Silber Records

09/22/2026

Muscle Mass: Elegant Weapons
I saw when I was two. It's embedded in my brain. Here's a micro-ep from Muscle Mass. The nostalgia is strong with this one.
https://silbermedia.bandcamp.com/album/elegant-weapons

Complimentary Downloads:
https://band.codes/silbermedia/elegant-weapons

Listening Party Tuesday September 22 at 12:00pm NYC time.
https://silbermedia.bandcamp.com/live/elegant-weapons-listening-party

5 track album

09/12/2026

Hey Starz,

It's been a big week. For those of you that have been following along in my personal journey, we finally sold the commercial building where we had the coffee/comic/plant shop. The venture was not successful financially, but I do think it had a general positive impact on some people's lives & the amount of education if gave me was tremendous even if I don't want a lot of the knowledge. So the sale wipes things clean as far as not being in debt, but puts me at starting at zero at 51 with a wife & kid to support. Life is hard & I'm not complaining. I am happy to be able to work & find simple joys in life.

The past couple of weeks Art Pop Daily has done a couple posts about the third Vlor EP. The one that kind of was never really completed & almost never came out. So given that someone else is into it, I thought it made sense to revisit it for this week's listening party. Come & hangout for it if you can. Or you can listen to the Vlor discography on Bandcamp if you like - https://bandcamp.com/silberspy/playlist/vlor

hrt
Brian John Mitchell

Vlor: sacred places in the city
1999 4-track recordings of Vlor as the Mitchell/Halasz duo. Primitive shoegaze & proto post rock guitar duos.
https://silbermedia.bandcamp.com/album/sacred-places-in-the-city

Complimentary downloads:
https://band.codes/silbermedia/sacred-places-in-the-city

Listening Party Tuesday September 15 at noon NYC time.
https://silbermedia.bandcamp.com/live/vlor-sacred-places-in-the-city-listening-party

08/31/2026

Various Artists: Tritones
"Years ago I saw a segment on CBS Sunday Morning about a banned chord progression referred to as ""The Devil's Interval"" or tritones & it sat their in the back of my mind as something is should explore at some point. The idea kept coming up like a bad penny in other random pop culture music things over the next decade or two. So here we are. Soothing. Interesting. Demonic."
https://silbermedia.bandcamp.com/album/tritones

Complimentary downloads:
https://band.codes/silbermedia/tritones

Listening party Tuesday September 1 at noon NYC time.
https://silbermedia.bandcamp.com/merch/various-artists-tritones-listening-party

08/16/2026

This week's feature release....

Various Artists: August Fields
Our field recording compilation from back in 2019. Raw sounds to ambient & industrial structures.
https://silbermedia.bandcamp.com/album/august-fields-2019-complete-collection

Complimentary downloads:
https://band.codes/silbermedia/august-fields-2019-complete-collection

Listening party Tuesday August 18, 2026 at noon to 6pm NYC time:
https://silbermedia.bandcamp.com/live/various-artists-august-fields-2019-compilation-listening-party

Listening Party from Silber Records.

08/02/2026

Hey Starz,

Hope you are doing well. It's been a weird week, but i guess they are all weird weeks. I did get a couple episodes edited of the 1990s Outer Limits podcast We Will Control All That You See And Here. You can check it out here or it should be on most podcast platforms in a couple days.
https://silbermedia.bandcamp.com/album/we-will-control-all-that-you-see-and-hear-season-1

This week's listening party is for Remora's Variations which I just realized was probably the last Remora live show & now over 6 years ago. Maybe there will be another at some point & maybe it will follow the same trajectory the project was on, not really sure. We can talk about it Tuesday.

Lastly Santa Sangre put out a compilation that has a Remora track inspired by The Maxx (track 73) & a Small Life Form track inspired by Franz Kafka & dial tones (worked on this piece for 25 years somehow, track 75).
https://santasangremagazine.bandcamp.com/album/santa-sangre-magazine-presents-the-seventh-continent-compilation

Thanks for your interest & support. Spread the word if you dig the work & I will do my best to keep working on interesting things for you.

