as published on The Quientus, by Wyndham Wallace, March 26, 2012
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by Jim Lange at West Virginia Public Radio for his radio show EclecTopia.
Chris Comer interviews David Sylvian on WAIF-FM about the release of Blemish. Chris Comer And Rob Ervin have a radio show on Cincinnati’s WAIF-FM called “Chris & Rob Late Night Talk Show”
As published on the official website.
David Sylvian takes on improv: Manafon (Performing Musician, December 2009)
Transcripts, Interview, 0After a 30-year career, David Sylvian has just released his most adventurous album yet. With a new, and largely improvisational, approach to music, he tells PM why he feels hes only just beginning to learn his craft.By Jonathan Wingate as published in Performing Musician (december 2009)
By Lisa Jackson for Cream Magazine In the early 1980’s, while most new romantics played it bright, fey and dandy, DAVID SYLVIAN and his band Japan subscribed to a kind of melancholic futurism. They were in a way, ahead of their time in the pre-millennial tension stakes. One of Britain’s most innovative bands, and an act many say helped pioneer
Recorded on August 18th 2003, Chris Douridas talks in his show New Ground with David Sylvian about the release of Blemish.
Interview by Clive Bell with David Sylvian about the Dead Bees On A Cake album BBC Radio 3 Mixing It radio show broadcast on April 17th 1999 by Mark Russell and Robert Sandall. Guest interviewer Clive Bell interviews David Sylvian about his project Dead Bees On A Cake.
by David Sylvianas published on Nine Horses website
Interview by Stephan Cox in late 1999 with David Sylvian about the release of Approaching Silence The interview was broadcast in a show called Music Backstage by Stephan Cox for Redband.
By Brian Nixon Special to ASSIST News Service
CD of the Month: David Sylvian, Manafon (Samadhi Sound)by Robert Sandall
Audiovisual installation at Srlandet Art Museum Kristiansand, Norway, from 1 September 9 OctoberAudio: David Sylvian (When We Return You Won't Recognize Us)Artwork: Atsushi FukuiLighting design: Kouji Iida / Kaito Office
Originally published by Sound On Sound at June 17th 1994. Despite having spent more than 15 years in the public eye, David Sylvian remains an enigmatic figure who has reinvented his own musical style constantly, both within his solo work and in his collaborations with musicians as diverse as Holger Czukay and Robert Fripp. PAUL TINGEN charts the history of
By Fiona Russell Powell. Published in The Face, October 1982.
Article published in the french magazine "Rock&Folk"( issue 412- December 2001).
Q&A as published in Rodeo Magazine
By Guttorm Andreasen
Flux magazine Q+A, October 2010
by Steven Rose for Blurt Magazine
We shouldn't ask that things be made too easy for us.A compilation by SamadhiSound of Q & A interviews undertaken in reference to the release and reception of Manafon.
Alone in the middle of a forest in New England, David Sylvian embraced disillusionment, rejected false gods and embarked on a more austere songwriting regimen than ever before. For his latest studio album, Manafon, the former pop singer also made connections with electroacoustic improvisors including Keith Rowe, Evan Parker, John Tilbury, Polwechsel, Otomo Yoshihide and Toshimaru Nakamura. By Biba Kopf.
David Sylvian on his new album Manafon.For his latest album David Sylvian, the former frontman of seminal 80s band Japan, takes inspiration from the life and work of Welsh poet RS Thomas. Long-time fan Hannah Jones exchanges emails with him to understand the meaning behind Manafon
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