Only just noticed that the Ariola-era Japan albums got the 'carboard box' treatment last year;

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Album-Classics-Japan/dp/B004N4HXKE/ref=tag_dpp_lp_edpp_ttl_in

on Ingrid Chav's facebook thing:

Sylvian will be exhibiting some instant film photography as part of the 'Impossible Project' in Japan ( April - May ) entitled 'Glowing Enigmas'

April 20th - May 20th 2012
in the Impossible Project Space
Tokyo, Japan

Here’s a link, but it’s in Japanese;
http://antenna7.com/artdesign/2012/02/glowing_enigmas.html

According to a post on japansylvian.com, a new book of lyrics (Trophies 4?) will be published soon.

Blimey!

In the month that Saint Etienne do a cover of Manhattan by Scott Walker, David Sylvian tells a Tommy Cooper joke! –

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/m...p=ILCMUSTXT9384

There’s a new career-spanning interview with Sylvian over at The Quietus;
http://thequietus.com/articles/08287-david-sylvian-interview

And a new song in a collaboration the band Land;

Nothing Is Happening Everywhere (Featuring David Sylvian)
http://soundcloud.com/landnightwithin/nothing-is-happening

Sylvian has a new album coming out 24th September, here’s the blurb;

Samadhisound releases Uncommon Deities, a reinvention of David Sylvian’s audiovisual installation, produced by Jan Bang and Erik Honoré and featuring performances by David Sylvian, Arve Henriksen and Sidsel Endresen.

Standard Edition
Presented in a 6 panel digipak (with a matte laminate finish) featuring artwork by Hannah Bertram, art direction by David Sylvian, designed by Chris Bigg, the standard edition CD comes with a credit sheet folded and inserted into the digipak itself. This is limited to a pressing of 3000 units.

Limited Edition Deluxe Version
Limited to a print run of 1000 units, this deluxe version of Uncommon Deities is A5 in size (150mm x 210mm), and comes with a rigid hardback cover, with matte laminate finish. This is inserted into a half size 150mm x 105mm O-Card belly band, which is made of grey back board with blind embossed typography.

The book itself is 44 pages in length, 4 colour with special 5th colour gold print, and contains the album's poetry in both English and the original Norwegian with the CD housed in a pocketed sleeve.

The package features artwork by Hannah Bertram, art direction by David Sylvian, and was designed by Chris Bigg.

Tracklist

The God of Single Cell Organisms
The God of Sleeplessness
The God of Silence
The God of Smaller Gods
The God of Small Caresses
The God of Black Holes
The God of Adverbs
The Ruminative Gap
The God of Crossroads
The God of Tiny Islands
The God of Gradual Abdication
I Swallowed Earth for This

http://www.davidsylvian.com/uncommondeities/

Great stuff, thanks for letting us know!

It's $40 & $10 p&p for the deluxe edition. Can I afford to pay that for a cd of David reading poetry. I bought the deluxe version of Manafon & think I've looked at it only a few times.

Yeah, I'm of the same fram of mind to be honest. I had a listen to the streams on the website and...I dunno - just not really working for me.

It's not even because these are audio abstracts from an installation - so we're only getting an echo of the experience. He's been doing pieces similar to this every now and then from about Everything and Nothing onwards and I'm not sure he evers pulls it off.