Hrt
Brian John Mitchell

Remora: Variations
In 2020, shortly before the world was shut down, Remora was on a new trajectory. Seldom appearing live as a solo project nor having rehearsals in a meaningful way, the project was improvisational with simple concepts shaped by the evening's performers. This piece is built around a music box plinking out an A in a simple rhythm to keep timing & key while the players improvise. I believe this was the last Remora live show & at this point it is unclear if there will ever be a resurrection.
https://silbermedia.bandcamp.com/album/variations

Complimentary downloads:
https://band.codes/silbermedia/variations

Listening party Tuesday August 4 at noon NYC time.
https://silbermedia.bandcamp.com/live/remora-variations-listening-party

Listening Party from Silber Records.

07/24/2026

Micro-EP of minimalist dance from Muscle Mass.
A command. Fill the earth & subdue it. The artificial body. A resurrection of the past or something new? The sky is still blue. Everything that changes stays the same. The body moves.
https://silbermedia.bandcamp.com/album/fill-the-earth-subdue-it

Complimentary Downloads:
https://band.codes/silbermedia/fill-the-earth-subdue-it

Listening Party Tuesday July 29 at 12:00pm NYC time.
https://silbermedia.bandcamp.com/merch/muscle-mass-fill-the-earth-subdue-it-listening-party

Listening Party from Silber Records.

07/11/2026

34 artists & 54 tracks & around 7 hours in this collection of field recordings & structures built from them. Near silence, ambient walls, industrial noise, & even electro no wave - we're very pleased with the variety on here.
https://silbermedia.bandcamp.com/album/april-fields

Complimentary downloads - https://band.codes/silbermedia/april-fields

Listening party Tuesday July 14 at noon NYC time
https://silbermedia.bandcamp.com/live/april-fields-listening-party

Contributors: Subscape Annex, Field in Stream, Discord, Ben Link Collins, Bleaeck, Fraticornicos, Determinist?, Small Life Form, Grail, Ocean in a Bottle, CHANGES TO blind, Hïdrō, Sumbglitch, CNSNNT, Premature Burial, Zaahj, Broken Shoulder, Staplerfahrer, Toni Dimitrov, Tomasz Pizio, Indu Mezu, xDRxLWBx, A Slang Cove, Carl Kruger, The New Schwansteins, The Gribshnobler, Mykel Boyd, Space Sweeper, This Dying Orb, EVQ, The Undermasks, ArTe Space

Listening Party from Silber Records.

07/03/2026

Hey Starz,

I hope all is well. This coming week's listening party & new edition to the Silber catalog is Small Life Form's Satsop. More info on that below.

This week I started working on a new mix of the only release I ever did under my own name, "Four & a Half." It's a 270 minute drone piece with 14 tracks all recorded in real time. That's 63 hours just in recording time. I was never super pleased with the mix, but admitted defeat & put it out. 15 years later here I am trying to get rid of some of the glitches of it that probably only I notice (rattling on the third ebowed bass part three and a half hours in). I don't even know how to get it to people who want to hear it because I
think it is beyond the time constraints for a single track on Bandcamp & breaking it up kind of defeats the purpose & I don't really work with the aggregator who put the original mix on Spotify anymore. At any rate the work on it is simultaneously tedious & toiling & enjoyable & rewarding. Back when it came out I was told I should write a big manifesto as far as its intent & the manifesto is now as it was then, "this is the kind of thing I listen too, this is the kind of thing I make."

Thanks for all your interest & support. It really means a lot to me. Hope to see some of you in the chat party Tuesday.

