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Alphabetical Listing of Releases

Aarktica - Bleeding Light
CD Album 2005 | Darla 
8 tracks, 46 minutes
$12
Aarktica's Bleeding Light is an intimate epic which takes raw feelings and lets the music flow naturally from them. It's a genuinely exciting album, one that matches emotion with experimentation in powerful ways.
~ 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.


Aarktica: In Sea Aarktica - In Sea
CD 2009 | Silber 078
12 tracks, 56 minutes
$12
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!

Recommended if you like: Labradford, Windy & Carl, Ennio Morricone, Eluvium, Mogwai, Seefeel, Earth, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Spacemen 3

: Listen to the track In Sea
: Press release
: Reviews


Aarktica - Matchless Years
CD Album 2007 | Darla 
10 tracks, 46 minutes
$12
Aarktica have blended their influences with their own sounds and have made a very original and accessible, yet artful, record of dark and melancholic indie-rock. Not the dark associated with goth, but more like dense cloud matter dark where the sun is almost shining through. Any way though, the aesthetic and atmospheric indie-rock on Matchless Years is a perfect companion for those days in your life when you need a glimmer of hope amid the despair.
~ Matt the Raven, Delusions of Adequacy

Aarktica - No Solace in Sleep
CD Album 2000 | Silber 012
8 tracks, 64 minutes
$12
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Think of this CD as the aural score for the aurora borealis, each note a shimmer display of color; the tones as waves of light...Simply captivating.
~ 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.

: Listen to the track Elena
: More info
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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
The release of this caused a bit of a ruckus as Aarktica left the soundscape territory & performed a few "songs."  Another great release from one of our favorite bands.

Aarktica - Pure Tone Audiometry
CD Album 2003 | Silber 026
7 tracks, 45 minutes
$12
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Aarktica's songs are extended reveries, built on loops of guitars and drums and occasional voices. The musical elements hover and circle, float by or bristle with distortion as the songs drift through serenity and trouble.
~ 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.

: Listen to the track Ocean
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Jamie Barnes - The Fallen Acrobat
CD Album 2003 | Silber 029
12 tracks, 41 minutes
$12
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The title track is sickeningly sweet but with a morbid edge, as the narrator falls for a girl like an acrobat who plummets from the wire. Barnes sings about her picking up his limbs and putting them back in their sockets before the vultures come and it's still the sweetest song about love I've heard this year. 
~ 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.

: Listen to the track Matthew
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Jamie Barnes - Honey from the Ribcage
CD Album 2005 | Silber 036
10 tracks, 40 minutes
$12
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Jamie comes through with something that surpasses Rufus Wainwright, Hayden, and even the ultra-overrated Elliot Smith; Honey From the Ribcage is the indie-rock album to pick up this year.
~ James McQuiston, Altar Magazine

Honey from the Ribcage is bedroom-pop-americana more orchestrated & fully realized for Jamie's second album. 

: Listen to the track Three Suns
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Jamie Barnes - The Recalibrated Heart
CD Album 2006 l Pink Bullet 001
10 tracks, 44 minutes
$12
Jamie Barnes' music is incredibly delicate, with a tenderness and ripe vulnerability that tears at your heart. His world is one of cautious hope and unbending faith, a landscape of barely hidden dangers tempered by the promise of better days. There's also an undeniable sadness balanced by a spiritual strength more suggested than splashed across a billboard -- it's inherent, built to last but never taken for granted.
~ Jeffrey Lee Puckett, The Courier-Journal

On his third album Jamie continues to crank out his own special brand of heartbreaking americana.


Black Happy Day: In the Garden of Ghostflowers Black Happy Day - In the Garden of Ghostflowers
CD Album 2006 | Silber 053
11 tracks, 50 minutes
$12
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In the Garden of Ghost Flowers is a combination of haunting, psychedelic folk and moody experimental soundscapes.
~ Jeff Fitzgerald, Aural Innovations

A collaboration between Tara Vanflower & Timothy Renner (Stone Breath).  Ambient old-time folk music.

: Listen to the track Edward
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burMonter - fell
CD Album 1996 | Eilythyia 002
8 tracks, 27 minutes
$8
burMonter was a top of the line bliss-pop band from North Carolina who’s name you’d probably know if they’d been based in Boston or New York, but that’s how things work out.  Think along the lines of Lush, Cure, Curve, & Cranes & you’re on the right track. Members of this band went on to form The Pulling Kiss, Goddakk, Plumerai, & Remora.

Clang Quartet - Jihad
CD Album 2000 | Silber 013
14 tracks, 71 minutes
$12
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...this is something utterly original. Clang Quartet blends visceral sounds assembled from regular instruments like guitars, drums, & keyboards with a somewhat primordial & what’s available at the moment kind of instrumentation ranging from the electrified hand saw to the bell & finger cymbal covered hockey mask (shake face). Sources & means may vary, but Irving can look down with pride on this accomplished work. 
~ 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.

