Originally published by Sound On Sound at June 17th 1994. Despite having spent more than 15 years in the public eye, David Sylvian remains an enigmatic figure who has reinvented his own musical style constantly, both within his solo work and in his collaborations with musicians as diverse as Holger Czukay and Robert Fripp. PAUL TINGEN charts the history of
Articles and Interviews
Printed/audio articles and interviews
Flux magazine Q+A, October 2010
The following is the original Q & A which appears in edited form in the 7th issue of Fourth Door Review. David Sylvian interview: questions prepared by Oliver Lowenstein 18.9.04.
Future Music interview (nov/dec 2003, issue 143) by Danny Turner 2003 Future Music. Republished with kind permission of Future Music Magazine.
by Anton Rush
German radio interview with David Sylvian by telephone on Zündfunk, a prgressive radio format of the Bayrischer Rundfunk in the 80’s. Hosted by Karl Bruckmaier, it was aired in june 1984 just a couple of days before the release of Brilliant Trees. David talks about the new album and in particular Pulling Punches. Also several questions about Japan and the
INTERVIEW MAX DAX
Scan of the interview that Stylianos Tziritas took for the magazine Ichos + Ikona (which stands for Sound+Vision in greek, which it s a monthly magazine about music and culture that's been published in Greece for 36 years)Scan is from issue #461 / August 2011.This is only the second interview Sylvian ever gave in Greece.Scan kindly provided by Stylianos Tziritas.
IN A SYLVIAN GROOVE by JIM FUSILLI, Wall Street Journal rock and pop music critic, 11 September 2009
Rotterdams Dagblad, 12 november 2003
Inexorably Sylvian by Nile Larsen (Details, April 1988)
US promo.
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.
Interview with David Sylvian as published in Insound, an Italian magazine, by Barbara Trigari. Pictures by Rita Antonioli, taken in Milan Italy Translation of this interview would be more than welcome my Italian friends…..
Interview is by phone for radio station in Toronto. Was also released as 12" picture disc.
The Exclusive Interview With David Sylvian!
Intervista a David Sylvian (Questioni al figlio della Madre). Original interview by Leonardo Vittorio Arena for the book Orient Pop.
Interview with former Japan front man David Sylvian by Rockin’ On’s Yoichi Shibuya at Toshiba EMI in Tokyo, Japan, on Oct. 16, 1984. Steve Harris interpreted.
Tesshi Ichikawa interviews David Sylvian and Robert Fripp and interpreted by Steve Harris on March 10, 1992, at the Capitol Tokyu Hotel in Tokyo, Japan.
David Sylvian – Die Erfindung der Einsamkeit, by Michael Engelbrecht. The interview as published on this page is an excerpt of the programme Kultur nach 3. Part of this show is an interview called Corsogesprch.
This is an interview/montage broadcast on the Japanese radio during the In Praise Of Shaman tour.
Extended radio interview on Radio Futuro, Chile in 1993 “Jean the Birdman was one of the options for the name of the band later to be known as Rain Tree Crow”
by Billy Donald
Every month, Wire magazine plays a musician a series of records which asked to identify and comment on – with no prior knowledge of what they’re about to hear. Tested by Christoph Cox. Photos by Chris Buck.
