A two part article (written in dutch) in the Dutch magazine OOR published on 17 April 1999. One part is about David Sylvian (by Herman van der Horst) and the second part is about the history of Japan (by Mark van Schaik).
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David Sylvian interviewed by phone. Around October 2005. Do you recognise the interview host or the radio station? To me, it sounds that the host is not originally from the UK. Can somebody help me?
Interview by Chris van Oostrom in the dutch music magazine Revolver Nr.30, October 2009.
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‘Like Planets ’ is a film by Yuka Fujii featuring images from her book ‘Like Planets’ and with an original soundtrack by Mark Wastell including contributions from David Sylvian.
An exhibition of prints from Yuka Fujii’s book ‘Like Planets’ was held at POCKO gallery, 51A King Henry’s Walk, London, N1 4NH from 3 October to 1 November 2019. The opening coincided with the UK premiere of Yuka’s film ‘Like Planets ’ at the nearby Cafe OTO. Yuka attended the private viewing which marked the opening on the evening of
UK white label promo
12″ vinyl promo of Pop Song with empty labels!
Double A-sided vinyl promo of Taking The Veil.
Performed live at the The World Is Everything tour in 2007, starting in Zagreb Croatia.
by Karl Lippegaus. Er wohnt zusammen mit einer schönen Japanerin im obersten Stockwerk eines unauffälligen Reihenhauses. In diesem Stadtteil von London leben Menschen, die weder besonders arm noch besonders reich sind, und scheinbar doch was vom guten Leben verstehen. Als ich durch die kleinen Straßen gehe und nach dem Haus von David Sylvian suche, denke ich, hier mieten die letzten
A London exhibition of Yuka Fujii’s photographs based on her book ‘Like Planets’ is being held at POCKO gallery, 51A King Henry’s Walk, London N1 4NH from 3 October to 1 November 2019. The event launches with a Private View event on 3 October.
A number of unreleased mixes of David Sylvian tracks are being unveiled as part of the programme at Punkt 2019.
Yuka Fuji’s film ‘Like Planets’ is set to premiere at the Punkt Festival in Norway in September and at Cafe OTO in London in October – see details here. Mark Wastell has provided the soundtrack music and confirms the following detail, including David Sylvian’s contribution:
Dai Fujikura is artistic director of the Born Creative Festival being held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre on 28 September 2019. As part of the programme there will be a David Sylvian Room where recordings of instrumental work from David’s catalogue will be played. Featured will be a previously unreleased work made for the festival by David Sylvian titled ‘Manafon:
Beautiful 5CD boxset in slipcase, including a 52-page booklet. On disc 5, the track Steel Cathedrals is included.
Beautiful official remix of the track ‘Life, Life’ from Ryuichi Sakamoto’s 2017 album async. In 2018 Ryuichi released ‘ASYNC – REMODELS’, containing remixes of the tracks from the original album. The remix of ‘Life, Life’ featured on the ‘ASYNC – REMODELS’ album was performed by Andy Stott and does NOT contain Sylvian’s spoken word vocal.
Second solo album from Ingrid Chavez, David Sylvian’s former wife. David Sylvian is credited for Album Sequence and as Design Consultant.
Limited edition in a gatefold replica sleeve including the original photo book. Also includes a second booklet with further recording session photos with the members of the group Japan and Ryuichi Sakamoto.
The 2019 remix and remaster of ‘There is No Love’ by Rhodri Davies, David Sylvian and Mark Wastell is now available for download. This was previously only available on the 2019 Record Store Day white vinyl release.
Japanese promotional album featuring Some Small Hope (Virginia Astley)
David’s greatest hits was also released as a 2 MD set in jewel cases.
David Sylvian provided liner notes for this cd which features Sidsel Endresen (who appears on ‘Uncommon Deities’) and Clive Bell (who appears on ‘When Loud Weather Buffeted Naoshima’). The cd accompanied Sylvian on a solo road-trip across the USA in 2014. Available on cd and 140g vinyl edition which includes 11 x 11″ art insert and print.
David Sylvian attended the sessions for this recording and in the liner notes is credited with radically impacting Toshimaru’s set up in the studio. Beautiful letterpress cover. Limited edition CD of 300. Recordings from these sessions were used by David Sylvian for his collaboration with Mark Wastell and Rhodri Davies, ‘There is No Love’.
David Sylvian provided artwork and mixing advice for this recording by pianist Melaine Dalibert on Yuko Zama’s elsewhere label. Track one is dedicated to David Sylvian by the artist. Four-panel gatefold wallet with one disc, artwork by David Sylvian, design by Yuko Zama. Limited edition of 500.