: Listen to the track Case Summary January 15, 1981
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Clang Quartet - The Separation of Church & Hate
CD Album 2003 | Silber 023
9 tracks, 48 minutes
$12
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Irving plays his home-designed percussion megalith called "the Crutch" (a jumble of saw blade, broken cymbal, office stapler, & various other noisemakers) while hopping around in spiritual rapture and, all the while, drawing directly directly on events in the life of Christ. This could be a genuinely fascinating, groundbreaking mix of influences, and the best on The Separation of Church and Hate prove that religious conviction and the experiments of Irving's heroes (Throbbing Gristle, This Heat) can coexist with surprising fluidity.
~ Matt Pierce, Splendid

Experimental percussion, sound collage, and homemade instruments from Scotty Irving, the most extreme Christian musician around.

: Listen to the track Amazing Disgrace
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Dead Leaves Rising - Waking Up on the Wrong Side of No One
CD Album 2001 | PlowCity 003
$12
Two words are all I really need here: starkly gorgeous. DeRosa plays folk-influenced indie pop that owes as much to Leonard Cohen as Red House Painters but more aptly resembles the latter. DeRosa plays all the instruments on this release - except for cello on two songs - & what you get is quiet, contemplative folksy music that is stark in its crisp, pure acoustic guitar & soft drumming and gorgeous in DeRosa’s rich, emotive vocals.
~ 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.


Electric Bird Noise: Fragile Hearts...Fragile Minds Electric Bird Noise - Fragile Hearts...Fragile Minds
CD 2007 | No More Stars 005
5 tracks, 36 minutes
$12
Comprised of eerie, haunting minimalism, this is one of the most original, non-conforming releases of the year.
~ 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
: Press release
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Elegy Radio Broadcast
CD Album 2003 | ChairKickers 011
2 tracks 28 minutes
$12
This is an improvisational drone recording similar in sound to a lot of Glenn Branca's work.  It was a radio broadcast to promote the Elegy drone festival in honor of Michael Lenz (& a portion of the proceeds go to a scholarship fund in his honor).  The performers are Jessica Bailiff, Ryley Fogg, Jesse Beacom, Michael Anderson (Drekka, Turn Pale), Marc Gartman, Brian John Mitchell (Remora, Small Life Form), & Alan Sparhawk (Low).

Goddakk: monument to a ruined age Goddakk - monument to a ruined age
CD Album 2006 | Silber 050
9 tracks, 46 minutes
$12
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A lot of experimental music veers towards music concrete, what makes Goddakk unique is the use of noise within song based structures.
~ 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.

: Listen to the track opened
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Heller Mason: Minimalist and Anchored Heller Mason - Minimalist & Anchored
CD Album 2006 | Silber 052
11 tracks, 40 minutes
$12
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If you’re in the mood for a slow and easy-listening guitar album that’s created with heart and soul, then Minimalist & Anchored is a real treat.
~ 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.

: Listen to the track Minimalist & Anchored
: More info
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Hotel, Hotel - ALLHEROESAREFOREVERBOLD
CD 2006 | Lo-Bangosound 08
7 tracks, 43 minutes
$8
The album is a moody conglomerate of emotions embodied by lurid drones and pensive stillness, swirls of sonic texture and eerie atmospherics, and entrancing, disorienting repetition interrupted by robust, vibrant crescendos.
~ Jacob Price, Delusions of Adequacy

Hotel, Hotel's first release that inspired us to work with them.


Hotel Hotel: The Sad Sea Hotel Hotel  - The Sad Sea
CD 2008 | Silber 064
8 tracks, 44 minutes
$12
Across its 8 tracks, The Sad Sea proves to be a tangibly executed, cinemascope soundscape to an unmade film - its dulcet tones narrating a story of suffering, solitariness, anxiety & deep pensiveness but with a shimmering veneer of hope that prevails throughout. If you are after top-draw ‘real’ post-rock that shuns the immediacy of more commercially minded bands in favour of a brand of subtle progression that has melancholic & morose characteristics deeply intertwined within its rich sonic texture, then The Sad Sea is for you.
~ 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.
Recommended if you like: Stars of the Lid, Explosions in the Sky, Godspeed You Black Emperor

: Listen to the track Mary Celeste
: Press release
: Reviews


Hotel, Hotel - under sea, over storm Hotel, Hotel - under sea, over storm
MP3 EP 2008 | Silber 067
6 tracks, 37 minutes
free download from Archive.org

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.

: Press release


If Thousands - Candice Recorder
CD Album 2001 | Sursumcorda 001
12 tracks, 68 minutes
$12
out of print!
Minimalist drone, aggressive ambient, electro-acoustic, organic, whatever you call it to describe it doesn’t change this from being a great record. These are all instrumentals & all great. I want to listen to this album while driving through Nebraska. Very soothing, built from guitars & synthesizers with very little percussion. Anyone who likes pieces better than songs should buy this.
~ QRD

The debut album by If Thousands that inspired us to put out Lullaby. Why not start where their sonic blanket began?


If Thousands - i have nothing
CD Album 2005 | Silber 043
15 tracks, 50 minutes
$12
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Slow, sorrowful, and lush dronescapes that unfold calmly and thoughtfully. This album is like the quiet before the storm - every track seems ready to explode with energy but manages to contain itself all the way through. I Have Nothing is confident and methodical - easily absorbed and brimming with emotion and conviction.
~ Everything is Fire

A stylistic follow up to Lullabye, If Thousands return with their sonic experimentation. 

