Silian Rail is Robin (guitar) and Eric (drums, glockenspiel). They play instrumental music which combines richly complex, open-tuning, finger picked guitar playing with aggressive, intricate drumming. Their songs are constantly shifting mazes of rich melodies and intense rhythms, equally epic, fragile and explosively dynamic. (Myspace)
They do a sort of Led Zepplin-meets-My Bloody Valentine thing by stretching out blues rock riffs with lots of sustain and texture to give them a dreamy pretty quality, while keeping a rhythmic and melodic edge that they use to ratchet up the intensity of their songs. (Wiretap)
let us just say that i attended an architecture in helsinki concert in eugene with a costume inspired by this video. definitely deserving artistical fortitude.
“I have absolutely no desire to be a part of popular culture,” offers Nielsen. “All that shit is held down. It’s totally restricted by being whatever it’s supposed to be, or whatever everybody else thinks it’s supposed to be.” (City Pages)
creativity is the tops. i hope to elaborate on the mountain goats a little more,but for now
i figure this is a good place to start…
sax rohmer #1 — Mountain Goats LP, Heretic Pride
have not seen anything much like this. enjoy
oh the internets… such a potent school of awareness for the huddled masses. cut to the chase.
i like music. i like talking about it,writing it,living it. this is where that is going to happen.
don’t buckle your seatbelt. this is not going to be a wild ride.
en route to another blog to rot and collect dust on a strip of motherboard somewhere on this planet (or perhaps if i am lucky, in outerspace.)
