David Sylvian
David Sylvian, born David Alan Batt, is an English singer-songwriter, musician and film director who came to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead vocalist and main songwriter in the group Japan.
On his solo records of the '80s, Sylvian's explorations in music took him from the pop-funk, stylish jazz and windswept exotica of 1984's Brilliant Trees; the ambient landscapes and epic ballads of 1985's Gone to Earth; and the romantic orchestrations of 1987's Secrets of the Beehive.
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Sleeping Dragon
2024 · Movie
Brilliant Trees Sessions
2021 · Movie
7.2Ryuichi Sakamoto: async at the Park Avenue Armory
2018 · Movie · Narrator on "Life, Life" (voice)
8.0A Gentle Glow
2017 · Movie · (Voice)
6.0async - first light
2017 · Movie
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Steve Jansen - The Occurrence of Slope
2008 · Movie
Japan - The Very Best Of
2006 · Movie
7.8The Work of Director Anton Corbijn
2005 · Movie · Self (segment "Red Guitar")
Time Spent
1997 · Movie · Himself
David Sylvian and Robert Fripp: Live in Japan
1995 · Movie
Steel Cathedrals
1985 · Movie · Self
Preparations For A Journey
1984 · Movie