: Listen to the track push
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If Thousands - Lullaby
CD Album 2003 | Silber 024
9 tracks, 59 minutes
$12
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The ultimate test of a drone record is if it stands up to both passive and active listening. If I can find the record as enthralling when I listen to it at work as it is when I drift off to sleep, then that's some good drone. Lullaby meets both of those criteria, and then some.
~ 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.

: Listen to the track The Daylight and the Sun
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Kobi - Dronesyndrome
CD Album 2005 | Silber 041
9 tracks, 50 minutes
$12
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Layers of deep drones and pulsating electro-acoustic manipulation. Listen closely and you'll discover whole worlds of subtle aural beauty that as a whole creates one of the most well crafted and enticing drone albums I've heard in a while. Improvisation and experimentation at its finest by Kai Mikalsen and his Norwegian crew.
~ 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.

: Listen to the track Faint Echoes Ran Round the Unseen
: More info
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Kobi - dronesyndrome medley ep
MP3 EP 2005 | silber 045
1 track, 20 minutes
free download page
A remixing of the source materials from Dronesyndrome into one 20 minute ambient excursion.

Kobi - outward from a core area in the north
MP3 EP 2005 | silber 047
3 tracks, 15 minutes
free download page
Three songs that were out-takes from Projecto & Dronesyndrome, electro-acoustic aggression.

Kobi - Projecto
CD Album 2003 | Silber 025
10 tracks, 62 minutes
$12
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The best release yet on Silber Records. The music is sweeping, ethereal, majestic, and mentally absorbing. ...the compositions on this album are amazingly uplifting emotionally and very intense in a restrained manner. One of the most beautiful electronic masterpieces we have heard in years. Wendy Carlos would be proud. This is a MUST HAVE.
~ 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.

: Listen to the track it was often enough simply to pursue doubt
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Land of Nod - Mont Ventoux
CD EP 2001 | Silber 015
6 tracks, 23 minutes
$8
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...simply strummed mood pieces, delicately ornamented with minimalist bass and drum patterns. The group have been compared to Neu! but here they owe more to the hanging mists of Popul Vuh during the latter's golden Herzog soundtrack period...Stripped of frills and posturing, their music gently breathes in your ear, urging you to dream.
~ 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.

: Listen to the track Orientation Point
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Lycia: The Burning Circle And Then Dust Lycia - The Burning Circle And Then Dust
CD Album 2006 | Silber 048
18 tracks, 57 minutes
$12
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Fans of Goth, Dark wave, Post-punk and Art Rock need look no further then the mastery that was Lycia.
~ 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.

: Listen to the track Pray
: More info
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Lycia - Cold 
CD Album 2007 | Silber 061
9 tracks, 58 minutes
$12
Balanced beautifully between an ambient soundtrack, darkwave classic and space rock epic, Cold stylishly sprawls several genres whilst recognising its gothic roots.
~ 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.

: Listen to the track bare
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Lycia - Empty Space
CD Album 2003 | Silber 032
9 tracks, 42 minutes
$12
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Lycia's music is the soundtrack of the spirit. Lycia's ability to explore the full psychology of our hope, dreams, depressions, and disappointments is extraordinary. Lycia itself is the unexplored beauty of humanity and its frightened child. 
~ Matt Rowe, MusicTap

Empty Space is the latest and presumed final album by Lycia. After 15 years working on drum machine rhythms and becoming legends in the darkwave style, Lycia explores their original post-punk roots.

: Listen to the track This Is The End
: More info
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Lycia - Estrella
CD Album 2005 | Silber 040
11 tracks, 57 minutes
$12
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This is a completely coherent piece of art. It is a very dark album, but it has moments where the light peers through the cracks and crags of the mournful, sorrowful ambience. The landscapes are bleak at times, but they are oh so beautiful. Estrella is a brilliant piece of art.
~ 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.

: Listen to the track El Diablo
: More info
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Moodring: scared of ferret Moodring - scared of ferret
CD 2009 | Silber 074
11 tracks, 38 minutes
$12
Moodring is centered around Rollerball's Monte Allen & Mae Starr.  While it’s easy to hear that Moodring is awesome, other words to describe them are a bit harder to come by.  The presence of piano & clarinet give a free post-jazz flavor.  Mae Starr’s ghostly vocals sound like the lounge music on a sinking ship.  The deep groove jams sink in to form some kind of modern American gamelan sound.  The music is so raw & infectious & immediate that it feels more proto-everything than post-anything.  So just soak it in & sink into the doom.

: Listen to the track Into the Doom
: Press release
: Reviews


mwvm - rotations 
CD Album 2007 | Silber 063
10 tracks, 61 minutes
$12
mwvm is content to express himself in sound, and fine sound at that....too interesting for brain-dead chilling.... too clinical for stoner drift.... ideal for open-minded listeners...
 ~ unpeeled.co.uk

Indie-ambient debut of guitar manipulation, layered drones, & electronics in the vein of early Remora & Aarktica.

