Dan Cohoon did an interview with Alastair Galbraith for Amplitude Equals One Over Frequency Squared.
Black Happy Day‘s In the Garden of Ghostflowers & Heller Mason‘s Minimalist & Anchored just got in from the plant. They’ll be in stores August 29th, but we’re shipping direct orders now.
There’s a new Twelve track available for free download on their MySpace page.
Vlor now has a MySpace page.
I guess a lot of you know composer György Ligeti died on June 12, 2006. I found a webzine that had a bunch of vintage interviews with him here.
Brian John Mitchell just did an interview mainly about xo & Lost Kisses at Jazma Online.
Clang Quartet is on the cover of the Greensboro weekly Go-Triad.
Plumerai is fighting for a spot in NME, you can vote for them (& check out their music) here.
The first interview ever about Vlor is up on Setting Sun.
We’ve finally got things set up right at IFC’s Media Lab & now you can watch all our cartoons there & vote to get them played on IFC.
Lost Kisses #1
Lost Kisses #2
Lost Kisses #3
Mobil Zombie
Pants Comic #1
Pants Comic #2
Shimmer
xo #1
Lunar Hypnosis have become big fans of ours lately. Check out these interviews with Goddakk & Lycia.
The newest issue of QRD is up & includes interviews with Chris Olley (six by seven/twelve), Arnold Pander (Pander Brothers), Josh Howard (Dead@17), & Jamie Barnes as well as several articles & the return of i heart fx & job reviews.
There’s a new album by Chris Olley’s project Twelve. You can order it on our catalog page. It’s a combination of krautrock, minimalism, & Kraftwerkian beats.
Our new comic xo is now up online. It’s the first installment about a sociopath trying to find his heart. We’re hoping to keep it nearly monthly installments.
Rollerball has a new album that should be out soon on Wallace Records.
Remora has been working on an acapella EP that will come out this fall on North Pole Records.
Vlor‘s A Fire Is Meant For Burning & Alan Sparhawk‘s Solo Guitar are being shipped in from manufacturing & we’re taking orders now. The art for Alan Sparhawk’s disc is handmade by Shane DeLeon of StarbageHands.
All right, so the newest news of the week is our new mini-comic “xo #1” is just about done. Working on the final layout right now. The artwork is by Melissa Spence Gardner & the story is by Brian John Mitchell. The series is the story of an ex-hitman trying not to kill people. If you want to get into what it’s actually “about”, I’d say it’s about feeling powerless & alone in the world.
The webzine Setting Sun has recently done an interview with Tara Vanflower & Remora.
Some reviews of Goddakk’s Monument to a Ruined Age & Lycia’s The Burning Circle And Then Dust have been coming in, check them out.
We have some new artists on our roster whose releases will be coming out in the next few months. They are:
Heller Mason – a singer-songwriter recommended to us by Rivulets. He’s got kind of a Neil Young ala Harvest vibe.
Black Happy Day – a collaboration between Tara VanFlower & Timothy Renner (Stone Breath). If you know both of these artists already, it sounds exactly like you might think. It’s a bit hard to describe, maybe ambient roots music?
Alan Sparhawk – solo-guitarscapes from Alan of Low. Minimalist guitar drone in the style of Aarktica & Remora.
Plumerai – bliss-pop from Boston. We’ve been friends with these guys since they formed. So it was just a matter of time before it happened. They’re musical influences are pretty shoegazery, but they have a style all of their own.
There’s a recent interview with Brian John Mitchell at Lallabbau about Silber Records, Remora, & Lost Kisses.
We have two new releases shipping out on pre-orders. You can order both discs as a bundled discount for a limited time at our sale page. Below are the press releases:
GODDAKK: MONUMENT TO A RUINED AGE
Goddakk was started while Martin Newman was struggling to piece together the band Plumerai. It started as a project he had intended to form into a band that would take on dark, oppressive songs ala The Cure’s Pornography. Seeing theremin player Pamelia Kurstin and the guitar works done by Silber head Brian John Mitchell as Remora impressed Newman with both of these artists ability to create huge soundscapes without other musicians. The appeal of not having to rely on anyone else as he’d been forced to do with his “normal” bands (burMonter, December Sundays) made him decide to keep Goddakk a solo project. The looping “theremin orchestra” of Pamelia was a big influence on how he worked the songs together with the reverse delay and later elements of his more traditional songwriting creeped in with more songlike structures. That fused with his desire for rhythm and structure (as opposed to noise for the sake of noise) led to the adding of Tricky inspired flow vocals run through a tremelo pedal giving tracks like “One Hundreds,” “Unfortunates,” & “Crucify You” more song-like qualities.
On Goddakk’s debut album Monument to a Ruined Age, the dominant instrument is a Fender VI bass run through loops & effects sounding like anything from a normal bass to breaking glass to a freight train. The final results end up sounding like a cross between Colin Newman, Coil, & The Legendary Pink Dots. An aggressive ambient music that could as easily fit the soundtrack to a David Lynch film as a car ride smuggling a dead body to Florida.
