Release Date: June 27th 2025. Record Label: Octopus Rising / Argonauta Records. Formats: CD/DD
Soundtrack Of A Silent Land - Tracklisting
1.A Silent Land
2.Gaba
3.Hugh The Cactus
4.Goats Everywhere
5.Shoreline
6.Lama Returns
7.Sunrise Moon
8.A Loving Sun
Members
Giuseppe JimiRay Piazzolla - Guitars
Fabio Chiarazzo - Bass Guitar
Paolo Ormas - Drums
Review
Psych Stoner Rockers Rainbow Bridge have made the bold decision to release an instrumental record for their fourth album Soundtrack Of A Silent Land. The band state this is an imaginary soundtrack of some sort with Rainbow Bridge conjuring up vivid sounds such as exquisite Navajo vocals that open and close the album with. There’s some excellent Psychedelic and Fuzzed Up musical expression that moves into areas of distorted heaviness which appear very early on within the outstanding opening track A Silent Land.
Rainbow Bridge operate in the same creative capacity as bands such as Earthless, Yawning Man, and Colour Haze though their subtle blend of Heavy Psych, Stoner Rock, Space Rock and Blues Rock surroundings are never too far behind. This record is one more of SONIC EXPLORATION and seeing Rainbow Bridge create a different style of music that maybe quite “ALIEN” to them at first without the vocal dynamics heard on previous records.
The sound has a relentless and freakish energy which sees Rainbow Bridge play Sixties Heavy Psychedelic beats against classic Nineties Desert/Stoner Rock passages. With a small reliance on distorted Prog Rock that can be quite DRONE based at times, there is a sense of wonder and adventure when the band play an unexpected style of Instrumental music that can be quite more “METALLIC” in places.
With a wide array of different Psych, Post-Rock and Prog Rock instrumental passages that can be quite laid back before the aggressive energy of Rainbow Bridge that usually takes complete control especially on tracks such as Gaba, Hugh The Cactus and Goats Everywhere allowing the first half of the record play out in exciting fashion.
The second half of Soundtrack Of A Silent Land continues to build on the exciting promise that Rainbow Bridge have masterfully delivered with more eerie Progressive leaning Psychedelic jams with some epic screeching guitars being played along the way. There are a lot more FREAK OUT moments on this record compared to other Instrumental Stoner Rock albums which allows an adventurous style of music to fully form and develop into high levels of deafening passages.
Standout tracks from the second half of the album are Sunrise Moon and A Loving Son which retains a sense of urgency for Rainbow Bridge to get straight down to business in playing the heaviest, freshest and highly original musical passages contained on the whole album. The mood can be quiet, sullen, moody, heavy and aggressive on different stages of the whole record.
Soundtrack Of A Silent Land is an absolute joy to fully experience with the raw sounding production values adding a dynamic GARAGE ROCK or GENERATOR PARTY energy to the whole record. Rainbow Bridge have been going as a band since 2006 but they’ve really started to find their own unique voice on their last couple of records and prove why they’re another excellent band to check out from the Italian Heavy Rock scene.
This is a superbly entertaining record which takes a lot of BOLD creative choices and becomes an even better record for it when everything is said and done.
Excellent and Highly Recommended.
Words by Steve Howe
Thanks to Grand Sounds Promotion for the promo.
Soundtrack Of A Silent Land is available to buy now on CD/DD via Argonauta Records / Octopus Rising.
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