: Listen to the track context. where?
: More info
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mwvm - rotations remixed mwvm - rotations remixed
MP3 Remix EP 2008 | Silber 066
6 tracks, 36 minutes
free download from Archive.org

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?”
Track Listing:
1. “rotations” remix by Astral Social Club
2. “celestial motion” remix by Sonicslice
3. “negative pole” remix by Scott Solter
4. “windows” remix by Moral Crayfish
5. “context. where?” cover by Zac Keiller
6. “celestial motion” horizontal remix by Echosonic

: Press release


northern valentine - the distance brings us closer
CD 2008 | Silber 068
5 tracks, 46 minutes
$12
This is minimalist ambience at its best. Heartfelt, soulful & affecting, like gazing at a scrapbook of memories. The ever-reliable Silber Records are to be commended for bringing us this – repay the favour by investing in a copy, since downloads won’t help guarantee there'll be more to follow.
~ 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

: Listen to the track Dimanche
: Press release
: Reviews


Northern Valentine: stars whisper northern valentine
stars whisper
MP3 EP 2008 | Silber 070
3 tracks, 21 minutes
free download from Archive.org

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).

: Press release


slicnaton/remora/northern valentine - clear field northern valentine / slicnaton / remora
clear field
MP3 Album 2008 | Silber 072
3 tracks, 44 minutes
free download from Archive.org

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.

: Press release


Origami Arktika: Trollebotn Origami Arktika - Trollebotn
CD Album 2007 | Silber 062
8 tracks, 49 minutes
$12
Throughout this whole disc, the magic of the place where it was recorded can be felt and heard. A very special recording, it is both ancient and modern. This record is a bridge between the “Real” world and the magic one. In this place and on this record they co-exist beautifully.
~ 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.

: Listen to the track anne sit heim
: Press release
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Origami Arktika - Vardøgr
CD Album 2002 | Silber 021
7 tracks, 41 minutes
$12
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The compositions on the curiously titled Vardøgr are accidental, strange, eerie, sparse, and definitely not what the average person would consider music to be. We're always up for a challenge... and we openly embrace the idea of noise and sound presented as music. Accordingly, we find this album to be perplexing and genuine...
~ babysue

First US domestic release of Norwegian folk/ambient/noise hybrid Origami Arktika includes reworkings of Scandanavian folk songs as well as original material.

: Listen to the track Ny Stein
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Peter Aldrich - Less Visionary Than Expected
CD-R Album 2001 | Silber 016
14 tracks, 49 minutes
$8
Limited to 200 signed and numbered copies, this release compiles five years of obscure and hard to locate material. This is a personal and understated collection trancey post-garage guitar works. Stripped down and 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.

: Listen to the track Worms


Plumerai: res cogitans Plumerai - res cogitans
CD-R EP 2006 | Silber 055
4 tracks, 22 minutes
$8
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Res Cogitans is complicatedly ethereal, moving forward with a delicate grace that could only be supplied by Elizabeth Ezell’s equally flowing voice.
~ Michael Schmitt, Music Emissions

Shoegazing bliss-pop from Boston on this limited edition EP.  The first accurate capturing of a fantastic band.

: Listen to the track Illuminata
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Plumerai: Without Number Plumerai - Without Number 
CD Album 2007 | Silber 059
9 tracks, 45 minutes
$12
This is one band that is different enough to appeal to drone fans while still up-tempo enough to appeal to more mainstream listeners, and that in itself is a dazzling combination.
~ Chris Dahlberg, Cosmos Gaming

The full length from post-pop stars Plumerai.  Includes the cover of Remora's "Kill My Way Out of Here."

: Listen to the track Home Again
: Press release
: Reviews


Remora - Ambient Drones for One Guitar
Limited CD-R 1999 | silber 009
20 track, 144 minutes
out of print  Download from Archive.org  purchase from iTunes | Rhapsody | Napster | eMusic

The title pretty much explains it, ambient drones for one guitar.  Loop & reverb driven.

Remora - Amerse
Limited CD-R 1998 | silber 004
23 track, 63 minutes
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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

Remora: Derivative Remora - derivative 
CD 2009 | Gears of Sand 049
8 tracks, 42 minutes
$12
Remora does derivative works on some personal favorites including hits by Hefner, Warrior Soul, Journey, Pere Ubu, Bob Dylan, Joe Jackson, & Joy Division.  Doomy drone with pop hooks.

: Listen to the track Every Prince
: Press release
: Reviews


Remora - Enamored
CD Album 2005 | Silber 038
14 tracks, 57 minutes
$12
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Simple electric/acoustic guitar strumming with dark lyrics about love and loss. As cheesy as "lyrics about love and loss" sounds, this album works. From droning instrumental tracks to thick acoustic numbers, this album is experimental and unique enough to be a good/refreshing listen.
~ 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
: More info
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Remora: ensoulment 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.


Remora - reversion
MP3 EP 2005 | silber 044
4 tracks, 29 minutes
Download from Archive.org  purchase from iTunes | Rhapsody | Napster | eMusic

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" 

Remora - Some Future's Past
CD-R EP 2001 | BestKeptSecret 044
15 tracks, 29 minutes
$6
Remora’s Some Future’s Past contains a mixture of atmospheric post-rock and minimal, lo-fi, sombre pop, usually with repetitive song structures. 
~ 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.”


