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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since his final days as the frontman for the British New Romantic art-rock group Japan, David Sylvian has remained remarkably focused on a specific style of atmospheric post-Bowie crooning: Each ...

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 ...

Hi David, you've just cancelled your tour (1 – see footnotes below) – that must be very disappointing. It's inconvenient on so many levels. There's a lot of discomfort involved; I'm going through a ...

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 ...

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 ...

In an age when stars cling to any vestige of celebrity, David Sylvian is an oddity. Two decades ago, he was the pin-up and voice of electronic chart-toppers Japan. His translucent looks saw him dubbed ...