French actress Isabelle Adjani has confirmed that her duet with David Sylvian, recorded back in 2010, will be included on her new album.
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David Sylvian contributed the sound installation ‘When We Return You Won’t Recognise Us’ to the Second Architecture, Art and Landscape Biennial of the Canaries in 2009.
Grönland Records released a revised, remastered reissue of Sleepwalkers by David Sylvian. available as a gatefold 2LP with exclusive art print and as a digipak CD in june 2022. Additional tracks for 2022 edition: Do You Know Me Now? (first issue on cd), Modern Interiors (previously a download only release), and World Citizen.Not included on 2022 edition are Ballad Of
David Sylvian has written liner notes for the new album by Magnus Granberg, ‘Night Will Fade and Fall Apart’. The 2-cd album was released on the Thanatosis Produktion label on 5 August 2022 and is available on bandcamp as a physical or digital release (link below).
samadhisound and UMC are proud to announce 180gram vinyl reissues of David Sylvian’s Blemish and Manafon albums, releasing on 2nd September 2022. Vinyl versions of both records have been out of print since their very limited initial pressing in the early 2000s. These new versions of Blemish (1LP) and Manafon (2LP) have been recut for vinyl by veteran engineer Tony Cousins at Metropolis studios.
Akiko Yano’s classic 1982 album, recorded in London with the group Japan and co-produced by Ryuichi Sakamoto was re-issued on vinyl and CD in 2021 on the Wewantsounds label. There’s a new introduction by Mac Demarco, an interview with Akiko Yano and Steve Jansen.The LP is presented in a deluxe gatefold sleeve with a 24-page colour booklet.
Yuka Fujii’s ‘Like Planets’ exhibition was staged in April/May 2022 at the Iwao Gallery, 2-1-27 Kuramae, Taito-ku, Tokyo (Mikuramae Street)
David Sylvian is one of the voices included in an installation titled 2022 by the collective known as Dumb Type in the Japan Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale from 23 April to 27 November 2022. David’s contribution was recorded earlier this year.
David Sylvian is one of the featured voices at the installation titled 2022 by Dumb Type in the Japan Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale from 23 April to 27 November 2022. David’s contribution was recorded earlier in 2022.
David Sylvian provided the cover photograph for this release in the EP Series on Mark Wastell’s Confront label.
David Sylvian provided the cover photograph for the inaugural release of the ‘EP Series’ on Mark Wastell’s Confront label.
David Sylvian provided cover photography for this release on Yuko Zama’s elsewhere label.
Grönland Records announce a revised, remastered reissue of Sleepwalkers by David Sylvian. available as a gatefold 2LP with exclusive art print and as a digipak CD, this new edition also features the previously unreleased track ‘Modern Interiors’. Release date: 10 june 2022.
Taylor Deupree writes: In July of 2013, the musician David Sylvian staged two simultaneously held photographic exhibitions in Japan, one (“Abandon”) at the Spiral Garden in Tokyo, and the second (“Hope”), in an abandoned building located in the port town of Uno as part of the Setouchi International Art festival 2013. The exhibitions dealt with the theme of hopelessness, its
Posted by @davidsylvain58 on Twitter: yuka fujii’s photographic exhibition ‘like planets’ will open at iwao gallery tokyo, april 2022. (14th april – 1st may 2022) further details will be announced by iwao in mid march
Following the recent release of ‘NOW – Yearbook 1982’, we are continuing the celebration of that phenomenal year of pop with ‘Now – Yearbook Extra 1982’; a limited edition 3CD. 62 essential tracks that were not on the standard issue of ‘Yearbook 1982’.
In the NOW: Yearbook series, the compilation YEARBOOK 1984 Extra is released in 2021. A 3CD compilation featuring 60 defining hits that ruled the charts in 1984.These version has The Ink in The Well on their setlist but beware, the 4CD version contain Red Guitar .
In the NOW: Yearbook series, the compilation YEARBOOK 1984 is released in 2021. A 4CD compilation featuring 78 defining hits that ruled the charts in 1984 and a 3LP blue transparent vinyl release.This version has Red Guitar on it’s setlist but beware, the 3CD|3LP version contain The Ink in The Well.
David Sylvian undertook an internet webcast interview in September 2000. The video can be seen elsewhere on this site (here). Sascha Paulick produced this article at the time (originally in three parts) including a transcript of the event for the David Sylvian fan-page, Slow Fire, and has kindly given permission for the text to be shared on this site.
A real present from David on Christmas day 2021 on SoundCloud! Great track, previously unreleased.
Burningshed.com released two new editions Anthony Reynolds’ books: a new 2021 expanded softback edition of Japan : A Foreign Place. 1974-1984, a comprehensive biography of the influential band Japan and a softback edition of Cries And Whispers, the follow-up to 2015’s A Foreign Place.
ERR: A photographic essay by David Sylvian. A limited edition publication: 500 copies signed and numbered by the artist. 50 signed, unnumbered copies randomly distributed among the remaining edition. Signed and Numbered Edition: sold out. Standard Edition available to purchase at the Grönland Shop. The photographs in this series were taken between Oct 2019–April 2020, a period encompassing the outbreak of
On the subject of Manafon. An exchange between David Sylvian and Marcus Boon. Originally published on the now defunct manafon.com microsite to promote the release of Manafon.
DON”T CALL ME PRETTY!News of the World magazine supplement ‘Sunday’, 5 February 1984by Ingrid Milliar