Remora - Some Past's Future
CD Album 2001 | Silber 018
21 tracks, 62 minutes
$12
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Beginning with the heady drone of "10,004," Some Past's Future goes off in all directions foreign and unknown. We definitely prefer the experimental instrumentals to the vocal tracks with recognizable lyrics. Strange and disjointed, this album is definitely NOT for everyone...
~ 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.

: Listen to the track 10,004
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Remora - songs i sing Remora - songs i sing
CD EP 2007 | North Pole 005
13 tracks, 16 minutes, plus 1 video
$9
He sings sometimes in a Townes Van Zandt-style troubadour’s voice (“I Called Your Mom”), sometimes the same way he sings Remora’s usual song-drones, sometimes demonic (“Heartworms”), and sometimes in a wicked-fast, odd way (the shortest songs, generally). All in all, this album comes off like a joke/experiment, but it’s also hard to shake, resembling as it does the ghosts of voices past, strung together as one. Think of exorcisms, of spirits singing through people, but also those goofy little ditties we all sing to our loved ones, in the moment.
~ 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!

: Listen to the track Job 39
: Press release


Remora/Clang Quartet - Cemented in Stone
Limited CD-R 1999 | silber 010
11 track, 47 minutes
out of print free download page

A collaboration between Remora & Clang Quartet.  Swamp ambient?


slicnaton/remora/northern valentine - clear field remora / northern valentine / slicnaton
clear field
MP3 Album 2008 | Silber 072
3 tracks, 44 minutes
free download from Archive.org

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.

: Press release


Remora/Rivulets/Pale Horse and Rider - The Alcohol EPs
CD Split 2002 | Silber 022
14 tracks, 72 minutes
$12
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Three projects, all of quite accomplished musicians, contributing to a concept album - an interesting idea and one pulled off here admirably. While all three take similar directions and help make this album cohesive, each has their own approach, which keeps the album interesting. Much better than a simple split EP, this is a split album of three EPs, a truly impressive project.
~ 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.

: Listen to the track Bruises Like Badges
: More info


Rollerball - Ahura
CD Album 2008 | Wallace 
15 tracks, 47 minutes
$12
Ahura finds the band sounding its most distilled, focused, and accessible.
~ Willamette Week

Rollerball continues their genre blowing fusion of jazz, post rock, & explosive experimentations.


Rollerball - bathing music
CD  Album 2000 | Roadcone 027
9 tracks, 42 minutes
$12
Syncretism is where it's at, and Bathing Music is deliciously dialectic. Any band which manages to recall Tom Waits, the Sea and Cake, Berthold Brecht and Kurt Weill, Henryk Gorecki, Elliot Sharp, Red House Painters, Camper van Beethoven, Naked City, Medicine, Bauhaus, Ornette Coleman, Rachel's, Miranda Sex Garden, and the UCLA Bruin Marching Band over the span of 42 minutes is worthy of note. And bands that can take a mix like that and make it seem inevitable is formidable, indeed.
~ 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.


Rollerball - Behind the Barber
CD Album 2004 | Silber 033
11 tracks, 52 minutes
$12
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When was the last time you listened to something experimental, enjoyed it and understood it? I'm usually left to contemplate what just abused my eardrums, with little consideration for whether the music actually meant something. Unlike many other experimental albums, Behind the Barber won't bore you with too much drone or leave you cringing in anticipation of your next aural flogging; Rollerball has decisive control over its music and presents it in an interesting way. They'll lull you into a state of relaxation, but inject appropriate doses of musical excitement along the way. It's good to hear them returning to form after almost dropping off the map.
~ 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.

: Listen to the track Chi Town Cub
: More info
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Rollerball - Catholic Paws/Catholic Pause
CD Album 2005 | Silber 037
15 tracks, 45 minutes
$12
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Drama queens with serious avant-garde credentials, Rollerball shapeshift with subtle grandiosity among krout rock, jazz, drone, gypsy, & afrobeat without the taint of dilettantism.  Their great recent Catholic Paws/Catholic Pause adds yet another layer of mysterious beauty to the Portland ensemble's stunning repertoir.
~ 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. 

: Listen to the track Erzulie
: More info
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Rollerball - Companion 1 (The Good Samaritan)
MP3 EP 2005 | silber 042A
5 tracks, 12 minutes
free download page
A collection of out-takes from Catholic Paws/Catholic Pause focusing on Rollerball's noiser side.

Rollerball - Companion 2 (The Woman at the Well)
MP3 EP 2005 | silber 042B
5 tracks, 10 minutes
free download page
A collection of pieces made from out-takes of Catholic Paws/Catholic Pause.

Rollerball - Companion 3 (The Thief on the Right)
MP3 EP 2005 | silber 042C
5 tracks, 19 minutes
free download page
A mix of free jazz funk & songs, I highly recommend the track “Remodel.”

Rollerball - einaugige kirsche
CD  Album 1999 | Felina Y Magia 0i
3 tracks, 35 minutes
$12
I haven't yet decided if Rollerball's Einäugige Kirsche ("one-eyed cherry") is sexy in any conventional sense of the term. It's noisy as hell, I know that: junkheap jazz marked by skronking horns and clattering percussion. Whoever you could get onto the kitchen floor with this dark beauty has mental problems. But don't let it stop you from trying.
~ Brent Sirota, Pitchfork

This is the first Rollerball CD I remember hearing, the covers were hand-silk-screened by the band.


