David Sylvian

vocal, mix, keyboard, performer, guitars, guitar, synthesizer, producer, remixer, programming, arranger, drums, instrument arranger, organ, acoustic guitar, sampler, piano, effects, electric piano, strings, engineer, bass, percussion, other instruments, recording, horn, electronic organ, slide guitar, harmonium, marimba, banjo, wind instruments, Hammond organ, samples from artist, tape

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Artist name Roles Recordings
坂本龍一 arranger, instrument arranger, Rhodes piano, bass, keyboard, organ, piano, sampler, strings, synthesizer All of My Mother’s Names, Alphabet Angel, Brilliant Trees, Forbidden Colours, I Surrender, I Surrender (single edit), Krishna Blue, Let the Happiness In, Maria, Midnight Sun, Mother and Child, Orpheus, Promise (The Cult of Eurydice), Red Guitar, The Boy With the Gun, The Devil’s Own, The Shining of Things, Waterfront, Weathered Wall, When Poets Dreamed of Angels
Steve Jansen drums, percussion Before the Bullfight, Café Europa, Forbidden Colours, God Man, I Surrender, I Surrender (single edit), Krishna Blue, Let the Happiness In, Orpheus, Pop Song, River Man, Silver Moon, Taking the Veil, Thalheim, The Ink in the Well, Wave
Steve Nye mix, producer, piano, synthesizer A Brief Conversation Ending in Divorce, Brilliant Trees, Laughter and Forgetting, Let the Happiness In, Nostalgia, Orpheus, Pop Song, Pulling Punches, Red Guitar, River Man, The Boy With the Gun, The Scent of Magnolia, Weathered Wall, Where the Railroad Meets the Sea
Rain Tree Crow
Dave Kent engineer, mix, remixer Albuquerque (Dobro #6), Aparna and Nimisha (Dobro #5), Approaching Silence, Cover Me With Flowers, Godman, I Surrender, Midnight Sun, Ride, The Scent of Magnolia, Thoroughly Lost to Logic, Wanderlust, Weathered Wall

