Transcripts

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

by Anton Rush

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

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

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

By Stephen Holden, 16 December 1987

Inexorably Sylvian by Nile Larsen (Details, April 1988)

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

by Mark Prendergast Originally published in two parts; Record Collector April and May 1990.

Since DAVID SYLVIAN split Japan at their zenith nearly a decade ago his fans have been praying they’d got back together. And now they have, under the name of RAIN TREE CROW. STEVE SUTHERLAND meets Sylvian to discover the impetus behind the band’s re-emergence.

Exorcising Ghosts (Rain Tree Crow) by Mark J. Prendergast (Lime Lizard, May 1991) From surrealist parrots to the japan reunion, Mark J. Prendergast gets ambient with David Sylvian who explains why it’s o.k. to shout insults at bricks.

Spurning Japanese by Simon Dudfield and A.J. Barratt (NME, Sep. 1991) David Sylvian has little time for his last group, glam rockers made good JAPAN, so why has he chosen to team up with his old cohorts again as ambient moodies Rain Tree Crow? Simon Dudfield puts it down to the peculiar flight path of `true art’. Seconding that emulsion: