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Aarktica
- Bleeding Light
CD Album 2005 | Darla 8 tracks, 46 minutes $12 ~ Erasing Clouds Supported by an ensemble of horns, strings and percussion, Bleeding Light is it’s own distinct hybrid of dark, dissonant free jazz, electro-acoustic drone pop, and shoegaze glimmer, all largely centered around North Indian raga structures. |
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Aarktica
- In Sea
CD 2009 | Silber 078 12 tracks, 56 minutes $12 ($14 international, $5 download (256kbps, ~100 megs)) ~ Ian Mathers, PopMatters Aarktica returns to Silber for the ten year in the making sequel to No Solace in Sleep! Check out what will soon be Silber's best selling release ever & an indie ambient classic! Includes slow-drone cover of Danzig's "Am I Demon?" Recommended if you like: Labradford, Windy & Carl, Ennio Morricone, Eluvium, Mogwai, Seefeel, Earth, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Spacemen 3 |
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Aarktica
- In Sea Remixes
CD 2010 | Silber 079 14 tracks, 72 minutes $12 ($14 international, $5 download (256 kbps, ~135 megs)) ~ Babysue Remixes of the entire In
Sea album by Ramses III, Landing, ThisQuietArmy, Mason Jones, Keith Canisus
(Rumskib), Yellow6, Declining Winter (Richard of Hood), Suckers, Remora,
Summer Cats (Slumberland Records), & more.
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Aarktica
Live at KUCI 6/15/05 MP3 EP 2009 | Silber 083 5 tracks, 31 minutes download zip file | Archive.org page After the release of Bleeding Light, Aarktica did a short West Coast tour with most of the full live band. During this trip the band was invited to perform live on the air at KUCI in Irvine, CA. These tracks, recorded live, capture the rawness, tension & dynamics of Bleeding Light-era Aarktica & represent the only live shows done outside of New York City for this album. A very different animal than the on-record Aarktica most know, the live shows of this era featured the virtuosity of free jazz greats Mike Pride & James Duncan on drums & trumpet, respectively Just listen to the drum breaks toward the end of “A Shadow Knife,” & the trumpet solos on “OJ Gude.” |
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Aarktica
- Matchless Years
CD Album 2007 | Darla 10 tracks, 46 minutes $12 ~ Matt the Raven, Delusions of Adequacy |
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Aarktica
- No Solace in Sleep
CD Album 2000 | Silber 012 8 tracks, 64 minutes $12 ($14 international, $5 download (256 kbps, ~113 megs)) ~ Mass Transfer Debut album of Jon DeRosa’s ambient guitar drone project Aarktica. A continuation of the sounds started by Ligetti and followed through by Glenn Branca, Robert Fripp, Brian Eno, Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, Lycia, lovesliescrushing, & Flying Saucer Attack. Still one of our best sellers years later. |
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Aarktica
- ...or you could just go through your whole life and be happy anyway (Bliss
Out v. 18)
CD Album 2002 | Darla 121 7 tracks, 41 minutes $12 |
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Aarktica
- Pure Tone Audiometry
CD Album 2003 | Silber 026 7 tracks, 45 minutes $12 ($14 international, $5 download (256 kbps, ~79 megs)) ~ Jon Pareles, New York Times Pure Tone Audiometry is Aarktica's most involved work yet, approaching the balance between "drone" and "song." Although the overall tone is consistent and dreamlike, the content within is as varied as DeRosa's personality, combining gentle lullabies with jagged atonalism, string trios with white noise guitars, and feverish percussion overtop sedate drones. |
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CD Album 2003 | Silber 029 12 tracks, 41 minutes $12 ($14 international, $5 download (256kbps, ~76 megs)) ~ Rob Devlin, Brainwashed The Fallen Acrobat is the debut album by Louisville singer-songwriter Jamie Barnes. Fleshed out bedroom pop songs about the anxieties of growing up and the nostalgia of youth. |
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Jamie
Barnes - Honey from the Ribcage
CD Album 2005 | Silber 036 10 tracks, 40 minutes $12 ($14 international, $5 download (256kbps, ~80 megs)) ~ James McQuiston, Altar Magazine Honey from the Ribcage is bedroom-pop-americana more orchestrated & fully realized for Jamie's second album. |
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Jamie
Barnes - The Recalibrated Heart
CD Album 2006 l Pink Bullet 001 10 tracks, 44 minutes $12 ~ Jeffrey Lee Puckett, The Courier-Journal On his third album Jamie continues to crank out his own special brand of heartbreaking americana. |
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Black
Happy Day - In the Garden of Ghostflowers
CD Album 2006 | Silber 053 11 tracks, 50 minutes $12 ($14 international, $5 download (256kbps, ~93 megs)) ~ Jeff Fitzgerald, Aural Innovations A collaboration between Tara Vanflower & Timothy Renner (Stone Breath). Ambient old-time folk music. |
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burMonter - fell
CD Album 1996 | Eilythyia 002 8 tracks, 27 minutes $8 |
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Carta
- An Index of Birds
CD 2010 | Silber 077 13 tracks, 58 minutes $12 ($14 international, $5 download (256 kbps, ~119 megs)) ~ Jeff Penczak, Foxy Digitalis A welcome new addition to the Silber family. Carta reminds us of a ton of stuff we like from Low to Six by Seven to Plumerai to Charles Atlas & are in the tradition of all the mid 1990s moody pop/slowcore/indie rock/post rock bands we came of age to. :
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Clang
Quartet - Jihad
CD Album 2000 | Silber 013 14 tracks, 71 minutes $12 ($14 international, $5 download (256 kbps, ~126 megs)) ~ The Broken Face Debut album of Clang Quartet. Sound collage & percussion following the tradition of early Swans, Whitehouse, & Merzbow. A new alternative to traditionally weak Christian experimental music. :
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Clang
Quartet - The Separation of Church & Hate
CD Album 2003 | Silber 023 9 tracks, 48 minutes $12 ($14 international, $5 download (256 kbps, ~85 megs)) ~ Matt Pierce, Splendid Experimental percussion, sound collage, & homemade instruments from Scotty Irving, the most extreme Christian musician around. :
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Dead Leaves Rising -
Waking Up on the Wrong Side of No One
CD Album 2001 | PlowCity 003 $12 ~ Delusions of Adequacy Jon (Aarktica) DeRosa’s final appearance as DLR before re-working his folk stylings into the americana of Pale Horse and Rider. This is long out-of-print & destined to be a collector’s item. |
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Electric Bird Noise -
Fragile Hearts...Fragile Minds
CD 2007 | No More Stars 005 5 tracks, 36 minutes $12 ~ Kenyon Hopkins, Advanced Copy The third release from long time Remora touring partner & Silber compilation contributor Electric Bird Noise. Intriguing cinematic instrumental guitar music that's sure to please the post rocker as well as the space junky from No More Stars Records. :
Listen to the track We Share More Than My Father's Last Name
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Elegy Radio Broadcast
CD Album 2003 | ChairKickers 011 2 tracks 28 minutes $12 |
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Goddakk
- monument to a ruined age
CD Album 2006 | Silber 050 9 tracks, 46 minutes $12 ($14 international, $5 download (256 kbps, ~84 megs)) ~ Brian John Mitchell, Small Life Form The debut of Martin Newman of Plumerai's solo project Goddakk. A combination of noise, guitar experiments, & trip hop. |
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Heller
Mason - Minimalist & Anchored
CD Album 2006 | Silber 052 11 tracks, 40 minutes $12 ($14 international, $5 download (256kbps, ~73 megs)) ~ Gothtronic Hand drawn emotional road maps in this slowcore-americana debut in a style like Neil Young's Harvest meeting Swans' The Burning World. If your favorite Silber releases are The Alcohol EPs & Jamie Barnes' albums, check this one out. :
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Hotel
Hotel - ALLHEROESAREFOREVERBOLD
CD 2006 | Lo-Bangosound 08 7 tracks, 43 minutes $8 ~ Jacob Price, Delusions of Adequacy Hotel, Hotel's first release that inspired us to work with them. |
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Hotel
Hotel - The Sad Sea
CD 2008 | Silber 064 8 tracks, 44 minutes $12 ($14 international, $5 download (256 kbps, ~81 megs)) ~ Kamyar Sadegzadeh, experimusic.com Instrumental post rock inspired
by a torturous ocean journey. The sounds of hurricanes funneled through
violins, guitars, drums, & effect pedals. Feel yourself sinking
into the ocean of sound.
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Hotel,
Hotel - under sea, over storm
MP3 EP 2008 | Silber 067 6 tracks, 37 minutes download zip file | Archive.org page While we’re anticipating the release of their new album The Sad Sea on Silber shortly, I figured we’d introduce them to the rest of you with this live performance. Recorded on October 20, 2005 at J&J’s in Denton, Texas with a line-up of P.D. Wilder (guitar), Justin Lemons (guitar), Patrick Patterson (violin), Francesca Riedle (violin), & Evan Caverninha (drums); Under Sea, Over Storm captures the band early on showing the atmospheric post rock they’ve been perfecting over the years. One flowing piece divided into several song ideas, themes, & improvisations; this gives you an idea not only of their live show, but what to look forward to on their upcoming studio recordings as well. |
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If
Thousands - Candice Recorder
CD Album 2001 | Sursumcorda 001 12 tracks, 68 minutes $12
~ QRD The debut album by If Thousands that inspired us to put out Lullaby. Why not start where their sonic blanket began? |
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If
Thousands - i have nothing
CD Album 2005 | Silber 043 15 tracks, 50 minutes $12 ($14 international, $5 download (256 kbps, ~97 megs)) ~ Everything is Fire A stylistic follow up to Lullaby, If Thousands return with their sonic experimentation. |
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If
Thousands - Lullaby
CD Album 2003 | Silber 024 9 tracks, 59 minutes $12 ($14 international, $5 download (256 kbps, ~107 megs)) ~ Jason Morehead, Opuszine If Thousands present a beautiful blanket of sound recorded as a soundtrack for falling asleep. Quite beautiful and soothing. Fans of Godspeed You Black Emperor and Stars of the lid should love this one. :
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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)) ~ 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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Kobi
- Dronesyndrome
CD Album 2005 | Silber 041 9 tracks, 50 minutes $12 ($14 international, $5 download (256 kbps, ~98 megs)) ~ Everything is Fire A continuation of Kai's collaborations with virtually the entire Norwegian experimental underground, Dronesyndrome is a drone record that sounds better the louder & longer you listen to it. :
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Kobi
- dronesyndrome medley ep
MP3 EP 2005 | silber 045 1 track, 20 minutes Archive.org page A remixing of the source materials from Dronesyndrome into one 20 minute ambient excursion. |
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Kobi
- outward from a core area in the north
MP3 EP 2005 | silber 047 3 tracks, 15 minutes download zip file | Archive.org page Three songs that were out-takes from Projecto & Dronesyndrome, electro-acoustic aggression. |
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Kobi
- Projecto
CD Album 2003 | Silber 025 10 tracks, 62 minutes $12 ($14 international, $5 download (256 kbps, ~113 megs)) ~ babysue Kobi is a collaborative project between Kai of Origami Arktika and nearly every known experimental musician from Norway. The results are powerful and emotionally charged sonic landscapes reminiscent of hallucinated orchestral works. :
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CD EP 2001 | Silber 015 6 tracks, 23 minutes $8 ($10 international, $4 download (256 kbps, ~41 megs)) ~ The Wire The Land of Nod is an awesome and mighty shoegazing/space-rocking duo. This is probably the most calm and pretty disc we've released. |
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Lotte
Kestner - China Mountain
MP3 Album 2010 | Silber 086 11 tracks, 47 minutes $5 (download only (256 kbps, ~86 megs)) ~ 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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Lycia
- The Burning Circle And Then Dust
CD Album 2006 | Silber 048 18 tracks, 57 minutes $12 ($14 international, $5 download (256 kbps, ~131 megs)) ~ Michael Riley, Left Hip The classic darkwave album remastered by Lycia frontman Mike VanPortfleet & released in this definitive version. Hear this major influence to Aarktica & Remora & a thousand other bands for the first time or kick it back to the music you loved ten years ago. |
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Lycia
- Cold
CD Album 2007 | Silber 061 9 tracks, 58 minutes $12 ($14 international, $5 download (256 kbps, ~103 megs)) ~ Paul Lloyd, Sideline Despite being one of Lycia’s more atmospheric works, Cold became a big hit amongst the black metal & space rock crowds expanding their fan base greatly. On the Cold tour, one would typically see as many fans in Hawkwind & Motorhead t-shirts as Sisters of Mercy t-shirts; forty-year-old rockers standing next to teenaged Goths. |
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Lycia
- Empty Space
CD Album 2003 | Silber 032 9 tracks, 42 minutes $12 ($14 international, $5 download (256 kbps, ~74 megs)) ~ Empty Space is the latest and presumed final album by Lycia. After 15 years working on drum machine rhythms & becoming legends in the darkwave style, Lycia explores their original post-punk roots. |
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Lycia
- Estrella
CD Album 2005 | Silber 040 11 tracks, 57 minutes $12 ($14 international, $5 download (256 kbps, ~102 megs)) ~ Jason Lamoreaux, Somewhere Cold The classic darkwave album remastered by Lycia frontman Mike VanPortfleet & released in this definitive version. Hear this major influence to Aarktica & Remora & a thousand other bands for the first time or kick it back to the music you loved ten years ago. |
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Moodring
- scared of ferret
CD 2009 | Silber 074 11 tracks, 38 minutes $12 ($14 international, $5 download (256 kbps, ~80 megs)) :
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Moodring
Live MP3 EP 2009 | Silber 082 7 tracks, 28 minutes download zip file | Archive.org page Moodring live recordings from the fall of 2008. Culled from the two performances that solidified Moodring's place in the Silber roster. |
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mwvm
- rotations
CD Album 2007 | Silber 063 10 tracks, 61 minutes $12 ($14 international, $5 download (256kbps, ~109 megs)) ~ unpeeled.co.uk Indie-ambient debut of guitar manipulation, layered drones, & electronics in the vein of early Remora & Aarktica. |
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mwvm
- rotations remixed
MP3 Remix EP 2008 | Silber 066 6 tracks, 36 minutes download zip file | Archive.org page We released mwvm’s debut
album rotations in the fall of 2007 & now we are pleased to give you
a collection of remixes & reworkings from some close friends. The remixes
include a shimmering mass of complex jarring textures by the mighty Astral
Social Club, pulsing layers of precision amplitude modulation from Sonicslice,
& Zac Keiller doing an alt-country cover version of “context. where?”
