Silence
Unknown
Callers
TWENTY-FIVE COUNTRIES | ONE BAND
Go Slow
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The music
With the first single streaming, the rest of the debut album is now in the studios. Here is a brief introduction to the songs on the album.
Mors Venereum
1 | Silence Unknown
How does one start an album? With a statement? With a question? The question is, how does one start a relationship, find the love of a lifetime, be heard amidst the vast social stratosphere of noise? And so she says, “Sometimes I miss the sound of silence.”
2 | Unstable
Ah, the excitement and instability of a new relationship; what a wonderful way to really get the album going — not unwilling, not unable, just maybe a little unstable — alternating between 9/8 and 8/8; this is the start of something new.
3 | Mouse & Cat
The relationship is off and running and the chase is on, but sometimes, when you’re running around in circles, it can be hard to tell just exactly who is chasing whom. Whoever and whomever they are, they’re tripping it up in 7/8.
4 | Go slow
Okay, now things are going way too fast, and “my way is not the highway, it’s a back road to a secret no one knows.” If you weren’t sure if this band was born of a jazz influence, there should now be no doubt.
5 | In medias res
An album with a mysterious Latin title just wouldn’t be complete without a Latin titled song stuck right in the middle, even if most of the lyrics are in English. It’s easy to love the things we love for what they are; sometimes it gets tough when we’re in medias res.
6 | The Dangerous Ones
Now things are getting dangerous. “Your lips and your lies and the look in your eyes are your gun. You are a dangerous one.” Be sure to listen to the end because two can play that game. This was released at the end of 2021 and is now available for your listening pleasure!
7 | The Future of Darkness
Originally, conceptually, supposed to be the saddest song on the album and maybe even the saddest song in the whole world, but then it took a funky turn; now it’s kind of an odd, darkly-3/4-to-funky-4/4 little darling.
8 | Here Not Here
Who at some point has not been afraid to fall in love? When it was good it was great, but when it was bad, it felt like you fell, down to the ground, and then kept falling. “Don’t you know me at all? I’m here… not here to break your heart… I’m here to break your fall.”
9 | Call Me to Sleep
“Forgiveness is something you learn, not something you find.” And when you finally learn it and want to share it but you can’t get the other person on the phone, it’s heartbreaking; the maker of insomniacs. Where did they go? Where are they now?
10 | Carry me
Just what exactly does Mors Venereum mean? If you can believe Google Translate, it means Romantic Death. “If they would bury me alive, I could hold you one last time, then I could use the memory when I need you to carry me home.” An epic ending only…
11 | Unknown Caller
Perhaps death is not the end? A musical outro, a wrap-up of sorts, or perhaps an introduction to what’s to come? Iterum Natus?
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THE BAND
All songs are, were, and/or will be written and produced by Edward Zeimis with each exquisite layer performed and recorded by session musicians from around the world from within their own studios; below is a brief introduction to the running roster of session musicians who’ve stepped away from their own professional careers for a moment to lend their talents to the band.
You’ve heard her on The Dangerous Ones has or is in the process of tracking six more songs for Mors Venereum; Dee is an expressive, soulful session VOCALIST from Italy who’s been performing, writing, and singing professionally for over ten years.
Born and raised in Ukraine, Polina has been playing CELLO for over seventeen years and not only lent her bow, not only to The Dangerous Ones, but to all the seven of the songs we’ve recorded so far.
With a background in film composition, Lui brought amazing ORCHESTRATION to The Dangerous Ones from his studio in Brazil and has a backlog of more Mors Venereum waiting as he currently crafts Carry Me.
This Russian studio engineer has been playing music professionally since he was fourteen; he’s now arranged and performed PIANO on both The Dangerous Ones and Call Me To Sleep.
A multi-instrumentalist, composer, music manager, and music educator based out of Vienna, Austria, Felix just finished putting his masterful finishing touches on the PIANO for The Future of Darkness.
An award-winning, professional jazz musician from Seoul, South Korea and a recent graduate with a Masters of Music from the Berklee Global Jazz Institute, Suwon has just finished recording the PIANO for Go Slow.
Emanuele is a professional pianist and composer from Paris, France; classically trained, he switched to jazz and earned a Masters in Music at City College in New York City. He recently complete the PIANO for Carry Me.
Julia is a Ukrainian pianist, arranger, and composer now living in Poland. She recently complete the PIANO for Here Not Here.
Daniel has been playing DRUMS for seventeen years, gigging professionally from his studio in Los Angeles, California, and touring all over the world. He plays every genre imaginable and has recently become one of The Dangerous Ones.
Dimitris is a jazz/fusion multi-instrumentalist from Paphos, Cyprus, currently studying jazz performance drums at the Conservatory of Maastricht. He just finished tracking DRUMS for Call Me To Sleep.
Fernando is an Argentinian drummer with 30 years of experience in both recording and performing live. He specializes in acoustic & electronic drums as well as the washboard. He’s finished tracking DRUMS for Go Slow.
Tilen is a professional academic drummer from Slovenia with years of studio and live performance experience. He’ll recently tracked DRUMS for The Future of Darkness.
Itunu is session musician, music producer, and mixing engineer from Nigeria who’s been working as a musician for the past 13 years. He has recently tracked DRUMS for Here Not Here.
