On The Periphery – David Sylvian: A Biography – The Solo Years by Chris Young. This book – which has taken 3 years to complete – tracks the period of Sylvian’s solo career from 1982 to 2013. The book was published in English (original), Italian and Japanese.
Printed matter
A lot if miscellaneous, related publications.
New book by Leonardo Areno, published by Mimesis, Milan 2014. Only in Italian!
Limited edition catalogue for the glowing enigmas exhibition by David Sylvian.limited to 1000 copies, printed on heavy, high quality paper. 55 black and white and colour reproductions of instant originals.
At the abandon/hope exhibition at the Spiral garden in Tokyo, a very beautiful exhibition catalogue was released. The book is a 2-volume set, one volume is “Abandon” (which features the Tokyo works), and the other is “Hope” (the Uno works) and was released in 3 versions.
This beautiful 82-page Punkt program book was sold at the Punkt Festival 2011 in Kristiansand, Norway.
The poem book as published on Punkt Festival 2011. This book is available in Norwegian (ISBN 978-82-998753-0-1) and in English edition (978-82-998753-1-8).
Original and rare issue of #12 of Moonshadow by J.M. DeMatteis and John J. Muth, published by Epic Comics (part of Marvel) in 1987.
Many of Fujiwara's pictures from this book were used in the artwork of Rain Tree Crow material.
A beautiful 36 page tourbook. Very colourful, with pictures by Kevin Westenberg and Darshan pictures by Jim Friedman. Design is by Vaughan Oliver and v23. Tour dates and places are listed as well as short biographies. A major place in the book is taken by the lyrics of the track The First Day.
Photo compilation book by Akira Kitajima. Subtitled '1989-1993'
The best I have ever seen!
This Rimy River - graphic works 1988-94
Super rare Japanese release of the Perspectives book, covering his Polaroids artwork from 1982 to 1984. This book (only 500 printed!), as well as the regular UK release, contain colour prints of his polaroid collages, featuring many famous persons as subject of those collages like Steve Jansen, Holger Czukay, Yuka Fujii and Angus McBean.
A 16 page book. Very colourful pictures by Kevin Westenberg from the same sessions as the photo’s used in the artwork of the same-titled album.
A collaboration of music and graphics. London, Tokyo.
Limited Edition 2012 Calendar – 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
Features the canceled Everything & Nothing artwork by P. Scott Makela
From Mahler to Trance - The Evolution of Sound in the Electronic Age
Origin of Camphor
Das Never Ending Lexicon 3/2000
DC Comics re-issue of all 12 Moonshadow issues, in paperback format, 468 pages.
Approaching Silenceartwork
Chris Crader is a well known photographer in the Sylvian community. He made wonderful pictures of David and band during the Everything And Nothing tour in 2002 and in 2007 at the The World Is Everything tour.
As published in Janus, July 1st 1999. By David Sylvian and Carl De Keyzer. Janus magazine is a free magazine as delivered with the Belgium paper De Standaard.
