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N.B.: This album will be released on October 29, 2013. Stay tuned for track excerpts and pre-order details. 

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Paradise of Bachelors is pleased to present Chris Forsyth’s Solar Motel, an immersive four-part suite that reimagines and reanimates the collected history of guitar-driven rock, lighting out for fresh territory in the process. The arrestingly evocative album navigates new vibe channels among the classic guitar/groove thickets of Television, the Dead, Sonic Youth, the Doors, Eno/Cale combos, et al., featuring important contributions from a crack studio band (Mike Pride on drums, Peter Kerlin on bass, and Shawn Edward Hansen on keys/synths) and co-producer Jeff Zeigler (Kurt Vile, etc.) Solar Motel—named for a derelict and now vanished New Jersey lodge—completes Forsyth’s alchemical transformation from a guitarist renowned for his nuanced playing in varied experimental and post-American Primitive circles into a full-fledged deconstructivist rock and roll bandleader producing unabashedly ambitious, ecstatic body music.

As critic Tony Rettman explains, “Solar Motel is broken up into four parts, each one of them escalating in sequence with head-swelling psychedelic bliss while showcasing Forsyth’s equal admiration for the guitar interplay of both Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd from Television and Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead. It serves as a perfect example for what Forsyth calls his music: Cosmic Americana.” The Philadelphia-based Forsyth will be touring the record with the stellar new Solar Motel Band, which includes bassist Kerlin, guitarist Paul Sukeena (Spacin’), drummer Steven Urgo (ex-The War on Drugs), and an accompanying album-length video by artist Maria Dumlao (also the source of the album’s striking cover art.)

Forsyth’s hypnotic recordings assimilate art-rock textures with vernacular American influences. Long active in the international underground, he’s released a series of acclaimed records as a solo artist that demonstrate a resolute engagement in making corporeal/cerebral music that transcends such subterranean realms, reaching instead for a bleeding-edge physicality and lyricism heavily influenced by his private studies with Television’s Richard Lloyd. The fascinating tension manifest in Forsyth’s playing between often long-form, rarefied abstraction and percolating rhythms and rock/roots structures animates notable recent works such as his 2011 LP Paranoid Cat (rated a “kinetic masterpiece” by Pitchfork) and Early Astral, a 2012 duo LP with Koen Holtkamp of Mountains (memorably characterized by one unnamed record exec as “’80’s Garcia jamming at Epcot.”)

His 2012 Kenzo Deluxe LP has been described by Aquarium Drunkard as “sublime”; the Philadelphia City Paper deems it “resonant [and] incisive… a cosmic abstraction of the American guitar tradition, reducing blues, rock, folk and improvisation into their spare, hypnotic base elements.” The Wire praises Forsyth as “an erudite and farsighted guitar stylist, mapping a path that’s hip and scholarly in equal measure.” Uncut calls him “an emergent master.”

Forsyth has toured throughout Europe and the U.S., sharing stages with such like-minded travellers as fellow PoB artist Steve Gunn, Sic Alps, Endless Boogie, Grouper, Loren Connors, William Tyler, and Rhys Chatham, and, from 2002 to 2011, as a member of Peeesseye. He’s also collaborated with a diverse range of artists including singer and songwriter Meg Baird, Japanese guitarist/boogie master Tetuzi Akiyama, trumpeter Nate Wooley, and choreographer Miguel Gutierrez, and is a recipient of a 2011 Pew Fellowship in the Arts.

+ Forsyth’s most ambitious, immersive, & sublime work of “Cosmic Americana” to date, featuring a full band
+ Available on 150g virgin vinyl, in a deluxe, gatefold limited edition, as well as on CD and digital formats
+ Vinyl edition includes digital download coupon

http://www.paradiseofbachelors.com/pob-10

Solar Motel

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Chris Forsyth - Solar Motel (2013, PoB-10): "Solar Motel Part I" (Edit)

An unnecessarily long and rambling sample of the sounds coming out of my new Cardinal Zenith, some pedals, and the Benson Monarch.

Zenith Buffet - all you can eat.

From Sabda (2008) There are amorphous soundscapes as well as folk-like tunes and melodies, interwoven in a bed of spatial colour-sound. It is slowed down music for relaxation with room for silence as well. 

Awake

Album out now!
Purchase CD, Digi or LP at http://wonderwheelrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/amansara

Fresh off the stage from Coachella 2014, Argentinian producer Pedro Canale aka Chancha Via Circuto fulfills his long-awaited return “Coplita” – the debut single and 7” from his new album after 2010’s Rio Arriba, which was hailed by the New York Times, Pitchfork, the Washington Post and named amongst the top ten albums of the year by NPR and XLR8R among many others. 

“Coplita” ventures onto a well worn path through the mystical outer reaches of South America for longtime Chancha fans with it’s traditional folkloric rhythms blending into otherworldly electronic sounds and the vocals of longtime collaborator Miriam Garcia gently haunting the song.

Chancha’s new album Amansara will be released by Nickodemus’s Wonderwheel Recordings on CD, Double Vinyl and Digital in Late September 2014.

Art by: Paula Duro


Amansara

Coplita (feat. Miriam Garcia)

Chancha Via Circuito - Coplita Ft. Miriam Garcia

The Illusion

this track samples brigitte bardot and is taken from the album "so dated"

pitchbend- merde

SOLA ROSA , Chancha via circuito feat Fauna

Water 2 from the "Water Wrackets" LP/DVD (Kallistei Editions 2011)

Water 2

Zone 4 from the "Tones/Zones" LP (Important Records 2010)

Zone 4

Eli Abramov (1954-2015) was a composer, producer and guitarist. As Pitchbend, he wrote and produced during the first decade of the 2000's electronic tracks in several genres. He published 2 EP's as Pitchbend, and one EP as Mock Stereo.

Eli is most known for his critically acclaimed band, HaClique, was one of the first new wave bands in Israel in the beginning of the 80's. The band consisted of Eli Abramov (music, guitar, synths), Dani Dothan (lyrics and vocals), Oved Efrat (bass) and Jean Jacques Goldberg (drums). 
Their albums are  Ima Ani Lo Rotse Lehigamel (1981, NMC music),
Olam Tsafuf (1983, NMC music) and  Ani Lo ba Paskol (2015). Eli also wrote and produced music for several artists, such as Dana International, for whom he produced two albums.