SILVA, by Bára Gísladóttir

SILVA

by Bára Gísladóttir

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chriskenna Congrats and thanks for this powerful, visceral, elemental work, superbly played, modified and recorded - brilliant exposition of the majestic double bass - sometimes reminiscent of First Nations didgeridoo, sometimes of whales, sometimes of....

mikaellind A tour de force in continuous, aggressive drones for double bass and distortion. While a lot of minimalist music has almost become a kind of background music, this work goes in the opposite direction; a punch in the face on any listener who has become too comfortable in furniture music. Refreshing!

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SILVA is a work for processed double bass built on the idea of a downward growing forest, living its own secret life of underground raves and meditative cohesiveness.

I like to think of different movement and direction in the musical form and was intrigued by the thought of something that would otherwise naturally grow upwards, in reach for light and surrounded by air, rather being drawn in the opposite direction where darkness and solid form serve as the source of gleaming luminosity and breezy surroundings.

Both in my compositional and instrumentalist work, in every nook and cranny I’ve been driven to dig as deep as I’ve been able, with SILVA perhaps quite literally so. Although growing up in classical music and predominantly working and living in an environment of classical contemporary/avant garde music, I’ve been very much into other genres as well; alternative, experimental, heavy metal, noise, drone, techno, and electronica, and I believe SILVA is the byproduct of all of that.

Every sound on SILVA is of the double bass, processed to various degrees (w. MAX/Live) and layered into a mass of noise.

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released January 27, 2023

Composed, performed and recorded by Bára Gísladóttir. Mixed and mastered by Daniel Shores. Artwork by Anna Maggý. Design by Josh Frey. Thanks to Collin J. Rae, Steve Holtje, Bergur Þórisson, Hallgrímur Jónas Jensson, & Iðunn Hallgrímsdóttir.

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