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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, 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. |
Reviews:
A free Christmas themed compilation
featuring new material from the likes of Charles Atlas, This quietarmy,
Yellow6 and Carta, along with a lot of other acts I’m unfamiliar with.
Yes please, indeed!
~ Phantomchannel
No sorry, it's not that kind of white
Christmas which finds you singing along jingle bells and so on, - although,
actually, that's the start point here, à la Frank Capra style, for
this free download compilation, compiled by Silber rec.
And, You know what, Brian John Mitchell,
running this record label, must think You've really been good this year,
because, besides this tasty free sampler (featuring Yellow 6, Charles Atlas,
Lozninger, Carta, Aarktica, Miss Massive Snowflake, just to cite a few),
there are also other three MP3 releases for free download in this page.
Coming back to the label roster sampler,
the line goes from slowcore to guitar and ambient Music, signals and noises
to hypnotize your holidays spent lying on the ground, crushed by a Christmas
tree, - from Small Cities' half-country heart-breaking song and Charles
Atlas' burning midtempo, to the Xmas heavenly melody by This Quiet Army
- ecstatic reverbered guitars -, Zanzibar Snails' enchanting mantra, - to end with a revisited
version of Santa Claus is Coming to Town, pretty lysergic, by Electric
Bird Noise.
Enjoy Xmas with Silber. Ok, Xmas is
over, but we're still in the right mood for this.
~ Komakino
Silber Media has long been a fine destination
for ambient and experimental electronica, slowcore, avant pop, and, yes,
holiday music. The imprint’s latest Christmas Compilation, White Silber:
A Long Slow Xmas, is now available for free download via Archive.org.
The website also has several of Silber’s comps from holidays past. Among
their Christmas-themed offerings, I’m particularly fond of Winterizing;
there’s also a Halloween sampler.
In terms of digital distribution,
Silber has been ahead of the industry for quite a while . Obviously, one
hopes that many of those who sample the label’s compilation downloads will
also support Silber by purchasing their releases. Two recent recordings
of note are Aarktica’s In Sea and Vlor’s Six-Winged. The former combines
ambient IDM with dronecore and includes an unorthodox cover: Danzig’s “Am
I Demon?” The latter is Silber’s resident supergroup, featuring over a
dozen of the imprint’s artists in an eclectic melange of indie rock, slowcore,
and electronica.
~ Christian Carey, Sequenza 21
Brian John Mitchell of Silber Records
sent me this Christmas compilation, chuck full of Silber artist doing winter
and holiday songs. It was created by their intern for a school project.
You can download the “White Silber: A Cold Slow Xmas” complication from
archive.org. I suggest that you listen to “The White Mountains” by Northern
Valentine: www.silbermedia.com/northernvalentine
If you’re not aware Silber is known
for artists that include alot of drones. Their motto on their website is
“drone love honesty sound”.
~ Head Underwater