When Brian John Mitchell (head of Silber Records) was 12 years old, he read a story by HP Lovecraft about scaring monsters away using music. This story, along with his actual fear of these creatures, is what drew him to learning music. Clearly, neither his interest in music, nor his fear of monsters has waned, for he has spent the past year or so collecting tracks for Zann, a compilation of music dedicated to scaring monsters away. Zann brings the listener on a strange & surreal musical journey, with tracks that vary in both intensity & intent. Evidently, each artist involved has a very different idea of what types of sounds frighten these beasts. Yet they all share a common thread: each is apparently aware of the threat monsters pose in our everyday lives. & their musical inspiration is fear & necessity. The common theme makes Zann almost feel more like an album than a compilation gathering artists from different parts of the world & from different genres of experimental music. Zann can be taken in either as something frightening & menacing in its own right or as something soothing to let you sleep, to give yourself a moment to be safe from all the things scratching on your windows & doors & the bottom of your bed. Participating bands include: Small Life Form with Jarboe, pFrenz-C, Trance to the Sun, Clang Quartet, Jerry Blue, SubArachnoid Space, Origami Arktika, The Unquiet Void, Plumerai, Aarktica, The Pulling Kiss, Alchemia, Pineal Ventana, Rollerball, dA Sebasstian, Tore H. Boe, Remora, and Drekka.