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A
collection of out takes to prepare you for the release of Rllrbll's
epic album for the year of our destruction 2012.
: Listen to the track wah kitty
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Magi's
debut EP of droning instrumental doomgaze.
: Listen to the track The Docturine
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Thorn1
returns with more songs & drones of emotion, isolation,
& hope from the frozen lands of Siberia.
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Listen to the track O
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Remixes
& more of
Remora's "My Brother's Guns & Knives." You'd think an
hour of
remixes of one song would be ridiculous & impossible to sit
through, but half of the remixes are really derivative works merely
using the original song as source material. We hope you dig
it.
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The
holidays are back again. It's 2011 & we have come
baring gifts from the distant land of Silberia. Gifts of
noise & drone & pop & atmospheres to melt the
snow above us. The artist roster is Charles DeMar, Jon
DeRosa, Thorn1, Landerim, Miss Massive Snowflake, Goddakk, Origami Boe,
Moodring, Remora, Pacific 231, Sibyll Kalff, Yellow6, Lullabier, Feel
No Other, Tony Whitlock, Les Marquises, Løzninger, Electric Bird Noise,
Parties, & Drekka with Michael Demery Toran.
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Post
Metal with
mega influences from
Shoegaze. I'm getting more and more into this the more I hear it. This
is definitely going to be played for a long time to come by
me.
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Veins Dried Out
A free EP to introduce all
you Silberians to From Oceans to Autumn.
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Listen to the track The Fall (excerpt)
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Captured
on Ava is a live performance from 2008 at the Ava Gardner Independent
Film
Festival. It showcases the cacophony, chaos, order, &
music that
is uniquely Clang Quartet.
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A
collection of trip hop & shoegaze remixes of Sarah June songs.
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Listen to the track Run Run
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We
came up with the idea
of this compilation from a few angles. People have short
attention
spans! People love ringtones! Most songs are too
long! So we
put together this collection of songs 30 seconds long & made
them available
as ringtones. The artist roster is Electric Bird Noise,
Zanzibar
Snails, muscle mass, Pacific 231, Ben Link Collins, Rollerball, Thorn1,
Promute, Irata, Charles de Mar, Small Life Form, Notorious Jet Set,
Lullabier,
The Undermasks, Drekka, Sibyll Kalff, Vestirse, Bryce Clayton Eiman,
slicnaton,
Miss Massive Snowflake, Subscape Annex, Remora, Moodring, IANTH, mwvm,
The Collinses, The Velveta Heartbreak, Fires Were Shot, Yellow6, Mahlon
Hoard, & Peter Aldrich.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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, 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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While
anticipating the release
of their album The Sad Sea on Silber, 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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We
released mwvm’s debut album
rotations in the fall of 2007 & in 2008 we were 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
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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
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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
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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.
Offered as a free download to the internet savy.
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
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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:
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
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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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Three
songs that were out-takes
from Projecto & Dronesyndrome,
electro-acoustic
aggression. |
A
mix of free jazz funk &
songs, I highly recommend the track “Remodel.” |
A
remixing of the source materials
from Dronesyndrome into one 20
minute ambient excursion. |
A
collection of four ambient
guitar songs to promote Remora's Pacific NorthWest tour. |
A
collection of pieces made
from out-takes of Catholic Paws/Catholic Pause. |
A
collection of out-takes from
Catholic
Paws/Catholic Pause. |
Released
as a Christmas gift
for our fans in winter 2004. We initially got so many
downloads of
this we had server problems & that's why we teamed up with
archive.org.
Complete
artist roster:
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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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.
Complete
artist roster:
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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Put
out for the 4th of July,
this one got a lot of radio play after September 11th. The
songs
aren't particularly patriotic.
Complete
artist roster:
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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Our
first limited edition comp
& our first holiday comp.
Complete
artist roster:
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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A
collaboration between Remora
& Clang Quartet. Swamp ambient? |
The
title pretty much explains
it, ambient drones for one guitar. Loop & reverb
driven. |
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.
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Bizarre magazine |
Lo-fi
acoustic shoegazer?
Vlor's two cassette releases combined together. 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.
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Ben Szporluk, Vendetta
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