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Lotte
Kestner - China Mountain
MP3 Album 2010 | Silber
086
11 tracks, 47 minutes
$5 (download
only (256 kbps, ~86 megs))
A Silber fan told me about
Lotte Kestner. The next day I found myself asking Anna-Lynne to let me
release her music.
~ Brian John Mitchell,
Silber Records
Lotte Kestner is the solo
project of Anna-Lynne Williams (Trespassers Williams). A cross between
White
Chalk era PJ Harvey & early Joan Baez, she sings songs that would
be equally at home on a beatnik’s record player, a hippy’s 8-track, or
some hipster’s iPod. Minimal, sparse, majestic. Guitar & voice tell
stories of hope for love & loss of love & the difficult navigations
of human relationships.
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Remora
- Mecha
CD 2010 | Silber 085
16 tracks, 42 minutes
$12 ($14
international, $5 download (256 kbps, ~114 megs))
Remora returns armed with sub-midi
technology instead of a guitar. Post apocalyptic pop. Blurps &
bleeps. Bridges between machine & human brains. Music for androids.
Part post rock, part electro, & part folk; love songs, fight songs,
& ballads; distorted future music. Includes a copy of the Mecha
mini-comic. Limited number of physical copies in metal tins.
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Listen to the track Nevada Smith
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QRD
Our webzine QRD continues
with issue #42. Twenty-one in-depth interviews about playing guitar
with:
Ashkelon
Sain of Trance to the Sun & Soriah, Zac
Keiller, Eric
Muhs, Patrick
Vega, Russ
Stedman, Bret
Hart, Rick
Ray, John
William Gordon, Evan
Peta, Evgeny
Zheyda of Thorn1, Dave
Halverson of Trance Lucid, Charles
Rice Goff III, Calvin
Johnson of Dub Narcotic Sound System, Kim
Chee of Pineal Ventana & AkuYou, John
G Sosnowski of Cystem, Michael
Walton of mwvm, Annelies
Monseré, Eric
Quach of thisquietarmy, Robert
Poss of Band of Susans, Sarah
June, & Ted
Johnson of National Holographic. |
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Rivulets
- d e m o s
MP3 Album 2010 | Silber
089
10 tracks, 36 minutes
$5 (download
only (256 kbps, ~68 megs))
Demos captures
an era of Rivulets that hasn’t been documented elsewhere. During the first
formative year of Rivulets, an important part of the band was bass player
Jason Seckel, who’s minimal long sustained notes style can finally be heard
for the first time by many fans. You get to hear early versions of songs
like “Four Weeks” & “Past Life” along with unreleased songs like “Sick
Love” & our personal favorite “Anyway.”
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Aarktica
Live at KUCI 6/15/05
MP3 EP 2009 | Silber 083
5 tracks, 31 minutes
free download from Archive.org
Probably
the most subtle of the Silber releases I've listened to so far, Aarktica
tip-toe the thin line between post-rock & dream-pop/shoegaze: slow,
methodical build-ups & blissful wall-of-sound embraces, with the surprise
(& lovely) addition of vocals, horns & electronics. Don't be scared
by the "post-rock" tag, I promise you this is not Explosions In The Sky-lite
or crescendo-core.
~ Young Pilot Astray
A radio session from Aarkitca
as a full band on their Bleeding Light tour in 2005.
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The
Wet Teens - Let It Pee
MP3 Album 2010 | Silber
088
7 tracks, 20 minutes
$5 (download
only (256 kbps, ~48 megs))
Okay, I know what you're thinking,
"What's a glam punk band doing on Silber?" Well, when good friends
make good music, you feel a need to make it heard. Over the top &
hyper-sexualized rock & roll brought back to life &, much like
Frankenstein's Monster, is stronger & more intense than before it died.
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Moodring
Live
MP3 EP 2009 | Silber 082
7 tracks, 28 minutes
free download from Archive.org
I'll
just go ahead & call this "pigfuckjazz" because it feels like a fairly
concrete summation.
~ Young Pilot Astray
Moodring live recordings
from fall 2008. The two recordings that solidified Moodring's place
in the Silber roster.
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Irata
- Irata
MP3 Album 2010 | Silber
087
10 tracks, 53 minutes (plus
video for "Eye of Ra")
$5 (download
only (256 kbps, ~142 megs))
Irata dwells in the world
where drone, post rock, & metal unite into a giant monster to kick
your ass.
~ Brian John Mitchell, Silber
Records
Guitars, drums, bass, &
saxophone form this instrumental group from Greensboro, NC. We're happy
to make this debut available to the masses while they're working on their
new album. Includes video for their song "Eye of Ra."
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Small
Life Form
Lost Kisses Soundtrack
MP3 Album 2009 | Silber
081
16 tracks, 68 minutes
free download from Archive.org
...the
occasionally subliminal music is appropriately moody, morose, frightening,
cautious, heart-pounding, & unsettling – think of David Lynch’s soundtrack
to Eraserhead. Often glacially slow & ominous, it never interferes
or distracts from the story – it’s ultimately one of the most ambient soundtracks
you’ll hear all year & would easily attract the attention of fans of
Eno, Stars of The Lid, Windy & Carl, Azusa Plane, et. al.
~ Jeff Penczak, Foxy Digitalis
When the time came to make
a soundtrack to the Lost Kisses cartoons, Small Life Form’s brand of electro
acoustics & aggressive ambient seemed like a great fit for the stories.
If you dig the soundtrack make sure to check out the DVD
to get the rest of the story.
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Vlor
- six-winged
CD 2009 | Silber 075
16 tracks, 50 minutes
$12 ($14
international, $5 download (256kbps, ~83 megs))
Six-Winged is a terrific album that
flits from style to style, but manages to hang together perfectly. Even
the book ending tracks, ostensibly two versions of the same thing, sound
nothing like each other. The first a delicate, fragile whisper of a song,
the second straying into Galaxie 500 territory. It shows that surprise
and variety needn’t be at the expense of consistency and flow.
~ Music Musing & Miscellany
The Silber super group returns
this time featuring Brian John Mitchell (Remora/Small Life Form), Jon DeRosa
(Aarktica), Brian McKenzie (Electric Bird Noise), Martin Newman (Plumerai/Goddakk),
Michael Wood (Something About Vampires And Sluts), Jessica Bailiff, Annelies
Monsere, Jim DeJong (Infant Cycle), Michael Walton (mwvm), Paolo Messere
(6 P.M.), & more. Sounds go from indie pop to punk rock to drone
ambient.
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Listen to the track damage the land & the sea
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Listen to the track i have left home (reprise)
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Silber Wristband
$2 ($3
international)
Silberspy logo plus the phrase
"drone love honesty sound" on a silicone bracelet. Show your pride
as a citizen of the Silber Empire. Available in white, red, blue,
or black. |
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