Rodrigo is a professional drummer with 25 years of experience in many musical styles. He recentely laid down a temp track on DRUMS for us to finish writing the complex — Unstable.
Germán is a drummer, symphonic percussionist, and studio owner from Caracas, Venezuela and recently added symphonic PERCUSSION to Carry Me and Unknown Caller.
Bence a professional trumpet and flugelhorn player from Hungary who has been working with countless bands in a wide range of styles. He recently recorded TRUMPET for a re-imagined jazzed-up version of Go Slow.
Miladin is a classically trained musician from Serbia with a Master’s degree in DOUBLE BASS performance. He recently added his double bass to our re-imagined jazzed-up version of Go Slow.
Yuli has been rapping for a very long time and now she’s adding her VOCALS to SUC’s very own upcoming cover of Michael Jackson’s Black or White.
BEHIND THE BAND
A band just isn’t a band without the people behind the scenes helping them along the way, oftentimes freeing them up to focus on the music, making them look better, sound better, feel better… Here are some of those folks.
Kevin provided the final mix and master for The Dangerous Ones. He’s a professional audio engineer based out of Portland, Oregon who’s been making records since 2004; tracking, mixing, mastering, and post-production.
A guitarist from Spain specializing in nylon sting and fingerpicking acoustic lends us her talents behind the scenes; from sound to score, Caroline provides the band with TRANSCRIPTION for all the songs.
With a bachelor’s degree in Applied Photography and more than 10 years of experience in photography and creative retouching, Evelyn’s expert eye guides the band’s visual look with her masterful COVER ART.
Edward started the band in the suburbs on the outskirts of Metro Detroit, Michigan, in the USA, and handles all the SONGWRITING & PRODUCING. Essentially, this is all his fault. Check out the origins below to see what happened.
silence unknown callers
HOW IT ALL BEGAN
One might say the very formation of Silence Unknown Callers was born out of the happiest of accidents.
After nearly a quarter-century spent only loosely dedicated to pursuing his creative aspirations in the entertainment industry, writer and producer Edward Zeimis made the most pivotal decision of his career to date; while he has endlessly enjoyed his time assisting others with their own talents and artistic endeavors throughout the years, and gained invaluable experience every step of the way, Edward also knew that he still had so much more to contribute. Taking matters into his own hands, entirely inspired to get serious and put in the work like he never had before, he scripted two feature-length screenplays, a TV pilot, and more recently a web series called Day Drinkers — currently in development and bound for production in the fall of 2022.
With a lifelong passion for movies and music, as well as spending his early adult years in musical theatre, it almost seemed completely natural that he’d want to include a song or two in Day Drinkers – while the seeking was natural, the finding wasn’t; although Edward searched for the right song, he never found quite the right fit – but once again, a new pathway of opportunity illuminated itself. Choosing to create his own material, fully tailored specifically to suit the show, he wrote a song called The Dangerous Ones, designed as an a capella moment within the web series, sung in a dive bar upon a little lonely stage by a good-girl-gone-bad. Whilst writing and refining round the clock, burdened by incoming calls from unknown callers, Edward reached over to his ringing phone to activate the iPhone feature — Silence Unknown Callers. As art began to imitate life, a new band was born.
Knowing that he wouldn’t be singing The Dangerous Ones himself, Edward embraced a refreshing creative freedom with his art unlike he’d ever experienced before. Reaching out through the internet and around the globe, from his basement studio, in the heart of the USA, on the outskirts of the suburbs of Metro Detroit Michigan, Edward found an incredible singer from Italy that was a perfect fit for the evocative, elegant, and dramatic demands of The Dangerous Ones. Upon hearing the incredible results and the pure potential of his songwriting start to come alive, Edward continued to and continues to scout for amazing talent from the online realm to be a part of the new silence unknown.
Though to this very day he has never met a single other member of Silence Unknown Callers in person – they now include a remarkable array of dedicated studio aces and international players from all over the map, including the west coast of the USA, Austria, Brazil, Russia, and Ukraine, in addition to their stunning Italian vocalist, and the centerpiece of the project in Zeimis, writing and producing the material from his home base back in the USA. United by the bond of a shared vision and their professional commitment to excellence, together they started up something so much more special than just another everyday band – they began a life-altering journey — from around the world.
With a colorful palette of genuinely diverse material, filled with exquisite musicianship, bold and beautiful vocals, and spectacularly sincere songwriting – Silence Unknown Callers are set to make their debut with an eleven-track album stocked with memorable moments guaranteed to move the mind, body, and soul. A concept record, Mors Verereum (Latin for ‘romantic death’), is set to officially arrive in 2023, with the lead single out now – the full-band version of The Dangerous Ones and another single – Go Slow – due out June 2, 2023. In a slight twist of intent, Go Slow will replace The Dangerous Ones as the a cappella song of choice for the “Day Drinkers” web series.
Join Silence Unknown Callers as they delve into the art and craft with a uniquely endearing and entertaining style of their own design, enchanting the hearts and minds of listeners through songs that speak volumes on behalf of the pure melodic magic and unforgettable moments in time they’ve created for all to enjoy.
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