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David Sylvian

David Sylvian
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About the artist

David Sylvian (born David Alan Batt, February 23 1958, in Beckenham, Kent, UK) is an English singer, musician and composer who first rose to fame as the lead vocalist and main songwriter of the band Japan, and whose subsequent solo career has been influenced by a variety of musical styles and genres, including jazz, ambient music and electronic music. Japan, which also included Mick Karn, Rob Dean, Richard Barbieri and Sylvian's brother Steve Jansen

Top songs

  1. Orpheus
  2. Silver Moon Over Sleeping Steeples
  3. September
  4. Forbidden Colours
  5. The Boy With The Gun
  6. Red Guitar
  7. I Surrender
  8. Let The Happiness In
  9. When Poets Dreamed Of Angels
  10. Maria
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  1. A Fire In The Forest
  2. Nostalgia
  3. Waterfront
  4. The Devil's Own
  5. Answered Prayers
  6. Mother And Child
  7. Taking The Veil
  8. Darkest Dreaming
  9. The Ink In The Well
  10. The Healing Place
  11. Pulling Punches
  12. Brilliant Trees
  13. Weathered Wall
  14. Midnight Sun
  15. Silver Moon
  16. Silver Moon Over Sleeping Steeples - 2003 Digital Remaster
  17. Before The Bullfight
  18. Alphabet Angel
  19. Wanderlust
  20. Backwaters
  21. Dobro #1
  22. The Healing Place - 2003 Digital Remaster
  23. Home
  24. Blemish
  25. Laughter And Forgetting
  26. Small Metal Gods
  27. Gone To Earth
  28. Wave
  29. Late Night Shopping
  30. Krishna Blue
  31. God Man
  32. Orpheus - 2003 - Remaster
  33. Promise (The Cult of Eurydice)
  34. The Shining Of Things
  35. River Man
  36. The Only Daughter
  37. Where The Railroad Meets The Sea
  38. The Wooden Cross
  39. Upon This Earth
  40. The Good Son
  41. Pollen Path
  42. Bamboo Houses
  43. The Scent Of Magnolia
  44. The Heart Knows Better
  45. Jean the Birdman
  46. Pop Song
  47. Ride
  48. She Is Not
  49. Snow White in Appalachia
  50. God's Monkey
  51. Manafon
  52. The Rabbit Skinner
  53. Thalheim
  54. How Little We Need to Be Happy
  55. Random Acts of Senseless Violence
  56. Café Europa
  57. Bamboo Music
  58. Silver Moon Over Sleeping Steeples - Remastered 2003
  59. Thalhiem
  60. Praise
  61. Emily Dickinson
  62. Plight (The Spiralling of Winter Ghosts)
  63. The Stigma of Childhood (Kin)
  64. All of My Mother's Names
  65. The Greatest Living Englishman
  66. Sunlight Seen Through Towering Trees
  67. Preparations for a Journey
  68. The Department of Dead Letters
  69. A Bird of Prey Vanishes Into a Bright Blue Cloudless Sky
  70. Blackwater
  71. Camp Fire: Coyote Country
  72. Praise (Pratah Smarami)
  73. A Brief Conversation Ending In Divorce
  74. The Beekeeper's Apprentice
  75. Riverman
  76. Albuquerque (Dobro #6)
  77. Cover Me With Flowers
  78. Every Colour You Are
  79. Sleepwalkers
  80. Approaching Silence
  81. Orpheus - Remastered 2003
  82. Money For All
  83. Epiphany
  84. Godman
  85. Ghosts (Remix)
  86. Steel Cathedrals
  87. Thoroughly Lost To Logic
  88. 'A Fire In The Forest'
  89. The Golden Way
  90. Wonderful World

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