ALAN SILVA: Hunters and Hunted

Alan Silva

Hunters and Hunted

© 2007 Alan Silva (634479487682) (format: CD-R)

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These songs are about love and violence. The lyrics imbue shades of memory, while the contemplative acoustic music balances an ecclectic ambience of topics. A masterpiece. Don't hesitate to buy one now.

notes

Hello, whoever you are.
My style is derived from listening to lots of old music and reading books. I am a great admirer of music from everywhere, especially during the 1960s and -70s. My songwriting style is both literary and entertaining. It supports a dreamy fugue. This is accomplished by the use of guitar, piano, and harp in my melodies. The combination of these instruments with my idiosyncratic vocal style summons an ethereal, bohemian mood, accentuated by a lo-fi recording culture. It is a tasteful recipe.
I have written about a variety of deep and shallow topics, performed divergently on, currently, 252 recorded songs over fifteen albums since 2004.
I would love it if you liked my music.
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Alan Silva, Bohemian Troubadour
By Anonymous Biographer

Alan Silva began his musical voyage when he recorded his first album in Santa Barbara in 2001 when he was eighteen years old. These songs, however, were not published until his 2004 release, Boa Sina. Between 2001 and 2004 Silva continued recording songs while his musical style shifted into a bohemian troubadour mode. His 252 songs are available through Itunes, Rhapsody, Napster, CD Baby, and many other internet music retailers.
The volume of Silva’s 2004 releases reveals a diversity of leisurely moments and perspectives about songwriting. Not only does Silva’s voice change, but also his dramatic content which reflects a coming of age. The romantic complaint and bohemian philosophy are some of the interesting topics and themes involved in these recordings, which are further enumerated in 2004's Mystery House and 2005's Big Green Country.
By 2005, Silva sang about separation anxiety and existentialism. In many of his songs that year, his recordings vary significantly in their musical direction. Rose Blood features Silva playing piano for the first time. It also features his distinctive acoustic style on an array of lachrymose country-folk tunes. Gypsy Songs features Silva’s jazzy piano melodies coupled with surreal lyrics, sung with a humorous sense of fatalism. Mountain Stairs, recorded in his hometown of Ridgecrest, California, also offers verbosity and sounds such as piano, percussion, and acoustic and electric guitars.
After a tour of the Northwest, named “The Escape from Alcatraz Tour,” this material was followed by his folk confessional, Secret Life. His next release, the epic-length Changing the Guards features many songs resulting from a mysterious filming in Santa Barbara. Unfortunately, the film has yet to surface. Aviary Tomb, its follow-up, was recorded on location in Ridgecrest and Lake Tahoe using studio equipment from Silva’s music publisher, Lusitone Records. In 2007, Silva released the trilogy, Hunters and Hunted, Numas Estrelas, and Golden Palace, and perhaps his most perfect album yet, Flower People.
Alan Silva is a talented musician and a songwriter. His first album of 2008, Beach Songs, shows a style continuing to evolve, coinciding with an increase in his popularity. What does the future hold for Alan Silva? He would like to continue to record and write songs. He is keen to perform for food or money at restaurants, cafés, or small venues.

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  • Alan Silva _ Hunters & Hunted
    author: Nate

    Not too Bad!

  • Music Review of Hunters and Hunted by Alan Silva
    author: Rudy Gonzalez

    A port in Ghent a three minute 8 second opening track. This guys got a good style, poetically, and musically to note that he seems to be earning his wings and paying his dues by creating some seriously surreal material. Check out track 2 A love song sent like a whispering wind reminiscent of being with kisses & a particular lover-view inner look at the strutting the stuff Alan Silva. Track 3 is caring: Dream of me is the wish of all men on this earth dream of me romantically , pretty self righteous but delivers the poetry and shows budding promise in developing a future more stylized guitar voice. Track 4 title track(hunters and hunted)ignorance rules no doubt my man, no matter if you like it or see it a different way or not, I think on that subject no one seems to know anything at all is the word imagery I tune into. I sense a questioning pursuer of more viewpoints to do more soul searching on this real-life quest that is a very important part of self discovery, we all should have our own lifes view and let's hope sometime soon. Track 5 You've tortured me so much is a very self explanatory track title for what you get is pretty and his vocal tone is reminiscent of a younger Leonard Cohen meets Lou Reed. Track 6 strange people. I feel that perhaps there can be a rush to want to know more and more about what it takes to be alive where once again I see ignorance as a factor of great importance somehow leading to happiness, maybe a fast lover. Maybe even a love song, One to consider checking out. Track 7 peregrine wine definitely captured the essence of the almighty blessed drunken in the early afternoon style like a la-la0 love song player status on this one. word up. Track 8 Mystery house: melodic but and being very critical about what this song could be is a tiny bit strained but not sweating, I do believe that A.S. has so far into the album only used one track of vocal while playing the live guitar as much as I thought I could hear wich shows some personal strengths of musical learning curve progression as well as growing writing talents and facets of tune in to now/ self discovery staying young. The placement of mystery house as track 8 to me was not the most perfect place but 8 is the address for this personal message. Track 9 winter comes so quickly, is a sad sorry sack stuck in imagery, in lyrics as well as with the guitar, and the Vocal track is too loud over the accompanying guitar ouch!! note I'm wearing headphones. Track 10 Thank you, lord working real good on being like the real Neil Young Track 11 Who am I? This song really stands out to me as a possible future hit. check it out, loses me though @ 1:20-1:35 comes back sadly When the whistle blows a bit loud on the sound. Track 12 Land of trees, Now I like the grateful dead, as a dead head myself so I ca'nt be upset at his take on hippie-dippie trippy short fun song. Track 13 yawn, very ballad Track 14 No limit : very keen and insightful into the creative mind great prose to be read over ones shoulder or go out for a night of culture. Track 15 six six six= a psycho bitch!!! Track 16 coming back to you Good tune. definitely check this one out. R.G.

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