SILENTES was born in 2004 from the ashes of AMPLEXUS, the famous italian cult label that has promoted Ambient music since 1994, giving room to many international artist like Steve Roach, Robert Rich, Michael Stearns, Vidna Obmana, Mathias Grassow, Amir Baghiri, Klaus Wiese, Aube - just to name a few – without forgetting about italian acts like Alio Die, Amon, Oöphoi and Nimh. SILENTES was created by the urgency of a deep and significative change that could cope with the considerable evolution happened to the Ambient / Electronic / Experimental scene during the most recent years. SILENTES is a new label and a new experience, not just another sublabel. It inherits from AMPLEXUS the original pioneering spirit, and widens its horizons looking forward with renewed energy to a new kind of music, a music that – while keeping a “deep” profile – definitively transcends every stylistic barriers opening the door to the most innovative and affected forms of sonic contamination, proposing a variegated catalogue of artists who are active in different contexts and very distant from each other. On SILENTES we find a few musicians who previously had some releases on AMPLEXUS: Rod Modell, Michael Mantra, Aube, Amir Baghiri with its newest and eclectic Seele project, Alio Die with a new edition of his CD “Suspended Feathers”, originally released in 1996, Nimh both in solo mode and along with the well-known italian “de-composer” Maurizio Bianchi/M.B. on the magnificent “Together’s Symphony” box-set. We also find new entries like Opium and Subinterior, both from Italy, Katzo from Japan and many collaborative projects such as Seamus (Amir Baghiri and Stefano Gentile), Waveform Transmission (Rod Modell and Chris Troy), Ontayso (Koen Lybaert and Esther Santoyo), Rod Modell and Kevin Hanton, and other atypical collaborative experiences such as the suggestive “reworks” created by Aube using original music by Maurizio Bianchi, Stefano Gentile and Nimh. Other highlights from the catalogue include editions of historic material like Maurizio Bianchi and Frequency in Cycles per Second’s "Chaotishe Fraktale" and "Letzte Technologie" – released as a double CD -, "Cerulean Transmission" by Michael Mantra and the prematurely departed Charlz De La Casa, and "Altering the Air" by Global Systems Silently Moving. Along with the CD releases, SILENTES has also published some limited edition CD-Rs and DVD-Rs by Michael Mantra, Rod Modell, Subinterior, Maurizio Bianchi, Opium, Amir Baghiri and Nimh. Obviously there’s still a lot more to come…