REVIEW: Azalia Snail - "Celestial Respect" CD, 2011

Azalia Snail - Celestial Respect, 2011

AZALIA SNAIL
Celestial Respect CD, 2011
Silber Records
Raw and ethereal at the same time, two qualities long thought to be mutually exclusive. "Solar Riser" opens with multiple layers of vocal and keyboard drones. "Burnt Cookies" starts with a satisfyingly simple drum beat and builds into a sort of a gothic Rolling Stones full-band groove, disappearing behind a wall of echo. The songs are interspersed with keyboard and vocal passages which are themselves cloaked in slapback echo. "Fallen Down" is a straight, quiet passage near the end. The overall tone reminds me of the first couple of Jarboe solo albums I heard, and, like those, "Celestial Respect" is its own thing.
Ian C Stewart

INTERVIEW: Brian John Mitchell of Remora, QRD, Silber Media

Remora, photo by David Haught from the Silber 15 year show back on April 2

AUTOreverse #14, Summer 2011
BRIAN JOHN MITCHELL of
REMORA, QRD 'ZINE, SILBER MEDIA
by Ian C Stewart

SO......DID YOU MISS AUTOreverse?
Yeah.  Early TapeOp felt like a continuation, but they veered away into more "professional recording" than what I am into.

NEWS: QRD #51 – Indie Comics Special

Silber Media / Brian John Mitchell’s long-running online publication QRD is up to issue number 51. Interviewees include
‘Lil – Tiny Tommy Comics
Kimberlee Traub – Worms
Liz Suburbia – Sacred Heart & Cyanide Milkshake
Michael Anthony Carroll – R.A.In.B.O.W, AsthmaAttack, The Accidentals, Death Takes on Holidays, The Kernal
Mike Kitchen – Spy Guy
Sloane Leong – Crooked Root & Maschinell
Troy Little – Angora Napkin & Chiaroscuro
Wayne Wise – Grey Legacy & Chaos Punks
Blair Kitchen – The Possum
David Lawrence – Mercy Thompson: Moon Called, Alpha & Omega: Cry Wolf, & Ex-Mutants
Dawn Best – VARULV, Sonic the Hedgehog, & Sylvanna
ED – Peculiar Comics
Gary Scott Beatty – Jazz: Cool Birth
Jack Knifley – Haunted & Break The Line
Jason Strutz – The Order of Dagonet
William Schaff – Dead in Disemboque

Brian also notes: new issues coming soon with label owners, guitarists, indie comic folks & more.
http://www.silbermedia.com/qrd/archives/51about.html