Cycle Of Welcome, taken from Redvers debut album Truth In Silence. Available now for free via www.redvers.guru

Truth In Silence

Cycle Of Welcome

Impressions, taken from my first album, Truth In Silence.

Impressions

Dawn Interlude - An instrumental taken from my first album.

Dawn Interlude

Homeless - Taken from my first album, Truth In Silence.

Homeless

(Reprise) Taken from my first album, Truth In Silence.

(Reprise)

Golden Anguish - Taken from my first album, Truth In Silence

Golden Anguish

Violence, Windows And The Moon - Taken from my first album, Truth In Silence

Violence, Windows And The Moon

Time Dilation - Taken from my first album, Truth In Silence.

Time Dilation

“I only had the morning to complete some crucial lyrics, but they seemed to come quick and easy in an old Mission District diner the morning of recording,” says Australian singer-songwriter Justin Gill of his last-minute moment of creativity leading to the creation of Truth In Silence, his debut album as Redvers.

Gill arrives onto the music scene at a time when the world needs more heart and less noise, and he delivers this between the notes of the undulating rhythms and unassuming, visceral prose of this collection of personal songs.

Listeners will hear Pink Floyd’s “Goodbye Blue Sky” and Beck’s “Guess I’m Doing Fine” as touchstones in album opener “Dawn Interlude” where Gill’s ethereal arrangements envelope a charm and deep honesty seldom heard today. Fresh, raw, and without armor, Gill presents his songwriting as a soft hum that pacifies the soul and captures an essence unyielding.

Truth In Silence is the product of an aborted attempt at writing an album in isolation following Gill’s move back to his family home in the Blue Mountains of Australia during the winter of 2011.

“It was a false start, so I moved down to Kings Cross which is a notorious nightclub strip in Sydney packed with prostitutes, drunks, and junkies – an eclectic array of humanity,” Gill explains.  “I began to write about what I was seeing.”

This experience, coupled with the quiet inspiration and literary backdrop of Gill’s majestic Blue Mountain hometown, gave birth to a collection of beautiful songs.  His haunting voice orchestrates a subdued vibration that resonates eloquently within each song on Truth In Silence.  To make the record, Gill dreamed of recording in America, and so landed in San Francisco in 2013 to track the album at Tiny Telephone.  

“I was enraptured at the sense of freedom as I boarded the plane,” he remembers.  “I was off to capture a special moment in time. It felt fortuitous that the first song I heard on the flight was Jefferson Airplane’s ‘White Rabbit,’ a track I’ve loved a million times.”  Truth In Silence was produced by Ian Pellicci (Deerhoof, John Vanderslice, James Jackson Toth) who captured the entire album in a single day.

“I was stunned how quickly it happened, but it just poured out,” Gill says.  “We had so much time left, it allowed me to experiment a little,” he explains of the scenario that led to Magik*Magik Orchestra cellist Michelle Kwon’s appearance on the recordings.  “I really enjoyed the speed at which it all came together and we made improvisational choices that captured our raw emotion,” he says.

Gill is currently writing the second Redvers album and is already planning a third that he will write on a trip to India later this year.  “For the first time in my life I feel I have defined a path that I know I can walk down. I’m really looking forward to getting this music out into the world.”  

Truth In Silence, the debut album by Redvers, available now on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, Google Play, Rdio, and www.redversmusic.com