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2003 solo album from David Sylvian, his first since 1999's 'Dead Bees on a Cake'. It's the debut release for his Samadhi Sound label. David set aside a month to write & record the album while taking a break from the project that he & his brother, Steve Jansen, are working on. He has created an impromptu suite of songs for guitar, electronics & voice. The compositions were crafted from improvisational sessions captured live in the studio. Working almost entirely alone David has created an emotionally raw, minimalist work, of immediacy & stark beauty. Adding to the intensity & air of experimentation is the presence of Derek Bailey. Three of the pieces included on 'Blemish' were written with, & feature, the legendary free-jazz guitarist. The final track of the CD features a haunting electronic arrangement by Christian Fennesz. Digipak.

Secrets of the Beehive is the fourth solo album by David Sylvian and was released in 1987. Produced by Steve Nye and David Sylvian, the album features Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Torn, Mark Isham and Steve Jansen among others.

DAVID SYLVIAN RELEASES NEW COMPILATION SLEEPWALKERS: FEATURES HIS GREATEST COLLABORATIONS FROM THE '00S, INCLUDING "WORLD CITIZEN" WITH RYUICHI SAKAMOTO, THE NINE HORSES PROJECT, AND THE NEW SONG "FIVE LINES," A COLLABORATION WITH DAI FUJIKURA. In the '00s, David Sylvian produced two of his strongest and most solitary statements, Blemish and Manafon. But those records don't tell the whole story. In the same period, Sylvian created a more playful body of work: a series of collaborations and side projects with leading talents of pop and improv, electronic and contemporary classical music. The best of these recordings are gathered here on Sleepwalkers, meticulously sequenced and remixed: the fruits of one-off meetings and lifelong partnerships, they jump from bliss to intrigue, romance to sensuality, as arch experiments lead into the lushest pop. The single "World Citizen - I Won't Be Disappointed," written with Ryuichi Sakamoto, is a sublime example, with an impeccable melody and lyric warmed by Sylvian's gorgeous tenor. Sylvian has worked with Sakamoto for close to three decades. By contrast, on "Pure Genius," a collaboration with Chris Vrenna aka Tweaker, he sounds like he's walked into a heist flick, singing the part of a delusional, dangerous bedroom genius. As Sylvian explains, tracks like this "give me a chance to write in a way that's completely non-personal, playful. It's an exercise of some kind, working within the parameters of a given assignment." Intrigue of a different kind drives "Sugarfuel," with music by Jean-Philippe Verdin, aka Readymade FC. The lyrics offered "an opportunity to grapple with a more overt sexual theme than anything I'd attempted previously, as suggested by a vocal sample in the original track provided, a threateningly insistent 'I'm on your side.' So I took that as my point of entry and ran with it. I would love to write more on this subject should I find the right context. You're always aware of walking a thin line exploring sexuality with language alone. The failings of the great and the good are strewn all around." Sylvian's longest-running partnership is with his brother, drummer and electronics artist Steve Jansen, and two of their projects find their way here: the Nine Horses trio with Burnt Friedman, and Jansen's debut album (and samadhisound release) Slope. "Wonderful World" strolls in on a black tie bass line and the echoing coos of Swedish chanteuse Stina Nordenstam, whose high chirps brush hands with Sylvian's lead; while on "Ballad of a Deadman," his voice and Joan Wasser's (Joan As Police Woman) roll together over the tune's dusty blues. But Sylvian is alone again with the bitter memories of "Playground Martyrs," while Jansen's exquisite music recalls the orchestrated ballads of Secrets of the Beehive. Sleepwalkers also spotlights the innovators who contributed to Manafon and Blemish. Christian Fennesz hangs a crackling, shimmering curtain behind the vocal on "Transit," matching his signature mass of sui generis sounds to Sylvian's stately performance. And the title track began with an instrumental handed to Sylvian by Martin Brandlmayr of Polwechsel, soon after the first recording session for Manafon. Spite crackles in the gaps between the percussion, and onkyo artists Toshimaru Nakamura and Sachiko M set the stage for the scathing lyrics in the chorus. It cuts close to the bone, and so do the two spoken word cuts, "Angel" and "Thermal," produced by samadhisound recording artist Jan Bang and Erik Honor‚ (and featuring Arve Henriksen on trumpet). Sylvian describes the latter work as a "love poem" to his daughter. "'Thermal' reflects on a period when our time in Sonoma, CA was coming to an end. We'd stayed in temporary accommodation which had lulled us into a false sense of security. We had pear, apple, lemon, and figs trees growing in the yard. A small but exotic paradise. A cocoon. But the cracks were beginning to show in the relationship between [ex-wife Ingrid Chavez] and I which is where I think this underlying sense of anxiety, which runs throughout the

2009 album from the acclaimed British vocalist and former member of Japan. David Sylvian is a man apart. In a thirty-year career that spans the New Romantic movement, ambient works and Progressive Rock, and mature and esoteric Pop, Sylvian has tested popular styles and bent them to his own vision. On Manafon, Sylvian pursues "a completely modern kind of chamber music. Intimate, dynamic, emotive, democratic, economical." In sessions in London, Vienna, and Tokyo, Sylvian assembled the world's leading improvisers and innovators, artists who explore free improvisation, space-specific performance, and live electronics. From Evan Parker and Keith Rowe, to Fennesz and members of Polwechsel, to Sachiko M and Otomo Yoshihide, the musicians provide both a backdrop and a counterweight to his own vocal performances.

8-track CD from David Sylvian, Steve Jansen, and Burnt Friedman. Three new songs and remixes of five of the songs from 'Snow Borne Sorrow'.

Digitally remastered reissue, in standard jewel case, of the first solo album from former Japan vocalist, originally released in 1984. Features seven tracks including the single 'Red Guitar'. Virgin.

