silentportraits.bandcamp.com/ / www.silent-portraits.com/I don't have much to tell you about Silent Portraits, it's another project shrouded in anonymity, reading between the lines I gather that it's a one-woman project based in Berlin. A website which compromises solely of videos for her track leads to her myspace(!) giving the only insights with following in her bio "I improvise little tunes mostly at night" and "sounds like: a giant star run out of fuel".
It's a pretty accurate description for the half dozen or so tracks available for free download via her bandcamp / soundcloud, introduce an intoxicating blend of deeply melancholy and ambient soundscapes with sparse echoed instrumentation and a ghostly vocal washed in reverb.
Hauntingly fragile and beautiful, the mood is sparse and intimate, perfect for those long, dark hours of self reflection. Listen to some of my picks below, "Mama" is certainly worth two and a half minutes of your time:
Silent Portraits 'Mama' by Silent Portraits
Silent Portraits 'Fact Leaves Its Ghost' by Silent Portraits
Silent Portraits 'Stranger To You' by Silent Portraits
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