Silber Christmas 2017

For Christmas 2017 we have 8 EPs from Electric Bird Noise, Yellow6, Small Life Form/Remora/Heavy for the Vintage/Philip Polk Palmer, Nonconnah, Lullabier, Baptizer, Hyperborean Echoes, & Dusty Tears plus the Experimental Christmas double compilation. Get them all for a discounted bundle of joy.

The Experimental Christmas Show is an artistic communal experience created in 2008 by Adrian Wilson as part of his Maya Presents shows & expanding as an annual mini-tour across North Carolina in 2014. It’s primarily a musical event, but has incorporated & is always open to consciousness-expanding short-plays, art shows, stand-up comedy, performance art, etc. The musical expression is usually “noise” or “experimental” in nature, but with strange open ears the event has included banjo players, kora players, accordion players, trumpeters, etc. as well as musicians who have unnamable instruments of their own creation.

: Press Release

Track Listing:
Series One Point One
Knives of Spain – Winter (Ancient Music)
Small Life Form – Old Style #7
deathstar flux – Existentialist Waltz
subterrene – haunted, ghosting
Corneius F Van Stafrin III – Manifest Clairvoyant Ecstasis
The Sound of Square Triangles – Mutation 7.1
Nonconnah – This is Anti-Music
Clang Quartet – Escape from Herod
Series One Point Two
Remora – O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
Spookstina – Winter Underland
Bryce Eiman – Promise & Myth
Tristan Brooks – i can’t predict the ghost of christmas past actions
bLIND iNFANCY – Waking the Living (mixdown 2)
Quilla – Sacred Field
Orphling – My Mother’s Dreams
Adrian Wilson – Trash Can Lid Lullaby
Bret Hart – Xmas on Saturn

Nonconnah is back with what we hope to be an ongoing annual series of Winter EPs here at Silber. Shoegaze, minimalism, & field recordings echoing through a tunnel in the ice. Can you escape before everything collapses?

: Press Release
: Digital Booklet

Track Listing:
When You Sank Into The Leaf-Strewn Earth
When The Blackbirds Formed An Inverted Cross
When Your Hands Trembled As You Watched The Barren Fields
When The Ceiling Hit The Floor As The Barn Collapsed Around You
You Said “The Snow Is Like Amnesia. I’m Forgetting Everything”

The 19th in the ongoing series of merry6mas releases from Yellow6 composed of material recorded during 2017 that ends the year with no other home than this collection. Nearly 20 years in, do we still need to tell you that Yellow6 is post-angst guitar driven ambient?

: Digital Booklet

Track Listing:
later that evening (running)
6 x VI
we should be building bridges not walls
lo-fi loop junky #2
full moon
The Guildford Loop
looking glass (piano)
summer rain
summer skies
torrent
the next day
when is the day
later that evening 2 (running to the red)

Mesmerizing aural memories from a land of giants.

Track Listing:
Yule Bells
The Wanderer Brings Gifts
Snowfall

Electric Bird Noise returns with a 21 minute journey of loop driven ambient & claustrophobic guitar exploration. Elevator music for art galleries… really creepy art galleries.

Track Listing:
nam wen eht fo htrib

Baptizer explores the unfolding of the present dark age as a prelude to the return of the King. Other than vocals by Baptizer’s six and eight year old sons, the only sound source is a 5u analog synthesizer. Droning tension for the final credits of the end of the world.

Track Listing:
Crisis of the Modern World
Prelude to the Return of the King

A collection of Christmas songs from Lullabier, the covers personally translated by Andrea to make them more his own.

: Digital Booklet

Track Listing:
Natale A Ceneda (feat. Faro)
Natale A Serravalle
White Dizziness (Acoustic)
With A Star (Brian John Mitchell Remix)

Dusty Tears is Jamie Smith (Danghead) & Shane de Leon (Miss Massive Snowflake). They formed in 2016 after Smith’s daughter stated that her freshly dyed hair smelled like “dusty tears”, though the two first played together in Billings, Montana in 1987. For Dusty Tears return to Silber with Dusty Christmas, Smith & de Leon record content looping Morricone soundscapes alongside Dinosaur Jr. guitar burnings. A mix of vocal, instrumental, electronic & acoustic instrumentation, strong melodic wanderings, & inspired lyrics. It’s Christmas, wipe those tears away & put your sweater on.

Track Listing:
Fat Wallet
Dream Within a Nightmare
All My Love

Four versions of the Christmas classic “Silent Night” – electroclash, ambient, & cacophonic mashups from Heavy for the Vintage, Philip Polk Palmer, Remora, & Small Life Form.

Track Listing:
Silent Night (Heavy for the Vinage)
Silent Night (Philip Polk Palmer)
Silent Night (Remora)
Silent Night (Small Life Form)