by BBC's Evgenie Kanevskomu. Transcript by Tuomas
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Vittorio Pio (Il Mucchio) interview 2003 Vittorio Pio & davidsylvian.net
By Nick Coleman
The sweet sound of a good cause by STEVE McCLURE Historically, the Japanese geinokai (entertainment world) has been slow to catch on to the idea of the charity concert/release. But now Ryuichi Sakamoto, a la Bob Geldof and the Band Aid famine-relief project, has put together an impressive array of Japanese and overseas talents on a track called “Zero Landmine,”
by Darren J.N. Middleton
by Nenad Georgievski
published 03.11.05 on davidsylvian.com
Interview by Claudio Chianura with David Sylvian in Italian magazine InSound (Nr. 1) december 2005, about Nine Horses. 6 pages in Italian with many photographs of Nine Horses and David/Steve performing live in 2003.
By KEN KAWASHIMA
By Sergey Chernov
Inexorably Sylvian by Nile Larsen (Details, April 1988)
Wednesday, April 14, 1999 , Sylvian’s Bees buzzing again by DAVE VEITCH Transcript by John Sakamoto. Originally online interview (now defunct)
by A.D. Amorosi
Barnes & Nobles special published online in january 2001. Currently removed.
by Craig Peacock The following interview took place in October 1994 at the P-3 Gallery near Shinjuku, one of Tokyo’s many shopping and business centres. The gallery itself is located in the basement of a temple. This is not as spiritual as one would expect, as it’s surrounded by ugly office and residential buildings. The clatter of modern life in
This is the full version of an article written for a Canadian music paper (April, 1999), which the editor found too controversial for him to print. He told me I could not compare religions in his publication, and was unaware that they all stem from the same root myths. He would not let me state that Sylvian practices forms of
SYLVIAN / FRIPP by Steve Holtje (Creem Magazine September ’93) “There is no one structure which is universally appropriate,” wrote Robert Fripp in the liner notes to his 1981 album, Let the Power Fall. That bit of wisdom goes a long way towards explaining the far-ranging careers of both Fripp and David Sylvian. Both are respected musicians whose reputations were
“The Day After” by John Diliberto (Jazziz Magazine May 1994) Crisis as a source of art has always been romanticized in the West. You’ve got to suffer if you want to sing the blues, cut off your ear if you want your art to bleed, and endure the pits of depression if you want to leave something behind when
Spurning Japanese by Simon Dudfield and A.J. Barratt (NME, Mar. 1991) David Sylvian has little time for his last group, glam rockers made good JAPAN, so why has he chosen to team up with his old cohorts again as ambient moodies Rain Tree Crow? Simon Dudfield puts it down to the peculiar flight path of `true art’. Seconding that emulsion:
by Dave Rimmer Having spent over five years behind a thick layer of make-up, David Sylvian has emerged from the cocoon of Pop Celebrity to make a butterfly foray into the avant-garde. His new work lies somewhere between wallpaper and revolution. But nobody seems quite sure.
Exorcising Ghosts (Rain Tree Crow) by Mark J. Prendergast (Lime Lizard, May 1991) From surrealist parrots to the japan reunion, Mark J. Prendergast gets ambient with David Sylvian who explains why it’s o.k. to shout insults at bricks.
by Anton Rush
by Mark Prendergast Originally published in two parts; Record Collector April and May 1990.
by Josef Woodard
