hello,

it has been a long time since i last used this newsletter, but i come back with some exciting news:

my new full length album Forager will be released on July 17 by the record label AKP Recordings. we are doing a limited run of cassettes, so if you want a physical copy you can pre-order one here.

this will be my first release with support from a record label, and it’s a label i already really love. check out their other artists and full discography.

in the coming two months i plan to share some behind the scenes notes about how the album was made, along with unreleased demos, field recordings, and images that inspired it. these are things i won’t be sharing on social media so i hope it’s interesting to you here.

in the meantime, here are the liner notes for the first single (out today, wherever you listen):

Announcing Forager from St. Silva, a warm collection of looping mediations merging found sounds with formless exploration, out digitally and on limited edition cassette July 17th.

The first single - "And The Catbird Sings" - is out now. “I wanted to create a piece that blurred this line between electronic and natural, a dichotomy that we often impose onto music when really there's little difference,” St. Silva asserts. “The sound nature makes is just as wild, even more so, than the ones we can create with machines.”

Crafted during a year-long process of documenting, sorting, and re-collaging material - improvisations and field recordings captured on hikes - Forager is the composite of archival material tracked months prior to their final recontextualization. “Time creates distance, sometimes a healthy distance, between the art and the artist,” shares St. Silva. “This is a document, a marker of where I was during a moment of time and the sounds that inspired me.” Using a combination of tape loops, modular synthesis, field recording, and melodic synth lines, on Forager St. Silva offers a sun-drenched nostalgia where faded memories waft over analog-saturated synthetic forests.

more to come,

ben // st. silva