Colin Silva

“A pipe dream is fun and all until you find a bullet waiting for you at the other end."
Colin Silva is a guitarist, singer, and songwriter from Boston, MA. who seeks to present a sonic painting of an absurd world through eerie melodies, experimental recording techniques, and melancholy lyrics that signify nothing at all. Silva’s debut album, “Funeral Marches for The Trampled Drunkard,” actively laments, and at times, even protests the permanence of impermanence through stories of the supernatural, ripe with allegorical significance, and oozing melodrama. “When it comes to songwriting, most of my inspiration comes from books and poems more than it does other songwriters. I want to write about hopeless rebellions like Graham Greene, I want to blur the lines of morality like Dostoyevsky, to harken the arrival of nothing, and no-one in particular, like Wallace Stevens. Nothing more, nothing less.” Musically, Silva cites <a href="spotify:artist:3nnQpaTvKb5jCQabZefACI" data-name="Jeff Buckley">Jeff Buckley</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:2ApaG60P4r0yhBoDCGD8YG" data-name="Elliott Smith">Elliott Smith</a> as his main inspirations, and Jeff Buckley as the single figure to pull him into a career in music in the first place, “When I first heard, “Grace,” I knew from that point exactly that I needed to find a way to touch people’s hearts the way Jeff touched mine. I immediately went out and got a job teaching private guitar lessons, I started writing, singing. It’s been an ongoing mission for myself to find any and every way to share with others the feeling that I get from music.”