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David Sylvian’s ‘The Good Son vs The Only Daughter – The Blemish Remixes’ and ‘Died in the Wool – Manafon Variations’ will be released on vinyl for the first time in January 2025. Initially released on Sylvian’s samadhisound label in 2005 and 2011, respectively, they were previously only available digitally and on CD. Available to preorder now – shipping 31st January

David Sylvian’s compilation album ‘Everything & Nothing’ is coming to vinyl for the first time. Originally released in 2000, the 29-track triple LP is a career-spanning compilation containing previously released, unreleased, re-recorded, non-album and alternate versions of tracks from Sylvian’s twenty years with Virgin Records.

This wonderful news was mentioned in the Touch Records newsletter #312.

For the first time on vinyl, Nine Horses – Snow Borne Sorrow will be released on RSD 2024 (20 April 2024). Expanded Edition, double white vinyl in gatefold sleeve.

Grönland is proud to announce The Perfume of Wealth – a limited edition set of 20 photographic prints by David Sylvian and Yuka Fujii. Release date: 23 February 2024.

The long awaited album by Isabelle Adjani is called Bande Originale and will be released on November 10th, 2023. The track featuring David Sylvian is called Il Manque Un Mot (There’s a Word Missing).

Grönland is proud to announce the reissue of Wandermüde on CD and, for the first time, vinyl. Both versions include one previously unreleased bonus track. The 2LP is pressed on crystal clear vinyl. This 2023 edition was mastered by Stephan Mathieu from the original recordings. Release date: 21 April 2023.

Universal/samadhisound will release a deluxe CD box set in 2023.

Shadow WorldsDavid Sylvian | Lance Austin Olsen | Jamie Drouin2022six original prints in a handmade folder12.25 x 9.25 x 0.25 inchletterpress, woodblock, giclée, india ink, on cotton, baryta, and rice papers.edition of 25

In celebration of Ryuichi Sakamoto’s 70th birthday, Milan Records will release A TRIBUTE TO RYUICHI SAKAMOTO – TO THE MOON AND BACK, a collection of songs from Sakamoto’s vast catalogue newly reworked and remodeled by contemporary artists and collaborators.

David Sylvian reads poetry, contributes field recordings and designed the artwork for the new album by Twinkle3.

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