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David Sylvian (23 Feb 1958 - )

Male Person - United Kingdom

Works (220)

Miscellaneous Roles

  1. p:Machinery

Wrote

  1. A Fire in the Forest (2004)
  2. Linoleum
  3. Buoy
  4. When Love Walks In
  5. Gone to Earth
  6. Life Without Buildings
  7. The Scent of Magnolia
  8. A Foreign Place
  9. Life in Tokyo

Composed

  1. European Son
  2. Cries and Whispers
  3. Weathered Wall
  4. Firepower
  5. Brightness Falls
  6. 20th Century Dreaming (A Shaman’s Song)
  7. Darshan (The Road to Graceland)
  8. September
  9. The Boy With the Gun
  10. Maria
  11. Orpheus
  12. The Devil's Own
  13. When Poets Dreamed of Angels
  14. Mother and Child
  15. Let the Happiness In
  16. Waterfront
  17. Canton
  18. Visions of China
  19. Sons of Pioneers
  20. Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II)
  21. Blackwater
  22. Every Colour You Are
  23. God’s Monkey
  24. Pulling Punches
  25. The Ink in the Well
  26. Nostalgia
  27. Red Guitar
  28. Backwaters
  29. Brilliant Trees
  30. Fall in Love With Me
  31. Despair
  32. In Vogue
  33. Halloween
  34. Alien
  35. The Other Side of Life
  36. Upon This Earth
  37. Transmission
  38. Approaching Silence
  39. Mutability (A New Beginning Is in the Offing)
  40. Epiphany
  41. Bamboo Houses
  42. All of My Mother's Names
  43. Plight (The Spiralling of Winter Ghosts)
  44. Camphor
  45. The Unconventional
  46. Wish You Were Black
  47. Performance
  48. Lovers on Main Street
  49. Suburban Love
  50. Adolescent Sex
  51. Communist China
  52. Television
  53. Answered Prayers
  54. Ghosts
  55. Bamboo Music
  56. Quiet Life
  57. Gentlemen Take Polaroids
  58. For the Love of Life
  59. Automatic Gun
  60. .....Rhodesia
  61. Sometimes I Feel So Low
  62. Obscure Alternatives
  63. Deviation
  64. Suburban Berlin
  65. The Tenant
  66. Swing
  67. Burning Bridges
  68. My New Career
  69. Methods of Dance
  70. Nightporter
  71. Taking Islands in Africa
  72. The Art of Parties
  73. Still Life in Mobile Homes
  74. Cantonese Boy
  75. Talking Drum
  76. Words With the Shaman, Part 1: Ancient Evening
  77. Words With the Shaman, Part 2: Incantation
  78. Words With the Shaman, Part 3: Awakening (Songs From the Treetops)
  79. Preparations for a Journey
  80. The Stigma of Childhood (Kin)
  81. A Brief Conversation Ending in Divorce
  82. Steel Cathedrals
  83. Promise (The Cult of Eurydice)
  84. Taking the Veil
  85. Laughter and Forgetting
  86. Before the Bullfight
  87. Wave
  88. River Man
  89. Silver Moon
  90. The Healing Place
  91. Where the Railroad Meets the Sea
  92. The Wooden Cross
  93. Silver Moon Over Sleeping Steeples
  94. Camp Fire: Coyote Country
  95. A Bird of Prey Vanishes Into a Bright Blue Cloudless Sky
  96. Home
  97. Sunlight Seen Through Towering Trees
  98. Red Earth (As Summertime Ends)
  99. I Drink to Forget
  100. Rain Tree Crow
  101. Pocket Full of Change
  102. Boat’s for Burning
  103. Blackcrow Hits Shoe Shine City
  104. New Moon at Red Deer Wallow
  105. A Reassuringly Dull Sunday
  106. Scratchings on the Bible Belt
  107. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice
  108. Playing The Schoolhouse
  109. World Citizen/re‐cycled
  110. Ophélie
  111. Premonition (Giant Empty Iron Vessel)
  112. Love Is Infectious
  113. World Citizen – I won’t be disappointed/looped piano
  114. Jean the Birdman
  115. Transit
  116. Big Wheels in Shanty Town

Lyrics

  1. European Son
  2. How Safe Is Deep?
  3. World Citizen/re‐cycled
  4. Ghosts
  5. World Citizen – I won’t be disappointed/looped piano
  6. For the Love of Life
  7. Lettre au directeur des Messageries Maritimes
  8. Quiet Life
  9. Transmission
  10. The Unconventional
  11. Wish You Were Black
  12. Performance
  13. Lovers on Main Street
  14. Suburban Love
  15. Adolescent Sex
  16. Communist China
  17. Television
  18. Sugarfuel
  19. The Golden Way
  20. Maya
  21. Gentlemen Take Polaroids
  22. Automatic Gun
  23. .....Rhodesia
  24. Love Is Infectious
  25. Sometimes I Feel So Low
  26. Obscure Alternatives
  27. Deviation
  28. Suburban Berlin
  29. The Tenant
  30. Swing
  31. Burning Bridges
  32. My New Career
  33. Methods of Dance
  34. Nightporter
  35. Taking Islands in Africa
  36. The Art of Parties
  37. Still Life in Mobile Homes
  38. Cantonese Boy
  39. Talking Drum
  40. Promise (The Cult of Eurydice)
  41. Taking the Veil
  42. Laughter and Forgetting
  43. Before the Bullfight
  44. Wave
  45. River Man
  46. Silver Moon
  47. Rain Tree Crow
  48. Pocket Full of Change
  49. Boat’s for Burning
  50. Blackcrow Hits Shoe Shine City
  51. Cloud #9
  52. Midnight Sun
  53. Cries and Whispers
  54. Weathered Wall
  55. Come Morning
  56. Forbidden Colours
  57. Jean the Birdman
  58. Firepower
  59. Brightness Falls
  60. 20th Century Dreaming (A Shaman’s Song)
  61. Darshan (The Road to Graceland)
  62. The Boy With the Gun
  63. Maria
  64. Orpheus
  65. The Devil's Own
  66. When Poets Dreamed of Angels
  67. Mother and Child
  68. Let the Happiness In
  69. Waterfront
  70. Visions of China
  71. Sons of Pioneers
  72. Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II)
  73. Blackwater
  74. Albuquerque (Dobro #6)
  75. Every Colour You Are
  76. God’s Monkey
  77. Thoroughly Lost to Logic
  78. Pulling Punches
  79. The Ink in the Well
  80. Nostalgia
  81. Red Guitar
  82. Backwaters
  83. Brilliant Trees
  84. Fall in Love With Me
  85. Despair
  86. In Vogue
  87. Halloween
  88. Alien
  89. The Other Side of Life
  90. Aparna and Nimisha (Dobro #5)
  91. September
  92. Transit

Orchestrated

  1. Alphabet Angel

Dedicated Works

  1. Music in an Octave