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.

David Sylvian is an unusual artist who has always interested me. He first came to prominence with the glam rock band Japan in the 1970s. Though less well known as Bowie and the New York Dolls, Japan ...

With his songs of spiritual and emotional quest, and unspeakable yearning, singer and composer David Sylvian really occupies his own musical cosmos. Often viewed as the quiet man of popular music who ...

Put the blame on the Internet, cheap airfares, or the sexual revolution, but the end result is the same: Earth is now the size of the head of a pin. Which is why you’d have to be pretty provincial to ...

Stretching pop music to the point where it reaches the avant-garde is no easy feat. But over the course of 30 years, starting as a teenager with the New Romantic band Japan and through a series of ...

A visionary musician, revealed under the make-up... When David Sylvian first became a presence on the pop scene on the cusp of the ’80s, it was obvious that, like many of that decade’s performers, he ...

David Sylvian’s solo career has only further extended since the demise of the cult band Japan in the early 1980s – for which he was the frontman and composer – with July 2014 marking the 30th ...

It’s very easy to look at David Sylvian’s career in a completely linear way, to think that he simply went from new romantic pop star to avant-pop savant to experimental music artist in distinct stages ...

This two-CD set might best described as a master jam of obscure instrumentalists. The former head of '70s/'80s new wave set Japan, Sylvian has kept himself busy for the last couple decades ...