Progressive Soul music by composer and multi-instrumentalist Troll Hart
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New studio album "Faery Revolution"out now!
Discography:
Performance Archive:
Marvelers of Creation
Where the Waters Run Clear
Place of the Forgotten
Ruins
released late autumn 2020.
artwork by the sacred woodlands
released summer 2018.
artwork by kai movagh
released spring 2015.
artwork by kai movagh
released autumn 2013.
artwork by Berenice abbott, 1938.
Faery Revolution!
released summer 2022.
artwork by Danny Stephens
Live from Portland jazz club,
the Jack London Revue
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Early 3rd millennium A.D.:
Mystical Jazz-fusion band SILENT TEMPLE hails the great muses from Portland, Oregon. Directed by multi-instrumentalist and composer Troll Hart, Silent Temple bows to a plethora of styles in their quest to enter the sacred realm at the heart of the ancient forest. Full drum kit and 5-string bass guitar are stones laid for heavy metal bombasm as well as funky dance grooves. An orchestra of vintage keyboard sounds explore the harmonic complexity and movement of classical music and jazz. Meanwhile, electric and acoustic guitars allude to the aesthetics of classic rock and folk music.
Though currently operating in Portland, Silent Temple began in Ames, IA in 2013 with the release of “Ruins”, a neo-folk metal solo album by a young Hart. Troll has played the piano since before he can remember. Upon discovering the early 90’s prog/power metal scene (Gamma Ray, Symphony X, Rhapsody of Fire), and the progressive folk rock of the early 70’s (Pearls Before Swine, Yes, Malicorne, Kansas), they were imbued with a mission to make epic music with a full rocking band. This they did, in 2015 releasing a second full-length forest dreamscape “Place of the Forgotten”.
A few years later at music school in Chicago, Hart recruited Bassist Mike Ewers to the faery legion. 2018 saw the birth of Silent Temple’s live capacity as a progressive folk-rock outfit, playing various bars and art venues around the Chicago area. Most notably, the band had the honor of opening for Drag-City’s “Faun Fables” in Milwaukee. Silent Temple’s music of these times was captured at Honey Jam Records in Chicago with the album “Where the Waters Run Clear”.
In late 2018, Troll and Mike moved to Portland OR to pursue music. Before plague swept the land in early 2020, Silent Temple had been successfully supporting a vibrant underground music scene together with classic rocker Rossi and her band Ten Spiders, and psychedelic folk star Azzy Isabell and her band Flying Caravan. Through this collaboration, Azzy and Rossi joined Silent Temple as vocalists, opening the mystic portal wide open as never before.
Joined by the fine arts of Owen Kelley on guitar, the tight, dynamic grooves of Harrison Games on drums, and the furious finesse of Mike Ewers on bass, Silent Temple recorded and released their fourth album, Marvelers of Creation, a double album of architectural soul fantasies.
Silent Temple’s fifth album was also produced and released during the plague years. “Faery Revolution”, a psychedelic forest journal of the street rebellion and dark night of the soul. A spell of healing, to lift repression and banish oppression, cast in 2022. "When the Faery Revolution plants fruit, tree and flower on every roadside of every city, the Deer, Trolls and Wolves shall roam amongst us in peace... We shall roam amongst ourselves in peace!"