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David Sylvian returns with first new album in seventeen years, The Distance Between the Killer and the Killing
Former Japan singer David Sylvian has announced his upcoming instrumental album, The Distance Between the Killer and the Killing.
The Distance Between the Killer and the Killing serves as the follow-up to Sylvian’s 2009 album Manafon, and will be released on the newly founded NANOQ label. The album is composed of sessions recorded between 2012 and 2025, based on recomposed improvisational material with a variety of artists ranging from Otomo Yoshihide, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Bilianna Voutchkova and Miako Klein, to Jamie Drouin and Lance Austin Olson.
The 46-minute instrumental album is said to be unlike anything that Sylvian has done before. While much of Japan’s later work was stripped around the vocals, emphasising space, The Distance Between the Killer and the Killing is described as the “far edge” of a way of working that Sylvian has developed in the years that followed his time with Japan.
The Distance Between the Killer and the Killing artwork
The Distance Between the Killer and the Killing is released on 26 February via NANOQ
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