Japanese 3-track 12" with insert & obi-strip

1986. Vinyl single also includes: Answered Prayers & A Bird Of Prey Vanishes Into A Bright Blue Cloudless Sky, picture sleeve

(14VA-9015). Condition: mint...£19.99 UK Sterling (Worldwide Postage Inclusive)

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UK shaped picture disc

1986. Special limited edition 2-track square shaped picture disc which includes Answered Prayers

(Virgin VSS815). Condition: mint ...£19.99 UK Sterling (Worldwide Postage Inclusive)

March 2011: only 1 in stock

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UK 7"

1986. 2-track 7" b/w Answered Prayers, picture sleeve

(Virgin VS815). Condition: mint...£9.99 UK Sterling (Worldwide Postage Inclusive)

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UK 3-track 12"

1986. Vinyl single also including Answered Prayers & A Bird Of Prey Vanished Into A Bright Blue Cloudless Sky, picture sleeve

(VS815-12). Condition: mint...£12.99 UK Sterling (Worldwide Postage Inclusive)

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Softbound Book Signed By Sylvian

1988. 64-page out of print book of lyrics with black/white illustrations, rice paper inners & fold-out sleeve. Signed and dedicated in inner page by David Sylvian.

Published by Opium (Arts) Ltd.. Condition: mint...out of stock

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Softbound Book

1988. 64-page out of print book of lyrics with black/white illustrations, rice paper inners & fold-out sleeve.

Published by Opium (Arts) Ltd.. Condition: cover has slight wear around the edges - hence the price...out of stock

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Softbound Book

1999. 80-page book, limited edition of 5,000 , the follow-up to Trophies, featuring the lyrics of David Sylvian, incl. the Rain Tree Crow lyrics, Tallow Moon, Victim Of Stars, Heartbeat, The First Day and the lyrics of the same-titled album, the Slowfire poem, How Safe Is Deep? [titled Shadowland] up to Dead Bees On A Cake.

Extra new poems included together with Discord, Salvation. Picture sleeve with tracing paper inner.

April 13: THIS IS A ONE OFF. It's one that went wrong at the production stage! Or it could be a test copy to see how this book would look. I'm not sure. The book isn't central with a margin at the bottom of the book and on a couple of pages the printer's test black & white colours (I think they'll called) at the bottom. so for example the tracing paper inside has the image and the margin at the bottom. The binding is mostly not there so the front cover is coming away. Very fragile, like an old lost Holy manuscript. Has all the lyrics & poems from 'every colour you are' to 'gone from the landscape'.

Please look at as many of the scans below as possible before making an offer.

Published by Opium (Arts) Ltd..

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Softbound Book

1999. 80-page book, limited edition of 5,000 , the follow-up to Trophies, featuring the lyrics of David Sylvian, incl. the Rain Tree Crow lyrics, Tallow Moon, Victim Of Stars, Heartbeat, The First Day and the lyrics of the same-titled album, the Slowfire poem, How Safe Is Deep? [titled Shadowland] up to Dead Bees On A Cake.

Extra new poems included together with Discord, Salvation. Picture sleeve with tracing paper inner.

Published by Opium (Arts) Ltd.. Condition: mint...out of stock

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Softbound Book

1999. 80-page book, limited edition of 5,000...More info: Trophies II page

Published by Opium (Arts) Ltd.. Condition: cover has wear in places, a couple of marks or blemishes. inner tracing page has blemish - hence the lower price...Sold

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Test Print

1999. For the lyric/poem The Gold and Crimson Tulip, page 69 of Trophies II - The Lyrics of David Sylvian, designed by Vaughan Oliver & v23. Sized: 12 by 9 inches approx.. a unique piece; unsigned but none of the test prints for this highly acclaimed book have hitherto appeared on the market

Condition: mint...£149.99 UK Sterling (Worldwide Postage Inclusive)

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UK CD Boxset

1989.

