Silver Session: For Jason Knuth

Out of the many experimental EPs by Sonic Youth, this might be the noisiest one. It’s their Metal Machine Music, so to speak. Basically a bunch of amps turn up to the max blasting static and feedback, some distorted beatbox sounds and not a single song with vocals.

As for the dedicatory, Jason Knuth was a fan of the band who commited suicide. The money from this records' sales where donated to the San Francisco Suicide Prevention Line. Thurston explains in the liner notes:

we didn’t really know jason knuth – its possible we had met him, or had been in the same room as him, but we didn’t recal… we heard about his passing on the internet – a flurry of grievous and surprised reaction – people were asking us if we were aware of how much he identified and championed our music – as music director for kusf he seemingly used sy as a standard for playlisting – indeed at his memorial his friends played ‘The Diamond Sea’ in acknowledgment of his enthusiasm towards us – he was affectionately referred to as ‘sonic knuth’ …here in nyc, so far from the sf community, we were touched and more than intrigued. we learned jason was a vibrant, well loved guy on the music scene w/ a completely genuine exhuberance towards art & music. his demeanor obviously shroued a complex inner life which led to suicide. what jason’s feelings were towards his own human existence we may never know but we do know he will be missed by many as a companion. sonic youth wanted to make some gesture towards him as well as focus on suicide prevention. proceeds from this cd will help fund the san francisco suicide prevention hotline (415-781-0550). it is manufactured and distributed by revolver, a company with close and personal associations with jason.