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northern
valentine - the distance brings us closer
CD 2008 | Silber 068 5 tracks, 46 minutes $12 ($14 international, $5 download (256 kbps, ~135 megs)) ~ Phil McMullen, Terrascope online Northern Valentine is husband & wife Robert & Amy Brown along with friends who join them from time to time. They have been writing & recording music since 1997 & have released material previously on acclaimed label Gears of Sand as well as on their own label Baresound. We are glad to have them added to the Silber roster. They are from Philadephia, Pennsylvania & they love to play live shows. Depending on the performers, live shows can range from quiet and meditative drones to loud & fuzzy instrumental post rock, often within the same set. Recommended if you like: Labradford, Windy & Carl, Ennio Morricone, Eluvium, Mogwai, Seefeel, Earth, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Spacemen 3 |
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northern
valentine
stars whisper MP3 EP 2008 | Silber 070 3 tracks, 21 minutes download zip file | Archive.org page Stars Whisper is a collection of three live songs from Northern Valentine, recorded in their hometown of Philadelphia with a line-up of Robert Brown, Amy Brown, Jeffrey Bumiller, & Marc Carazo. The individual tracks were recorded at The Fire & The Rotunda (as part of “Gate”, an experimental music series). |
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slicnaton
/ remora
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valentine
clear field MP3 Album 2008 | Silber 072 3 tracks, 44 minutes download zip file | Archive.org page The clear field recordings are a unique combination of elements of all three projects. You hear the loops & aggression of Remora’s guitar work, Northern Valentine’s ambient shimmering glacial guitars, & slicnaton’s orchestrated glitch & deep bass tones. While hearing all three individual musicians, it still is clearly a collaboration of the three rather than one of the projects with two special guests; it is a unique sound of its own. |
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Origami
Arktika - Trollebotn
CD Album 2007 | Silber 062 8 tracks, 49 minutes $12 ($14 international, $5 download (256 kbps, ~104 megs)) ~ Dan Cohoon, Amplitude Equals One Over Frequency Squared The unplugged industrial orchestra presents a collection of songs & folklore from the half-mythical landscape Trollebotn, deep in the mountains of Telemark, Norway. :
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$12 ($14 international, $5 download (256 kbps, ~75 megs)) ~ babysue First US domestic release of Norwegian folk/ambient/noise hybrid Origami Arktika includes reworkings of Scandanavian folk songs as well as original material. |
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Peter
Aldrich - Less Visionary Than Expected
CD-R Album 2001 | Silber 016 14 tracks, 49 minutes $8 ($10 international, $5 download (256 kbps, ~85 megs)) ~ Dream Magazine Limited to 200 signed and numbered copies, this release compiles five years of obscure & hard to locate material. This is a personal & understated collection trancey post-garage guitar works. Stripped down & laced with something you've yet to try, this is one of the more interesting excursions into neo-psychedelia out there. Think Alastair Galbraith playing amongst the innards of a cavern while you climb the mountain trying to find a way inside. |
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Plumerai
- res cogitans
CD-R EP 2006 | Silber 055 4 tracks, 22 minutes $8 ($10 international, $2 download (256 kbps, ~40 megs)) ~ Michael Schmitt, Music Emissions Shoegazing bliss-pop from Boston on this limited edition EP. The first accurate capturing of a fantastic band. |
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Plumerai
- Without Number
CD Album 2007 | Silber 059 9 tracks, 45 minutes $12 ($14 international, $5 download (256 kbps, ~83 megs)) ~ Chris Dahlberg, Cosmos Gaming The full length from post-pop stars Plumerai. Includes the cover of Remora's "Kill My Way Out of Here." |
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Remora
- Ambient Drones for One Guitar
Limited CD-R 1999 | silber 009 20 tracks, 144 minutes download zip file | Archive.org page The title pretty much explains it, ambient drones for one guitar. Loop & reverb driven. |
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Remora
- Amerse
Limited CD-R 1998 | silber 004 23 track, 63 minutes Archive.org page The first Remora release to get much attention. Our favorite review of it is: This American band/artist as the information is minimal reflect this in the music which is appropriately minimal & experimental. Waves of distortion fed through reverb effects drone through the ether like a passing tank. These other worldly murmurs are in stark contrast to the sub Stooges riffs that are processed out of all recognition on some occasions. Structured tracks with some vocals are the shade to the more chaotic soundscapes, the pitch darkness. A mixture of a psychedelic feel set against a more extreme sound manipulation, like Pink Floyd meets Merzbow. ~ Bizarre magazine |
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Remora
- derivative
CD 2009 | Gears of Sand 049 8 tracks, 42 minutes $12 ($14 international, $5 download (256 kbps, ~75 megs)) :
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Remora
- Enamored
CD Album 2005 | Silber 038 14 tracks, 57 minutes $12 ($14 international, $5 download (256 kbps, ~105 megs)) ~ Everything Is Fire Remora returns with the first full length in four years featuring post-apocalytic love songs & ambient guitar drones. :
Listen to the track The One I've Been Waiting For
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Remora
ensoulment MP3 Album 2008 | Ping Things 1 tracks, 70 minutes free download from Ping Things A 70 minute aggressive ambient guitar excursion from Remora. |
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Remora