大衛·西爾維安，出生於英國肯特之音樂家 。 在1974年，與Mick Karn、Richard Barbieri及弟弟Steve Jansen共同組成「Japan樂隊」。在1982年「Japan樂隊」解散後，繼續與坂本龍一和其他音樂家合作演出眾多作品

David Sylvian is an English singer-songwriter and musician who came to prominence in the late 1970s as frontman and principal songwriter of the band Japan. The band's androgynous look and increasingly electronic sound made them an important influence on the UK's early-1980s New Romantic scene.

Voice, Vocals [Vocal Treatments], Electronics recorded by David Sylvian, Los Angeles, USA, 2014.
Instrumental parts recorded by Rupert Clervaux at Studio 3, London, 18th February 2017.
Additional contribution from Toshimaru Nakamura (no-input mixer) recorded by Steve Bates and David Sylvian, Montreal, Canada, 2012.
Tubular bell and concert bass drum recorded by Matthew Sansom, Surrey University, 2006.
Voice, Vocals [Vocal Treatments], Electronics – David Sylvian
Cover, Design – Aleksandra Grünholz, Mark Wastell, studiochaotyczne.com
Harp [Lap Harp], Harp [Table Harp], Vibraphone, Effects [Radio] – Rhodri Davies
Mixed By, Mastered By – Rupert Clervaux
Recorded By – David Sylvian, Steve Bates
Recorded By [Instrumental Parts - No-Input Mixer] – Toshimaru Nakamura
Recorded By [Instrumental Parts] – Rupert Clervaux
Recorded By [Tubular Bell & Concert Bass Drum] – Matthew Sansom
Recorded By [Voice Recorded By] – David Sylvian
Tam-tam [Tam Tam], Cymbal [Cracked Ride Cymbal], Chimes, Temple Bells [Indian Temple Bells], Singing Bowls, Effects [Metal Chain], Bells [Tubular Bell], Bass Drum [Concert Bass Drum] – Mark Wastell
Text By [Original Text] – Bernard-Marie Koltès

David Sylvian与前妻Ingrid Chavez自制CD，只有２０张送给亲朋戚友。参照：
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This CD was made privately in a batch of 20 for friends and record-company associates.
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Versions of track 3, 4, 5 and 6 are different from the final versions that made it as b-sides of the I Surrender single. Track 1 & 2 are still unreleased anywhere elese.
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All instruments David Sylvian, Except noted.
Richard Werbowanko - samples track 3.
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Recorded at Alma studios Minneapolis.
Produced by David Sylvian and Ingrid Chavez.

Earlier this year, David was invited to participate in an installation by the visual artist Phil Collins, entitled “My heart’s in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand’s in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught” (after Genet).
A number of musicians were given, with the consent of those using the phone, anonymously recorded telephone conversations from a booth housed in a homeless centre in the centre of Cologne, from which to construct a composition of their choosing incorporating the text either directly or indirectly as each participant saw fit.
The resulting work was played back in specially designed listening booths in the museum itself. The conversations that david received resulted in the song “Do You Know Me Now?”, released for the first time on the samadhisound label on 10” vinyl and as digital files.
The A-side is backed by a re-mastered version of the song “Where’s Your Gravity?”, which first appeared on the EMI compilation A Victim of Stars. The package is beautifully designed by Chris Bigg, and each mail ordered copy will be signed by David himself.
The installation was successfully housed in the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, from April 18 through to July 21 2013, and will travel further afield later in the year. ….

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World Citizen " is the fourth singles collaboration between two seminal figures in electronic pop - Sylvian and Sakamoto. The lyrical content of both songs marks a departure for Sylvian's usual oblique, poetic style.
There are no references to Tarkovsky, and French left bank existentialism as was the case in his finely crafted solo albums such as "Secrets of the Beehive" and "Brilliant Trees". Instead, he opts for a direct assault on the Bush administration and American multi-national shennanigans; The result of this approach is one of curious nievity and sincere honesty.
The music accompanyment in " World Citizen" is suprisingly pedestrian given his recently successful foray into glitch electronica and Improv experimentalsim with last years' "Blemish". However, " World Citizen (I won't be dissapointed) offers a much more varied pallette of sounds with Sketchshow (Haroumi Hosono and Yuhkiro Takahashi) at the production helm. Overall, a delight to see Sylvian standing up to America (His adopted homeland)and offer more overtly political material in a way that dosen't cynically jump on the artistic bandwagon of " Yankbashing" like Madonna and other artists in the mainstream.

UK remixed, remastered & repackaged reissue of 1994 live album featuring David Sylvian (Japan) & Robert Fripp (King Crimson). 2001.

Digitally remastered reissue, in standard jewel case, of 1985 album from the former vocalist of Japan. Features four bonus tracks: two of which were only available on the original cassette ('Preparations For A Journey' and 'Steel Cathedrals' and two only available as b-sides ('The Stigma Of Childhood' and 'A Brief Conversation Ending In Divorce'. Guests include Steve Jansen, Jon Hassell, Holger Czukay, John Taylor, Robert Fripp & Ryuichi Sakamoto. Virgin.

Digitally remastered reissue, in standard jewel case, of this 1986 album from the former vocalist of Japan. 20 tracks total including seven bonus tracks, 'River Man' (Remix), 'Gone To Earth' (Remix), 'Camp Fire-Coyote Country' (Remix), 'Silver Moon Over Sleeping Steeples' 'Camp Fire-Coyote Country', 'A Bird Of Prey Vanishes Into A Bright Blue Cloudless Sky' & 'Sunlight Seen Through Towering Trees'. Guests include Bill Nelson, Robert Fripp, & Mel Collins. Virgin.