Rollerball - Real Hair
CD Album 2003 | Silber 028
8 tracks, 42 minutes
$12
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This album is staggering in its creativity even though it's probably the most pop-focused of Rollerball's releases. They bring the funk influence which has always been lurking, closer to the fore quite tastefully, with propulsive drums and full-bodied bass inspiring movement, but the highlight of their music is definitely the super-catchy lyrics and melodies.
~ 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.

: Listen to the track Girls Hugging Trees
: More info
: Reviews


Rollerball - Rollerball
CD Album 2007 | Wallace 
10 tracks, 42 minutes
$12
All music that transcends time & culture while at the same time treading over new sonic territories is well worth a listen in my book, & it’s hard to think of anyone doing just that more than Rollerball.
~ Mats Gustafson, The Broken Face

Rollerball continues their genre blowing fusion of jazz, post rock, & explosive experimentations.


Rollerball - Trail of the Butter Yeti
CD Album 2001 | Roadcone 030
11 tracks, 46 minutes
$12
One cannot tell if they resemble the pop band that got turned onto drugs midway through the sessions, or the avant-noise band that got turned on to hooks. Either way, Yeti is a willfully stubborn album, at times catchy; at times utterly trance-inducing, occasionally indulgent, but mostly enveloping. Perfectly, maddeningly scattershot.:: Brent Sirota, Pitchfork

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.


Rollerball/Ovo - my first cowboy
CD Split 2002 | BarLaMuerte 019
17 tracks, 47 minutes
$8
An unreal documentation of the range & ability of Rollerball & Ovo captured live on tour in the United States & Italy. Both bands reveal their artistry & improvisational skill on Torture Music Records / Bar La Meurte release my first cowboy showing that there are no boundries in music. Rollerball makes use of their recorded styles as well as their great ability play live improv performances. Ovo presents a strong case for being the new superstars of Italian avant noise. Ovo shatters all concepts of restrained conventional music. Stephania’s vocal talent is one to recognized, emotionally scorned lyrics make your spine shiver. Bruno Dorella keeps the madness moving with a mastery of guitar, drum, & sample work. Great for fans of modern dark jazz-noise.

slicnaton/remora/northern valentine - clear field slicnaton / remora / northern valentine
clear field
MP3 Album 2008 | Silber 072
3 tracks, 44 minutes
free download from Archive.org

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.

: Press release


small life form: alive small life form
alive
MP3 EP 2008 | Silber 071
3 tracks, 21 minutes
free download from Archive.org

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.

: Press release


Lost Kisses DVD - My Life is Sad & Funny small life form
Lost Kisses DVD - My Life is Sad & Funny
DVD 2009 | Silber 073
10 cartoons (plus three bonus bits), about an hour
$12
This is true & funny material ina day & age when the two worst adjectives your work can have are "true" & "funny."
~ 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.

: Press release
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Small Life Form - One
CD Album 2003 | Silber 030
7 tracks, 48 minutes
$12
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Bare bone drones are at hand, exquisitely presented for the astute listener. Subtle transitions within the drones are carved into the audio as they rise, swell, and disintegrate. One is extremely well done and recommended for the drone enthusiast. 
~ 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.

: Listen to the track Horns
: More info
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Alan Sparhawk - solo guitar Alan Sparhawk - solo guitar
CD Album 2006 | Silber 049
9 tracks, 43 minutes
$12
purchase from iTunes
It’s exactly as the title says – Sparhawk of Low playing guitar. Simple, right? And amazing – his guitar burns through the air, sometimes creating waves built of empty space and sometimes searing like Eddie Van Halen’s (an allusion made concrete through his cover of “Eruption”).
~ 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
: More info
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twelve - be careful what you dont wish for Twelve - be careful what you don't wish for
CD Album 2006 | Saturday Night Sunday Morning 08
15 tracks, 63 minutes
$12
be careful what you don't wish for sees the project taken a step further and features 15 tracks of neo krautrock and post rock comedown. This album see's Chris getting in touch with his German roots and has everything from beautiful melodic Eno-esque cello and piano instrumentals, through to Georgio Moroder's electronic repetition, krautrock inspired by 70's German bands Harmonia and Cluster, whilst  also featuring some of the songwriting Chris Olley was known for in Six by Seven.

: Listen to the track I Hung a Stone Around Our Love
: More info


Twelve - First Album
CD Album 2003 | Silber 031
8 tracks, 43 minutes
$12
purchase from eMusic
Twelve strikes a great balance between offering the soundscapes that can make ambient music interesting and avoiding the lack of development that can make it boring. This is, by a long shot, my top recommendation of the month.
~ 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, and guitar exploration all so finely honed that they could sneak in as pop music.

: Listen to the track Talkin' About
: More info
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Tara VanFlower - My Little Fire-Filled Heart
CD Album 2005 | Silber 039
12 tracks, 65 minutes
$12
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The compositions on this album are dreamy and hypnotic. They were not recorded for the purpose of making money nor were they made to entertain the general population. Vanflower experiments with her voice and with sounds. The resulting recordings reflect her disregard for fame and fortune. Thus, while Fire-Filled Heart may be a commercial disaster...artistically it is a resounding success. Strangely distant and unfamiliar territory. EXCELLENT.
~ 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. 