Hrt
Brian John Mitchell

Small Life Form: Satsop
Back in 2008 I got a residency to record in an abandoned nuclear cooling tower. It was fun. I flew across the country & hung out with good friends I hardly ever see. I borrowed Shane DeLeon's guitar & tiny amp & his wife's watering can & my friend Marlene drove me up from Portland to Satsop to record. I had the space for 4 hours & I made my recordings. I flew back home & built the recordings into these pieces. They played at some art galleries in Seattle put on by the grantor organization Environmental Aesthetics. A couple years later Shaun Sandor asked about releasing them on Blondena. Now here they are as part of the Silber library.
https://silbermedia.bandcamp.com/album/satsop

Listen on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/intl-pt/album/5ELGzhkyrrlYjGKfyJaBBV

Complimentary Downloads - https://band.codes/silbermedia/satsop

Listening Party Tuesday July 7 at noon NYC time.
https://silbermedia.bandcamp.com/merch/small-life-form-satsop-listening-party

Listening Party from Silber Records.

06/21/2026

From 2000-2002 I followed my interest in 1960s composition more seriously. I lived in a town with a music program at the university & I would regularly drop in to classes while I wasn't even a student at the school. It was a more relaxed time. I would go to the basement library of the music building & listen to out of print Ligeti & Copland records. The highest culmination of it all was spending a morning with George Crumb as he critiqued a handful of graduate students pieces. I would go to the rundown theater named after a racist former governor & listen to the student orchestra tune & play. I recorded some of the warm ups on a cassette recorder & transferred them to my computer where they sat for over 20 years. I found them on a hard drive recently & they were the perfect source for the kind of sounds Small Life Form makes today. A collaboration with a younger version of myself & a hundred strangers on a stage. Drone on!
https://silbermedia.bandcamp.com/album/proscenium

Complimentary Downloads:
https://band.codes/silbermedia/proscenium

Listening Party Tuesday June 23 at noon NYC time.
https://silbermedia.bandcamp.com/merch/small-life-form-proscenium-listening-party

1 track album

06/21/2026

Hey Starz,

A productive week here at Silber. A new Small Life Form, a new Muscle Mass, & the release on Bandcamp of a former Silber website exclusive Rivulets release. Hopefully I will see some of you at the listening parties.

I joined Substack if you want to follow Silber there - https://substack.com/

Thanks for your interest & support.

Hrt
Brian John Mitchell

Small Life Form: Proscenium
From 2000-2002 I followed my interest in 1960s composition more seriously. I lived in a town with a music program at the university & I would regularly drop in to classes while I wasn't even a student at the school. It was a more relaxed time. I would go to the basement library of the music building & listen to out of print Ligeti & Copland records. The highest culmination of it all was spending a morning with George Crumb as he critiqued a handful of graduate students pieces. I would go to the rundown theater named after a racist former governor & listen to the student orchestra tune & play. I recorded some of the warm ups on a cassette recorder & transferred them to my computer where they sat for over 20 years. I found them on a hard driive recently & they were the perfect source for the kind of sounds Small Life Form makes today. A collaboration with a younger version of myself & a hundred strangers on a stage. Drone on!
https://silbermedia.bandcamp.com/album/proscenium
Complimentary Downloads:
https://band.codes/silbermedia/proscenium
Listening Party Tuesday June 23 at noon NYC time.
https://silbermedia.bandcamp.com/merch/small-life-form-proscenium-listening-party

Muscle Mass: Minor Battles
Micro-ep of dystopian dance anthems from Muscle Mass. Do you want to live forever or would you like to know more?
https://silbermedia.bandcamp.com/album/minor-battles
Complimentary Downloads:
https://band.codes/silbermedia/minor-battles
Listening Party Tuesday June 23 at 12:30pm NYC time.
https://silbermedia.bandcamp.com/merch/muscle-mass-minor-battles-listening-party

Rivulets: d e m o s
Hear minimalist slowcore Rivulets the way I first did over 25 years ago.
https://rivulets.bandcamp.com/album/d-e-m-o-s
Listening Party Sunday June 21 at 2pm NYC time.
https://rivulets.bandcamp.com/merch/d-e-m-o-s-listening-party

Listening Party from Rivulets.