Chris Forsyth - Solar Motel - VINYL LP
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Named after a run-down lodge in New Jersey near where he grew up, Solar Motel was the first full-band project from Chris Forsyth. Originally released in 2013, it was considered his most ambitious and sublime work of InchCosmic AmericanaInch to date, and the idea of the Motel also figured into a band where vacancies would open and close. Inch'Solar Motel' is the first record on which I overtly took rock tropes and twisted them into new shapes, incorporating so many of my interests and influences - the twin-guitar elegance of Television, the sprawl of West Coast psych, the boiled down Rock Minimalism of Rhys Chatham, the abstract tangles of free improv, an undercurrent of ecstatic jazz energy, and the studio textures of Eno/Cale/Roxy '70s art rock. 'Solar Motel' basically set the template for much of what I did for the remainder of that decade. Expanded 2xLP includes two studio outtakes from the original sessions, and a side-long live session recorded at WFMU. Album Tracks 1. Solar Motel Part I 2. Solar Motel Part II 3. Solar Motel Part III 4. Solar Motel Part IV 5. Harmonious Dance 6. Long Warm Afternoon 7. Solar Motel Part I > Paranoid Cat (Live on Wfmu)
- GenreRockDescriptionNamed after a run-down lodge in New Jersey near where he grew up, Solar Motel was the first full-band project from Chris Forsyth. Originally released in 2013, it was considered his most ambitious and sublime work of InchCosmic AmericanaInch to date, and the idea of the Motel also figured into a band where vacancies would open and close. Inch'Solar Motel' is the first record on which I overtly took rock tropes and twisted them into new shapes, incorporating so many of my interests and influences - the twin-guitar elegance of Television, the sprawl of West Coast psych, the boiled down Rock Minimalism of Rhys Chatham, the abstract tangles of free improv, an undercurrent of ecstatic jazz energy, and the studio textures of Eno/Cale/Roxy '70s art rock. 'Solar Motel' basically set the template for much of what I did for the remainder of that decade. Expanded 2xLP includes two studio outtakes from the original sessions, and a side-long live session recorded at WFMU. Album Tracks 1. Solar Motel Part I 2. Solar Motel Part II 3. Solar Motel Part III 4. Solar Motel Part IV 5. Harmonious Dance 6. Long Warm Afternoon 7. Solar Motel Part I > Paranoid Cat (Live on Wfmu)ArtistChris ForsythTitleSolar MotelFormatVINYLLabelAlgorithm Free
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Named after a run-down lodge in New Jersey near where he grew up, Solar Motel was the first full-band project from Chris Forsyth. Originally released in 2013, it was considered his most ambitious and sublime work of InchCosmic AmericanaInch to date, and the idea of the Motel also figured into a band where vacancies would open and close. Inch'Solar Motel' is the first record on which I overtly took rock tropes and twisted them into new shapes, incorporating so many of my interests and influences - the twin-guitar elegance of Television, the sprawl of West Coast psych, the boiled down Rock Minimalism of Rhys Chatham, the abstract tangles of free improv, an undercurrent of ecstatic jazz energy, and the studio textures of Eno/Cale/Roxy '70s art rock. 'Solar Motel' basically set the template for much of what I did for the remainder of that decade. Expanded 2xLP includes two studio outtakes from the original sessions, and a side-long live session recorded at WFMU. Album Tracks 1. Solar Motel Part I 2. Solar Motel Part II 3. Solar Motel Part III 4. Solar Motel Part IV 5. Harmonious Dance 6. Long Warm Afternoon 7. Solar Motel Part I > Paranoid Cat (Live on Wfmu)
On February 27, 2018, Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band (comprised, in this iteration, of long-time SMB bassist Peter Kerlin and Kerlin's Sunwatchers battery mate Jason Robira on drums) were close to wrapping up an 18-date tour of the EU and UK with a two-set, one hour and 45 minute show at Cafe OTO, London's premier venue for adventurous music. Highlights of that show are included in this live , RARE DREAMS SOLAR LIVE 2.27.18, recorded before a packed house seated mere feet from the band's amplifiers. These recordings reveal a band that is clearly in high spirits and high gear, operating with an expansive, improvisatory fleetness that allows them to stretch the material to almost ludicrous extremes and then let it to snap back to some semblance of form while somehow seemingly never wasting a note, a beat, a gesture. The four tracks included here comprise material culled from (at the time) the two most recent Solar Motel Band records DREAMING IN THE NON-DREAM (No Quarter, 2017) and THE RARITY OF EXPERIENCE (No Quarter, 2016) plus covers of two Neil Young songs - the autobiographical plaint InchDon't Be Denied, Inch lyrically relocated by Forsyth from Young's Canada and Hollywood to the more personally relevant geography of New Jersey and Philadelphia, and encore InchBarstool BluesInch (they'd run out of material to play, so another Neil Young tune it was). While the covers establish Forsyth's basis, serving as an homage to Young and the quest for self-realization, the long tracks' jams showcase the trance-inducing power of the Solar Motel Band as a performing entity. Album Tracks 1. Dreaming in the Non-Dream 2. Don't Be Denied 3. The First 10 Minutes of Cocksucker Blues 4. Barstool Blues
Chris Forsyth & the Solar Motel Band - Dreaming In The Non-dream [VINYL LP] date 08/25/2017
To wit, if you think you know already what you'll be getting into here-heady, Television-esque multi-guitar jams played with motorik precision and a fiercely American intensity you know, a Forsyth record-well, go ahead and think that. I won't stop you. Only... maybe the pulsing bass, curiously lurching drumbeat, and lunar synth squiggling of Sun Ra Arkestra maestro Marshall Allen that opens InchExperimental & ProfessionalInch will set you back on your heels. But just for a moment, before Ryan Jewell's drums and Tortoise alum Douglas McCombs's bass twine into perfect alignment and then guitars-played by Forsyth and Tom Malach (of Garcia Peoples)-start chipping and hammering, twittering and sparring, the whole thing managing to evoke Remain in Light without sounding remotely like it. Album Tracks 1. Experimental & Professional 2. Heaven for a Few 3. Bad Moon Risen 4. You're Gonna Need Somebody 5. Hey, Evolution 6. Long Beach Idyll 7. Robot Energy Machine
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