On The Periphery now available! Disponibile solo su www.sylvianbiografia.it Originariamente pubblicato in inglese, ora interamente tradotto in italiano! Completamente aggiornato a Gennaio 2015! Data di uscita 9 Marzo 2015.
On April 18th, Recordstore Day, a re-issue of David Sylvian and Ryuichi Sakamoto's Bamboo Houses / Bamboo Music will be released on 7"vinyl (ltd.ed. of 1000 copies).
Interview by Alan Bangs on BFBS
Article (in dutch) by Frank de Munnik in the Dutch TV magazine VPRO Gids (issue 39, 29th September 2007).
From the avant-glam pop of ]apan to free-jazz improv, he has spent three decades challenging himself. Where next for the latter-day Scott Walker? lts still all out there to be done, says David Sylvian. Interview by Phil Alexander. Portrait by Kevin Westenberg.
Four years in the making, and twelve years after his last solo album Secrets of the Beehive, David Sylvian offers us another opportunity to immerse ourselves in his unique aural landscape with his long-awaited new solo album, entitled Dead Bees on a Cake. The album offers us a sonic experience that is both familiar and refreshingly new. A truly contemporary album, but one that is not guided by the current fashion of the day. A pop album by all...
by TINTIN TORNCRANTZ as published on colette.fr February 16 2010 (now defunct).
Interview by Tom Lanham. David Sylvian is talking about advertising, about how he, his wife and three children skirt consumer-aimed pressure and stay true to their spartan, spiritual lifestyle.
An exclusive David Sylvian interview from 2009 in the Spanish magazine Ruta 66.
OOR magazine (NL) nr.19 release date September 20th 1986.
