PETER SILBERMAN
of The Antlers
Shares Transcendless Summer
Announces two London live dates in December
Listen here: http://smarturl.it/summer-stream
Transcendless Summer is an instrumental piece written and recorded over the course of one afternoon, back in August of 2013.
I’d been spending the better part of the summer of 2013 in Portland, OR, during a pause midway through the Brooklyn-based Familiars sessions. One evening, as an extension of a thought-experiment, Nicholas Principe match-made engineer Tim Shrout and me, and we chose a date to track something.
Biking across town to the session a few days later, I had no agenda. When I encountered the studio’s vivid arsenal of vintage gear, I didn’t have any concrete ideas. And when Tim (who had so generously donated his time, space, and expertise) asked me what I wanted to do, I didn’t really have an answer. I only hoped to liberate the pent-up potential energy of the moment.
Listening to its twenty minutes now, I experience a fleeting era distilled into a single day. I hear the first few miles of a long ride, hands released from handlebars’ grip, arms splayed out to the sides, coasting with abandon, rounding a blind corner without worry for what might slam into me beyond the immediately visible.
In the three years since Transcendless Summer’s spontaneous birth, the color’s bled and faded some, filled in with a wiser vibrance only time could provide. These tracks have felt three summers melt away, relearning the same cruelty each year: that summer’s start initiates a countdown to its end, that the first day’s light stretches infinitely outward before shrinking back from a dilating night. – Peter Silberman
Written & performed by Peter Silberman
Engineered by Tim Shrout at Jalopy in Portland, OR
Mixed & mastered by Andrew Dunn in Brooklyn, NY
Cover photograph by Peter Silberman
Additional photography by Hana Tajima
‘Transcendless Summer’ is available digitally here, and will be released on cassette on8th October as a split between Peter’s own label, People Teeth, and Transgressive, forInternational Cassette Store Day. Preorder here: http://tinyurl.com/zy9f4hb
Live dates:
Wednesday 7th December – The Forge, Camden (tickets)
Thursday 8th December – The Forge, Camden (tickets)
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