Leaving long gaps between albums has been par for the course for David Sylvian: there was a twelve-year pause – filled with collaborations – after 1987’s “Secrets Of The Beehive” before “Dead Bees On A Cake” arrived in 1999, and another one after 2014’s “There’s A Light That Enters Houses With No Other House In Sight”: an hour-long piece that required the listener’s undivided attention. This is the format the artist’s forthcoming offering will adhere to as well – yet there’s a difference too.
The Distance Between The Killer And The Killing
Titled, rather intriguingly, “The Distance Between The Killer And The Killing” and scheduled for release on February 26th, 2027, it’s a 46-minute result of piecemeal sessions that took place between 2012 and 2025 and produced a series of improvisations for which Sylvian found a common context. Moreover, it features quite a few guest performers, including Ryuichi Sakamoto, who first collaborated with David on JAPAN’s “Taking Islands In Africa” back in 1980 before getting equal footing with him on the “Bamboo Houses / Bamboo Music” single two years later and on the “Forbidden Colours” ’45 in 1983.
The album will be out in several formats, of which a limited-edition CD in a case-bound 12-page book seems the most interesting.
