Steve Jansen is pretty busy this period: * Steve Jansen and Claudio Chianura are performing 'Kinoapparatom' live at the Villa Alba Gardone Riviera near Garda Lake, Northern Italy on 04.09.2005 *Steve will be appearing at the Apple Store (Ginza), Tokyo on 09.08.2005 for a special workshop event with Sound and Recording Magazine. Read more ..... *Steve has contributed on 3 tracks of the new Eye Talk album Anything Is Possible. Read more and win a copy!
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There is a great David Sylvian feature in the July 2005 issue of Guitar Player (US). It's six pages long. There is also an interesting piece on Porcupine Tree in the magazine too. Both pieces have been written by the respected innerviews.org owner Anil Prasad.
Finally, it looks like a videoclip of David Sylvian is coming on an official DVD. Site-reader Riverman forwarded me the great news of a series of soon to be released DVD's, of famous pop promo directors. One of them is Anton Corbijn and one of the promos on the DVD is David Sylvians Red Guitar.
There will be a feature on David in this Sunday’s (April 10, 2005) edition of The Observer, which is a National Sunday newspaper in the UK. The feature will be in the magazine. Get it while you can!
Since their first collaborative album “Secret Rhythms” came out on Nonplace in 2002, Friedman & Liebezeit have been playing live all over the world, improving cyclic grooves and creating new ones. Paradoxically, their rhythms are difficult to grasp but easy to listen to. The 3 exclusive tracks for this vinyl only mini LP casually manoeuvre round the jagged rocks of
The last recorded release from Harold Budd is now available at the Samadhi Sound for purchase. In addition, there are .mp3 samples of the album tracks available on davidsylvian.com for listening.
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.
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.
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A Tribute To Ryuichi Sakamoto - To The Moon And Back
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Brilliant Trees / Secrets Of The Beehive
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God Man
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