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SAMARA LUBELSKI “For those of you who don’t know Samara’s name - well, shame on you.” - Pitchfork “An elegant, ethereal singer.” - Time Out New York With Parallel Suns Samara Lubelski has flown to a higher orbit with her merger of the fuels of folk, psychedelia and pop. They combine into a potent mixture that gives her compositions a vibrancy that shimmers in the reflection of their power. The music streams down and ends up in your ear through dappled arrangements that are warm and bright while still having them shaded with darkness from both the lyrics and sound. Like all of her albums on The Social Registry the recording is a bi-continental affair with Samara laying down the basics in Germany at with members of Metabolismus at their farm in the hills outside of Stuttgart, the Sumsilobatem Compound. There both Thilo Kuhn and Werner Nötzel helped produce some of the initial tracks. She then brought those recordings back to The Rare Book Room in Brooklyn where the other instruments were added and the finished tracks were mixed by Nicholas Vernhes. Once again this album sees a whole host of accomplished musicians lending their talent. Along with Thilo and Werner this includes P.G. Six, Moritz Finkbeiner, Hamish Kilgour, John Colpitts, Helen Rush, Dietmer Köhle, and Thomas Schätzl who brought in everything from guitars to clarinet and even a recorder to top it off. Samara herself has a long history of playing with a diverse bunch of groups including the highly influential Hall of Fame as well as with Tower Recordings and Metabolismus. She has also collaborated with White Magic, Sonora Pine, Jackie O-Motherfucker, MV/EE Bummer Road Show and used her engineering skills to record The Fiery Furnaces, Double Leopards, Sightings, Mouthus, Religious Knives & Magik Markers. She has recently been working with Thurston Moore on his solo record, Trees Outside the Academy, alongside Steve Shelley and J. Mascis. All of these elements coalesce into a critical mass that blazes with the energy of their fusion. Parallel Suns becomes incandescent in its beauty. |
Catalog Number: TSR056 Tracklisting: VISIT SAMARA'S MYSPACE All Tracks Listed In Blue Are Linked To A Downloadable MP3 |