Eloquence accompanies maturity – by Cristiana and Antonio, originally published on the now defunct davidsylvian.it website. Many thanks to Cristiana, Antonio and Mark from the davidsylvian.it website.
Interview
We Have Ways of Making You TalkBy Chris RobertsUncut, May 1999 David Sylvian’s first solo album for 12 years, Dead Bees On A Cake, is his most personal and accessible work to date, and features Talvin Singh and Ryuichi Sakamoto. The former frontman with early Eighties melancholy futurists Japan married paisley Park protégé Ingrid Chavez in 1992. The couple now
DAVID SYLVIAN – THE TOUCHING WORK OF AN IMPRESSIVE GENIUS The magazine includes an interview with Chris Bigg about working with David Sylvian and the making of the artwork for Sylvian’s releases. Translations kindly provided by Marta Roia
by Dominic Maxwell, October 2000, believed to have been published in Time Out magazine.
David Sylvian undertook an internet webcast interview in September 2000. The video can be seen elsewhere on this site (here). Sascha Paulick produced this article at the time (originally in three parts) including a transcript of the event for the David Sylvian fan-page, Slow Fire, and has kindly given permission for the text to be shared on this site.
On the subject of Manafon. An exchange between David Sylvian and Marcus Boon. Originally published on the now defunct manafon.com microsite to promote the release of Manafon.
DON”T CALL ME PRETTY!News of the World magazine supplement ‘Sunday’, 5 February 1984by Ingrid Milliar
Sylvian Gives the People What He WantsBY RICHARD CROMELINAPRIL 5, 1988 Say you’ve come under the melancholy spell of David Sylvian’s richly atmospheric music–an autumnal wash of strings and electronics, with the singer’s low, tremulous voice roaming through the soundscape in search of the very essence of emotion.
Silent Secrets MELODY MAKER, September 26, 1987
David Sylvian – The Artist Breaks His SilenceReported by Sasha Stojanovic/Written by Tod EckertOnly Music, June 1987. The former glamour boy of Japan has changed his look and emerged from his musical exile.
David Sylvian is one of the world’s most enigmatic musicians. He rarely gives interviews, but Mark Prendergast exchanges these exclusive words with the musical shaman.
Melancholy ManRichard Cook, Sounds, 7 November 1987 As his new album ‘Secrets of the Beehive’ buzzes our way, David Sylvian describes his music as a positive state rising out of a negative one. But there is more to the man than mere poetic melancholy would suggest.
D A V I D S Y L V I A NQ U E S T I O N S & A N S W E R S20th November 1998 With thanks to Lenin Imports who first published this interview.
German radio interview with David Sylvian by telephone on Zündfunk, a prgressive radio format of the Bayrischer Rundfunk in the 80’s. Hosted by Karl Bruckmaier, it was aired in june 1984 just a couple of days before the release of Brilliant Trees. David talks about the new album and in particular Pulling Punches. Also several questions about Japan and the
From his earliest musical offerings with the pop outfit Japan, British-born David Sylvian has infused his work with a poet’s voice, a painter’s eye, and a subtle strength.
IN A SYLVIAN GROOVE by JIM FUSILLI, Wall Street Journal rock and pop music critic, 11 September 2009
On October 8th 2003, David Sylvian gave an interview in Paris to Philip Kortes of Radio Studio Brussel and answered questions on the making of Blemish and the Fire In The Forest tour.
Back in 2001, when this site was named trophies.org, I collected questions from visitors for an email-only interview with David. This interview was supposed to be published on the site when the answers were in my inbox. But ….
INTERVIEW / It can’t be him . . . surely not . . .: David Sylvian was a big success as Japan’s bottle-blond, mascara-heavy crooner. After that, as Jim White found out, he went natural
Scared of Success: David Sylvian — The Man Who Would Be Invisible Simon Witter, i-D, November 1987
By Stephen Holden, 16 December 1987
David Sylvian: Blonde On Blonde by Don Watson, New Musical Express, 23 August 1986
David Sylvian: The Loner Emerges by Ted Drozdowski, Musician, May 1988
Journeys Into The Interior Biba Kopf, New Musical Express, 11 August 1984
