2 vinyl set. Includes Grains (Sweet Paulownia Wood) (David Sylvian Remodel). Celebrating the legendary composer on his 70th birthday. From contemporary admirers of Sakamoto's work like Thundercat, Devonté Hynes, and Hildur Gudnadóttir to longtime collaborators and friends like David Sylvian, Alva Noto, Cornelius, and Fennesz, plus some of Sakamoto's personal favourites like Lim Giong, Gabrial Wek, and 404. zero, the included artists reflect the breadth of Sakamoto's influence on contemporary music. Given full access to the musician's extensive catalogue of solo releases and film scores, each artist personally selected their contribution and put their unique spin on Sakamoto's originals.
amazon.co.uk (direct link): released: dec: 2022
MAIYA HERSHEY & STEVE JANSEN - NEITHER PRESENT NOR ABSENT LP
Vinyl . Steve Jansen & Maiya Hershey - Neither Present Nor Absent LP
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BEST LOOKING JAPAN HISTORICAL EBAY AUCTIONS/BUY IT NOW
These are from a couple of years back so not sure if any of them are still live. More details if they are still there can be found by clicking on the links for each item. From my favourite Japanese ebay seller, vgps. Image copyright for these: vgps.
World of British Power Japan Promo Booklet David Sylvian Culture Club Motorhead. From vgps, a Japanese Seller - ebay.co.uk
Japan Ayashii Kodou Japan Book/Magazine in 1980 David Sylvian Mick Karn Jansen Rock Show. From vgps, a Japanese Seller - ebay.co.uk
David Sylvian & Robert Fripp - 1993 Japan Tour Promo Poster Crimson Michael Brook. From vgps, a Japanese Seller - ebay.co.uk
Keyboard Magazine Japan Book David Sylvian Tears Fears Yes Howard Jones Prince. From vgps, a Japanese Seller - ebay.co.uk
Japan - Oil on Canvas Japan VHS NTSC Video David Sylvian Mick Karn Ippu Do. From vgps, a Japanese Seller - ebay.co.uk
British Power 84 - Japan Promo Booklet OMD Oldfield Sylvian Culture Club XTC Stiff. From vgps, a Japanese Seller - ebay.co.uk
David Sylvian - Special Single Japan Video NTSC Synth 1988. From vgps, a Japanese Seller - ebay.co.uk
David Sylvian - Japan Promo Poster from Victor Japan. From vgps, a Japanese Seller - ebay.co.uk
David Sylvian - Japan Promo Poster from Victor Japan in Early 80's. From vgps, a Japanese Seller - ebay.co.uk
David Sylvian - World Is Everything Tour 2007 Book w Samadhisound Sampler CD. From vgps, a Japanese Seller - ebay.co.uk
Virgin Brand Japan only CD OBI Genesis Gabriel OMD XTC Gary Moore David Sylvian. From vgps, a Japanese Seller - ebay.co.uk
David Sylvian / Russell Mills - Ember Glance CD Box Photo Book Japan Assemble Issue. From vgps, a Japanese Seller - ebay.co.uk
David Sylvian - Weather Box Five CD Japan Issue with Japan only Book Russell Mills. From vgps, a Japanese Seller - ebay.co.uk
Various Artists - Life in Tokyo Japan only Japan Tribute CD Sylvian Ippu Do Tsutiya Luna Sea. From vgps, a Japanese Seller - ebay.co.uk
Japan - The Unconventional Japan Promo WL Vinyl 7 inch Single Sylvian Karn Synth. From vgps, a Japanese Seller - ebay.co.uk
David Sylvian - Five CD from Weather Box, Box Booklet Were Lost Japan Russell Mills. From vgps, a Japanese Seller - ebay.co.uk
David Sylvian - Gone to Earth Japan DBL Promo Vinyl LP w OBI Fripp Russell Mills. From vgps, a Japanese Seller - ebay.co.uk
David Sylvian & Russell Mills Ember Glance CD Box Book Outer Japan Assembled Issue. From vgps, a Japanese Seller - ebay.co.uk
David Sylvian - Glowing Enigmas Japan Exhibition Catalogue Book 2012 Polaroid Art. From vgps, a Japanese Seller - ebay.co.uk
Japan - Best Japan Band Score Song Book Guitar TAB David Sylvian Mick Karn Tin Drum. From vgps, a Japanese Seller - ebay.co.uk
Japan - 1981 Japan Tour Book w Ticket Stub David Sylvian Mick Karn New Romantic. From vgps, a Japanese Seller - ebay.co.uk
Japan - 1980 Japan Tour Book w Promo Sticker David Sylvian Mick Karn New Romantic. From vgps, a Japanese Seller - ebay.co.uk
David Sylvian Japan Promo Japanese Lyrics Reading Flexi from Victor Sheet Record. From vgps, a Japanese Seller - ebay.co.uk
David Sylvian Perspectives Japan Limited Numbered Book Jansen Sakamoto Czukay. From vgps, a Japanese Seller - ebay.co.uk
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DAVID SYLVIAN - MANAFON VINYL REISSUE (2022)
David Sylvian describes his 2nd solo album for his own SamadhiSound label as being: "A modern kind of chamber music. Intimate, dynamic, emotive, democratic, econimical".
Recorded in London, Vienna and Tokyo, the 8 songs and 1 instrumental on Manafon bring together "the world’s leading improvisors, and innovators, artists who explore free improvisation, space-specific performance and live electronics" including Evan Parker, Keith Rowe, Christian Fennesz, Sachiko M, Otomo Yoshihide, John Tilbury and members of Polwechsel.
This is the first time on 180gram vinyl for this 2LP set.
