Not Necessarily Native: Silver Summit
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Monday, January 12th, 2009 at 11:54 am
 Silver Summit Girls/Photo: M Colon
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Silver Summit is a Brooklyn based Prog-folk band founded by musician/friends David Shawn Bosler and Sondra Son-Odeon. They’ve been playing around the NYC area in support of their recent self-titled release on Drag City records with an extended back up band that includes The Dust Dive’s Laura Ortman.
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Their most recent, and last gig in NYC for 2008, was in support of Vetiver (an unimaginative hippy band) at Le Poisson Rouge down on Bleeker Street near Washington Square Park. Certainly, not a bad spot for live music. The acoustics were fantastic, the bar had a few decent brews, and the floor was big enough to hold a sizable crowd but remained an intimate atmosphere.
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Clearly Silver Summit have fans because when I arrived the venue was pretty well packed though not as patchouli suffocating as it would become once Vetiver went on at 11 P.M. Their music calls to mind Mazzy Star mixed with L.A.’s War Paint as all three combine an ethereal vocal affect with dissonant string instrumentation. The exception is that Silver Summit isn’t as droning as Mazzy, less hipster than War Paint, and more musically skilled than either one of those bands. In fact, one thing is for sure, the musicians in Silver Summit are actually, you know, musicians rather than ingénues with high profile musician boyfriends. Still, there is a common thread in regards to their sound, style, and vocal affect.
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The best description I could come up with was that there was a feeling of ennui in singer Sondra Son-Odeon’s vocals that was probably unintentional or perhaps the ennui was on my part and I was just projecting? But an especially ennui-tinged tune was In-Between Place – though a rousing hand- clapper of a tune, it had the potential to instill a feeling of over-whelming melancholia with it’s repeated refrain of we are a dying tribe. Either way, the effect lent itself to immediate self-reflection, like a moody soundtrack to a profoundly mundane existence in which every attempt at self-actualization meets with minimal success, but some minimal success nonetheless.All in all, Silver Summit was the highlight of the night, and probably should have been the headliner rather than Vetiver (blech!) with their hippie, pseudo-soul blues intonations.
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Silver Summit will begin a two-week tour of the West Coast January 15th in support of Wovenhand. Check out their Myspace page for dates. If you happen to be in the area you check them out. They really are a great live band, not to mention, the hot chick quotient is pretty high . So if you dig actual talent in a female form this band is for you. Oh yeah, there are two dudes in the band as well, but they don’t look as good in skirts, dresses and sparkly wear.
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Silver Summit on Myspace
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