Silber started putting out records back in 1996. We've been slowly gaining a name for ourselves. Thanks for your interest & support.
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Moodring - scared of ferret CD 2009 | Silber 074
11 tracks, 38 minutes
$12
Order at Silbermedia.com filed under "M" for Moodring Moodring is centered around Rollerball's Monte Allen & Mae Starr. While it’s easy to hear that Moodring is awesome, other words to describe them are a bit harder to come by. The presence of piano & clarinet give a free post-jazz flavor. Mae Starr’s ghostly vocals sound like the lounge music on a sinking ship. The deep groove jams sink in to form some kind of modern American gamelan sound. The music is so raw & infectious & immediate that it feels more proto-everything than post-anything. So just soak it in & sink into the doom.
Lost Kisses DVD - My Life is Sad & Funny DVD 2009 | Silber 073
10 cartoons (plus three bonus bits), about an hour
$12
Order at Silbermedia.com filed under "S" for Small Life Form This is true & funny material ina day & age when the two worst adjectives your work can have are "true" & "funny." ~ Dave Sim, Cerebus/Glamourpuss
Well, it's finally here, a collection of cartoon versions of the first ten issues of Lost Kisses. It even includes a special making of thing & cartoons of Worms 1 & XO 1. The DVD includes a psychonautic electro-acoustic drone soundtrack of new music by Small Life Form. Lost Kisses tells snarky stories of life's perils with self -deprecating humor. So check it out & spread the word.
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.
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
northern valentine - the distance brings us closer CD 2008 | Silber 068
5 tracks, 46 minutes
$12
Order at Silbermedia.com filed under "N" for Northern Valentine This is minimalist ambience
at its best. Heartfelt, soulful & affecting, like gazing at a scrapbook of memories. The ever-reliable Silber Records are to be commended for bringing us this – repay the favour by investing in a copy, since downloads won’t help guarantee there'll be more to follow. ~ Phil McMullen, Terrascope online
Northern Valentine is husband & wife Robert & Amy Brown along with friends who join them from time to time. They have been writing & recording music since 1997 & have released material previously on acclaimed label Gears of Sand as well as on their own label Baresound. We are glad to have them added to the Silber roster. They are from Philadephia, Pennsylvania & they love to play live shows. Depending on the performers, live shows can range from quiet and meditative drones to loud & fuzzy instrumental post rock, often within the same set.
Recommended if you like: Labradford, Windy & Carl, Ennio Morricone, Eluvium, Mogwai, Seefeel, Earth, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Spacemen 3
Hotel Hotel - The Sad Sea CD 2008 | Silber 064
8 tracks, 44 minutes
$12
Order at Silbermedia.com filed under "H" for Hotel Hotel Across its 8 tracks, The Sad Sea
proves to be a tangibly executed, cinemascope soundscape to an unmade film - its dulcet tones narrating a story of suffering, solitariness, anxiety & deep pensiveness but with a shimmering veneer of hope that prevails throughout. If you are after top-draw ‘real’ post-rock that shuns the immediacy of more commercially minded bands in favour of a brand of subtle progression that has melancholic & morose characteristics deeply intertwined within its rich sonic texture, then The Sad Sea is for you. ~ Kamyar Sadegzadeh, experimusic.com
Instrumental post rock inspired
by a torturous ocean journey. The sounds of hurricanes funneled through
violins, guitars, drums, & effect pedals. Feel yourself sinking
into the ocean of sound.
Recommended if you like:
Stars of the Lid, Explosions in the Sky, Godspeed You Black Emperor
mwvm - rotations CD Album 2007 | Silber 063
10 tracks, 61 minutes
$12
Order at Silbermedia.com filed under "M" for MWVM mwvm is content to express himself in sound, and fine sound at that....too interesting for brain-dead chilling.... too clinical for stoner drift.... ideal for open-minded listeners... ~ unpeeled.co.uk
Indie-ambient debut of guitar manipulation, layered drones, & electronics in the vein of early Remora & Aarktica.
