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French actress Isabelle Adjani has confirmed that her duet with David Sylvian, recorded back in 2010, will be included on her new album.

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.

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.

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

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

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.