BRILLIANT TREES
1. Pulling Punches (5:01)
2. Ink In The Well (4:29)
3. Nostalgia (5:39) featuring Holger Czukay
4. Red Guitar (5:07) featuring Ryuichi Sakamoto
5. Weathered Wall (5:40) featuring Jon Hassell
6. Backwaters (4:49)
7. Brilliant Trees (8:35)

ALCHEMY
1. Words With The Shaman (Songs From The Tree Tops) Pt. 1 Ancient Evening (5:14)
2. Words With The Shaman (Songs From The Tree Tops) Pt. 2 Incantation (3:28)
3. Words With The Shaman (Songs From The Tree Tops) Pt. 3 Awakening (5:16)
4. The Stigma Of Childhood (Kin) (8:28)
5. A Brief Conversation Ending In Divorce (3:28) keyboards by John Taylor
6. Steel Cathedrals (3:28) featuring Robert Fripp

GONE TO EARTH
1. Taking The Veil (4:40)
2. Laughter And Forgetting (2:40) keyboards by John Taylor
3. Before The Bullfight (9:45) featuring Bill Nelson
4. Gone To Earth (3:01)
5. Wave (9:13)
6. Riverman (4:53)
7. Silver Moon (6:07)

GONE TO EARTH EXCLUSIVE INSTRUMENTAL DISC
1. The Healing Place (5:27) featuring Bill Nelson
2. Answered Prayers (3:09) featuring Bill Nelson
3. Where The Railroad Meets The Sea (2:51) keyboards by Steve Nye
4. The Wooden Cross (4:59)
5. Silver Moon Over Sleeping Steeples (2:21)
6. Camp Fire: Coyote Country (3:50) featuring Robert Fripp
7. A Bird Of Prey Vanishes Into A Bright Blue Cloudless Sky (3:15)
8. Home (4:30)
9. Sunlight Seen Through Towering Trees (2:59) featuring Bill Nelson
10. Upon This Earth (6:24) featuring Robert Fripp

SECRETS FROM THE BEEHIVE
1. September (1:17) featuring Ryuichi Sakamoto
2. The Boy With The Gun (5:18) featuring David Torn
3. Maria (2:50)
4. Orpheus (4:48)
5. The Devil's Own (3:11)
6. When Poets Dreamed Of Angels (4:45)
7. Mother And Child (3:12)
8. Let The Happines In (5:33) featuring Steve Jansen
9. Waterfront (3:22) featuring Ryuichi Sakamoto

Mythical boxset. Also includes a 60-page booklet which documents each release and all the musicians involved + fold-out poster. The artwork and design is by Russell Mills and Dave Coppenhall with sliding lid on the top of the box and is regarded as one of the finest sets ever produced. Virgin. DSCD1

Condition: box has wear in a couple of places (see scans) ... £149.99 UK Sterling (Worldwide Postage Inclusive)

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CD Album

2007. Limited Edition

Recorded to be part of an art installation in the titular island's major gallery to whet more adventurous fans' appetites. For those who found Sylvian's project with Fennesz and Derek Bailey, Blemish, a little challenging may be well advised to stop reading now. When Loud Weather definitely sits in the box marked 'left field'.

Conceived as a work in progress to be completed by the external sounds of the actual Chichu Art Gallery, When Loud Weather is a collage of found sound, drones and contributions from a ensemble of big-hitters in the European avant fraternity including shakuhachi maestro, Clive Bell, guitarist Christian Fennesz and Norwegian trumpet/electronics genius, Arve Henriksen.

Moving between snatched conversation, tape hiss, meteorological ambience and the contributions of the above players, Sylvian hoped to create a 'multiple exposure' of the spiritual and emotional life of this ancient island where old and new exist cheek-by-jowl. The various sounds of the island are mixed into the original recording to give one a sense of how it must have sounded in situ.

A formal discussion of something so nebulous can only result in empty conjecture. But with such a stellar cast Sylvian's on safe ground anyway. All of the players involved have been responsible for some of the most beautiful music of the last few years. Not least Henriksen, whose angelic vocal chords are here used to stunning effect.

This isn't as such one of Sylvian's major works, but it shows how far the man has come in recent years and how carefully and wisely he's choosing his fellow travellers. Never less than beautiful, When Loud Weather... deserves to given space next to his more mainstream work -- Chris Jones, BBC

(Samadhi Sound). Condition: new...£34.99 (UK Sterling) (Worldwide Postage Inclusive)

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UK 3-track 12"

1985. Includes Parts 1-3 - Ancient Evening, Incantation and Awakening, picture sleeve

(VS835-12). Condition: mint...£12.99 UK Sterling (Worldwide Postage Inclusive)

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