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Spurning Japanese by Simon Dudfield and A.J. Barratt (NME, Sep. 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:

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

Keyboard Player November 1999 David Sylvian tells Mark Prendergast about the spiritual as well as musical journey that culminated in his first solo album for over a decade

by Richard Cook

MIRACLES AND GRACIOUSNESS David Sylvian in Glasgow, December 1993 An interview with Bill Drover (with a little help from Robert Fripp)

The South African Radio -David Sylvian Interview by Derek Richardson (10.98) with permission transcribed by Mark Shanahan

David Sylvian Interview – WDET-FM, Detroit, MI, USA (4.14.99) Transcript by Mark Shanahan

Independent interview (UK). Published online at independent.co.uk 27 June 2003. David Sylvian: Songs from the fringe David Sylvian was a pop pin-up when he led Japan. Now, after years on the frontiers of the avant-garde, he has produced his most personal songs yet. Martin James talks to the man behind the big hair.

Since DAVID SYLVIAN split Japan at their zenith nearly a decade ago his fans have been praying they’d got back together. And now they have, under the name of RAIN TREE CROW. STEVE SUTHERLAND meets Sylvian to discover the impetus behind the band’s re-emergence.

by Billy Donald

Originally published in 2003 by Danny Turner