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Silber
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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. I think the weirdest thing for me might be how Remora heavy the comp ended up being & that three groups choose “The One I’ve Been Waiting For.” My favorite tracks are probably “Six Tigerlilies for Elena” by Electric Bird Noise which combines three Silber songs into one & John Costello’s take on “Wires” turning a guitar track into an electro song. A general shout out is also needed to those who tried their hands at covering bands like Small Life Form & If Thousands & found them too hard to improve upon & sent apologies for not appearing. Thank you to all the artists & all of you fans for your support, it lets us know all are time hasn’t been wasted. download zip file | Archive.org page |
Track Listing:
John Costello – “Wires” as made famous by Vlor Dan Greunke – “Volcana” as made famous by Remora Marc Gartman – “Aura Lee” as made famous by Aarktica CJ Boyd – “Sagrado Corazón de Jesú (second attempt)” as made famous by Alan Sparhawk North Sea Navigator/Rose Kemp – “Edward” as made famous by Black Happy Day Promute – “3rd Day” as made famous by Clang Quartet Electric Bird Noise – “Six Ligetilys for Elena” as made famous by Peter Aldrich/Tara Vanflower/Aarktica Dr. Reggae Heart & the Smiths of Steel – “Plastic Heart” as made famous by Plumerai The Torch Marauder’s Grappling Hook – “The One I’ve Been Waiting For” as made famous by Remora Remora – “Sores” as made famous by Rollerball Vlor – “Slipsky” as made famous by Remora fornever – “A Presence In The Woods” as made famous by Lycia Annelies Monseré – “To the Sun” as made famous by Remora Jessica Bailiff – “You’re Landlocked My Love” as made famous by Aarktica The Infant Cycle – “New Machine - Ceiling Mix” as made famous by Vlor The Wades – “The One I’ve Been Waiting For” as made famous by Remora Plumerai – “Kill My Way Out of Here” as made famous by Remora Moral Crayfish – “Girls Hugging Trees” as made famous by Rollerball Recorded Home – “Song for Elena” inspired by “Elena” by Aarktica Rivulets – “I Told Jesus Christ How Much I Love Her” as made famous by Remora Shaun Sandor – “Guilt Jersey” as made famous by Vlor The Upsidedown Stars – “The Separation of Church & Hate” as made famous by Clang Quartet Arbus – “Monster’s Kiss” as made famous by Remora Peter Aldrich – “Nine Hours Later” as made famous by Lycia Origami Kalima – “Fanteguten” as made famous by Origami Arktika Verhören – “Angel Stalk (Anaaron)” as made famous by Remora Lauri des Marais – “Nostalgia” as made famous by Aarktica Miss Massive Snowflake – “The One I’ve Been Waiting For” as made famous by Remora Small Life Form – “Three Suns Rising Over My Black Lung” constructed from samples from “Three Suns on the Rise” & “Black Lung” by Jamie Barnes |
Songs by Silber artists as
interpreted by other artists, some of whom have Silber releases of their
own and some who don’t. It’s a generally low-key, laid-back collection,
tending toward the melancholic sound—sometimes fragile, sometimes more
intense—that has always been this label’s specialty. The two discs take
us through many moods, from gorgeously forlorn to fuzzy and rough around
the edges to texturally thick and noisy, even throwing in a few subtle
electrobeats. There are a ton of others, too. CD1/Track 9 is a messy blast-rocker
in the style of someone like Dinosaur Jr, and it’s different from everything
else here. Remora (head Silber-man Brian John Mitchell’s project) is heavily
represented, with ten covers of Remora songs including one by Mitchell
himself under his Vlor moniker. You may know contributors such as Vlor,
Marc Gartman, Jessica Bailiff, Plumerai, Rivulets, and Miss Massive Snowflake,
but do yourself a favor and check out the artists you may not know, as
there is one pleasant surprise after another on this release. If you know
and love this label like I do, you’ll probably know what I mean when I
say this release is Very Silber and very good.
~ Max Level, KFJC
Shhh... Don’t Tell Anyone.
We Got the Tests Back and They’re Positive. Silber Records Is In The Family
Way!
For my Mom... and my sister,
Some things are never funny.
Incest, for example, is never funny. It was not funny last week when someone
told a related off-color joke to me, and it was not funny in the Cosby
Show re-run I saw the other night when tele-teen siblings Theo and Denise
were in bed together and they were bumping uglies and the shaking was just
so darned rowdy and rude that it knocked the family portrait (sans Rudy)
off the nightstand. If my memory is correct (and I do believe it is), I
think Theo then started jumping on the bed while spraying cream-colored
pellets all over the room and all over his sister’s reclined body while
yelling random battle cries from Braveheart. Denise, after a briefly putting
of an air of incredulity and admonishment, grabbed Theo by his whirly-bird
and swung him around like the neighborhood bully does with a cat’s tail.
Afterward, Denise’s blouse is a tad disheveled, Theo’s fade a shade askew,
and the kids walk downstairs hand-in-hand for Sunday roast. Cut to commercial.
The Cosby concept of family
closeness portrayed in that rarely-seen episode is EXACTLY the underlying
raison d’etre for the latest release from Silber Records. Well, kinda.
Sorta. Not really. Before you call the cops on me and the Raleigh, NC-based
"drone love honesty sound" label, when I speak of Silber being incestuous,
I am talking about its bands covering one another on a new downloadable
compilation available here called Silber on Silber! And come to think of
it, when I read back what I wrote about that Cosby episode and its overly-familiar
tone, it may really have been a hallucination or dream brought upon by
sleeping next to open solvent jars and paint cans for the past two-and-a-half
weeks. I like to do that to kickstart the creative juices from time to
time.
Regardless of my predilection
for over-the-top news story intros, Silber are indeed at it again, and
they are doing it in the best possible taste. The concept of bands who
share the same label covering each others’ songs is an old and chivalrous
notion. Giving the resulting tracks away for FREE is not. Yet again, the
good people at the awe-inspiring label are making the cream of its roster
available to anyone to download. A quick glance at the following songs
tells me that Remora is a favorite among the Silber siblings, but we love
each and every one of them in their own way!
~ David Nadelle, Tiny Mix
Tapes
Omnibulé qu'on est
par la scène française, on oublie trop souvent de parler
des scènes étarngères qui en valent vraiment la peine.
On rectifie le tir en présentant ce mois ci la compilation SILBER
ON SILBER du label SILBER Records. A découvrir de toute urgence.
Au passage, un petit coup
de main à nos amis d'Arbouse.
Le meilleur pour la fin,
AdGN organise son premier concert (et à priori pas le dernier) avec
nos amis de Boss Kitty. Comme on est pas des rigolos, on a concocté
l'affiche la plus sexy de ces 20 dernières années (si si,
le détail ci-dessous)
Tiens, ca chante pas mal
en français sur cette playliste, j'avais pas fait gaffe ...
Bonne écoute.
~ Asso de Gens Normal