Guitar Antihero MP3 EP 2009 | Silber 084 1 track, 25 minutes download zip file | Archive.org page At the request of Bryce Clayton Eiman, Remora prepared a piece for the Guitar Antiheroes 919 Noise Showcase on May 12, 2009. The showcase had performers pushing the idea of how to approach the guitar as an instrument. For Remora’s performance to push the sound to the next level from a standard Remora show (which is already often filled with guitar noise), Brian John Mitchell (Remora) boosted the sound to the next level by using five guitars, a bass, & four amplifiers instead of the standard single guitar & amp. The additional guitars were staged around the main amplifier to act as drone instruments. Probably the loudest Remora show ever (reports are it was heard clearly a block away) & often on the cusp of losing control of the wave of sound, the piece ended with Mitchell nearly throwing up from the volume exposure. Still the music somehow ends up as soothing as it is menacing. |
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Remora
- Mecha
CD 2010 | Silber 085 16 tracks, 42 minutes $12 ($14 international, $5 download (256 kbps, ~114 megs)) :
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Remora
- reversion
MP3 EP 2005 | silber 044 4 tracks, 29 minutes download zip file | Archive.org page A collection of four ambient guitar songs to promote Remora's 2005 Pacific NorthWest tour. Includes "the assault on tony's" & a re-working of "Knockout" |
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Remora
- Some Future's Past
CD-R EP 2001 | BestKeptSecret 044 15 tracks, 29 minutes $6 ($8 international, $4 download (256 kbps, ~52 megs)) ~ Aquamarine An EP of outtakes & alternate mixes form Remora’s Some Past’s Future album from the Italian label Best Kept Secret. A lot of these pieces are more minimal than those on Some Past’s Future. Includes versions of “rail” & “warrenton” with guest musicians Nathan Amundson & J Seckel of Rivulets & finally the release of the hit single “drinking about you.” |
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Remora
- Some Past's Future
CD Album 2001 | Silber 018 21 tracks, 62 minutes $12 ($14 international, $5 download (256 kbps, ~107 megs)) ~ babysue Some Past's Future combines all the elements of Remora from apocalyptic post-punk to beautiful noise to minimalist atmospheric. Songs about the future, the past, love, and working class dreams. Aggression tempered with guilt. The tonal chaos within each piece is hopeful and revealing. This is the soundtrack for apocryphal dreams and late night car rides. |
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Remora
- songs i sing
CD EP 2007 | North Pole 005 13 tracks, 16 minutes, plus 1 video $9 ~ Dave Heaton, erasing clouds Well, here is a release you thought would never exist. For those of you who have not seen Remora live in the past two years (or gotten personal phone messages), this side of Remora is completely unknown. On this release Remora goes a cappella in the songs from the live show done while tuning guitar. Sometimes comedic, sometimes spiritual, & occasionally poignant. This was predominantly recorded by Jessica Bailiff during Remora’s 2006 spring tour & includes covers of “We Will Fall” (The Stooges), “Heartworms” (Coil), “Sores” (Rollerball), & a passage from Job. Beautiful hand letter-pressed artwork by Shane Sauers & a video for “Sores” also by Mister Sauers. If Devo 2.0 was the weirdest thing in your collection, this is for you! |
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Remora/Clang
Quartet
- Cemented in Stone
Limited CD-R 1999 | silber 010 11 tracks, 47 minutes Archive.org page A collaboration between Remora & Clang Quartet. Swamp ambient? |
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slicnaton
/ remora
/ northern
valentine
clear field MP3 Album 2008 | Silber 072 3 tracks, 44 minutes download zip file | Archive.org page The clear field recordings are a unique combination of elements of all three projects. You hear the loops & aggression of Remora’s guitar work, Northern Valentine’s ambient shimmering glacial guitars, & slicnaton’s orchestrated glitch & deep bass tones. While hearing all three individual musicians, it still is clearly a collaboration of the three rather than one of the projects with two special guests; it is a unique sound of its own. |
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Remora/Rivulets/Pale
Horse and Rider - The Alcohol EPs
CD Split 2002 | Silber 022 14 tracks, 72 minutes $12 ($14 international, $5 download (256 kbps, ~128 megs)) ~ Delusions of Adequacy A triple split EP from Remora, Pale Horse and Rider, and Rivulets of songs about or inspired by alcohol. A collection of acoustic guitar songs in the vein of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska. |
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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)) |
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Rollerball
- Ahura
CD Album 2008 | Wallace 15 tracks, 47 minutes $12 ~ Willamette Week Rollerball continues their genre blowing fusion of jazz, post rock, & explosive experimentations. |
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Rollerball
- bathing music
CD Album 2000 | Roadcone 027 9 tracks, 42 minutes $12 ~ Zach Hooker, Pitchfork Rollerball's critically acclaim bathing music has been out of print for quite a while, but we recently acquired a few to sell. |
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Rollerball
- Behind the Barber
CD Album 2004 | Silber 033 11 tracks, 52 minutes $12 ($14 international, $5 download (256 kbps, ~94 megs)) ~ Andrew Magilow, Splendid Rollerball return to their home studio for their tenth album, Behind the Barber. A brooding exploration of psyche-gothic-jazz-noise, electron misted funk, & unstoppable creativity. Includes colloborations with Nudge, Ovo, Bill Horist, & a 16 minute latin fire with Jackie-O Motherfucker's tenor sax maniac Jef Brown. Rollerball is unassailably original & on this album they show us their proficient chops, rabid fangs, & wild wigs. |
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Rollerball
- Catholic Paws/Catholic Pause
