Interview by Alan Bangs on BFBS
Interview
From the avant-glam pop of ]apan to free-jazz improv, he has spent three decades challenging himself. Where next for the latter-day Scott Walker? lts still all out there to be done, says David Sylvian. Interview by Phil Alexander. Portrait by Kevin Westenberg.
Four years in the making, and twelve years after his last solo album Secrets of the Beehive, David Sylvian offers us another opportunity to immerse ourselves in his unique aural landscape with his long-awaited new solo album, entitled Dead Bees on a Cake. The album offers us a sonic experience that is both familiar and refreshingly new. A truly contemporary album, but one that is not guided by the current fashion of the day. A pop album by all...
Interview by Tom Lanham. David Sylvian is talking about advertising, about how he, his wife and three children skirt consumer-aimed pressure and stay true to their spartan, spiritual lifestyle.
by Dean Kuipers
Steve Harris interviews David on October 8th 1986 at Toshiba EMI in Tokyo, Japan
Interview by Laurie Lewis with David Sylvian as published in SOUNDS (UK), September 27 1986.As DAVID SYLVIAN settles into the quiet life of solo status, CHRIS ROBERTS appraises the significant stature of his post-Japan harmonics and post-mascara beauty. Gentleman in Polaroid by LAURIE LEWIS
The following is the original Q & A which appears in edited form in the 7th issue of Fourth Door Review. David Sylvian interview: questions prepared by Oliver Lowenstein 18.9.04.
by TINTIN TORNCRANTZ as published on colette.fr February 16 2010 (now defunct).
This is an interview/montage broadcast on the Japanese radio during the In Praise Of Shaman tour.
An exclusive David Sylvian interview from 2009 in the Spanish magazine Ruta 66.
David Jensen interviews David Sylvian just before the release of Gone To Earth.
OOR magazine (NL) nr.19 release date September 20th 1986.
Great interview by Mark and Robert on BBC Radio 3 show Mixing It, talking with David about Rain Tree Crow.
Article (in dutch) by Frank de Munnik in the Dutch TV magazine VPRO Gids (issue 39, 29th September 2007).
Published in Canadian newspaper Mtro and online.
Japanese 230 page magazine, featuring article on David Sylvian.
Glossy culture magazine of Norwegian newspaper Afterposten. Features article on carrier of David Sylvian as support of David's visit at Punkt Festival in Kristiansand.
David Sylvian: Portrait of an artist by Ian Birch
Chris Comer interviews David Sylvian on WAIF-FM about the release of Everything & Nothing (2002) Chris Comer And Rob Ervin have a radio show on Cincinnati’s WAIF-FM called “Chris & Rob Late Night Talk Show”
Nice little interview with David Sylvian in the Times (UK March 3rd, 2012) by Alex O’Connell
This cassette features an interview special with David Sylvian, featuring Robert Fripp, David Torn, Jon Hassell and Mick Karn. Interview was released on cassette in 1993.
One page mini interview in the March 2012 issue of Mojo (UK). The page features a self portrait by David Sylvian ART ROCK’S ESOTERIC CHAMELEON, IN HIS OWN WORDS AND BY HIS OWN HAND
Zero Music Magazine (Sweden)Journalist: Hans-Olof Svensson
