The Band That Murdered Silence Biography:

This is a brief telling of how we became who we are.

I had released a solo album under the name Colin Jesse Spring in 1998. It was a real home grown project with screened covers printed on hand folded cardboard. It was called Dashboard Tallies, Pedestrian Kills and it's modest presentation and instrumentation garnered some critical praise most memorably from a notorious local critic who hated everything but kindly refrained from too harsh a judgement.

That led to some local shows and a couple good opening slots, one being for Richard Buckner at the Tractor Tavern here in Seattle.

This eventually led indirectly to the fortune of meeting Michael Hallett and the two of us began playing shows as a duo for a couple years. Michael also contributed (amongst many other fine musicians) to the second solo release, Meet The Sea or Be Washed Up...

This album also garnered some great critical praise but sold poorly mostly due to my utter disdain for the exasperating task of self promotion.

Soon after we began with Fran Hapke on drums and Michael Serpe as the bass player. Technically Michael started on drums and we were a trio for a brief while. He eventually left to dedicate him self more completely to his fine solo material and was replaced by Nat Scholz.

Although I do most of the writing it is together that we do the arrangements and together that we began truly developing our sound, which I feel was not completely discovered with the first two outings. It is only through their incredible patience and contributions.

With this line up we have released out latest effort Canion Del Pollo.

Colin is currently working on an additional solo album tentatively titled Tears of Cool. Stay tuned for more on this.

Please follow the links to reviews and song downloads. Click here to read Colin Spring's personal bio.

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