St. Silva to release 'Forager' July 17th
by Scott Osgood
Announcing Forager from St. Silva, a warm collection of looping mediations merging found sounds with formless exploration, out digitally and on limited edition cassette July 17th. The first single - "And The Catbird Sings" - is out now.
“I wanted to create a piece that blurred this line between electronic and natural, a dichotomy that we often impose onto music when really there's little difference,” St. Silva asserts. “The sound nature makes is just as wild, even more so, than the ones we can create with machines.”
Crafted during a year-long process of documenting, sorting, and re-collaging material - improvisations and field recordings captured on hikes - Forager is the composite of archival material tracked months prior to their final recontextualization. “Time creates distance, sometimes a healthy distance, between the art and the artist,” shares St. Silva. “This is a document, a marker of where I was during a moment of time and the sounds that inspired me.”
Using a combination of tape loops, modular synthesis, field recording, and melodic synth lines, on Forager St. Silva offers a sun-drenched nostalgia where faded memories waft over analog-saturated synthetic forests.
All songs composed, recorded, and mixed by Ben Dexter Cooley
Mastering and engineering help from Jake Wright
Cover artwork and cassette designed by Nate Hicks
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