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Solar Bears (Album Launch)

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  • 28-03-2016 12:55pm
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    John Kowalski
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭


    u:mack
    Present
    Solar Bears
    "Advancement" Album Launch
    Very special Guests
    MMOTHS (DJ Set)
    Sunken Foal (Live)
    Saturday April 9th
    Whelans
    Doors 7pm

    Solar Bears launch their incredible new album "Advancement" with a party on Saturday April 9 in Whelans. The line up is pretty spectacular, with a DJ Set from MMOTHS (whose amazing new album "Luneworks has just been released) and a rare live set from one of Irelands finest electronic acts Sunken Foal, and of course a Live A/V set from Solar Bears

    SOLAR BEARS: ADVANCEMENT

    IRISH TIMES: Album Of The Week
    THE QUIETUS: "few of Dublin's bands have established as strong a sonic identity as Solar Bears"
    VICE: " A burst of neon synthesizer work that could score tense scenes from animated science fiction film classics such as Fantastic Planet or Akira"
    EXCLAIM! "Their production style has a compelling crunchiness to it that manages to sound modern without laying on the sheen"

    Solar Bears return in 2016 with their highly anticipated third LP ‘Advancement’, which is the result of Kowalski's continued crate digging and Trench's extensive production work.Their first releases featured everything from krautrock to library music to psychedelic electronica.The band's love of cinema and experimental film has been cemented due to a long term collaborative relationship with the American director Michael Robinson, who has created two videos and the artwork to accompany ‘Advancement’. Robinson’s work explores realms of light, abstraction, texture and colour-interfacing with imagery in site- specific settings to live music.

    ‘Advancement’ is an epic statement where the individual sounds and phrases may appear familiar to the listener, but when experienced fully ‘Advancement’ provides a powerful soundtrack to the primitive beauty of existence. The cryptic themes and unidentified episodes are wrapped in compelling sensation and emotion, chaos touched by balance, the known inter-twined with the ethereal, cascading rhythms and expansive plateaus of sound. ‘Advancement’ is a feeling of being close to something precious but being unable to grasp it. The act of the albums creation and it’s waves of unfurling sound can be understood as the onset of a large impact event, potent but allusive in meaning.

    Made over the course of a year, in many different locations and on specific set ups in particular spaces, the pieces were brought back together for the band to merge into a whole. Samples of indigenous instruments are heavily processed, mirroring the widespread decay of the natural world, its movement inspired by the natural cycle of destruction and restoration. Solar Bears experimental sound design makes use of volcanic samples, elements of wildlife and native instrumentation.The result is a powerful, other worldly album, balancing opposing forces and feelings, guiding the listener towards a peak of waking reverie and pure emotional release.


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