David Sylvian

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Jon Hassell: radical musician who studied with Stockhausen and worked with Eno
The influential experimental US composer ‘celebrated and dignified’ his ‘fourth world’ sources and contributed to albums by Brian Eno and Talking Heads

Alexis Petridis

27, Jun, 2021 @6:51 PM

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Michael Jackson, George Michael, Prince and more: readers share their favourite albums turning 30
To commemorate Michael Jackson’s Bad album turning 30 this week, we asked you for other albums from 1987 that still mean something to you

Guardian readers and Tom Stevens

30, Aug, 2017 @1:08 PM

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Trumpeter Arve Henriksen: Norway's top brass
He named an album after an ancient Japanese gardening book and likes a spot of unhinged screaming on stage. Ben Beaumont-Thomas talks to the experimental Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen

Ben Beaumont-Thomas

03, Feb, 2013 @8:30 PM

David Sylvian: Manafon | CD review

Like much of David Sylvian's 21st-century work, Manafon is a forbidding proposition, says Maddy Costa

Maddy Costa

10, Sep, 2009 @11:01 PM

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CD: David Sylvian, When Loud Weather Buffeted Naoshima

(Samadhisound)

John L Walters

17, Aug, 2007 @10:59 PM

Turning Japanese

With their dyed hair, poetic ambitions and liberal use of eyeliner, Japan gave a sense of identity to a generation of disaffected suburban teens. Among them was Jason Cowley. Twenty years on, David Sylvian, the band's frontman, talks about his latest solo album and his life as an old New Romantic.

Jason Cowley

10, Apr, 2005 @1:03 AM

Disc doctors

How David Sylvian's album Blemish got a whole new lease of life thanks to a team of remixers. John L Walters reports.

John L Walters

11, Feb, 2005 @12:03 AM

David Sylvian, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester

Bridgewater Hall, Manchester

Dave Simpson

26, Sep, 2003 @1:51 AM

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Pop review: David Sylvian

Hammersmith Apollo, London
Rating: ***

John Aizlewood

17, Oct, 2001 @11:00 PM

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