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Walter Salas-Humara
Walter Salas-Humara is credited on 166 releases across 45 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1982–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
166
Pressings credited
45
Albums
5
Decades active
16
In collections
Biography
Walter Salas-Humara is the chief songwriter for and a founding member of The Silos, a rock band formed in 1985 in New York City with Bob Rupe. The Silos were voted the Best New American Band in the Rolling Stone Critics Poll of 1987, and have released more than a dozen albums to date. As indicated by its name, which suggests both agrarian populism and impending apocalypse, the band shows influences of post-punk East Village experimentalism as well as the nascent country-rock revivalism that would return at decade's end. As described by Stephen Holden in the New York Times, "The band's austere style inflects the astringent twang of the Velvet Underground with the drone of R.E.M. and adds countryish echoes that recall Gram Parsons." Salas-Humara has also recorded four solo records, numerous live albums and several one-offs with other songwriters, and has produced albums for other artists. He is of Cuban-American extraction and known for his occasional use of Spanish-language lyrics. He also works as a painter and visual artist.
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Credited work
166 releases · 45 albums · active 1982–2025
- Performance · 613
- Other credits · 101
- Production · 57
- Engineering · 38
Studios: Mirror Image Studios, Gainesville, FL · Mix-O-Lydian · Doug Messenger's Studio · Chateau Relaxeau
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- The Silos
- Various
- The Vulgar Boatmen
- Silos
- Hootie & The Blowfish
- Willard Grant Conspiracy
- Michael Hall
- The Setters (2)
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