Vince Clarke is the primary composer and musician in Erasure, and previous songwriter and member of Yazoo, Depeche Mode, and The Assembly.
As the album title suggests, Songs of Silence is a lyricless, instrumental album, and is hugely evocative for that. Unlike anything you’ve previously heard from Vince Clarke as an artisan of dynamic electropop, Songs of Silence has about it a more sober ambient electronic beauty, its unique characteristics put it in a category of its own. For the creation of the record Vince set himself two rules – first that the sounds he himself generated for the album would come solely from Eurorack (a modular synthesizer format introduced in the mid-90s) and secondly that each track would be based around one note, maintaining a single key throughout. The resultant pieces, with the Eurorack sound clay then manipulated on Logic Pro, amount to wordless narratives, in which a sense of synthgenerated, cosmic remoteness is often jolted by stark interventions, reminders of the human hand at work amid this machinery.
Tracklist: 1. Cathedral (4:21) 2. White Rabbit (4:40) 3. Passage (3:10) 4. Imminent (4:56) 5. Red Planet (4:40) 6. The Lamentations of Jeremiah (4:23) 7. Mitosis (4:51) 8. Blackleg (3:06) 9. Scarper (3:47) 10. Last Transmission (4:46)
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