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David Sylvian is a Ambient and Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Toward the Within, Can, Djivan Gasparyan, Holger Czukay and Mark Isham. Those roots explain a lot about how David Sylvian arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Mark Hollis, Robert Fripp, Robert Wyatt, Art of Noise and Labradford, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Bel Canto, Becoming X, No-Man, The Frozen Autumn and Aspidistrafly, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 39 connections around David Sylvian, reaching back through Toward the Within and forward to Bel Canto. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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David Sylvian connections
David Sylvian grew out of Toward the Within, Can, Djivan Gasparyan and Holger Czukay, shares an orbit with Mark Hollis, Robert Fripp, Robert Wyatt and Art of Noise, went on to shape Bel Canto, Becoming X, No-Man and The Frozen Autumn. 39 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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