The Blemish album has been remixed by various artists including Ryoji Ikeda, Burnt Friedman, Readymade and other electronic stars. It will be released by P-Vine in Japan and by Samadhi Sound elsewhere.
Archived news
Old news items, worth to be kept online.
Robert Fripp writes in his diary (Wednesday 20th. October, 2004), that he did that very day a recording session for David Sylvian's new solo album.
Swedish magazine Groove, issue #6, 2004 has an interview with Stina Nordenstam where she mentions having recently worked with David and his brother Steve.
The long awaited CD/DVD set by Takagi Masakatsu, titled Coieda, is out! It was released on September 8th on the W+K Tokyo Lab label. Exclusive for davidsylvian.net, Takagi talks about himself, the album and the touring with David and Steve. But also, David answers questions about Takagi and the track Exit/Delete which can be found on Coieda.
David is doing some work on the new Friedman & Liebezeit album, but nothing is certain yet what the outcome will be. There is a possibility that David will do vocals on a couple of tracks but officially, nothing has been confirmed.
A commercial for TIAA features a recording by David Sylvian. The track is a vocal rendition of Somewhere (from West Side Story). The commercial for TIAA was shown during the opening ceremonies for the Olympics on NBC in the USA.
Early July, David has recorded in Vienna with Christian Fennesz and ex-members of Polwechsel.
According to davidsylvian.net member abetomo, the Fire in The Forest 04 concert on April 24 at the Showa Joshi Hitomi Kinen Kohdohin in Tokyo (Japan), was recorded for Hi -Definition Television broadcast by the Japanese TV station "NHK". The show will be broadcast on 30 July 2004 from 11:45pm to 1:15am (Tokyo time) in High Vision TV format (digital format) in Japan. It means that the show can not be viewed from normal TV.
David had just finished up work on a song for the anime incarnation of the justifiably famous manga MONSTER. The music from "Monster" is released in Japan on 23/6. The catalogue number is VPCG 84807. For more information, take a look here.
Arve Henriksen released his new album Cartography featuring David Sylvian on 2 tracks. His support is mainly lyrics and an occasional speaker contrbution.
A stunning 5 LP/2 CD Box Set with a mini clubman mini-record player all in one neat-box. Part of a numbered limited edition of 4,000 only.
The album L'Albero Pazzo by Andrea Chimenti has been re-issued. This is finally the chance for people who desperately want the track Ti Ho Aspettato (I Have Waited For You) feauring David SYlvian on an offical CD. This reissue includes new artwork.
David will contribute on Takagi Masakatsu's new album COIEDA, coming out September 8, 2004. The track is called exit/delete.
The management of David Sylvian pointed out that David Sylvian is NOT performing with Christian in Italy. Due to artistic reasons, it is not possible play Venice live. The original announcement on Christian’s site has been removed too, but Christian is actually playing at the festival! Dates will be confirmed soon. The Fano community site lists that Christian Fennesz is
Fennesz’s new album, “Venice”, featuring David Sylvian on Transit is out now!! David and Christian Fennesz have written a new composition for Christian’s forthcoming album, titled Transit. Also featured on the album is Burkhard Stangl.
David has recorded an alternate version of the track Messenger, which will probably appear as a bonus track on the Japanese issue of the Blonde Redhead album Misery is a butterfly and on the upcoming Blonde Redhead single Equus. Note that neither of these releases have been officially confirmed.
The previously unreleased remix of Late Night Shopping by tweaker (Chris Vrenna) is released on a split 7" single with Skool Daze, Alec Empire's reinterpretation of Chris Vrenna's score to American McGee's Alice.
Samadhi Sound, the label of David, will be releasing some very interesting titles in the near future. One of them is a re-issue of the World Citizen EP. Buy it at Amazon.co.uk. Click here.
February issue of Uncut magazine (UK) features an interview with Chris Roberts. Besides the regular QA’s, there’s more about Brilliant Trees-cocaine and David-skateboards.
Yuka Fujii, long time Sylvian artistic collaborator, has particitipated in an exhibition called 'Minus One' curated by Atsuhide Ito and featuring Noriko Tanaka.
On April 20 2004, the new album by Tweaker, 2am wake-up call, is released. ROBERT SMITH of the Cure, WILL OLDHAM (Bonnie “Prince” Billy) and DAVID SYLVIAN provide vocals on the new album by TWEAKER, the alias for former Nine Inch Nails programmer-drummer CHRIS VRENNA. The album, due April 20 from Waxploitation Records and iMUSIC, marks a strong step forward
Thanks to Clive I received the news of Sakamoto's upcoming album Chasm. It features a new version of World Citizen (looped piano version) and also includes the Ryoji Ikeda remix. The album is out on 25th Februari 2004.
With kind permission of Future Music magazine, a leading UK magazine dedicated to professional music equipment and software, we were able to publish their interview with David as published in issue 143 (nov/dec 2003), on davidsylvian.net!
Manufactured on heavy vinyl, mastered at half speed for superior audio quality and shrink wrapped, this beautiful version is limited to a run of only 2000 copies. Released on the Samadisound label (January 26th 2004, cat #: SOUNDLPSS001). To buy it at Amazon.co.uk click here for more information and ordering.
