David Sylvian
Gone To Earth
Gone to Earth is the third solo studio album by English singer-songwriter David Sylvian, released on 1 September 1986. A double album, Gone to Earth is the follow-up to his debut record, Brilliant Trees, and peaked at No. 24 in the UK Albums Chart. The album is a two-record set featuring one record of experimental rock songs with vocals and one consisting entirely of ambient instrumental tracks. Guest artists include Robert Fripp (who co-wrote three songs) and Bill Nelson (who co-wrote one). Thi…
Secrets Of The Beehive
Secrets of the Beehive is the fourth studio album by English singer-songwriter David Sylvian. The album was released on 19 October 1987 in Europe and the United States. The album peaked at No. 37 in the UK album chart. The album was released in Japan on 21 November 1987. This re-press is on corona yellow opaque black vinyl and uses the most recent remastered audio.
Alchemy An Index of Possibilities
Alchemy: An Index of Possibilities is the second solo studio album by David Sylvian, Alchemy is an intermediary album, released between his first solo album Brilliant Trees and his next solo album Gone to Earth, and it is made up of various separate projects. Re-presses were released with an earlier b/w photograph of Sylvian instead of the original artwork. This version is pressed on corona gold opaque red colour vinyl and uses the most recent remastered audio.
Vermilion Hours
"Scattered notes seem to stretch time, their repetition and countless combinations evoking (or invoking?) the infinite iridescence of light that accompanies dawn—a ritual as inevitable as it is unpredictable. With his Musique pour le lever du jour, composed over two years and completed in 2017, Melaine Dalibert once described his aim as creating "an infinite piece," without beginning or end. Subtle, intangible, both complex and minimal, the variations forming this hour-long composition—dedicated…
Sleepwalkers
Grönland Records announces the highly anticipated revised and remastered reissue of Sleepwalkers, the acclaimed compilation album from renowned English songwriter and sonic architect David Sylvian. This collection, available as a gatefold double LP with exclusive art print and a digipak CD, features a meticulously curated selection of Sylvian’s most essential collaborations from the 2000s, reimagined for new and longtime fans alike. The new edition also includes the previously unreleased track “…
Camphor II
First time on vinyl for this mainly instrumental collection of David Sylvian’s collaborations with Holger Czukay, Bill Nelson and Rain Tree Crow. This 11 Track compilation has been re-sequenced by David and contains an exclusive edit of “The Beekeeper’s Apprentice” from his 1999 Ambient masterpiece Approaching Silence.
The Good Son Vs. The Only Daughter
David Sylvian’s ‘The Good Son vs The Only Daughter - The Blemish Remixes’ will be released on vinyl for the first time in January 2025. Initially released on Sylvian’s samadhisound label in 2005, it was only available on CD and digitally. 'The Good Son Vs The Only Daughter' is the nine-track companion to David's 2003 solo album, Blemish. The record features remixes by Burnt Friedman, Sweet Billy Pilgrim, Ryoji Ikeda, Readymade FC, Yoshihiro Hanno, Tatsuhiko Asano, Akira Rabelais, Jan Bang, and E…
Died In The Wool | Manafon Variations
David Sylvian’s ‘Died in the Wool – Manafon Variations’ is released on vinyl for the first time. Initially released on Sylvian’s samadhisound label in 2011, was previously only available digitally and on CD. ‘Died in the Wool’ features six songs from Sylvian’s 2009 album, ‘Manafon’, which have been reworked by modern classical composer Dai Fujikura. The album reinvents the ‘Manafon’ songs and adds new material, including ‘I Should Not Dare’ and ‘A Certain Slant of Light’, poems by Emily Dickinso…
Wandermüde
Grönland is proud to announce the reissue of Wandermüde on CD and, for the first time, vinyl. Both versions include one previously unreleased bonus track. The 2LP is pressed on crystal clear vinyl. This 2023 edition was mastered by Stephan Mathieu from the original recordings.
Blemish
Recorded in February and March 2003, 'Blemish' has been hailed as a masterpiece by critics across the world. Working primarily alone, David Sylvian created an impromptu suite of songs for guitar, electronics and voice. The compositions were crafted from improvisational sessions by Sylvian and also by acclaimed guitarist Derek Bailey (on 3 tracks) which were captured live in the studio, resulting in an emotionally raw, minimal work, of immediacy and stark beauty.
‘Blemish’ was David Sylvian’s fir…
Upon This Fleeting Dream
'On 'Upon This Fleeting Dream' Clive Bell's Twinkle3 embraces medieval and 16th-century Japanese poems and haiku about death and saying farewell. Bell and his trio, consisting of Dave Ross and Richard Scott, expand their sonic borders: bringing these pithy epigrams to a new Fourth World where electro-acoustic sounds glitches into a hypnagogic, if not the unconscious level of fragile beauty.
The distinctive voice of David Sylvian (ex-singer of Japan and known for his highly acclaimed solo work (B…
Err (Book)
A photographic essay by David Sylvian. A limited edition publication: 500 copies signed and numbered by the artist. 50 signed, unnumbered copies randomly distributed among the remaining edition.
There is no Love
Few copies, sold out at source. Additional contribution from Toshimaru Nakamura (no-input mixer) recorded by Steve Bates and David Sylvian, Montreal. Tubular bell and concert bass drum recorded by Matthew Sansom, Surrey University, 2006. Original text by Bernard Marie Koltès. Compositional structure by Mark Wastell. Mixed and mastered by Rupert Clervaux. Personnel: Rhodri Davies - lap harp, table harp, vibraphone, radio; David Sylvian - voice, vocal treatments, electronics; Mark Wastell - tam ta…
Plight & Premonition Flux & Mutability
Four beautiful, exceptional ambient nocturnes bloom again on a very welcome 30th anniversary reissue, newly packaged together by Grönland for the benefit of your health... David Sylvian and Holger Czukay’s Plight + Premonition [1988] & Flux + Mutability [1989] bouquets remain some of the most enigmatic ambient recordings of the ‘80s since their conception at Czukay’s converted cinema studio in Köln, 1986. But, while Sylvian was ostensibly coming to record vocals for the last track on Czukay’s Ro…
Playing The Schoolhouse
Playing The Schoolhouse, a new CD EP length composition by David Sylvian recorded in March of this year in Norway. Based on an improvisation by Jan Bang and Sylvian it also features contributions from Otomo Yoshihide and Toshimaru Nakamura. 'Confront is a small bespoke label, that specialise in small run editions. David has been a long time admirer of what we do and the way we do it - and a loyal customer too - as well as a contemporary of a number of the artists on our roster. I asked David t…
When Loud Weather Buffeted Naoshima
A beautiful composition from David that was commissioned as an installation piece by the Naoshima Fukutake Art Museum Foundation on the island of Naoshima, Japan as part of the NAOSHIMA STANDARD 2 exhibition which ran from Oct 2006 to April 2007.