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Pinnacle Figments

01/05/2025 //
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The Silent Committee is back!

‘Pinnacle Figments’ marks [4-D] recordings 1st release of 2025 and the first new full length album of music from TSC in almost 2 years. The album is available from 01/05/2025.

The album is currently only available on Bandcamp, free to stream or £4 to download and keep.

Returning to his musical beginnings, Chris Fordham has produced an album of thought provoking, minimalist, instrumental music under the moniker ‘The Silent Committee’. Recent releases had involved attentions to detail and experimentation with odd timings and orchestral arrangements, these songs however, all began more freely as pure improvisations and grew from there with the majority of elements being recorded live on the fly.

The album explores the theme of aiming to constantly climb and the setbacks that includes on the way.

1.Sea Level Dream 07:32
2.Foothold 05:28
3.A Peaceful Plateau 02:34
4.The Cascade 03:00
5.Overlooking the Precipice 10:52
6.Shelf Pause 06:02
7.Spur 01:43
8.Throwing Paper Planes from the Summit 04:24

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Categories Chris Fordham, Divided Records, In The Studio, Release, The Silent Committee

Shelf Pause

24/04/2025 //
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‘Pinnacle Figments,’ the new album from The Silent Committee releases 01/05/2025 via [4-D] Recordings.

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A Peaceful Plateau

17/04/2025 //
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‘Pinnacle Figments,’ the new album from The Silent Committee releases 01/05/2025 via [4-D] Recordings.

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Cascade

10/04/2025 //
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‘Pinnacle Figments,’ the new album from The Silent Committee releases 01/05/2025 via [4-D] Recordings.

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Somn Ușor

15/03/2024 //
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Cloud Helices full length album is on it’s way.
The rules were simple.

Only three keyboards could be used.

Songs had to be finished in three recording sessions or less.

The album has to have a number of songs that’s a multiple of three.

….Due for release April 2024

Categories Chris Fordham, Cloud Helices, In The Studio, The Silent Committee

Ex Nihilo

28/02/2024 //
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14 minutes of orchestral sound from The Silent Committee

available over @ http://thesilentcommittee.bandcamp.com

Categories Chris Fordham, Classical, Release, Silent Committees Music, The Silent Committee

One Day The Sadness Will End…

27/10/2023 //
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The new album from The Silent Committee is finally here!

It is entitled; ‘One Day The Sadness Will End, But I Don’t Think Today Is The Day’.

This uplifting collection of 10 songs features ambiance, acoustic instruments and electronic experimentation in equal measures.

The album can only be found to stream/download on the BandCamp page. The download also comes with large format, high quality artwork files.

  1. One Day The Sadness Will End, But I Don’t Think Today Is The Day
  2. Lyrical and Imprecise
  3. Invisible Maps
  4. Diminished
  5. If You Can Forget What Hour It Is
  6. December ’08
  7. A Still, Leaden Sky
  8. I Will Wait, I Will Perch
  9. City of Reflections
  10. 333-2

All music written, performed, recorded, and mixed by Chris Fordham. He also did the cover artwork too.

Many thanks to Becky Fordham for putting up with me during the making of this record. Also special thanks to Jon Stolber for lending an ear in the recording phase.

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City Of Reflections

03/10/2023 //
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The new album is entitled ‘One Day The Sadness Will End, But I Don’t Think Today Is The Day…’ and is due to be released on October 27th exclusively through the projects BandCamp.

See above the video for the lead single ‘City of Reflections’.

The single will be available to download for free on Friday October 6th and includes an extra non-album track!

The album will do all the usual TSC stuff – instruments played, sampled, broken and oddly arranged in a minimal, ambient fashion. It’s been a stop start few years in the making, but overall I’m happy with the result.

Subscribe to the blog here and/or follow @ 4DRecordings on instagram for more news on the album release as it happens.

Much love.

CFx

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Imperfect Machines.

15/09/2023 //
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The Silent Committee EP, ‘Imperfect Machines’, makes it’s debut on streaming sites from today!

If you like it enough it is still available to download from Bandcamp for a very affordable price.

If you’re the streaming kind then Spotify, Apple, Tidal, YouTube etc. will see you right.

Also as with the other releases lately, you can dance to them on TikTok or soundtrack bizarre reels on Instagram.

Imperfect Machines was the last lengthy and fully conceived/planned release from the project back in 2019. It sought to be the acoustic album, utilising no synthesis or electronic instruments – heavily relying on upright piano, viola, voice and various string instruments. The acoustic were ultimately toyed with by effects pedals and laptop maniupation, but the acoustic sounds do still shine through.

Since the release of this EP the project has lay kind of dormant, releasing tunes for piano day and odd songs here and there.

But all that will change in October. Stay tuned!

CFx

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zero. (MMXXIII)

01/09/2023 //
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The Silent Committee’s 2014 album ‘zero.’ has undergone the remaster and expanded reissue treatment.

All 10 of the original tracks have been edited to boost volume, improve dynamics and just sound better than they have ever sounded before. The reissue also compiles all 3 songs recorded for the BFW Recordings series ‘Album In A Day’ and improves their audio. There are then 2 more compilation project recordings, possibly unheard of before due to their obscurity.

As always: for purchasing the album Bandcamp is your best bet – cheapest, comes with high quality artwork and liner notes, and your purchase supports the artist directly! The Bandcamp page itself features a write up on each track individually about inspiration, instrumentation and background on all the songs makings.

If you’re more the streaming kind then please support The Silent Committee over on Spotify, Apple, Tidal, YouTube etc. Any plays and shares help us out.

If you feel like setting a TikTok or Instagram reel to these strange electronic/ambient tunes then they should be available on there too! (I’d love to see what they end up soundtracking)

1.opal 02:50
2.façade 06:55
3.abode 03:15
4.chimera 02:58
5.workhorse 04:11
6.aura 05:59
7.wallflower 03:16
8.ember 04:09
9.perfect 01:43
10.comrade 05:04
11.+tive 05:24
12.Caffeine 03:44
13.News From Nowhere 02:44
14.Plastic Symphony 01:53
15.Time For Joy (demo) 01:20

CFx

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