CD Album 2005 | Silber 037 15 tracks, 45 minutes $12 ($14 international, $5 download (256 kbps, ~105 megs)) ~ Dave Segal, The Stranger Catholic Paws/Catholic Pause has all the elements that make a Rollerball album so original, the catchy pop songs with tints of goth, the jazz maelstroms & the ambient whimpers. Experimenting. Collaborating. Beautiful music that creates emotion & energy. |
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Rollerball
- Companion 1 (The Good Samaritan)
MP3 EP 2005 | silber 042A 5 tracks, 12 minutes download zip file | Archive.org page A collection of out-takes from Catholic Paws/Catholic Pause focusing on Rollerball's noiser side. |
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Rollerball
- Companion 2 (The Woman at the Well)
MP3 EP 2005 | silber 042B 5 tracks, 10 minutes download zip file | Archive.org page A collection of pieces made from out-takes of Catholic Paws/Catholic Pause. |
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Rollerball
- Companion 3 (The Thief on the Right)
MP3 EP 2005 | silber 042C 5 tracks, 19 minutes download zip file | Archive.org page A mix of free jazz funk & songs, I highly recommend the track “Remodel.” |
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Rollerball
- einaugige kirsche
CD Album 1999 | Felina Y Magia 0i 3 tracks, 35 minutes $12 ~ Brent Sirota, Pitchfork This is the first Rollerball CD I remember hearing, the covers were hand-silk-screened by the band. |
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Rollerball
- Real Hair
CD Album 2003 | Silber 028 8 tracks, 42 minutes $12 ($14 international, $5 download (256 kbps, ~76 megs)) ~ Steve Smith, Brainwashed Real Hair, Rollerball's ninth full-length release, follows a more direct path than any of the band's previous albums. By zeroing in on actual songs Rollerball captures the essence of their live sound more here than on any previous release. :
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Rollerball
- Rollerball
CD Album 2007 | Wallace 10 tracks, 42 minutes $12 ~ Mats Gustafson, The Broken Face Rollerball continues their genre blowing fusion of jazz, post rock, & explosive experimentations. |
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Rollerball
- Trail of the Butter Yeti
CD Album 2001 | Roadcone 030 11 tracks, 46 minutes $12 Rollerball's critically acclaim Trail of the Butter Yeti has been out of print for quite a while, but we recently acquired a few to sell. |
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Rollerball/Ovo
- my first cowboy
CD Split 2002 | BarLaMuerte 019 17 tracks, 47 minutes $8 |
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Sarah
June - In Black Robes
CD 2010 | Silber 076 13 tracks, 39 minutes $12 ($14 international, $5 download (256 kbps, ~98 megs)) ~ Monsier Delire A welcome new addition to the Silber family. Goth-tinged folk americana from Sarah June for fans of the Cranes, PJ Harvey, or Joanna Newsom. |
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slicnaton
/ remora
/ northern
valentine
clear field MP3 Album 2008 | Silber 072 3 tracks, 44 minutes download zip file | Archive.org page The clear field recordings are a unique combination of elements of all three projects. You hear the loops & aggression of Remora’s guitar work, Northern Valentine’s ambient shimmering glacial guitars, & slicnaton’s orchestrated glitch & deep bass tones. While hearing all three individual musicians, it still is clearly a collaboration of the three rather than one of the projects with two special guests; it is a unique sound of its own. |
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small
life form
alive MP3 EP 2008 | Silber 071 3 tracks, 21 minutes download zip file | Archive.org page 2007 marked Small Life Form’s live debut & over the next year the style refined, abandoning real horns for a piece of copper pipe, replacing organs with melodica, & vocals with feedback manipulation. Alive is collected from two live recordings in 2008. They are massive structures built from scratch using a loop pedal, distortion pedals, & reverb units. |
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Lost
Kisses DVD - My Life is Sad & Funny
DVD 2009 | Silber 073 10 cartoons (plus three bonus bits), about an hour $12 ~ Dave Sim, Cerebus/Glamourpuss Well, it's finally here, a collection of cartoon versions of the first ten issues of Lost Kisses. It even includes a special making of thing & cartoons of Worms #1 & XO #1. The DVD includes a psychonautic electro-acoustic drone soundtrack of new music by Small Life Form. Lost Kisses tells snarky stories of life's perils with self -deprecating humor. So check it out & spread the word. |
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Small
Life Form
Lost Kisses Soundtrack MP3 Album 2009 | Silber 081 16 tracks, 68 minutes download zip file | Archive.org page 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. The music is loop driven & sometimes barely noticed & at other times feels like a laser beam straight to the brain threatening to completely wash it clean. The soundtrack to an emotional acid trip - not necessarily positive or negative or menacing or soothing, but very physically present. The instruments used are the standards of the recent live Small Life Form shows including copper pipe, triangles, melodica, pitch pipe, harmonica, microphone feedback, & voice all washed & sculpted with distortion, reverb, & delay. Some of the pieces are shorter or longer than on the Lost Kisses DVD (adjusted for the length of the cartoons) & also included are the pieces for the menu pages that were eventually cut from the release. If you dig the soundtrack make sure to check out the DVD to get the rest of the story. |
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Small
Life Form - One
CD Album 2003 | Silber 030 7 tracks, 48 minutes $12 ($14 international, $5 download (256kbps, ~92 megs)) ~ JC Smith, Outburn One is the debut album by Brian John Mitchell (of Remora) as Small Life Form. The album is built around sound rather than music. It's built from loops of horns, melodica, organ, and voice to make a wall of organic and beautiful noise inspired by 1960's classical music. |
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Alan
Sparhawk - solo guitar
