David Sylvian & Robert Fripp - Live Toronto, Ontario 1993

Rebooted...
Originally posted December 26, 2015

David Sylvian & Robert Fripp - Massey Hall

November 1st, 1993
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

FM Source @256

Track List: 
01 - Introduction and Interview (1:56)
02 - Jean The Birdman (4:14)
03 - Firepower (7:00)
04 - Interview 2 (0:56)
05 - Damage (4:22)
06 - Station Call (0:05)
07 - Exposure (5:21)
08 - Gone To Earth (2:29)
09 - 20th Century Dreaming (7:56)
10 - Wave (5:57)
11 - Interview 3 (0:39)
12 - The First Day (4:39)
13 - Station Call 2 (0:05)
14 - Blinding Light Of Heaven (3:43)
15 - Band Introduction (0:08)
16 - Closing (0:34)

 

Have A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!! 

 

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Japan - Live Hammersmith Odeon 1981

Rebooted...
Originally posted November 13, 2011

Japan - Live Hammersmith Odeon 

  February 7, 1981

London, UK

Excellent FM Source @320

Following the 1982 dissolution of Japan, the group's onetime frontman David Sylvian staked out a far-ranging and esoteric career that encompassed not only solo projects but also a series of fascinating collaborative efforts and forays into filmmaking, photography, and modern art. Born David Batt in Kent, England, on February 23, 1958, Sylvian formed Japan in 1974 and served as primary singer/songwriter throughout the group's eight-year existence. Just prior to Japan's breakup, Sylvian began working with composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, with whom he released the single "Bamboo Houses" in 1982, marking the beginning of a longstanding musical relationship.

Brilliant Trees
After 1983's "Forbidden Colours," another joint effort with Sakamoto composed for the film Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, Sylvian released his 1984 solo debut, Brilliant Trees. The first step in his music's evolution from Japan's post-glam synth pop into richly textured, poetic ambience, the album featured contributions from Sakamoto as well as Jon Hassell and Can alumnus Holger Czukay. That year, Sylvian also published his first book of photographs, Perspectives: Polaroids 82/84; in 1985, he released Preparations for the Journey, a documentary filmed in and around Tokyo, as well as the EP Words with the Shaman. -More at All Music

Track List:
01. Swing
02. Gentlemen Take Polaroids
03. Alien
04. …Rhodesia
05. Quiet Life
06. My New Career
07. Taking Islands In Africa
08. Methods of Dance
09. Ain’t That Peculiar
10. Halloween
11. European Son

 

 

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David Sylvian - Live Hammersmith 1988

Rebooted as requested...
Originally posted April 9, 2016

David Sylvian - Live Hammersmith Odean
May 30, 1988

London, UK

Soundboard @224

David Sylvian Bio

Set List:
    Ancient Evening
    Incantation
    Orpheus
    Before the Bullfight
    Taking the Veil
    Weathered Wall
    The Boy with the Gun
    Riverman
    The Grand Parade
    Band Introduction
    The Ink in the Well
    Nostalgia
    Forbidden Colours
    Backwaters
    Brilliant Trees
    Steel Cathedrals
    Let the Happiness In
    Gone to Earth
    Awakening

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Japan with Yellow Magic Orchestra LIVE in Tokyo Japan 1982

 Japan

Yellow Magic Orchestra

Japan with Yellow Magic Orchestra

Budokan Hall

Tokyo Japan 

1982-12-08 

Soundboard @320

01. Burning Bridges

02. Sons Of Pioneers

03. Alien

04. Gentlemen Take Polaroids

05. Swing

06. Cantonese Boy

07. Visions Of China

08. Nightporter

09. Ghosts

10. Still Life In Mmobile Homes

11. Methods Of Dance

12. Quiet Life

13. European Son

14. The Art Of Parties

15. Bamboo Music

16. Taking Islands In Africa

17. Encore Break

18. Life In Tokyo

19. Canton

20. Good Night

Japan

David Sylvian - Guitars, Keyboards, Vocals

Masami Tsuchiya - Guitars, Keyboards

Richard Barbieri - Keyboards, Synthesisers

Mick Karn - Bass, Saxophone, Vocals

Steve Jansen - Drums, Percussion, Keyboards

with

Yellow Magic Orchestra

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Keyboards, Vocals

Haruomi Hosono - Bass, Keyboards, Vocals

Yukihiro Takahashi - Drums, Vocals

Note:

Yellow Magic Orchestra joins Japan Towards the end of this set.

Japanese Magic

David Sylvian - Secrets Of The Beehive (1987)

David Sylvian - Secrets Of The Beehive (1987)

Studio recordings @320

{Out of Print}

David Sylvian is what you would call the genius in the shadows. Since the 70’s he has been involved in numerous underrated projects, let alone collaborating with such artists as Robert Fripp, Bill Frisell, Jon Hassell, and Marc Ribot just to name a few. His childhood was more or less music-ridden and has self-taught himself playing and composing since he was 12. That’s exactly how the nigh absence of outside influence attributes to unparalleled individualism. Each record differs from his next, and nothing sounds uninspired or washed up. Putting all of that aside for a moment, Secrets Of A Beehive, whether or not you remotely care about anything else Sylvian has been associated with, is fluidly, hauntingly, overbearingly, but more importantly, merely powerful. And nothing less.
~Full review at SputnikMusic

Track List:
1. September
2. The Boy With The Gun
3. Maria
4. Orpheus
5. The Devil's Own
6. When Poets Dreamed Of Angels
7. Mother And Child
8. Let The Happiness In
9. Waterfront
10. Forbidden Colours

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