Collaborators on this artist's recordings

Artist name Roles Recordings
坂本龍一 arranger, instrument arranger, Rhodes piano, bass, keyboard, organ, piano, sampler, strings, synthesizer All of My Mother’s Names, Alphabet Angel, Brilliant Trees, Forbidden Colours, I Surrender, I Surrender (single edit), Krishna Blue, Let the Happiness In, Maria, Midnight Sun, Mother and Child, Orpheus, Promise (The Cult of Eurydice), Red Guitar, The Boy With the Gun, The Devil’s Own, The Shining of Things, Waterfront, Weathered Wall, When Poets Dreamed of Angels
Steve Jansen drums, percussion Before the Bullfight, Café Europa, Forbidden Colours, God Man, I Surrender, I Surrender (single edit), Krishna Blue, Let the Happiness In, Orpheus, Pop Song, River Man, Silver Moon, Taking the Veil, Thalheim, The Ink in the Well, Wave
Steve Nye mix, producer, piano, synthesizer A Brief Conversation Ending in Divorce, Brilliant Trees, Laughter and Forgetting, Let the Happiness In, Nostalgia, Orpheus, Pop Song, Pulling Punches, Red Guitar, River Man, The Boy With the Gun, The Scent of Magnolia, Weathered Wall, Where the Railroad Meets the Sea
Dave Kent engineer, mix, remixer Albuquerque (Dobro #6), Aparna and Nimisha (Dobro #5), Approaching Silence, Cover Me With Flowers, Godman, I Surrender, Midnight Sun, Ride, The Scent of Magnolia, Thoroughly Lost to Logic, Wanderlust, Weathered Wall
Kenny Wheeler flugelhorn Before the Bullfight, I Surrender, I Surrender (single edit), Laughter and Forgetting, Nostalgia, Thalheim, The Ink in the Well
Robert Fripp vocal, guitar, guitars Approaching Silence, Camp Fire Coyote Country, Gone to Earth, Silver Moon, Taking the Veil, Upon This Earth, Wave
Ingrid Chavez vocal Café Europa, Godman, Krishna Blue, Remembering Julia, The Scent of Magnolia, Whose Trip Is This?
Marc Ribot guitar All of My Mother’s Names, God Man, I Surrender, I Surrender (single edit), Midnight Sun, Pollen Path
Phil Palmer acoustic guitar, guitar, slide guitar Orpheus, Promise (The Cult of Eurydice), Red Guitar, Taking the Veil, The Ink in the Well, When Poets Dreamed of Angels
Peter Williams (engineer/mixing) engineer, mix Brilliant Trees, Forbidden Colours, Nostalgia, Pulling Punches, Red Guitar, Weathered Wall
Bill Nelson (English experimental musician) acoustic guitar, electric guitar, guitar, guitars Answered Prayers, Before the Bullfight, Silver Moon, Sunlight Seen Through Towering Trees, The Healing Place, Wave
Danny Cummings percussion Let the Happiness In, Mother and Child, Orpheus, The Boy With the Gun, When Poets Dreamed of Angels
Nigel Walker (UK producer/engineer/guitarist) mix, producer Backwaters, The Ink in the Well, Words With the Shaman, Part 1: Ancient Evening, Words With the Shaman, Part 2: Incantation, Words With the Shaman, Part 3: Awakening (Songs From the Treetops)
Mark Isham flugelhorn, trumpet Let the Happiness In, Orpheus, Red Guitar, When Poets Dreamed of Angels
Danny Thompson (English double bass player) double bass Mother and Child, Orpheus, The Boy With the Gun, The Ink in the Well
Jan Bang mix, performer, remixer Mother and Child (remix), Playing The Schoolhouse, The Only Daughter (remixed by Jan Bang and Erik Honore)
Ged Lynch drums Pollen Path, Thalheim, Wanderlust
David Torn (guitarist/composer aka SPLaTTeRCeLL) acoustic guitar, electric guitar, guitar Maria, Mother and Child, The Boy With the Gun
Derek Bailey guitar How Little We Need to Be Happy, She is Not, The Good Son
Jon Hassell trumpet Brilliant Trees, Weathered Wall, Weathered Wall (instrumental)
Toby Hrycek-Robinson engineer How Little We Need to Be Happy, She is Not, The Good Son
Ronald "Head" Drayton guitar Pulling Punches, Red Guitar
Lawrence Feldman flute I Surrender, I Surrender (single edit)
Jennifer Maidman bass Silver Moon, Taking the Veil
Mel Collins soprano saxophone River Man, Silver Moon
Erik Honoré engineer, mix, remixer Mother and Child (remix), The Only Daughter (remixed by Jan Bang and Erik Honore)
Burnt Friedman remixer Blemish (remixed by Burnt Friedman), Late Night Shopping (remixed by Burnt Friedman)
Richard Barbieri synthesizer Pulling Punches, Weathered Wall
Bill Frisell acoustic guitar, dobro Dobro #1, Krishna Blue
John Giblin bass Thalheim, Wanderlust
Scooter Warner (Drummer) drums All of My Mother’s Names, God Man
Shree Maa vocal Praise, Praise (Pratah Smarami)
BJ Cole pedal steel guitar Silver Moon, Silver Moon Over Sleeping Steeples
Talvin Singh percussion, tabla All of My Mother’s Names, Krishna Blue
Fennesz arranger, performer A Fire in the Forest
Tommy Barbarella Rhodes piano Thalheim, Wanderlust
Wayne Braithwaite bass Pulling Punches, Red Guitar
Jim Anton bass Whose Trip Is This?
Akira Rabelais remixer Blemish (remixed by Akira Rabelais)
John Taylor (British jazz pianist) piano Laughter and Forgetting
Chris Minh Doky double bass All of My Mother’s Names
Chris Vrenna remixer Late Night Shopping (Chris Vrenna remix)
Clint Walsh remixer Late Night Shopping (Chris Vrenna remix)
Readymade FC (French techno/downtempo producer Jean-Philippe Verdin) remixer A Fire in the Forest (remixed by Readymade FC)
Richard Werbowenko keyboard Whose Trip Is This?
Deepak Ram bansuri Krishna Blue
Ryoji Ikeda remixer The Only Daughter (remixed by Ryoji Ikeda)
Harry Beckett flugelhorn Wave
Steve Tibbetts gong Krishna Blue
Sweet Billy Pilgrim remixer The Heart Knows Better (remixed by Sweet Billy Pilgrim)
Holger Czukay performer Weathered Wall
Wagon Christ remixer Godman (Wagon Christ remix)
中村としまる performer Playing The Schoolhouse
半野善弘 remixer The Good Son (remixed by Yoshihiro Hanno)
大友良英 performer Playing The Schoolhouse
宮野幸子 orchestrator for the love of life
浅野達彦 remixer How Little We Need to Be Happy (remixed by Tatsuhiko Asano)
蓜島邦明 arranger, producer for the love of life

