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Snow on Mt. Silver

a.k.a. Mouse de Topi

Genres: Plunderphonics, Shoegaze, Vaporwave

Inspirations: Los Thuthanaka, James Ferraro, Sonic Youth, Built to Spill, Coaltar of the Deepers, Natural Snow Buildings, Lilys, unsent., Isabelle Landingham, Ween, YAYAYI, The Gerogerigegege, Rajie, Susumu Hirasawa, Yellow Swans

Biography

"Snow on Mt. Silver is an alias I created to be able to put more music out there, since Nice Nature's output is a bit more restrictive with what we want to put out. With SoMS, I wanted to be able to just put out whatever I wanted, but after picking out the name itself, it kind of inspired this "mysterious"-ish vibe, lending itself to the old Pokemon creepypasta it takes its name from. So, I tried to put out something that kind of fit that vibe. I picked up some cover art from this old live performance on YouTube, found some interesting samples and such. I wanted it to look like an older kind of release, maybe something you'd just randomly find on YouTube uploaded on some random channel, but while making the album, what I wanted to put on kind of strayed from that vision a bit.

For example, Turning Wheels is this remake of a song from my older project Shinkai De, and that was pretty much the standard for what I wanted this album to sound like. But I got more ideas for personal songs, which sprouted the track My Brother Dream Journey. It's definitely a more personal reflection with an explicit story, but I'll wait for someone to interview me on it before I let that go, LOL. I guess it made the album feel a little less cohesive, but I just hope that the individual tracks are enjoyable themselves. That's what matters. Plus, I made the album so I could just make whatever I want, and I made what I wanted, so I'm pretty happy. Whether I'll continue with this alias or just make others ('cause having a bunch of names is always fun), I'll leave it up to the future." - Mouse :)
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Discography

Snow on Mt. Silver (2026)