Available: amazon.co.uk (direct link) - pre-order: released: sept. 2022
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DAVID SYLVIAN - BLEMISH VINYL REISSUE (2022)
Blemish was David Sylvian’s first solo album to be released on his own Samadhisound label following his departure from Virgin Records in 2003. This is the first official release on 180gram vinyl. Working primarily as a solo artist, Sylvian created an impromptu suite of songs for guitar, electronics and voice. The compositions were crafted from improvisational sessions by Sylvian and the acclaimed free-jazz guitarist, Derek Bailey on
3 tracks.
Available: amazon.co.uk (direct link) - pre-order: released: sept. 2022
JAPAN'S TIN DRUM (33 1/3 PAPERBACK (2023) BY AGATA PYZIK
A book I want to read... Pity it's not out til next year but you can pre-order. Tin Drum seeks to provide an outsider look at one of the most mysterious post-punk albums, the 1981 Orientalist and escapist manifesto by the English synth-pop/new wave English band Japan. As an act of cultural appropriation and a meditation on the perils of Western civilisation, seeking solace in a virtual trip to the 'Orient of the self' and Maoist ideology, Tin Drum invites external analysis to be culturally appropriated itself.
Agata Pyzik tells how the fruitful encounter between the neurotic Western youngsters and dream of the radically other East produced one of the most dissonant and compelling records of the era, too strange to be appreciated at the time, a big hit at the time but too peculiar to be fully understood. Why, at the break of the 1980s and the final decade of the cold war, do these pale aesthetes dream of Mao's China? At once incredibly English and exotic, futurist and backward-looking, Japan and Tin Drum were a unique exercise in Rimbaudian 'becoming somebody else', fascinated in Chinese communism, anticipating the surge of the interest in Chinese Tiger just as it was shaking off Mao's legacy to become a modern, capitalist economy. Yet the yearning to become 'different' expressed in it, both in terms of class and nationality, makes the album's claim unexpectedly universal.
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JAPAN - QUIET LIFE VINYL REISSUES (2021)
Sublime and wonderfully packaged 2021 release. The record is now the subject of a major new reissue featuring a brand new Abbey Road half-speed remaster of the original album, alt mixes, b-sides, singles, rarities and live material - including the sought after 'lost' Live at Budokan show from March 1980 previously only available as the 4 track EP Live in Japan.
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2021 Reissue Available: amazon.co.uk (direct link)
That Japan's breakthrough record Quiet Life was released in both 1979 and 1980 is uniquely fitting for a band who were about to step out of the glam rock, post-punk shadows of the late '70s and deliver an as yet genre-less record that would come to define the '80s. Quiet Life was the third, final and most successful release on the Hansa Records label. A forerunner for the alternative/new wave sound of the new decade, the album would become one of the great classic British albums.
2021 Reissue Available: amazon.co.uk (direct link)
2021 Red Vinyl Available: amazon.co.uk (direct link)
TWITTER
June 2022: just started adding to twitter as haven't really embraced it this far.
ITEMS OF THE MONTH (JUNE 2022)
David Byrne - How Music Works Hardcover Book (2012)
Japan - Quiet Life Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold Sleeve (UK) 1980
Shinro Ohtake - America (Art Random) Hardbook Book (Japan) (1989) | All Saints Night - Small Flyer (Japan) - Featuring Channel Light Vessel, Audio Active + Laraaji, Harold Budd, Jah Wobble & Roger Eno | Japan, The B-52's - Assemblage Cassette, Compilation (Saudi Arabia) | Japan Oil on Canvas Cassette, Album (Saudi Arabia) | Japan Tin Drum Cassette, Album (Saudi Arabia) |
Japan - The Singles Vinyl, 12", Mini-Album, Compilation, Limited Edition, Stereo (Japan) (1981) |
Yellow Magic Orchestra - X00 Multiplies (Gatefold sleeve) [180 gm black vinyl] Vinyl, LP, 10", Mini-Album (1980) - 1 in stock
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Frank Auerbach: Revised and Expanded Edition Hardcover – 20 Sept. 2022
by William Feaver @ amazon.co.uk (direct link)
see cover
David Sylvian + Holger Czukay - Plight & Premonition Cassette, Album (UK) (1988) - 1 in stock
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Russell Mills / Brian Eno - Third Uncle Painting
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v23 - Modern Calendar 96 (UK) (1995) |
Japan Sometimes I Feel So Low Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single, Stereo, Solid Centre, Blue Vinyl (UK) (1978)
INSTAGRAM
2022: Starting adding a list of Sylvian items as a kind of library to Instagram - you'll have to follow to see the now 1100+ photos | Sylvian/Japan Record Labels on Instagram #japanthebandrecordlabels
#GetIntoJapan - You're a little late - some 40 years - but we've been expecting you
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Far more photos added to my own gallery tho | Releases Gallery
MORE ITEMS IN
Japan List | 1 just back in stock 4 each title! Japan - Sons of Pioneers Book, Paperback (UK) (1983)
| 1 just back in stock 4 each title! Japan - Obscure Alternatives Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo (Japan) (1978) - sold
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Mick Karn - Sculpture Signed Brochure (1980s) (UK)
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David Sylvian: The Last Romantic - A Biography Revised Edition Paperback Book (2000) (UK) | 2022: 1 left! Jon Hassell - Dream Theory In Malaya (Fourth World Volume Two) CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Digisleeve (Europe) (2017)
USELESS TRIVIA
Jan 20: A poster of David Sylvian from the Quiet Life cover appears in the bedroom of killer Jeremy Bamber in the ITV drama, White House Farm.
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Virginia Astley
Rain Tree Crow
Dolphin Brothers
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Brian Eno
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Jon Hassell
Mick Karn / Dalis Car
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Russell Mills
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Readymade
Shin'ya Fujiwara
Sakamoto
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Masami Tsuchiya
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Tweaker
