SYLENT RUNNING experiments with relationships between silence and noise, ugliness and beauty, through-composed melodies and improvisation, song crafting and abstraction, pristine acoustics and botched, ‘confused robot’ electronics. There maybe tiny insect-like beats and there maybe thunder claps. Single chords may be left to resonate to the point of awkward. The ghostly beauty of Gian Slater’s voice is given an ever changing compositional and sonic backdrop that could be described as visual, subterranean, avant, subversive, hypnotic free jazz…
Sylent Running Live In Dortmund, Germany
Sylent Running Live In New York City
Promoting a new album recently recorded in New York Sylent Running features one of Australia’s finest exports; New York based ex-pat pianist/composer Barney McAll as well as rising star US guitarist Nir Felder, Android Ritmo-Freak Jojo Mayer, Bionic (emphasis on Bi) tweak wizard Dan West, Mutant bass one-off Chris Hale and the last human being on earth, vocalist Gian Slater.
Sylent Running interview with Barney McAll