CD Album 2006 | Silber 049 9 tracks, 43 minutes $12 ($14 international, $5 download (256 kbps, ~80 megs)) ~ Dave Heaton, The Big Takeover Solo guitar explorations & drones from Low's illustrious frontman. :
Listen to the track how the weather comes over the central hillside
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Twelve
- be careful what you don't wish for
CD Album 2006 | Saturday Night Sunday Morning 08 15 tracks, 63 minutes $12 :
Listen to the track I Hung a Stone Around Our Love
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Twelve
- First Album
CD Album 2003 | Silber 031 8 tracks, 43 minutes $12 ($14 international, $5 download (256 kbps, ~80 megs)) ~ Kent Walter, 1340mag.com First Album is the debut of a new band from Chris Olley (Six by Seven). Bittersweet ballads, krautrock beats, pulsing electronica, loops, & guitar exploration all so finely honed that they could sneak in as pop music. |
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Tara
VanFlower - My Little Fire-Filled Heart
CD Album 2005 | Silber 039 12 tracks, 65 minutes $12 ($14 international, $5 download (256 kbps, ~116 megs)) ~ Babysue My Little Fire-Filled Heart is the new solo album from Tara of Lycia. Songs for lost moons & broken hearted spirituals stretched into ethereal experiments. |
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Mike
VanPortfleet - Beyond the Horizon Line
CD Album 2004 | Silber 034 10 tracks, 62 minutes $12 ($14 international, $5 download (256kbps, ~110 megs)) ~ David Poseidon, Gothic Beauty Mike VanPortfleet's post-Lycia debut is an ambient album built from the ground up with loop sources & effects into shimmering walls & minimalist soundscapes. Crystalline harmonic washes resonating from the cold depths of mind & matter. Glacial rhythms & serenity through fathoms of uncharted seas. If Brian Eno collaborated with Justin Broadrick it might sound like this. Majestic & heart breaking. :
Listen to the track Echoes Of The Lost Sea
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Vlor
- a fire is meant for burning
CD Album 2006 | Silber 051 12 tracks, 41 minutes $12 ($14 international, $5 download (256 kbps, ~77 megs)) ~ Babysue Minimalist guitar collaborations from members of Remora, Aarktica, Lycia, Rivulets, 6P.M., Red Morning Chorus, & Jessica Bailiff. |
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Vlor
- sacred places in the city
MP3 EP 1999/2006 | silber 054 13 tracks, 33 minutes download zip file | Archive.org page Originally recorded in 1999, the final sessions from Vlor in the original Halasz/Mitchell line up. Like a low-fi drum-free Mogwai. |
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Vlor
- lavished/luxate
Limited CD-R 1998 | silber 005 & 006 34 track, 71 minutes download zip file | Archive.org page Lo-fi acoustic shoegazer? Vlor's two cassette releases combined together. Lavished was recorded in a raquetball room & Luxate was recorded in Brian's Bedroom. Here's a review of Luxate: Vlor are a duo consisting of Remora's Brian John Mitchell on guitar & Russell Halasz on guitar & bass. Though they are quite experimental at times, Vlor never stray from their keen pop sensibilities on this excellent cassette release. Though very lo-fi -- most of the songs here were recorded in one take using a hand held recorder -- it's not hard to find the passion in these dark, enchanting instrumentals. Fans of Flying Saucer Attack, especially the early stuff, would probably dig Luxate. ~ Ben Szporluk, Vendetta Magazine |
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Vlor
- six-winged
CD 2009 | Silber 075 16 tracks, 50 minutes $12 ($14 international, $5 download (256kbps, ~83 megs)) ~ 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. :
Listen to the track damage the land & the sea
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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)) :
Press release
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Various Artists - Alleviation
CD Compilation 1996 | Silber 001 18 tracks, 73 minutes $10 ($12 international, $5 download (256 kbps, ~131 megs)) ~ Industrial Nation Our first release. Nearly all tracks are still exclusive by Dust, 1SBH, My Glass Beside Yours, The Unquiet Void, Trance to the Sun,Falling Janus, An April March, Faith & Disease, Morphine Angel, burMonter, Snowblind, Peter Aldrich, Pineal Ventana, Tubalcain, 17Larva, dA Sebasstian, Attrition, & Engram. |
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Various Artists - A cage
went in search of a bird
CD Compilation 2001 | Somnimage 004 17 tracks, 73 minutes $10 |
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Various Artists - Demain
CD Compilation 2000 | Silber 011 20 tracks, 62 minutes $7 ($9 international, $2 download (256 kbps, ~123 megs)) ~ Improvijazzation Our first label sampler, still chocked full of tracks unavailable elsewhere by Vlor, Remora, My Glass Beside Yours, Fade, Still, & Small Life Form. |
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various artists
- drones, loves, honesties, sounds
CD label sampler 2006 | silber 056 22 tracks, 76 minutes $4 ($5.50 international, $1 download! (256 kbps, ~136 megs)) |
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various artists: Little
Darla Has a Treat for You vol. 27 Eternal Spring Edition
2xCD sampler 2009 | Darla 225 32 tracks, 156 minutes $10 Includes a mix of Vlor's most rocking song ever "Watch Me Bleed." |
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various artists - Silber
Hearts Mom
MP3/CD-R compilation 2007 | Silber 060 11 tracks, 40 minutes download zip file | Archive.org page Here at Silber, mothers have always had a special place in our heart. So we’re happy to finally get a compilation together to pay a little bit of the tribute mothers are so dearly due. Everyone has a different style of song to show their love from heavy metal (Wrong Brothers) to post-rock (Glissade, Electric Bird Noise) to noise (Moral Crayfish) to simply acoustic guitar (Remora). While most went the instrumental route, the songs with vocals by Plumerai & Miss Massive Snowflake show the tongue-in-cheek comedy that we all use to tell our moms we love them. Complete artist roster:
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various artists - Silber
on Silber
