As an artist, Sylvain has a shadow that has stretched across 30
years of music history; his immaculately written lyrics have provided
inspiration for a number of artists with his songs of spiritual and
emotional quest, singer and composer David Sylvain really occupies his
own musical space. David Sylvain is a former English singer-songwriter
and musician born in Backenham on 23 February 1958. He is a son of a
plasterer and a housewife. He was educated at Cat Ford Boys' School, at
Cat ford, and South East London. In his 16 years of age, he along with
his brother Steve planned to form a band, which lately became famous in
the name of Band Japan.
Their other comrades of that band were
guitarist Rob Dean, bassist Mick Kern, keyboardist Richard Barbieri and
Sylvain's Brother Steve Jansen as a drummer and this group starts their
dream journey as a group of friends. A changed had been coming to the
band Japan after they signed the contract with renowned Hansa, and
therefore, they move fast and grab the number-one spot of rock band
ranking in all over the Europe and its surrounding areas. The band
suffered from personal and creative clashes, particularly between
Sylvain and Kern. And that clash became bigger after Sylvain's
relationship with Kern's former girlfriend Yuka Fujii, a photographer,
artist and designer. The band Japan was one of the leading bands of the
New Romantic movement at the start of the 80s.
Before dissolving,
Japan played their final concerts in December 1982. The demise of
Sylvain's band in Japan has led him on a more adventurous path that saw
him delivering deeper into the worlds of avant-garde, jazz, ambient and
improvised music. Furthermore, in this year Sylvain released his first
solo joint effort with Ryuichi Sakamoto. Sakamoto's first contribution
to Sylvain's work though was as a co-writer of "Taking Islands in
Africa."
Sylvain's debut solo album, Brilliant Trees in 1984, got
some critical acclamation, and it featured the UK Top 20 single Red
Guitar. The time span of between 1980 and 1990 David started to
concentrate into his solo career. In 1985, Sylvain released an
instrumental EP Word with the Shaman, in collaboration with Hassel,
Jansen and Czukay, a recording that re-released the same year as
full-length album Alchemy: an Index of Possibilities. The album
contained important contributions from renowned guitarists Robert Fripp
of King Crimson and Bill Nelson of Be-Bop Deluxe. In 1990, Sylvain
collaborated with Russell Mills and Ian Walton on the elaborate
multi-media installation using sculpture, sound and light titled Ember
Glance - The Permanence of Memory.
Furthermore, in 1990, Sylvain
reunites with the former members of Japan for a new project. A restless
soul and a poet, he became one of the shapeliest-shifting artists in a
modern form of music. In the early 1990s, guitarist Robert Fripp invites
Sylvain to sing with progressive rock stalwarts King Crimson. Sylvain
declines the invite, but Sylvain and Frappe recorded the album 'The
First Day' released in July 1993. He released his next album in the year
of 1999, by the name of "Dead Bees on a cake", which was his first
proper solo album after the "secret of the beehive".
After that,
Sylvain reached to the limelight for several times with his wonderful
experiments in music, but all those times he came along with some
collaboration. Their skills along with Sylvain's voice tune made those
collaborations memorable for all the time. Though after 1999, he
released only two albums under his name, one of them is "Blemish", which
was based on Sylvain's new invented creation of music on 'Samadhi
sound', and that album became more popular due to that experimental town
in the year of 2003. After Blemish, Sylvain's fans were lucky to beat
him for one time more in 2009, the album name was Manafon. This is an
average hit till today.
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