LYCIA: THE BURNING CIRCLE AND THEN DUST
Here at Silber we’ve been fans of Lycia since around 1992. In fact, we started Silber always hoping to put out Lycia records & now we’re re-releasing the five Lycia studio albums re-mastered by Lycia frontman Mike VanPortfleet. The darkwave classic The Burning Circle And Then Dust is our second installment.
The Burning Circle And Then Dust was a groundbreaking point in Lycia’s career. It marked a shift from more atmospheric music towards song-oriented music with tracks like “Pray” & “Slip Away.” It marked the first collaborations between Mike VanPortfleet & Lycia members David Galas & Tara Vanflower. It marked the transformation of Lycia into a honed out live touring machine.
Originally released as a double disc, VanPortfleet himself explained the truncation for the re-mastered The Burning Circle And Then Dust to a single disc. “Shortly after recording what would become disc one of the album David Galas & I were doing so well in the studio that we went on to record another ten songs with the intent of them possibly being used for compilation appearances. Though I thought most of the songs were stylistically different from the initial songs, when offered the possibility of releasing a double disc including the more recently recorded material I decided to go ahead & release the whole lot. Hindsight being 20/20 I have opted to hone the disc back down to my original vision.”
Hey Kidz,
Some of our music is starting to be digitally distributed by Radio Free Abattoir. We’ll hopefully have everything available through them soon.
There’s a new Rivulets track called “Anymore” that features guitar loops by Remora. You can get the track free on the download free sampler link at SunSeaSky
We have two new releases shipping out. You can order both discs bundled at our sale page. Below are the press releases
GODDAKK: MONUMENT TO A RUINED AGE
Goddakk was started while Martin Newman was struggling to piece together the band Plumerai. It started as a project he had intended to form into a band that would take on dark, oppressive songs ala The Cure’s Pornography. Seeing theremin player Pamelia Kurstin and the guitar works done by Silber head Brian John Mitchell as Remora impressed Newman with both of these artists ability to create huge soundscapes without other musicians. The appeal of not having to rely on anyone else as he’d been forced to do with his “normal” bands (burMonter, December Sundays) made him decide to keep Goddakk a solo project. The looping “theremin orchestra” of Pamelia was a big influence on how he worked the songs together with the reverse delay and later elements of his more traditional songwriting creeped in with more songlike structures. That fused with his desire for rhythm and structure (as opposed to noise for the sake of noise) led to the adding of Tricky inspired flow vocals run through a tremelo pedal giving tracks like “One Hundreds,” “Unfortunates,” & “Crucify You” more song-like qualities.
On Goddakk’s debut album Monument to a Ruined Age, the dominant instrument is a Fender VI bass run through loops & effects sounding like anything from a normal bass to breaking glass to a freight train. The final results end up sounding like a cross between Colin Newman, Coil, & The Legendary Pink Dots. An aggressive ambient music that could as easily fit the soundtrack to a David Lynch film as a car ride smuggling a dead body to Florida.
LYCIA: THE BURNING CIRCLE AND THEN DUST
Here at Silber we’ve been fans of Lycia since around 1992. In fact, we started Silber always hoping to put out Lycia records & now we’re re-releasing the five Lycia studio albums re-mastered by Lycia frontman Mike VanPortfleet. The darkwave classic The Burning Circle And Then Dust is our second installment.
The Burning Circle And Then Dust was a groundbreaking point in Lycia’s career. It marked a shift from more atmospheric music towards song-oriented music with tracks like “Pray” & “Slip Away.” It marked the first collaborations between Mike VanPortfleet & Lycia members David Galas & Tara Vanflower. It marked the transformation of Lycia into a honed out live touring machine.
Originally released as a double disc, VanPortfleet himself explained the truncation for the re-mastered The Burning Circle And Then Dust to a single disc. “Shortly after recording what would become disc one of the album David Galas & I were doing so well in the studio that we went on to record another ten songs with the intent of them possibly being used for compilation appearances. Though I thought most of the songs were stylistically different from the initial songs, when offered the possibility of releasing a double disc including the more recently recorded material I decided to go ahead & release the whole lot. Hindsight being 20/20 I have opted to hone the disc back down to my original vision.”
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Brian John Mitchell
I’m back from the Remora tour, thanks to everyone who came out. In a related story, my car is in need of some repairs; so if you’ve been putting off an order I’d love to get it now.
There’s a new Rivulets track called “Anymore” that features guitar loops by Remora. You can get the track free on the download free sampler link at www.sunseasky.com
A lot of our releases have been getting some airplay on the podcasts at Exposed Radio so you might be interested in some of the other music they play as well.
Our good friends Plumerai are looking for a few remixes for an upcoming EP. You can check out the stuff here & they want the tracks by March 15.
If you hadn’t already heard, we are putting together a compilation of covers of songs by Silber artists. Please send audio CD submissions to PO Box 18062 / Raleigh, NC 27619 / USA. We’re hoping to get it out in time for our tenth anniversary in late March.
