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David Sylvian

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The David Sylvian that fronted new wave pop band Japan wore luminescent hair and glam make-up; on the cover of his solo debut, 1984's Brilliant Trees, he was stylish and refined, a gentleman popster. But the illustration that introduces 2003's Blemish sends a different message: he's bedraggled and unshaven, his far-off expression turned haunted. The new millennium has seen a more serious Sylvian, several steps further along on his musical journey and seeking new sounds to explain new traumas. While Japan started off as one of many '70s New Romantic bands, they made an unpredictable break with their hit "Ghosts" - a searching and evocative single where spare rhythms and fleeting electronic sounds lay under Sylvian's smouldering tenor

Album

The Distance Between the Killer and the Killing

By David Sylvian

Label: Nanoq Records
Released: 2027
Track listing: The Distance Between the Killer and the Killing.

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Article: Live Review

Punkt Festival 2026

Read "Punkt Festival 2026" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski

by Nenad Georgievski

Punkt FestivalTeateret/KunstsiloKristiansand, Norway September 3-5, 2026   Kristiansand does not announce itself the way a festival city usually does. The southern Norwegian port sits low along a coastline of pale granite and pine, its old town a grid of white wooden houses running down to Fiskebrygga, a fishing-harbor district where ...

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Article: Album Review

Raphael Meleteas: Someone Else

Read "Someone Else" reviewed by Maciej Stasiowski

by Maciej Stasiowski

It is September already, and the days arrive tinted by the fallen leaves' reds and yellows. Somehow, we are thrown back to late August, finally granted enough time to enjoy a cool drink and listen to the record, just like people used to in the pre-accelerationist era. On Raphael Meleteas's very brief debut LP, musical arrangements ...

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Article: Album Review

Tu-Ner: Rendezvous Rodeo

Read "Rendezvous Rodeo" reviewed by Geno Thackara

by Geno Thackara

There is nothing Western-sounding about this rodeo--very far from it--but it does feel like a sort of rendezvous by virtue of returning to somewhat familiar territory. Granted, “familiar" also means wildly bizarre and occasionally terrifying, but anyone who knows these names should expect nothing less. Pat Mastelotto and Trey Gunn are best known as a beastly ...

Article: Interview

La Dodicilune di Maurizio Bizzochetti

Read "La Dodicilune di Maurizio Bizzochetti" reviewed by Libero Farnè

by Libero Farnè

Nella produzione della Dodicilune, nata nel 1995 come associazione culturale prima che diventasse etichetta, la prima cosa che caratterizza i suoi dischi, prevalentemente CD, è l'inconfondibile, coerente e qualificata veste grafica. E questo è già un aspetto importante per quanto riguarda la comunicativa editoriale; la politica produttiva invece, che in trent'anni ha pubblicato quasi quattrocento incisioni, ...

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Article: Book Review

Masayoshi Sukita: Eternity

Read "Masayoshi Sukita: Eternity" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski

by Nenad Georgievski

Eternity Masayoshi Sukita 256 Pages ISBN: 9781788841078 ACC Art Books 2021 People may or may not recognize his name but they have certainly seen his photographs. For the past 50 years, photographer Masayoshi Sukita and his camera have captured an enormous number of genuinely emblematic images of pop ...

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Article: Album Review

Skúli Sverrisson With Bill Frisell: Strata

Read "Strata" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

A meeting of minds, of hearts and of souls. Strata may be the first recording of the duo of Icelandic bassist Skuli Sverrisson and guitarist Bill Frisell, but so attuned are the musicians to each other's wavelengths, and so spellbinding their common language, that you could be forgiven for thinking they had played in this format ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

When Jazz Pops, Part 2

Read "When Jazz Pops, Part 2" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu

by Ludovico Granvassu

Ornette Coleman playing for Lou Reed? Or the Sun Ra Arkestra together with Steven Bernstein's Sexmob Orchestra backing U2 courtesy of Hal Willner? And Kenny Wheeler collaborating with both David Sylvian and Joni Mitchell? This and many more fascinating collaborations between jazz masters and pop and rock musicians in this playlist.Happy listening!Playlist ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Elsewhere Return Visitors

Read "Elsewhere Return Visitors" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles

As the Elsewhere label's third anniversary, in July 2021, closely followed the June release of its fifteenth and sixteenth albums, it seemed an appropriate time to look back. In a way, those two albums tell a large part of the story as, together, they feature three musicians who are all return visitors to the label, Anastassis ...


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