Silian Rail is a 6-year-old instrumental band from Oakland, CA, by way of North Carolina. Long-lost and then serendipitously reunited friends Robin Landy (guitar) and Eric Kuhn (drums, guitar, keyboards) play a unique form of instrumental music that is equally charged with raw emotional energy and technical craftsmanship; both experimental and familiar. On 5/3/2012, the band released a new full length record, each/other, on Side With Us Records (The Velvet Teen, Worker Bee), as well as an EP, every/one, featuring an all start cast of Bay Area collaborators. In addition, Lynne Angel (from San Francisco band Tartufi) has been added to the band's already highly dynamic live show, rounding out their epic new compositions.

For a band that formed slowly and by pure chance, Silian Rail has done a lot thus far?released two critically acclaimed full lengths, an acoustic EP, multiple split releases and compilation tracks; composed and performed several short film scores; and toured the country extensively. 2012's each/other is their most notable evolution thus far, using the full possibilities of the studio and a diverse range of instrumentation to highlight increasingly broad dynamics and an eclectic compositional range. While retaining the core of an intimate dialogue between melodically dense, spidery open-tuned guitar work and energetic, criss-crossed drumming, the new record expands to allow flourishes ranging from melancholic piano to fierce walls of junk percussion and droning noisy viola to ambient washes of harmonium and strings. Collages of found-sound samples hint at some of the album's inspiring forces and the band?s general love for and affinity with the unique visionary capacity of people diagnosed with various forms of mental illness. (Further inspiration was found in sources ranging from Deleuze and Guatari to Occupy Oakland to the joys and challenges of friendship and collaborative art). Crucially aided by the engineering and co-production of Robert Cheek (Tera Melos, By Sunlight, Two Sheds), each/other creates a unique sonic world that is both inviting and continually surprising, as gentle and reflective as it is fierce and experimental.

Additionally, the band is releasing a lo-fi, self-record EP, every/one, created in collaboration with a wide range of talented friends and peers? Thao Nguyen, Colleen Johnson (Upside Drown), Lewis Patzner (Judgement Day), Andrew Maguire (Thao and Mirah, DRMS) and Winston Goertz-Giffen (Saything). In working more fully collaboratively both within the core duo of the band, and with the broader community which they feel blessed to call home, the band has felt refreshed, challenged and inspired to expand their notion of what it means to be a band both musically, and more broadly as a communal endeavor.

"To reach, not the point where one no longer says I, but the point where it is no longer of any importance whether one says I. We are no longer ourselves. Each will know his own. We have been aided, inspired, multiplied." -- Deleuze and Guattari

"The most beautiful thing is to live on the edges, at the limit of her/his own power of being affected." -Gilles Deleuze