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.
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Watch Now20 minute music documentary shot in two days of November 1984 in, and around the outskirts of, Tokyo, Japan. A large part of the music was completed during that same month and recorded over a period of three days. ...
Watch NowOriginal music by David Sylvian. Performed by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Steve Jansen, Masami Tsuchiya. ...
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Watch Now20 minute music documentary shot in two days of November 1984 in, and around the outskirts of, Tokyo, Japan. A large part of the music was completed during that same month and recorded over a period of three days. ...
Watch NowOriginal music by David Sylvian. Performed by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Steve Jansen, Masami Tsuchiya. ...
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