: Listen to the track I Lost the Moon
: More info
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Mike VanPortfleet - Beyond the Horizon Line
CD Album 2004 | Silber 034
10 tracks, 62 minutes
$12
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Though it's been hinted at in the past, evidently the timing was right for Mike VanPortfleet of Lycia to release a solo album. This piece is heavily atmospheric and might be a bit disorienting if you go into it expecting to hear A Day In The Stark Corner, which this album is NOT. What this album is, in fact, is brilliant and beautiful. Heavy ambient loops building up atmosphere and tension through the first four tracks. I promise you this, when you reach track 5 "Stellar Buckshot Awaits", you will find yourself in familiar territory. The guitar sound that makes him so recognizeable, and that brilliant voice, are waiting for you. I nearly leapt for joy to hear his brilliant, whispy voice calling from the horizon line. Misery and mastery become one in this incredible album. 
~ 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
: More info
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Vlor - a fire is meant for burning Vlor - a fire is meant for burning
CD Album 2006 | Silber 051
12 tracks, 41 minutes
$12
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Confusing, soothing, abstract...A Fire Is Meant For Burning is an interesting trip into the minds of those involved in the real undercurrents of modern audio art.
~ Babysue

Minimalist guitar collaborations from members of Remora, Aarktica, Lycia, Rivulets, 6P.M., Red Morning Chorus, & Jessica Bailiff.

: Listen to the track wires
: More info
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Vlor - sacred places in the city
MP3 EP 1999/2006 | silber 054
13 tracks, 33 minutes
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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
out of print download from Archive.org purchase from iTunes | Napster | eMusic

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

Vlor - six-winged Vlor - six-winged
CD 2009 | Silber 075
16 tracks, 50 minutes
$12
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 i have left home (reprise)
: Press release
: Reviews


Various Artists - Alleviation
CD Compilation 1996 | Silber 001
18 tracks, 73 minutes
$10
In all, this disc is so worth picking up, words cannot describe it. In a world where gothic compilations are structured around the same six to eight bands with a similar derivative sound, a compilation like this that showcases what innovations can be done with this style of music is so much needed. If you like darkwave, go get this. It’s worth it.
~ 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.

: More info


Various Artists - A cage went in search of a bird
CD Compilation 2001 | Somnimage 004
17 tracks, 73 minutes
$10
It seems like Franz Kafka has been getting pretty vogue the past few years & now from Somnimage we have a compilation of pieces inspired by him. The edge is a little more goth than experimental & the featured bands are: Attrition, La Funcion De Repulsa, Angelhood, Mara’s Torment, Loren Jan Wilson II & Ryoji Furui, Neither/Neither World, Halo Skycrash, Julian Tulips Licorice, Benjamin Stauffer, Chagas, Shinjuku Thief, Chthonic Force, Garden of Dreams, Remora, Oblivia, E.A. Zann, &The New York Room.

Various Artists - Demain
CD Compilation 2000 | Silber 011
20 tracks, 62 minutes
$7
Many new artists - domestic & international - represented on this album of looping, drone-piling, sampled & modified ambiences, minimalism, & tone-wrestling; They (all) are: Origami Arktika, Peter Aldrich, small life form, My Glass Beside Yours, Remora, Clang Quartet, burMonter, Vlor, fade, & Still. This genre/these genres of listening music are the bastard offspring of Lamont Young, Terry Riley, Tangerine Dream, Neo, & Phil Glass. 
~ Improvijazzation 

Our first label sampler, still chocked full of tracks unavailable elsewhere by Vlor, Remora, My Glass Beside Yours, Fade, Still, & Small Life Form.

: More info


various artists - drones, loves, honesties, sounds
CD label sampler 2006 | silber 056
22 tracks, 76 minutes
$4
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Get a sample of all the sounds & musical styles we have to offer at a ridiculously low price.

: More info
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Little Darla various artists: Little Darla Has a Treat for You vol. 27 Eternal Spring Edition
2xCD sampler 2009 | Darla 225
32 tracks, 156 minutes
$10
32 tracks varying from singer-songwriter to shoegazer with everything in between with all exclusive tracks or mixes from: Almost Charlie, Arborea, Ariel Abshire & Japancakes, Bernard Szajner, Bitcrush, Black Feather, Desario, Detritus, DJ Hidden, Elias & The Whizzkids, Elle Belga, Harold Budd & Clive Wright, Keith Canisius, Let’s Go Naked, Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love, Lowlights, Manual, Momus, Montt Mardié, Mothboy, New Radiant Storm King, Photon Band, Project Pale, Raoul Sinier, Robin Guthrie, Rumskib, Spherical Objects, Sweet Trip, Tiny Magnetic Pets, Tujiko Noriko & Lawrence English & John Chantler, Vlor, &Yagya.
Includes a mix of Vlor's most rocking song ever "Watch Me Bleed."