2xCD-R compilation 2007 | Silber 058 29 tracks, 115 minutes download zip file | Archive.org page So we have been joking about this compilation for a couple years & now it is finally out. A collection of 29 artists covering songs from the Silber artist roster We were really flattered by all the tracks & the way so many people took tracks & totally retooled them into something of their own. Offered as a free download to the internet savvy. Complete artist roster:
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various artists - Silber
Sounds of Christmas
2xCD-R compilation 2006 | Silber 057 28 tracks, 103 minutes $12
~ Michael Byrne, Left Hip Merry Christmas from Silber Records. Silber Sounds of Christmas is our third Christmas compilation & once again offered as a free download to the internet savy. Complete artist roster:
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various artists - Silber
Sounds of Halloween
MP3 compilation 2006 | Silber 065 30 tracks, 130 minutes download zip file | Archive.org page So it has been a little while since something in our free comp series has gotten out of our control. We were like, “Hey, let’s do a Halloween comp & do an open call for entries!” So we ended up with thirty tracks & over two hours of music. Also just a little too short in time to manufacture compact discs. So that’s why this time there are no physical copies at all. Just available on this thing called the internet. Complete artist roster:
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Various Artists
- Silber Xmas 2000
Limited CD-R 2000 | silber 017 12 tracks, 46 minutes download zip file | Archive.org page Our first limited edition comp & our first holiday comp. Artists include Anaphylaxis, Michael J. Bowman & Ken Clinger, Aarktica, Rivulets, Ovum vs Motpol, Drekka, Electric Bird Noise, Russell Halasz, Goddakk, J. Ned Kirby, Small Life Form, & Remora. |
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Various Artists
- Songs for America
Limited CD-R 2001 | silber 019 11 tracks, 36 minutes download zip file | Archive.org page Put out for the 4th of July, this one got a lot of radio play after September 11th. The songs aren't particularly patriotic. Artists include Anaphylaxis, Michael J. Bowman, Remora, The Somnambulants, Clang Quartet, Peter Aldrich (featuring David Williams), Landing, Electric Bird Noise, The Undermasks, Verloc, & Noise Spies. |
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Various Artists
- Songs for the End of the World
Limited CD-R 2002 | silber 020 17 track, 66 minutes download zip file | Archive.org page Welcome to the end of the world, I hope you can enjoy it. We’ve got a lot going on here at the last minute, some old faces & new allies, all with new sounds varying from minimalist guitar to dense tones to bliss-pop. Let yourself go & be peaceful with some Silber music smuggled in from 2012. Artists include Jessica Bailiff, Electric Bird Noise, The Land of Nod, Marc Gartman, Remora, Origami Amika, Hollis M. Sparhawk & Her Father, My Glass Beside Yours, Drekka conducts the Mt. Gigantic Drone Orchestra, 6 P.M., Flare, Max Soren, Vlor, Rivulets, J Seckel, Rollerball, & If Thousands. |
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Various Artists - Test
Tones 2.1
CD Compilation 2003 | Clairecords 036 24 tracks, 78 minutes $4 |
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Various Artists
White Silber - A Cold Slow Xmas MP3 compilation 2009 | Silber 080 25 tracks, 105 minutes download zip file | Archive.org page What’s there to say about this compilation? Old friends & new friends doing mainly original compositions & mainly instrumental pieces. An artist roster of Aarktica, Small Cities, Charles Atlas, Andrew Weathers, This Quiet Army, Electric Bird Noise, Lullabier, Bryce Eiman, Polar400, Miss Massive Snowflake, Gorgons, Origami Galaktika, Remora, Lozninger, Fornever, Moodring, Subscape Annex, Carta, Small Life Form, Zanzibar Snails, Moral Crayfish, Northern Valentine, Medit, & Yellow 6. So a solid representation from the Silber roster, the 919Noise scene, all our old friends, & some folks we’ve just met. I hope you dig it all & maybe find a new favorite band or two. Personally I’m pretty pleased at how it simultaneously goes all over the musical map & remains cohesive. Noise, beats, slowcore, found sounds, guitar walls, & occasionally things that could pass for rock & roll. |
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Various
Artists - Winter Wishes
CD-R Comp 2004 | Silber 035 18 tracks, 64 minutes out of print Archive.org page Released as a Christmas gift for our fans in winter 2004. It's available for free download or you can buy one of the few remaining original copies from us with their hand-decoupaged covers. Artists include Rolleball, Plumerai, Remora, Small Life Form, If Thousands with Haley Bonar, Shiny Around the Edged, Tore Honore Boe, Immune, The Massive Snowflake, Attrition, Oleta, Aidan Baker, Drekka, Origami Vokstervisse, Peter Aldrich, Rivulets, & Jamie Barnes. |
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Various Artists
Winterizing MP3 compilation 2008 | Silber 069 26 tracks, 118 minutes download zip file | Archive.org page The 2008 installment of our
Christmas compilation series. Strangely enough there seem to be somewhere
around zero covers of traditional Christmas tunes this time out.
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Various Artists - Zann
CD compilation 2000 | Silber 014 18 tracks, 71 minutes $10 ($12 international, $5 download (256 kbps, ~138 megs)) ~ pindrops and cathedral bells Back when Brian John Mitchell was a pre-teen, he read a story by H.P. Lovecraft which told of someone using music to scare monsters away. Fifteen years later, Zann is released. From harsh ambient noise, to achingly beautiful minimalist works, to lo-fi bedroom tapes, & the list goes on. Exclusive tracks by: Small Life Form (w/Jarboe), Remora, Trance to the Sun, Aarktica, dA Sebasstian (of Kill Switch…Klick), Drekka, SubArachnoid Space, Tore Boe, Clang Quartet, pFrenz-C, Rollerball, Alchemia, Pineal Ventana, The Pulling Kiss, Plumerai, Jerry Blue, & The Unquiet Void. Cover art by Kimberlee Traub. |