return is selective

            gaussion juice

            paradolia

            somepeoplesuffersilently

            with every fire

            root-book

            afterglowdust

            vanishing yard

            walk

            the mental environment

            riddles

            strongsender

            resignation

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SILENCES SUMIRE - RETURN IS SELECTIVE (LP/CD/MP3 Ropeadope Digital)

    Silences enters modern pop-territories by the extensive use of electronic beats...They are absolutely successful in blending acoustical instruments and electronics together into an organic unity. Carefully everything is assembled into a very human music that is more then the sum of its constituting parts. This is supplemented with a good sense for melodic aspects. They don't seek interesting dissonance or alienated juxtapositions. Instead harmony is their thing. Friendly and uplifting music that is created with a clear concept in mind and heart. (DM)

        Vital Weekly, August 2008

Silences Sumire sounds as if Arovane remixed the live improvisation of Miles Davis, laying on his glitchy swishing drum patterns over electro-acoustic treatments of jazzy instrumentation. Hailing from Chicago, the group consisting of Thomas Faulds (Mercury Effect) and Charles Gorczynski (Colorlist, Leaves) compose a blend of light, electronic, and digitally crunchy percussion over woodwinds (alto sax) and female vocals. The sound of Silences Sumire is a abstract and modal, featuring extemporaneous saxophone overtones, voicing and glissando, with a continuous playful DSP effects of sample chopping, filtering, and bit-crushing. Chicago has a complex music scene that spans across genres like contemporary classical, rock, hip-hop, blues, jazz, and electronic. The duo skillfully merges the latter two, belonging [perhaps] on John Hughes' (Slicker) famous Hefty Records (with acts like Savath & Savalas, Eliot Lipp, Beneath Autumn Sky and Telefon Tel Aviv). I could even see this track appearing on Compost Records Future Sounds Of Jazz compilation series. Instead [and probably for the better], Return Is Selective is released on Ropeadope Digital label following a couple of EPs from Silences Sumire on Chicago local ears&eyes collective. Recommended for the jazzy glitchy fiends, and for fans of the above mentioned artists.

        Headphone Commute, Sept 2008

"...instrumental, electronic jazz infused psychedelia... at times vibrant and up beat and at other times dark and smoldering with a building computerized glow.  With nods to experimental electronic artist such as Autechre and Venetian Snares as well as the more organic free jazz of John Coltrane, Silences tied it up with a bow and handed it to those of us not hip enough to know how to hear it all in one place.

        KEXP 90.3 Seattle, June 2008