Blonde Redhead have been the main support act on Interpol's US tour, which kicked off on 7th February in Cincinatti. To celebrate, 4AD has released a US-only EP which gathers together all the b-sides from the band's two 2004 UK singles ("Elephant Woman" and "Equus") into one handy package.
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Sweet Billy Pilgrim, well known for their excellent remix of The Heart Knows Better on the Blemish remix album Good Son vs The Only Daughter released a great single which can be bought here.
A NEW NONPLACE RELEASE IS DUE MAY 2005 Since their first collaborative album “Secret Rhythms” came out on Nonplace in 2002, Friedman & Liebezeit have been playing live all over the world, improving their notoriously uncommon grooves and elaborating odd ones. On this vinyl mini LP Burnt Friedman and Jaki Liebezeit still casually manoeuvre round the jagged rocks of “four-four
In its ongoing efforts to raise money for the victims of genocide in Sudan, Waxploitation Records is setting up an all-star online auction via eBay in late starting Monday, January 17th. All of the proceeds will be donated to UNICEF and the UN Refugee Agency, who are actively working relief in that region.
Here is the HTML-ised version of the official ‘the good son vs. the only daughter’ (the ‘blemish’ remixes) album press release. This album will be available for pre-orders from the 31st January 2005 from Samadhisound.com, and on general release thereafter.
The december issue of The Wire features a full page ad for the Samadhisound Label, including quotes from reviews of the Harold Budd album "Avalon Sutra" and the Akira Rabelais album "Spellewaureynsherde".
The Blemish album has been remixed by various artists including Ryoji Ikeda, Burnt Friedman, Readymade and other electronic stars. It will be released by P-Vine in Japan and by Samadhi Sound elsewhere.
Robert Fripp writes in his diary (Wednesday 20th. October, 2004), that he did that very day a recording session for David Sylvian's new solo album.
Swedish magazine Groove, issue #6, 2004 has an interview with Stina Nordenstam where she mentions having recently worked with David and his brother Steve.
The long awaited CD/DVD set by Takagi Masakatsu, titled Coieda, is out! It was released on September 8th on the W+K Tokyo Lab label. Exclusive for davidsylvian.net, Takagi talks about himself, the album and the touring with David and Steve. But also, David answers questions about Takagi and the track Exit/Delete which can be found on Coieda.
David is doing some work on the new Friedman & Liebezeit album, but nothing is certain yet what the outcome will be. There is a possibility that David will do vocals on a couple of tracks but officially, nothing has been confirmed.
A commercial for TIAA features a recording by David Sylvian. The track is a vocal rendition of Somewhere (from West Side Story). The commercial for TIAA was shown during the opening ceremonies for the Olympics on NBC in the USA.
Early July, David has recorded in Vienna with Christian Fennesz and ex-members of Polwechsel.
According to davidsylvian.net member abetomo, the Fire in The Forest 04 concert on April 24 at the Showa Joshi Hitomi Kinen Kohdohin in Tokyo (Japan), was recorded for Hi -Definition Television broadcast by the Japanese TV station "NHK". The show will be broadcast on 30 July 2004 from 11:45pm to 1:15am (Tokyo time) in High Vision TV format (digital format) in Japan. It means that the show can not be viewed from normal TV.
David had just finished up work on a song for the anime incarnation of the justifiably famous manga MONSTER. The music from "Monster" is released in Japan on 23/6. The catalogue number is VPCG 84807. For more information, take a look here.
Arve Henriksen released his new album Cartography featuring David Sylvian on 2 tracks. His support is mainly lyrics and an occasional speaker contrbution.
A stunning 5 LP/2 CD Box Set with a mini clubman mini-record player all in one neat-box. Part of a numbered limited edition of 4,000 only.
The album L'Albero Pazzo by Andrea Chimenti has been re-issued. This is finally the chance for people who desperately want the track Ti Ho Aspettato (I Have Waited For You) feauring David SYlvian on an offical CD. This reissue includes new artwork.
David will contribute on Takagi Masakatsu's new album COIEDA, coming out September 8, 2004. The track is called exit/delete.
The management of David Sylvian pointed out that David Sylvian is NOT performing with Christian in Italy. Due to artistic reasons, it is not possible play Venice live. The original announcement on Christian’s site has been removed too, but Christian is actually playing at the festival! Dates will be confirmed soon. The Fano community site lists that Christian Fennesz is
Fennesz’s new album, “Venice”, featuring David Sylvian on Transit is out now!! David and Christian Fennesz have written a new composition for Christian’s forthcoming album, titled Transit. Also featured on the album is Burkhard Stangl.
David has recorded an alternate version of the track Messenger, which will probably appear as a bonus track on the Japanese issue of the Blonde Redhead album Misery is a butterfly and on the upcoming Blonde Redhead single Equus. Note that neither of these releases have been officially confirmed.
The previously unreleased remix of Late Night Shopping by tweaker (Chris Vrenna) is released on a split 7" single with Skool Daze, Alec Empire's reinterpretation of Chris Vrenna's score to American McGee's Alice.
Samadhi Sound, the label of David, will be releasing some very interesting titles in the near future. One of them is a re-issue of the World Citizen EP. Buy it at Amazon.co.uk. Click here.
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