February 22nd, 2019 sees the deluxe vinyl release of four David Sylvian albums spanning the period 1984 to 1987. David Sylvian’s debut solo album from 1984 is to be released for the first time on 180gram vinyl.
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Rain Tree Crow interview.
A book by Anthony Reynolds which should be at home with every fan of Japan, David Sylvian and RTC. Wonderful layout, 212 pages and features a lot of previously unknown, unpublished pictures.
First of three books, Like Planets, a photographic essay by Yuka Fujii. Hard cover, 260mm x 220mm Landscape. 170 pages. Designed by Chris Bigg in a limited edition of 1,500. The first 500 copies are signed and numbered by Yuka Fujii and David Sylvian. Randomly included in the remaining 1,000 copies are 15 signed unnumbered copies.
News by David Sylvian and Samadhi Sound on Facebook and Twitter: Currently in the design stage, Universal’s vinyl reissues of Sylvian’s albums of the 1980’s with new artwork and design by Yuka Fujii and Chris Bigg. The digital download of ‘dead bees….’ with accompanying PDF artwork should be with us Nov. 9th. Excellent news! Picture: Nagarkot by Yuka Fujii.
Like Planets, a photographic essay by Yuka Fujii. Hard cover, 260mm x 220mm Landscape. 170 pages. Available from 2nd November 2018. Designed by Chris Bigg in a limited edition of 1,500. The first 500 copies are signed and numbered by Yuka Fujii and David Sylvian. Randomly included in the remaining 1,000 copies are 15 signed unnumbered copies. Regular edition: £50, signed
Hard to find vinyl US promo.
Phil Collins – My Heart’s In My Hand, And My Hand Is Pierced, And My Hand’s In The Bag, And The Bag Is Shut, And My Heart Is Caught.
Compilations, Recording, 0Phil Collins yes, but not that one.This is a strange collaboration/compilation of ambient, electronical, kraut, experimental, industrial, etc.. music with artists like Pye Corner Audio, Heroin In Tahiti, Demdike Stare, David Sylvian just to name few. A sound installation and collaborative project with a survival station for the homeless in Cologne (color vinyl).
CRIES AND WHISPERS is the follow up to Anthony Reynolds’ acclaimed 2015 biography on Japan, A Foreign Place. It covers in depth and in detail the works of David Sylvian, Mick Karn, Rob Dean, Steve Jansen and Richard Barbieri both solo and collaboratively between 1983 and 1991.
Following on from the success of the RSD 2018 white vinyl edition of David Sylvian’s 1999 album Dead Bees on a Cake, Universal now present the album on 180gram black vinyl, expanded with the additional four tracks that Sylvian intended for the original release, ‘The Scent of Magnolia’, ‘Albuquerque (Dobro #6)’, ‘Cover Me With Flowers’ and ‘Aparna and Nimisha ( Dobro
Just announced by Universal…David Sylvian ‘Dead Bees On A Cake’ 180g double black vinyl for October release date. Released 19th October 2018.
As sold by David’s daughter on eBay…
Last album on Samadhisound. Album features 1 track. This is the release of David Sylvian’s long form composition; ‘there’s a light that enters houses with no other house in sight.’ A unique collaboration with American Pulitzer Prize winning poet Franz Wright, featuring contributions from Christian Fennesz and John Tilbury.
Released on June 22nd 2018, the re-issue of Plight & Premonition, Flux & Mutability on both 2LP vinyl and 2CD! Gronland / CDGRON193 / LPGRON193
There will be 2 CD’s released on the Elsewhere label with artwork by David Sylvian on the Elsewhere label.
David Sylvian‘s 1999 LP Dead Bees On A Cake is set to be released on vinyl for the first time on Record Store Day (21st April 2018)
Debut release in the new Confront Core Series imprint. Studio recording of the text piece THERE IS NO LOVE which was premiered at Cafe OTO, London on 31st October 2016 as part of the Confront Recordings Twentieth Anniversary celebrations.
Track by Rhodri Davies, David Sylvian and Mark Wastell
Suddenly on September 22nd 2017, this track appeared on David’s (new) account on SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/user-516495290/beautiful-country-rough-mix). One day later, it was removed. Beautiful track by David Sylvian featuring Joan Wasser, Parker Kindred, and Fred Cash. Music and Lyrics by David Sylvian
Uncommon Deities poem (Punkt 2011) on music by Jan Bang and Erik Honoré, remixed by Modesto Muñiz.