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!
Anil Prasad’s Innerviews: Music Without Borders – Extraordinary Conversations with Extraordinary Musicians.
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.
This is the book from Fujiwara that contains all pictures used for Everything And Nothing. Beautiful book.
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
The Sketchbook Of Ryuichi Sakamoto The very rare book by Ryuichi Sakamoto that features pictures taken at sessions of Ryuichi with David and the hand written (and corrected) lyrics by David of The Boy With The Gun.
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
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.
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.
The tour book is hard-backed with full colour quality printing and contains photographs taken by David, song lyrics, credits for the tour itself, and a sampler CD featuring a selection from the artists on Samadhisound.
A 100-page book, typically written by real fans, covering the 80 day In Praise Of Shamans tour.
Products
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Shining Of Things: Dedicated To David Sylvian €24.27
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I Surrender €5.00
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Gone To Earth €37.97
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Async €12.99
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Gone to Earth €11.44
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