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Artist
Silent Paper Radios
12+ albums
singer-songwriterfolkacousticguitarengland
about
Silent Paper Radios is the solitary song-writing project of Dan Gubbins: a lost soul yearning for an existence on the outskirts of life. A relative novice to the world of Folk music, he previously DJ’d and produced in the field of Electronica, Soul, Funk and early 90’s “Daisy Age” Hip Hop. Feeling restricted by these artistic pursuits and after being spell bound by the beauty of the fast spreading “Weird Folk” movement that was being sewn into the tapestry of his world by the likes of Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom in 2005, he hung up his headphones, picked up a £50 nylon stringed guitar, loaned to him by a family friend and taught himself to play. And while he became intimate with his new love, he also sat for hours brushing up on the visionary poetry of William Blake to get his literary juices flowing. Putting pen to paper and finally cracking open the shell of his “Threadbare Heart”, the fragile and delicate thoughts of Silent Paper Radios were musically born. With songs about the oppressed bar girls of Thailand (where he resided for a year and a half) – “Butterflies” and a blurred, intertwined argument between a religious person, an Atheist and a Nihilist in “Dinosaur Bones”, he started to develop a consistency to the project known as Reborn As A Wind Chime. Philosophising over questions like the integrity of moral guidance, love and attachment, reality, afterlife and the impermanence but subtle significance of all matter being pondered in “Footprints”. The main arte
