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By Brian Nixon Special to ASSIST News Service

This page contains a compilation of reviews as found online, in papers and magazines. Latest: – All About Jazz (Nenad Georgievski januari 2010) – All About Jazz (John Kelman december 2009) – iO pages (NL) – BBC Music Online (UK) – digg.be (Belgium)

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For people who can’t wait until September 14th, there’s an opportunity to watch the Amplified Gesture documentary a few days earlier. On saturday September 5th, 2009 the documentary about David Sylvian’s new album “Manofon” is shown at the Punkt Festival in Kristiansand, Norway.

On September 14th 2009, the movie Amplified Gesture will be shown at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). There’ll be a screening of the DVD, a Q&A with the director and a playback of a couple of tracks from Manafon. David will not be there! Amplified Gesture is the title of the dvd that is included in de deluxe edition

The new 9 track album from David Sylvian, which is scheduled to be released September 14th, is called Manafon. See below for tracklist and press information and artwork. Samadhi Sound wrote on davidsylvian.com: Manafon's release date is set for Sept 14th. Manafon will be available in two editions. A regular CD/digipak edition and a twin volume deluxe edition with CD and DVD featuring the film 'Amplified Gesture'. Details and new David Sylvian website to follow soon.

Jacqueline is the title of the (unreleased) track that has been released on the CD “FANTASTIC AND SPECTACULAR”, which is enclosed with the July/August issue of the US magazine The Believer 2009 Music Issue. The CD is compiled by Daniel Handler, who is the author of three novels and many, many books for children.

Charles Lindsay, who provided the artwork for the Camphor album, presents on his personal Vimeo page HD videos from the Carbon project. Two of these videos are the same as released on the SamadhiSound site back in 2005 as Science Fiction 1/2 with music by David Sylvian and Steve Jansen.

According to Holger Czuckay’s official website, there will be a re-issue of Plight & Premonition in December.

In Februari 2006, the latest full-resource version of davidsylvian.net (formerly Trophies) was closed.

Orient Pop, La musica dello spirito (The Music of Spirit, Rom, Castelvecchi 2008) is an Italian book , where Leonardo Vittorio Arena deals with the Eastern and alchemical influences on his music and his thought. The book features a chapter on David Sylvian on this subject. Leonardo describes the Eastern and alchemical influences on David’s music and David reflects his

Samadhi Sound released a live dvd of Steve Jansen's performance at the Meguro Persimmon Hall in tokyo (29.02.08).The dvd (in NTSC format only!) contains the full concert plus very attarctive bonus videos  The live content includes previously unreleased music as well as a live interpretation of music written for Shoko Ise's Swimming In Qualia exhibit. The extra features include exclusive, unreleased collaborative works by Jansen & Ise - 4 film shorts with looped playback.

Joan As Police Woman is to release her second album nearly two years to the date after her debut Real Life arrived.Since June the 9th 2008, To Survive is available through Reveal Records as a CD, download and a LP version which comes with a bonus CD.

On nonplace.de: After Nine Horses cd entitled Snow Borne Sorrow, the corporative effort of David Sylvian, Steve Jansen and Burnt Friedman has entered the charts in U.K., Sweden and Italy, the label samadhisound has decided to release a single featuring bonus tracks, as well as Friedman producing several reworks of Nine Horses album tracks.

Nine Horses' Snow Borne Sorrow is being released in Japan on 22nd Feb (cat number IECP10002). It will be a digipack release with one bonus track called: Birds Sing For Their Lives.

Seminal British free improvising avant garde guitarist Derek Bailey has died this Christmas day in London, aged 74. Derek is known for his collaboration with David Sylvian on the Blemish album.

One of my favorite albums of 2005! Timelines is the debut album of Italian musiucian (and Sylvian fan) Stefano Panunzi. With guest musicians like Mick karn, Mike Applebaum, Markus Reuter and Peter Chilvers, Stefano created an album that should be spinning in every Sylvian fan's cd player.

Hector Zazou has completed mixing and assemblage of the new job for Materiali Sonori: "Quadri + Chromies", a dvd and a cd realized with computer graphic images by French painter Bernard Caillaud. Video pictures and electronic music of great "deepness". Guests in audio traces : Brian Eno, David Sylvian and Bill Rieflin (REM). release: september 2005

Brian Eno, Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Sylvian, Peter Bruck, Bill Rieflin (REM) and Archaea Strings are the protagonists of musics that Hector Zazou has composed for the electronic images of French painter BERNARD CAILLAUD.

The original 12-inch version of The Librarian will finally be available on CD in Januari 2006. According to nonplace.de, the next album of Burnt Friedman and Jaki Liebezeit, called Secret Rhythms 2, will be released on Januari, 27th 2006 and will feature this track.

Takagi Masakatsu will be screening videos at the Kunsthalle gallery in Düsseldorf, Germany, on November 19th and November 26th as part of the exhibition Lido by Sylvian fans and artists Anny and Sibel Öztürk.