Person

David Sylvian

Acting · Born 1958-02-23 · Beckenham, Kent, England, UK

David Sylvian, born David Alan Batt, is an English singer-songwriter, musician and film director who came to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead vocalist and main songwriter in the group Japan. On his solo records of the '80s, Sylvian's explorations in music took him from the pop-funk, stylish jazz and windswept exotica of 1984's Brilliant Trees; the ambient landscapes and epic ballads of 1985's Gone to Earth; and the romantic orchestrations of 1987's Secrets of the Beehive.

• Riverside

  Self

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  async - first light

  2017

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  David Sylvian and Robert Fripp: Live in Japan

  1995

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  Brilliant Trees Sessions

  2021

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  The Collector

  Music

• Preparations For A Journey

  1984

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  Japan: Oil On Canvas

  1982

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  The Work of Director Anton Corbijn

  Self (segment "Red Guitar")

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  A Gentle Glow

  (Voice)

• Steel Cathedrals

  Self

• 2024Sleeping Dragon
• 2021Brilliant Trees Sessions
• 2018Ryuichi Sakamoto: async at the Park Avenue ArmoryNarrator on "Life, Life" (voice)
• 2017A Gentle Glow(Voice)
• 2017async - first light
• 2008Steve Jansen - The Occurrence of Slope
• 2006Japan - The Very Best Of
• 2005The Work of Director Anton CorbijnSelf (segment "Red Guitar")
• 2002The CollectorMusic
• 1997Time SpentHimself
• 1995David Sylvian and Robert Fripp: Live in Japan
• 1985Steel CathedralsSelf
• 1984Preparations For A Journey
• 1982Japan: Oil On Canvas
• 1982RiversideSelf