Work on other artists' recordings

Artist name Roles Recordings
坂本龍一 vocal Forbidden Colours, Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II-Returning to the Womb) (feat. David Sylvian & Ingrid Chavez)
Rain Tree Crow instrument arranger, mix, vocal, Hammond organ, banjo, bass, drums, effects, electric piano, electronic organ, guitar, guitars, harmonium, horn, marimba, organ, other instruments, percussion, slide guitar, synthesizer, wind instruments A Reassuringly Dull Sunday, Big Wheels in Shanty Town, Blackcrow Hits Shoe Shine City, Blackwater, Boat’s for Burning, Cries and Whispers, Every Colour You Are, I Drink to Forget, New Moon at Red Deer Wallow, Pocket Full of Change, Rain Tree Crow, Red Earth (As Summertime Ends), Scratchings on the Bible Belt
Gigolette performer, vocal Linoleum, Linoleum (Josh Wink Interpretation), Linoleum (King Britt's Scuba mix), Linoleum (Paul Leary remix), Linoleum (Teargas & Plateglass remix), Linoleum (The Josh Wink Interpretation), Linoleum (Wamdue 2 Step dub Experience), Linoleum (Wamdue 2-Step Vocal Experience), Linoleum (radio edit), Pure Genius
Dave Correa remixer, vocal Come Morning, Maya, The Golden Way
Japan producer, remixer, vocal, keyboard, tape Ghosts, Some Kind of Fool, The Width of a Room
Kami de Chukwu producer, programming, remixer, vocal, keyboard Bamboo Houses, Bamboo Music, Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II)
Mick Karn remixer, vocal, keyboard Buoy, Land, When Love Walks In
Nine Horses arranger Serotonin (Burnt Friedman remix), The Banality of Evil (Burnt Friedman remix), Wonderful World (Burnt Friedman remix)
Arve Henriksen programming, recording, vocal Before and Afterlife, Thermal
Inger Peterson vocal A Fire in the Forest, Sugarfuel
Fennesz vocal Transit
Mono samples from artist Penguin Freud
Natalie Taylor guitars First Evening
Finatik vocal Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II Returning to the Womb)
34423 vocal Nothing Is Happening Everywhere
Russell Mills vocal Rooms of the Sixteen Shimmers
Suyoen Kim performer Messenger
The Lucky Dips vocal Forbidden Colours
Tricky performer Hey Love
Virginia Astley performer Some Small Hope
rtnario guitars Youth
Andrea Chimenti vocal Ti ho aspettato (I Have Waited for You)
Ευαγγελία Κοζώνη mix Jean the Birdman
土屋昌巳 guitar, piano Perfect Days
Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit vocal The Librarian