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Silencio: Silencio

Read "Silencio" reviewed by Jack Huntley


Composer, guitarist and bandleader Kirk Salopek's Silencio is a concept project that draws its inspiration from the films of David Lynch and the accompanying scores of Angelo Badalamenti. Like Salopek's previous outing, Transitions (Glassville, 2011), with his Mandrake Project, Silencio's strength is its ability to create instant atmosphere and lush, layered arrangements.Salopek's tunes are melody driven, but leave enough open space for the accompanying members of his El Gran Silencio group to play off each others' solos and ...

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El Gran Silencio: Super Riddim Internacional Volume 1

Read "Super Riddim Internacional Volume 1" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki


It almost never fails: think to yourself just once, however quiet and solitary your thought, that by now you must have heard every type of music and instrumentation, and life is sure to drop on ya something that you’ve never heard before. El Gran Silencio has is that latest something new.

El Gran Silencio plays Mexican pop and rock, whipped as in a blender with other Mexican, Latin and world music. The group came together when brothers Tony ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Silencio

Overneath Music/viking Music
2012

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Super Riddim...

EMI Music
2003

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