David Sylvian to Release New Album on February 27

David Sylvian’s new album, titled The Distance Between the Killer and the Killing, will be released on February 27 on the NANOQ label. The album combines improvised sessions that were recorded between the years 2012 and 2025 into a single 46-minute instrumental piece. The record label, NANOQ, describes the new album as the official follow-up to David Sylvian’s 2009 solo album, Manafon.

Across the sessions recorded between 2012 and 2025, David Sylvian worked in collaboration with various artists. The contributors who worked with Sylvian on these improvised sessions include Otomo Yoshihide, Jamie Drouin, Biliana Voutchkova, and Ryuichi Sakamoto. Their work from these sessions has been assembled together into the single 46-minute instrumental piece presented on The Distance Between the Killer and the Killing.

This release joins earlier compilations and reissues from David Sylvian. In 2010, David Sylvian collected his non-album collaborations from the twenty-first century on the compilation Sleepwalkers. Two years later, in 2012, David Sylvian compiled thirty years of material into the work titled A Victim of Stars: 1982-2012. Additionally, in 2019, David Sylvian reissued his first four solo albums in the vinyl format.