DAVID SYLVIAN / AN INVISIBLE BAND
INTERVIEW INTRO //
Since the demise of UK post glam synth pop band
Japan in the early 80s singer/songwriter/multi instrumentalist David
Sylvian has over almost 20 albums carved out one of the most eclectic
& eccentric careers in modern music. Seemingly oblivious or
indifferent to commercial success he’s worked on movie soundtrack
& ballet scores, photography, modern art installations, melded
electronica, folk, jazz & middle eastern influences on a series
of instrumental & vocal albums & collaborated with a number
of artists including Japanese electronica master Ryuichi Sakamoto,
ex Can member Holger Czukay, Jazz trumpeter Jon Hassell, guitarist
Robert Fripp amongst others & most recently with German keyboardist/
producer Burnt Friedman & UK veteran avant garde guitarist Derek
Bailey.
An abortive Japan reunion in 1991 fell apart
when he perversely demanded that the project be called Raintree
Crow & produced one album that was a David Sylvian album in
all but name. In 2003 he released a stark emotionally brutal album
Blemish that chronicled his internal emotional life & the demise
of his decade long marriage (which I was too polite to bring up
with him) followed by an equally affecting album of remixes The
Good Son vs the Dutiful Daughter. Sylvian’s cryptic lyrics
& his emotive rich baritone throb have become progressively
more intense. And now he returns to lush sophisticated uneasy listening
with Snowborne Sorrow under the name Nine Horses.
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transcript
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