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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, Andrew Weathers, This Quiet Army, Electric Bird Noise, Lullabier,
Bryce Eiman, Polar400, Miss Massive Snowflake, Gorgons, Origami Galaktika,
Remora, Lozninger, Fornever, Moodring, Subscape Annex, Carta, Small Life
Form, Zanzibar Snails, Moral Crayfish, Northern Valentine, Medit, &
Yellow 6. So a solid representation from the Silber roster, the 919Noise
scene, all our old friends, & some folks we’ve just met. I hope you
dig it all & maybe find a new favorite band or two. Personally I’m
pretty pleased at how it simultaneously goes all over the musical map &
remains cohesive. Noise, beats, slowcore, found sounds, guitar walls, &
occasionally things that could pass for rock & roll.
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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, 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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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.” |
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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. |
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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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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.
~ Ben Szporluk, Vendetta
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