Origami Arktika - Trollebotn CD Album 2007 | Silber 062
8 tracks, 49 minutes
$12
Order at Silbermedia.com filed under "O" for Origami Arktika Throughout this whole disc, the magic of the place where it was recorded can be felt and heard. A very special recording, it is both ancient and modern. This record is a bridge between the “Real” world and the magic one. In this place and on this record they co-exist beautifully. ~ Dan Cohoon, Amplitude Equals One Over Frequency Squared
The unplugged industrial orchestra presents a collection of songs & folklore from the half-mythical landscape Trollebotn, deep in the mountains of Telemark, Norway.
Lycia - Cold CD Album 2007 | Silber 061
9 tracks, 58 minutes
$12
Order at Silbermedia.com filed under "L" for Lycia Balanced beautifully between an ambient soundtrack, darkwave classic and space rock epic, Cold stylishly sprawls several genres whilst recognising its gothic roots. ~ Paul Lloyd, Sideline
Despite being one of Lycia’s more atmospheric works, Cold became a big hit amongst the black metal & space rock crowds expanding their fan base greatly. On the Cold tour, one would typically see as many fans in Hawkwind & Motorhead t-shirts as Sisters of Mercy t-shirts; forty-year-old rockers standing next to teenaged Goths.
Plumerai - Without Number CD Album 2007 | Silber 059
9 tracks, 45 minutes
$12
Order at Silbermedia.com filed under "P" for Plumerai This is one band that is different enough to appeal to drone fans while still up-tempo enough to appeal to more mainstream listeners, and that in itself is a dazzling combination. ~ Chris Dahlberg, Cosmos Gaming
The full length from post-pop stars Plumerai. Includes the cover of Remora's "Kill My Way Out of Here."
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 savvy.
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
Black Happy Day - In the Garden of Ghostflowers CD Album 2006 | Silber 053
11 tracks, 50 minutes
$12
Order at Silbermedia.com filed under "B" for Black Happy Day In the Garden of Ghost Flowers is a combination of haunting, psychedelic folk and moody experimental soundscapes. ~ Jeff Fitzgerald, Aural Innovations
A collaboration between Tara Vanflower & Timothy Renner (Stone Breath). Ambient old-time folk music.
Vlor - a fire is meant for burning CD Album 2006 | Silber 051
12 tracks, 41 minutes
$12
Order at Silbermedia.com filed under "V" for Vlor Confusing, soothing, abstract...A Fire Is Meant For Burning is an interesting trip into the minds of those involved in the real undercurrents of modern audio art. ~ Babysue
Minimalist guitar collaborations from members of Remora, Aarktica, Lycia, Rivulets, 6P.M., Red Morning Chorus, & Jessica Bailiff.
Alan Sparhawk - solo guitar CD Album 2006 | Silber 049
9 tracks, 43 minutes
$12
Order at Silbermedia.com filed under "S" for Alan Sparhawk It’s exactly as the title says – Sparhawk of Low playing guitar. Simple, right? And amazing – his guitar burns through the air, sometimes creating waves built of empty space and sometimes searing like Eddie Van Halen’s (an allusion made concrete through his cover of “Eruption”). ~ Dave Heaton, The Big Takeover
Solo guitar explorations & drones from Low's illustrious frontman.
If Thousands - i have nothing CD Album 2005 | Silber 043
15 tracks, 50 minutes
$12
Order at Silbermedia.com filed under "I" for If Thousands Slow, sorrowful, and lush dronescapes that unfold calmly and thoughtfully. This album is like the quiet before the storm - every track seems ready to explode with energy but manages to contain itself all the way through. I Have Nothing is confident and methodical - easily absorbed and brimming with emotion and conviction. ~ Everything is Fire
A stylistic follow up to Lullaby, If Thousands return with their sonic experimentation.
A lady was picking through the frozen turkeys at the grocery store, but couldn't find one big enough for her family. She asked the stock boy, 'Do these turkeys get any bigger?'
I think you must have gone to the old "audio archives" link which only featured our
public affairs show. Midway down the homepage is the "hourly archives" which now includes all the programs, including music. You just have to look up the date/hour you need instead of via show name.
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Lene 
