Transcripts

By Fiona Russell Powell. Published in The Face, October 1982.

DON”T CALL ME PRETTY!News of the World magazine supplement ‘Sunday’, 5 February 1984by Ingrid Milliar

The Art Of Noise by Ian Birch (Smash Hits, May 1984) What’s David Sylvian been doing since Japan broke up? Taking Polaroids, traveling, organizing an exhibition — oh and making a new record. “Art is my means of expression.” he tells Ian Birch.

This brilliant carreer by Steve Sutherland This interview with David Sylvian is taken from the Melody Maker and was first printed in the UK on 12th May 1984

by Anton Rush

Journeys Into The Interior Biba Kopf, New Musical Express, 11 August 1984

David Sylvian: Portrait of an artist by Ian Birch

by Dave Rimmer Having spent over five years behind a thick layer of make-up, David Sylvian has emerged from the cocoon of Pop Celebrity to make a butterfly foray into the avant-garde. His new work lies somewhere between wallpaper and revolution. But nobody seems quite sure.

David Sylvian: Blonde On Blonde by Don Watson, New Musical Express, 23 August 1986

Interview by Laurie Lewis with David Sylvian as published in SOUNDS (UK), September 27 1986.As DAVID SYLVIAN settles into the quiet life of solo status, CHRIS ROBERTS appraises the significant stature of his post-Japan harmonics and post-mascara beauty. Gentleman in Polaroid by LAURIE LEWIS

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.

Silent Secrets MELODY MAKER, September 26, 1987

Scared of Success: David Sylvian — The Man Who Would Be Invisible Simon Witter, i-D, November 1987

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.

By Stephen Holden, 16 December 1987

Inexorably Sylvian by Nile Larsen (Details, April 1988)

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.

David Sylvian: The Loner Emerges by Ted Drozdowski, Musician, May 1988

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.

by Richard Cook