{"id":616544,"date":"2026-09-30T17:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T17:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/616544\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T17:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T17:00:19","slug":"david-sylvian-sets-new-album-the-distance-between-the-killer-and-the-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/616544\/","title":{"rendered":"David Sylvian Sets New Album The Distance Between the Killer and the Killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/4025-david-sylvian\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Sylvian<\/a>\u2019s new album The Distance Between the Killer and the Killing has been a long time coming. The erstwhile <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/14503-japan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Japan<\/a> singer\u2018s new LP, due February 27 on his new label NANOQ, compiles improvisational sessions recorded between 2012 and 2025 into a single, 46-minute instrumental. The original sessions saw Sylvian collaborate with an array of artists including Otomo Yoshihide, Jamie Drouin, Biliana Voutchkova, and one of his most consistent collaborators, the late Ryuichi Sakamoto.<\/p>\n<p>Although NANOQ bills The Distance Between the Killer and the Killing as the official follow-up to Sylvian\u2019s 2009 solo LP <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/13496-manafon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manafon<\/a>, he has shared a few reissues and compilations since then. Sylvian gathered his 21st-century non-album collaborations on the 2010 comp <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/14812-sleepwalkers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sleepwalkers<\/a>; compiled 30 years worth of material on 2012\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/16332-a-victim-of-stars-1982-2012\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A Victim of Stars: 1982-2012<\/a>; and most recently, in 2019, reissued his <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/david-sylvian-secrets-of-the-beehive-brilliant-trees-alchemy-an-index-of-possibilities-gone-to-earth\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first four solo albums<\/a> on vinyl.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image may contain Text Disk Hockey Ice Hockey Ice Hockey Puck Rink Skating and Sport\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-dkeESL cQPiWi responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Vinyl_Record_Sylvian_COVER.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Sylvian\u2019s new album The Distance Between the Killer and the Killing has been a long time coming.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,3721,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-616544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-releases","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}