This is the original article of Simon Napier Bell (former manager of Japan) that resulted in a response by David Sylvian on his site.
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This article was published by David Sylvian on davidsylvian.com in October 2017.
Great remix (as always) by my friend Modesto Muñiz.
As Found by Youtchkova / Thieke / Carroll (sound anatomy SA10 CD)
RHODRI DAVIES / DAVID SYLVIAN / MARK WASTELL – THERE IS NO LOVE (confront core series / core 01) 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.
Live performance
Live performance of this track featuring a guest performance of Ryuichi Sakamoto!
The last two years have been a period of transition for David Sylvian, but he’s now in a new collaboration with Holger Czukay and a new solo single and a major retrospective set of his post-Japan recordings scheduled for November release. PAUL LESTER reports on one of rock’s most enigmatic figures.
David Sylvian is featuring on the track Life, Life, performing the poem 'And This I Dreamt, And This I Dream', by Arseny Tarkowsky (from the bundle Life, Life).
The track includes the poem ‘And This I Dreamt, And This I Dream’ by Arseny Tarkovsky from the bundle ‘Life, Life’. David Sylvian’s spoken word vocal was originally recorded ahead of Ryuichi’s appearance in the ‘Concert for Japan’. Another recording was used at that concert, so this reading appears here for the first time.
Hypergraphia is published in a limited edition of 3,000 copies. An edition of 500 signed and individually numbered copies, by Sylvian and designer Chris Bigg, have sold out. Randomly included in the remaining 2,500 copies are 50 signed unnumbered copies.
David Sylvian is featuring on the track Life, Life, performing the poem ‘And This I Dreamt, And This I Dream’, by Arseny Tarkowsky (from the bundle Life, Life). David performing ‘From An Old Notebook’ from Life, Life was played live by Sakamoto (David with poem prerecorded) at the Concert For Japan (2011).
Originally from the album Blemish.
Originally released as track on the Everything and Nothing tourbook bonus CD. This track was played as an introduction to the band during the Everything & Nothing tour 2001/2001.
Playing The Schoolhouse, a new CD EP length composition by David Sylvian recorded in March 2015 in Norway. Based on an improvisation by Jan Bang and Sylvian. It also features contributions from Otomo Yoshihide and Toshimaru Nakamura. Housed in an attractive CD size metal case with PVC jacket. Black label stickers front and back.
An experimental composition by David Sylvian recorded in March 2015 in Norway.
David interviewed by Alan Bangs on BFBS in 1987.
Tesshi Ichikawa interviews David Sylvian and Robert Fripp and interpreted by Steve Harris on March 10, 1992, at the Capitol Tokyu Hotel in Tokyo, Japan.
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Interview with former Japan front man David Sylvian by Rockin’ On’s Yoichi Shibuya at Toshiba EMI in Tokyo, Japan, on Oct. 16, 1984. Steve Harris interpreted.
BBC Saturday Live interview by Andy Batten-Foster. Broadcast on 23/06/1984.
Interview by Derek Richardson with David Sylvian for 5FM South Africa in November 1998.
Punkt 2016: We’re sorry to announce that the Manfred Eicher conversation tomorrow with Jan Omdahl is cancelled, due to illness. Instead, Erik Honoré will present a “musical essay” that he recently published in the literary journal Vagant, titled “The Memory of a Face”. It is an essay about David Sylvian, but it is just as much the story about Norwegian
Featuring David Sylvian on Forbidden Colours! Academy Award-winning composer Sakamoto both starred in and scored the 1983 film.