Silber Hearts Mom various artists - Silber Hearts Mom
MP3/CD-R compilation 2007 | Silber 060
11 tracks, 40 minutes
free download from Archive.org

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:
Wrong Brothers, Remora, Glissade, Blessed Child Opera, Plumerai, Moral Crayfish, Lauri des Marais, Century of Aeroplanes, Electric Bird Noise, Miss Massive Snowflake, Origami Galaktika

: Press release
: more info


Silber on Silber cover various artists - Silber on Silber
2xCD-R compilation 2007 | Silber 058
29 tracks, 115 minutes
free download from Archive.org

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:
John Costello, Dan Greunke, Marc Gartman, CJ Boyd, North Sea Navigator/Rose Kemp, Promute, Electric Bird Noise, Dr. Reggae Heart & the Smiths of Steel, The Torch Marauder's Grappling Hook, Remora, Vlor, fornever, Annelies Monseré, Jessica Bailiff, The Infant Cycle, The Wades, Plumerai, Moral Crayfish, Recorded Home, Rivulets, Shaun Sandor, The Upsidedown Stars, Arbus, Peter  Aldrich, Origami Kalima, Verhören, Lauri des Marais, Miss Massive Snowflake, Small Life Form

: Press release
: more info


Silber Sounds of Christmas cover various artists - Silber Sounds of Christmas
2xCD-R compilation 2006 | Silber 057
28 tracks, 103 minutes
$12
free download from Archive.org

...this is perhaps the perfect Christmas album as the two CD collection encompasses all moods of the season and while some people wake up to nice presents and a loving family some will wake up to terminal illness and bereavement. It's nice to see an album cover those two extremes of moods via music. I envy those who live in the great open spaces of Canada and the Pacific North West, for if I did I would have the perfect album to drive to while viewing its halcyon winter landscape.
~ 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 savvy. 

Complete artist roster:
Origami Tacet, immune, Rachel Goldstar, Siberia, living in photographs, Small Life Form, Electric Bird Noise, The Zanzibar Snails, Plumerai, Remora, Sailor Winters, Shiny Around the Edges, Peter Aldrich, Wrong Brothers, Bokor, 230 divisadero, Moral Crayfish, South West Airline, recorded home, Duane Pitre/Pilotram, Mars Field, Goddakk vs JM, Blessed Child Opera, My Ambient Nature Girl, The Wades, The Torch Marauder featuring Matt Westlake, & The Upsidedown Stars

: Press release
: more info


Silber Sounds of Halloween various artists - Silber Sounds of Halloween
MP3 compilation 2006 | Silber 065
30 tracks, 130 minutes
free download from Archive.org

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:
Lycia, Peter Aldrich, Bryce Eiman, Glissade, The Undermasks, Planet Cock, Rachel Goldstar, Miss Massive Snowflake, The Wades, Robin Crutchfield, Attrition, Sorry Welcome, Arbus, Tara Vanflower, Remora, Paolo Messere/Kiddycar, The Elysium Facade, Promute, Lauri des Marais, The Zanzibar Snails, Ocean City Defender, Cam Butler, Not Them, Gorgons, Small Life Form, Drats!!!, Mars Field, Thisquietarmy, Port City Music, Electric Bird Noise

: Press release
: more info


Various Artists - Silber Xmas 2000
Limited CD-R 2000 | silber 017
12 tracks, 46 minutes
out of print free download 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.

: More info


Various Artists - Songs for America
Limited CD-R 2001 | silber 019
11 tracks, 36 minutes
 
out of print free download 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.

: More info


Various Artists - Songs for the End of the World
Limited CD-R 2002 | silber 020
17 track, 66 minutes
out of print free download 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
Clairecords & toneVENDOR present the second volume in their quarterly compilation series titled “test tones”. The idea behind the series is to showcase some of the best bands, labels and releases offered by toneVENDOR mailorder and distribution. Jamming 24 tracks by 24 artists in just a hair short of 80 minutes, Test Tones Volume 2.1 is packed to the gills with great tunes at a bargain price! Tracks from Midsummer, Le Pepes, The Birthday Machine, Remora, Sexconsciousyoungmoderns, Morella’s Forest, Your Favorite Horse, Pony Express, Trace, Shakespace, Ksine, Silver Screen, For Against, Mean Red Spiders, Ai Phoenix, The Flir, Cat and Dog Dialogue, Lab Partners, Silent Kids, The Caribbean, The Rules, Whirlaway, Valet, & Dreamend.

Various Artists - Winter Wishes
CD-R Comp 2004 | Silber 035
18 tracks, 64 minutes
out of print
free download 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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winterizing Various Artists
Winterizing
MP3 compilation 2008 | Silber 069
26 tracks, 118 minutes
free download 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.
Complete artist roster:
Varde, Hotel Hotel, Clang Quartet, Andrew Weathers, Charles De Mar, Electric Bird Noise, Glissade, Sailor Winters, Miss Massive Snowflake, Goddakk, Gorgons, Small Life Form, Lauri des Marais, Ligo, Moodring, slicnaton, Remora, Moral Crayfish, The Carnage Visors, South West Airline, Northern Valentine, Spotlight Kid, The Left Channel, Recorded Home, The Child of A Creek, Subscape Annex

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Various Artists - Zann
CD compilation 2000 | Silber 014
18 tracks, 71 minutes
$10
You can't go wrong with this cd release by Silber Records. Buy it!
~ 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.

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