Artist: David Sylvian
Genre(s):
Alternative
Experimental
Rock
Discography:
Secrets Of The Beehive
Year: 2003
Tracks: 11
Blemish
Year: 2003
Tracks: 8
Camphor CD1
Year: 2002
Tracks: 14
Everything and Nothing - Disc CD2
Year: 2000
Tracks: 15
Everything and Nothing - Disc CD1
Year: 2000
Tracks: 14
Godman (Limited Edition)
Year: 1999
Tracks: 5
Dead Bees On A Cake
Year: 1999
Tracks: 14
Approaching Silence
Year: 1999
Tracks: 3
Weatherbox (Disc 2) - Alchemy
Year: 1989
Tracks: 6
Weatherbox ( CD3) - Gone To
Year: 1989
Tracks: 7
Words With The Shaman
Year: 1985
Tracks: 3
Brilliant Trees - Words With T
Year: 1984
Tracks: 10
Gone To Earth (Instrumental)
Year:
Tracks: 10
Gentlemen Take Polaroids Remastered (Inc Bonus Tracks)
Year:
Tracks: 11
Everything and Nothing - Bonus CD3
Year:
Tracks: 4
Camphor (bonus disc) CD2
Year:
Tracks: 3
Following the 1982 dissolving of Japan, the group's sometime frontman David Sylvian staked out a far-ranging and esoteric life history that encompassed non only solo projects simply also a series of absorbing collaborative efforts and forays into filmmaking, photography, and innovative art. Born David Batt in Kent, England, on February 23, 1958, Sylvian formed Japan in 1974 and served as primary singer/songwriter throughout the group's eight-year existence. Just prior to Japan's dissolution, Sylvian began working with composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, with whom he released the individual "Bamboo Houses" in 1982, grading the beginning of a longstanding musical relationship.
Afterwards 1983's "Tabu Colours," another juncture cause with Sakamoto composed for the film Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, Sylvian released his 1984 solo debut, Splendid Trees. The number 1 step in his music's evolution from Japan's post-glam synth pop into amply textured, poetic ambience, the album featured contributions from Sakamoto as well as Jon Hassell and Can alum Holger Czukay. That year, Sylvian also published his offset book of photographs, Perspectives: Polaroids 82/84; in 1985, he released Preparations for the Journey, a documentary filmed in and more or less Tokyo, as well as the EP Dustup With the Shaman.
Gone to Earth, an challenging bivalent LP recorded with assistance from Robert Fripp and Bill Nelson, followed in 1986, piece 1987 marked the release not but of the beautiful Secrets of the Beehive album simply as well the book ingathering Trophies: The Lyrics of David Sylvian. At the same time, he began composing the score for modernistic social dancer Gaby Abis' Kin, which premiered at London's Almeida Theater that September; some other collaboration with Abis, Don't Trash My Altar, Don't Alter My Trash, bowed in November 1988. Also in 1988, Sylvian reunited with Holger Czukay for the subservient LP Troth and Premonition; the duo re-teamed in 1989 for Flux density + Mutability. Coal Glance: The Permanence of Memory, an installation of sculpture, sound, and unaccented created by Sylvian and Russell Mills, was staged in Tokyo Bay, Shinagawa, in 1990; a year afterwards, he and the early members of Japan, wHO had briefly reunited under the distinguish Rain Tree Crow, issued a self-titled album.
In 1994, Sylvian emerged in tandem with Robert Fripp for both an album, The First Day, and Redemption, another sound-and-image initiation exhibited in Japan. The superb Dead Bees on a Cake followed in 1999; Coming Silence, a compendium of instrumental material, appeared subsequently that fall down. In fall 2000 Sylvian returned with the double-disc Everything and Nothing, which made for an fantabulous presentation to some of Sylvian's projects that had in the end interpreted flesh subsequently composition windup, financial settlements, and time constraints end-to-end his solo vocation. He reappeared in 2003 with Spot, an unsettling disk of new material featuring appearances by avant guitar legend Derek Bailey and electronica experimentalist Christian Fennesz.
Miguel Bose
