Category: .reviews.
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Emerging Indie Bands – Chvad SB “Outside the Shadow of an Aliquot Tree” (2015)
The US based experimental-drone creator Chvad SB released a new EP on the 16th – Outside The Shadow Of An Aliquot Tree. Silber Media, whose artists regularly feature run an occasional series called five by five. Which challenges creators to produce five songs lasting a total of five minutes. As those will are familiar with Chvad…
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Tomatrax – Chvad SB “Outside the Shadow of an Aliquot Tree” (2015)
The latest in Silber Records’ 5in5 series comes from experimental music pioneer Chvad SB. On offer are 5 ambient drone tunes each going for exactly 1 minute. There are some interesting sounds explored with a rich atmosphere. There is the field like rural sounds of Followed by one, the heavy industrial sounds of Three, and…
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Les Immortels – Chvad SB “Outside the Shadow of an Aliquot Tree” (2015)
Un exercice de style peut être stérile, pompeux, fat, vain, en somme dispensable. Mais cela peut également être un challenge, ainsi que le propose le label Silber Records aux aventureux : 5 titres en 5 minutes, du speed dating musical en somme. Créer une vibration propre, un univers et le faire partager en minutes. Ici,…
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Floorshime Zipper Boots – Chvad SB “Outside the Shadow of an Aliquot Tree” (2015)
Today we have another selection from North Carolina based Silber Records’ imaginative 5in5 series, that sees the label challenge bands to make five songs with a total playtime of five minutes. Outside the Shadow of an Aliquot Tree, by the artist Chvad SB, features ambient guitars, that weave alluring melodies over minimalist synth pads. The effect…
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Chain D.L.K. – Chvad SB “Crickets Were the Compass” (2014)
The cover art of Crickets Were The Compass depicts beautifully in ink and watercolour a grainy, post-apocalyptic landscape strewn with grim, colourless debris. A solitary dog stands in the foreground, dolefully glancing about; after an unspecified disaster, life has inevitably found a way. As much is reinforced by brief elaborations upon each of the tracks’…
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Beach Sloth – Chvad SB “Crickets Were the Compass” (2014)
Chvad SB knows what it means to be harsh. On Crickets Were The Compass Chvad SB makes sure to keep things distorted. Everything filters through a similar sound of slow collapse like at any moment true hell could be potentially unleashed. Thanks to Chvad SB’s idea of restraint this never quite happens. Instead the pieces…