Bulbul is considered an unconventional rock band with a penchant for the eccentric and a lust for experimentation. High energy and subtle craziness characterize their live performances - as well as their work in general.
On "Silence!" the band takes a completely different approach. Similar to the previous album "It's like the earth is angry", they celebrate the intensity of constant dripping, slowness and the opening of space through pauses. Instead of looping what is played, loops are being played and thus start to evolve a dynamic …
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Bulbul is considered an unconventional rock band with a penchant for the eccentric and a lust for experimentation. High energy and subtle craziness characterize their live performances - as well as their work in general.
On "Silence!" the band takes a completely different approach. Similar to the previous album "It's like the earth is angry", they celebrate the intensity of constant dripping, slowness and the opening of space through pauses. Instead of looping what is played, loops are being played and thus start to evolve a dynamic life within themselves.The sounds are given the space they need; if one of them becomes smaller at a moment, another can expand.
In the nine-minute opener we find ourself in a hurricane of massive sounds, which only doesn't sweep everything away because the stoic yet driving drums anchor everything firmly to the ground. The storm is followed by the calm before the storm: Track #2, also the last song on the first side, dives down deep to slowly and polyrhythmically patch together what is left of before.
The first song on side 2, like all other tracks on "Silence!" titled with a horizontal line of certain length, is the only one to follow a stringent structure and offers plenty of room for the sound engineering skills of recording and mixing technician Nik Hummer (works for Zeitkratzer, Elektro Guzzi, König, ...), who puts the cherry on this album with his method of manual mixing and the discreetly used yet noticeable dub technique. Track 4 zooms far into every little sound and delivers a dense, foggy atmosphere to dive into dark-gloomy beauty.
The final piece closes the circle to the opening track and makes the whole record work as an endless loop: Not knowing where to go in the beginning, it soon becomes clear that here again only the drums can keep the string instruments, that want to flee to the four winds, in check. Only towards the end it allows itself to be coaxed into total dissolution.
Five "Silence!" tracks appear on 12" vinyl in a silkscreenprinted gatefold cover designed by Inga Hehn.
Another one is on the 7" single, which is integrated into the front of the album cover and has to be detached from it before it can be played.
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