Red Whistle, by The silt

Red Whistle

by The silt

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1.	Here we go 04:01	buy track
2.	A song about a red whistle 02:45	buy track
3.	Time is a-wasting 04:31	buy track
4.	In the earth I go 05:10	buy track
5.	What have I been through 03:26	buy track
6.	It's too bad kites don't smoke 10:03	buy track
7.	Golden melody #7 04:55	buy track
8.	On the train 03:51	buy track
9.	When I'm a dragon 03:36	buy track
10.	Blue tomorrow 04:43	buy track
11.	Apples 03:49	buy track
12.	Tell me white horses 03:37	buy track
13.	You're in limbo 09:32	buy track

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“Any given silt song sounds like it might breakdown and lapse into improv. But it never happens. Instead, they might pause, suspend a note or a silence in the air, as if considering the potential for chaos…and then sing the next verse… Combine this with the perverted-Beach-Boys falsetto harmonies, delicate repetitive riffs, slow pace, false endings, unlikely instrument pairings, and archly exaggerated poetry..”
-Carl Wilson, The Globe and Mail

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released July 16, 2021

The silt are Ryan Driver, Marcus Quin, and Doug Tielli
Recorded summer 2000
Mastered by Andrew McAllister
Design by Lewis Nicholson
Thank you Martin Arnold, Eric Chenaux, Michelle McAdorey, Andrew Rucklidge
All songs © & ℗ Driver / Quin / Tielli SOCAN

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Rat-drifting Toronto, Ontario

Rat-drifting music searches for specificity, celebrates detail. It experiments with radical particularity and wonders about the possibilities and potentials of those experiments. If the music drifts, it does so in the hopes that the listener drifts with it—her/his imagination experimenting with the possibilities of the music as well, as they find their own route through their own experience. ... more

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