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Site for Sore Ears, Clive Bell, The Wire, 2003
Off Site, on site: Reflecting on the Early 2000s Alternative Scene through the Venue Off Site, REMAIIN (Radical European Music and its Intercultural Nature), Kazue Yokoi, 2022
Meeting At Off Site Vol. 1, sleeve-notes, Toshimaru Nakamura, 2002
Review of Foldings by Akiyama/Nakamura/Sugimoto/Wastell, Boomkat
Toshimaru Nakamura – sound student, William Meyer, Perfect Sound Forever, 2003
Ah, The Sweet Torture: Sachiko M., Clive Bell, Blocks of Consciousness and the Unbroken Continuum, Sound 323, 2005
Otomo Yoshihide interviewed by Michel Henritzi, Revue & Corrigée magazine as republished on the Improvised Music from Japan website, 2001
Let’s start with the word, David Sylvian, davidsylvian.com, 2009
The Making of Manafon, gallery of photographs by David Sylvian & Yuka Fujii, 2006
David Sylvian interviewed by Hannah Jones, Wales Online, 2009
David Sylvian interviewed by Fiona Talkington, Late Junction, BBC Radio 3, 2009
On the subject of Manafon. An exchange between David Sylvian and Marcus Boon, manafon.com microsite, 2009
From Japan To Manafon, The Man Revealed, David Gavan, The Quietus, 2009
Koboku Senjû – Joining The Queue to Become One of the Ordinary Ghosts, sleeve-notes, David Sylvian, 2013
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