Teachings in Silence

Jester Records

Teachings in Silence is a compilation of Norwegian band Ulver, which appeared at Black Apple Records and 2003 Jester Records 2002. It contains the two EPs Silence Teaches You How to Sing and Silencing the Singing from the year 2001.

Creation and publication

Silence Teaches You How to Sing was recorded in February 2001; Silencing the Singing was written in August 2001 - the first piece ("? Darling Did not We Kill You " ) but still goes back to work on Perdition City. Both EPs were mastered at Strype Audio, published in 2001 by Jester Records, distributed by Voices of Wonder and were limited to 2000 or 3000 pieces. The compilation of the two EPs by Black Apple Records was limited to 1000 pieces, the unlimited by Jester Records.

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Style

The EPs Silence Teaches You How to Sing and Silencing the Singing continue the minimalist ambient elements of Perdition City. The pieces are interspersed with echoes of film noir soundtracks, lounge - jazz, trip-hop, Noise and Clicks & Cuts. Only in Silence Teaches You How to Sing a short, but wordless vocal passage is used, otherwise the pieces are instrumental. The atmosphere is usually melancholic and mysterious. William York of Allmusic compares Silence Teaches You How to Sing with works of Coil, Pole and Tarwater.

Reception

" [ Silence Teaches You How to Sing ] creates [ ... ] weird and wonderful sonic landscapes that require intensive study, so that we can really enjoy the perfect beauty of the unusual. "

" Ulver pull the audience in her spell, so it is completely blown away by the power that is inherent in the pieces ... "

" ' Teachings In Silence ' offers perhaps the most daring, but also subtle composition of ULVER work at all. "