preview release
Silver Summit : Water's Edge (US,2008)****
I have little information on this group, but they were so friendly they gave already a preview on their upcoming album on Greg Week’s Language Of Stone label later this year. Silver Summit is basically a duo, but they had help from the Philadelphia crew with their arrangements. Sondra’s voice and multiple vocal arrangements comes close in style to White Magic’s approach. David plays acoustic and electrified guitars but often has the preference for specially pitched instruments like the mandolin or the baglama, which are combined with other guitar-like instruments (only the last track has piano as leading instrument). A bit of tambourine percussion and some handclaps are all the percussion there is, which gives the music, with all its vocal dreaminess of arrangements a somewhat realistic-romantic alternative expression of a world close and restored to nature’s influences like the survivors fromo a lost world with increasing speed of demanding actions. Additional arrangements, provided by the guests are most clearly for the violin, cello and chimes. The lyrics often are kept slightly vague as hypnotic tensions and directions leading to song or improvised hypnoses, which with its full arrangements provide an alternative, healthy mood and desirible world to live in.
Silver Summit is the Brooklyn-based project of David Shawn Bosler on on guitars (electric, classical & acoustic), percussion, backing vocals and Sondra Ow Sun-Odeon, on vocals, slide/rhythm guitar, baglama saz, mandolin, cymbals, keys/piano, percussion with the help of Jesse Sparhawk : harp ; Mike Zanghi : African water drums, gong, Tibetan singing bowls ; Gillian Chadwick : backing vocals ; Alexandra Drewchin : backing vocals ; Laura Ortman : violin ; Margie Wienk : cello ; Greg Weeks: keys, bass, guitar, production. Recorded at Hexham Head. Mixed by Brian McTear, Greg Weeks and Silver Summit. The album will be released in june, 2008 on Language of Stone, Greg's label and a new imprint of Drag City.
