Teachings in Silence
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| Compilation album by Ulver | ||||
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2002 |
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2001 |
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| Label (s) | Black Apple Records
Jester Records |
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CD |
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Title (number) |
4th |
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running time |
52:59 |
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Teachings in Silence is a compilation by the Norwegian band Ulver , released in 2002 on Black Apple Records and in 2003 on Jester Records. It contains the two EPs Silence Teaches You How to Sing and Silencing the Singing from 2001.
Creation and publication
Silence Teaches You How to Sing was recorded in February 2001 using material from a jam session; While working on the EP, Kristoffer Rygg took photographs that were exhibited in July. Silencing the Singing was written in August 2001 - the piece Darling Didn't We Kill You? but still goes back to the work on Perdition City . Both EPs were mastered by Strype Audio, released by Jester Records in 2001, distributed via Voices of Wonder and were limited to 2000 and 3000 copies respectively. The compilation of both EPs by Black Apple Records was limited to 1000 copies, that of Jester Records was unlimited. Both EPs together were released for the first time on vinyl by Ampullae Audio in 2014.
Track list
- Silence Teaches You How to Sing
- Silence Teaches You How to Sing - 24:05
- Silencing the Singing
- Darling Didn't We Kill You? - 8:52
- Speak Dead Speaker - 9:33
- Not Saved - 10:29
style
The EPs Silence Teaches You How to Sing and Silencing the Singing continue the minimalist ambient elements of Perdition City . The pieces are with hints of film noir soundtracks, lounge - jazz , trip-hop , noise and Clicks & Cuts interspersed. Only on Silence Teaches You How to Sing is a short, but textless vocal passage used, otherwise the pieces are instrumental. The atmosphere is mostly melancholy and mysterious. Allmusic's William York compares Silence Teaches You How to Sing with works by Coil , Pole and Tarwater .
reception
"[ Silence Teaches You How to Sing ] creates [...] weird and wonderful soundscapes that require intensive discussion so that we can really enjoy the perfect beauty of the unusual."
"Ulver pull the listener under their spell, so that he is completely blown away by the power that is inherent in the pieces ..."
"'Teachings In Silence' offers perhaps the most daring, but also the most subtle compositional work by ULVER ever."
Silence Teaches You How to Sing was used on the soundtracks of the horror films Sinister and Sinister 2 . The compilation was nominated for the 2003 Spellemann Prize.
Web links
- Teachings in Silence at Allmusic (English)
- Silence Teaches You How to Sing at Allmusic (English)
- Silencing the Singing at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ News 2001 , accessed February 23, 2015.
- ^ William York: Silence Teaches You How to Sing at Allmusic , accessed on October 23, 2012.
- ^ William York: Silencing the Singing from Allmusic , accessed on October 23, 2012.
- ↑ a b Captain Chaos: ULVER: Wolves Evolve - Die Diskographie , vampster , accessed on October 23, 2012.
- ↑ a b Ulver - Silence Teaches You How To Sing , metal.de , accessed on October 23, 2012.
- ↑ a b Ulver - Silencing The Singing , metal.de , accessed on October 23, 2012.
- ↑ News 2004 , accessed on February 23, 2015.