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Samadhisound releases Uncommon Deities, a reinvention of David Sylvian’s audiovisual installation, produced by Jan Bang and Erik Honoré and featuring performances by David Sylvian, Arve Henriksen and Sidsel Endresen on September 14th 2012 in two versions (CD and Deluxe).

A new track featuring David Sylvian, called Nothing Is Happening Everywhere is being released on the upcoming album Night Within by the London duo Land (Daniel Lea and Matthew Waters). The album is released on Important Records on gatefold CD and Ltd Edition 12″ Grey Vinyl.

This page contains a compilation of reviews as found online, in papers and magazines about the David Sylvian compilation A Victim Of Stars. Latest: – Dusted Reviews (June 5, 2012) – ioPages (dutch, April 2012) – Blog Critics (April 13, 2012) – The York Press (April 6, 2012) – Cutting Edge (March 6, 2012 DUTCH) – The Cornishman & West

Unfortunately, the Implausible Beauty tour has been cancelled. Read more for: – tour defenitely cancelled: new message from David – rescheduled dates… – Personal message from David (Facebook, 30 januari 2012) – Official news on David’s Facebook page (Facebook, 30 januari 2012)

Joan as Policewoman is working on a new duets project with David Sylvian. UPDATE April 20th, 2014: According to Joan the project is still in the works. See tweets below. Joan talks about this project on the Huey Show as broadcast on February 6th, 2011 on BBC 6 Music (13:00 – 16:00). In the end of december 2011, Joan tweeted

EMI, A Victim Of Stars, 1982-2012 with new song Where’s Your Gravity? The new David Sylvian collection album “A Victim of Stars, 1982-2012” will be released at the beginning of next year. On leap day February 29, the double-CD hits the stores.

Tour is postponed! David Sylvian will tour Europe in March 2012, his first series of performances since 2007. David Sylvian’s ‘Implausible Beauty 2012’ tour will start in Padova, Italy on the 1st March 2012. NEW: Hildur Guðnadóttir to tour with David NEW: David Sylvian will be playing in Paris on April 13th as part of the Banlieues Bleues Festival. David’s

David Sylvian has created, for the first time, a calendar which is available exclusively via samadhisound. The 2012 calendar features David’s personal selection of his photographic work and was designed by David in collaboration with Chris Bigg. Spiral bound and measuring 24cm x 42.6 cm, the calendar is printed on rich, quality paper and released as a limited edition item.

Number of articles published in various papers and magazines about Punkt Festivalen 2011 in Kristiansand Norway.

This page contains a compilation of reviews as found online, in papers and magazines about David Sylvian album Died In The Wool. Latest: – YES! weekly (Januari 2012) – All About Jazz (October 2011) – Dusted Reviews (July 2011) – OndaRock (Italian, june 2011) – Twente uit de kunst (dutch, june 2011) – The Wire (june 2011)

Ryuichi Sakamoto will be a guest at the Concert for Japan concert on Saturday, April 9, 11 AM — 11 PM Ryuichi will be joined by: Mayo Yamaguchi (noh actor) – Live Guest David Sylvian (recorded poetry) Christian Fennesz (sounds) Yoshihide Otomo (sounds) Anne Akiko Meyers (violin) – Live Guest

Died in the Wool — variations on David Sylvian’s 2009 release Manafon with the addition of 6 new pieces, including collaborations with acclaimed composer Dai Fujikura, producers Jan Bang and Erik Honoré and a stellar roster of contemporary musicians and improvisers. Released as a Double CD digipak in a hardboard slipcase. Disc 2 featuring audio from the installation When We Return

Here’s the ad that was published in The Wire magazine July 2011

Commercial by Aramani with Raphael Nadal and music by David Sylvian.

New ads for Sleepwalkers by Samadhisound.

This page contains a compilation of reviews as found online, in papers and magazines about David Sylvian album Sleepwalkers. Latest: – Dusted magazine (December 2010) – Mousique (October 2010, dutch) – Mojo (December 2010) – Prog Archives (November 2010) – Irish Times review (November 2010) – Pitchfork review (November 2010)

The four songs written and recorded by David Sylvian and Ingrid Chavez in the mid to late 90’s, which were previously only available on the B-sides of various singles released by Virgin Records, are collected here for the first time. Available in a new digipak designed by Sylvian and, in keeping with some of the intimate themes addressed in the

According to the weblog of Duran Duran’s Simon Le Bon, David is involved in a project with actress Isabelle Adjani. The project is a “concept” album about the cycle of a love relationship, from one break up to another.

David recently completed work on a compilation cd featuring some of the best of his collaborative work of the last decade or so. Entitled ‘Sleepwalkers’ it contains fresh remixes by David and a new composition with classical composer Dai Fujikura entitled ‘Five Lines’. This 16 track new compilation will be released in September 26th 2010.

The Manafon Vinyl Edition will be released on the 26th July. It will only be available as a pre-order from samadhisound.com initially, and then from specialist retailers from 26th July. This two-disc deluxe vinyl version of Manafon is produced to the highest standards in a heavy, rigid card gatefold sleeve with design by Chris Bigg and featuring artwork by Ruud