David Sylvian

United Kingdom
February 23, 1958

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David Sylvian is an English singer-songwriter and musician who came to prominence in the late 1970s as the frontman of the new wave group Japan. After the group disbanded in 1982, Sylvian pursued an esoteric solo career that would draw on varied styles including jazz, art rock, and ambient music. He has collaborated widely with artists such as Ryuichi Sakamoto, Robert Fripp, Holger Czukay, and Fennesz.

For the last 14 days:

62 tracks
75 stations
21 countries

David Sylvian top songs

1	Red Guitar
2	I Surrender
3	Orpheus
4	Before the Bullfight
5	Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II) Returning To the Womb
6	Nostalgia
7	God's Monkey
8	The Boy With the Gun
9	Wave
10	Gone to Earth
11	Silver Moon over Sleeping Steeples
12	Taking the Veil
13	The Devil's Own
14	When Poets Dreamed of Angels
15	Answered Prayers
16	The Scent Of Magnolia
17	The Healing Place
18	Maria
19	Let the Happiness In
20	The Ink In the Well
21	Pop Song
22	Silver Moon
23	Mutability (A New Beginning Is In The Offing)
24	When We Return You Won't Recognise Us
25	Upon This Earth

David Sylvian quotes

I like to explore a lot of textural, arrangement aspects in the studio.