The debut album from The Silent Committee has now been fully remastered for better audio quality.
The reissue also boasts an additional SIXTEEN songs on top of the original release.
It is available to buy/stream on Bandcamp (best price! hint, hint. It’s also Friday!)
It will also soon be available to stream on Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, YouTube etc. and to purchase from the usual digital storefronts. (Expected 18/08/2023)
Chris Fordham writes of the reissue:
The debut album by The Silent Committee was first released in 2008.
I had only just begun to make recorded music at home and the mixes and quality of sound in these songs demonstrates some of that youthful naivety and creative fun. I didn’t own a music interface of any kind, just a cheap four channel mixer and the microphone socket leading into a £5 primitive DAW software.
It certainly started a fair run of producing instrumental music and meeting lots of like-minded musicians online. I think as I set about the original recording I was listening to so much ambient and minimalist music that I sought to emulate it as best I could. Inspiration from the likes of Brian Eno, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Sigur Ros and Nine Inch Nails are obviously all here and I could only hope to have distantly reached at brushing the quality of those performers.
The original files for the songs are LONG gone so a full remix of the album is sadly not possible, but what I could do was revise the final mastering. More access to mastering software and hardware has resulted in this! The speakers no longer pop and hiss, hi-hats don’t pierce your eardrums and things generally sound a little more rounded.
The rolig. ep that preceded the album launch was merely a collection of live guitar loops and soundscapes; I’ve bundled them into the re-release, again with similar remastering touches to the main album. There are a few unheard things and other polished up sound experiments from the time included here to complete a document of what was happening with me musically in ’08. This is how a ten track album, becomes twenty-six on the remaster!
It was fun to revisit and I believe it’s certainly wise to retrace your steps to where you come from and think about where it’s led.
*If you visit each songs link separately on the bandcamp album page, I offer a little insight into instruments, techniques, influences and background to each song in turn.
CF 24/06/2023
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