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
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Old news items, worth to be kept online.
The second in the new ep series from Confront Recordings has been announced and, like the first ep on the imprint, it features a cover photograph by David Sylvian.
David Sylvian has provided the cover photograph for the new album by Jordan Dykstra / Koen Nutters – In Better Shape Than You Found Me on elsewhere records (elsewhere 018) to be released in late September.
Grönland Records announce ERR: A photographic essay by David Sylvian, with text by Shinya Fujiwara and an untitled original poem by Daisy Lafarge.
Stefano Panunzi, maker of two of my favorite albums; ‘Timelines’ and ‘A Rose’ (both featuring Mick Karn) has released a new prog (and jazzy) album: ‘Beyond The Illusion’.
David Sylvian has posted an incredible 40-minute film of the Brilliant Trees sessions on the samadhisound vimeo account.
David Sylvian writes the following about the new release by Jane in Ether:
Andrea Chimenti’s album ‘L’Albero Pazzo’ is now available on vinyl for the first time. Included is the track ‘Ti Ho Aspettato (I Have Waited For You)’, a duet with David Sylvian. Originally released in 1996, the album has been remastered and is presented with new artwork designed by Andrea Chimenti. It is available from the artist’s website. Note! I get
David Sylvian contributes to new cd by pianist Melaine Dalibert.
Theo Travis has recorded a version of Brilliant Trees on which he plays the duduk, with lead vocals by David Longdon from Big Big Train.
Mark Wastell has announced that David Sylvian has provided the cover photograph for the debut release of Confront Recordings’s new CD EP length series.
David has a new instagram account which includes many of the photographs he has taken, some previously unseen.
David Sylvian has provided the cover photography for a new cd by Shira Legmann on Yuko Zama’s contemporary classical label, Elsewhere. Shira plays work by Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi.
from Yuko Zama of elsewhere: Happy to reveal the final cover design of Melaine Dalibert – Infinite Ascent (elsewhere 012) to be released in late October as one of the three upcoming elsewhere piano series CDs.
This is a note (warning) on the news article, as published on August 1st 2020, regarding the release of the 2CD set “Japan – Live From The Budokan, Tokyo FM 1982“. It seems that the release is illegal! On twitter, there was a correspondence between Philip Groom (@GroomPhilip) and Steve Jansen (@istevejansen). Steve mentions in his tweets that the record
A new live cd has been released of Japan’s performance at the Budokan, Tokyo as part of their final tour in 1982. For this show on 8 December 1982, Ryuichi Sakamoto & Yukihiro Takahashi from YMO and Akiko Yano joined Japan on stage for encores. The show contains the only live performance of Sylvian’s first single with Ryuichi Sakamoto, ‘Bamboo
The original sound track for Yuka Fujii’s film Like Planets composed by Mark Wastell and featuring David Sylvian is now available for download on Confront Recordings bandcamp.
David Sylvian has provided cover photography for a release by Keith Rowe and Mark Wastell on Confront Recordings for Record Store Day 2020, to be released as part of RSD ‘Drop 1’ on August 29th (was April 18th but re-scheduled due to the Coronavirus crisis). Limited to 300 copies worldwide.
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:
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.
David Sylvian provides the artwork for pianist Melaine Dalibert’s forthcoming cd on the elsewhere label entitled ‘Cheminant’ (elsewhere 007), to be released on 1st July 2019. Design is by label owner Yuko Zama.
