Silo 10 cd review

["Bernhard Wagner" <loopdelightml@nosuch.biz>]

James Sidlo's CD Silo 10:

Warren Rivera  - guitar/synth effects
James H. Sidlo - fretless guitar with sympathetic strings/loops/treatments
Recorded live in Silo 10 San Antonio, Texas January 2004 by Robert "Bobdog"
Catlin
A joint DogFingers/Uncle Buzz release: dogfingers.com unclebuzz.com

tracks 1,2,3 and 7,8 are linked together seamlessly. Assuming there are no
edits within
them, it is amazing how Warren and James managed to maintain a level of
musical energy for
such extended stretches.

The reverb on this album is natural, being recorded in the silo that
inspired the album's title.
The mood is refreshingly varied and moves between somewhat dark, 
melancholic
to bright and very soothing.
The whole album is very meditative and inspires you to your own personal
movie in your head.
It is thoroughly crafted by two musicians who really listen to each other.
I highly recommend it!

Comments to the individual tracks:
1 "therapy refuge" evolving waves of sound transporting you into a world of
its own.
  Towards the end of the piece a truck horn is heard and you doubt whether
it's
  actually a truck passing by the silo or played by one of the musicians...
2 "memory game" the second track seamlessly fits the first, I'm not sure 
why
it is
  presented as something on its own.
3 "pulse" sets out reminding of minimal music a la Philip Glass but soon
evolves into
  its own thing.
4 "winter/spring" The title immediately transports you into a landscape or
forest during
   those seasons...
5 "don't disappear" beautifully meandering between states of hope and
despair,
   possibly I was influenced by the track's title...
6 "trip" is somewhat faster paced and has a great narrative quality. In 
this
piece,
   James ingeniously uses the fretlessness of his guitar to explore
microtonal terrain.
7 "wildlife crossing" evolves into a vast jungle of (animal?) sounds,
   mimicking strange species on a remote planet...
8 "bloom" while seamlessly tucked onto track 7 it resumes the more tonal
style of the
   album and presents a fitting conclusion for it

Bernhard