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Spectacular Of Passages begins where her last record

Spectacular Of Passages

Th e Fleeting Skies left oﬀ ; with Samara tending the pastures of psychedelic pop with a

Th e Fleeting Skies

host of cohabitates along side. In addition to founding the legendary trio Hall Of Fame Samara has also played with Metabolismus, Tower

Recordings

& Salmon Skin, has collaborated with Sonora Pine, White Magic, Jackie O-Motherfucker and has recorded

Jackie O-Motherfucker

Th e Firey

Furnaces

, Double Leopards, Sightings & Magik Markers. Perhaps this best explains how when she is ﬂ ying her own banner, she is never

at a loss for collaborators.

Th is record began at the Sumsilobatem compound in the hills of Stuttgart, Germany as the ﬁ nal ﬂ eeting days of summer passed. Doubling

as the home base for the psych band Metabolismus the studio was also the perfect starting point for Samara as she was able to work with an

array of forgotten analog instruments and the location provided her with the equally exploratory collaborators Moritz Finkbeiner, Werner

Notzel

, Robert Steng, and Th ilo Khun. With a solid month of basic tracking done on the recordings, Samara returned to Brooklyn, tapes

under arm and began working at Th e Rare Book Room where she moonlights as an engineer. Being back in NYC allowed her to introduce

a whole new set of long time collaborators into the mix including PG Six, Tim Barnes, Hamish Kilgoer &

Hamish Kilgoer

Mark Moore

as well as a band

of string players to augment her own violin tracks. Nicholas Vernhes, main engineer at the Th e Rare Book Room mixed the record, bringing

out the delicate arrangements of melodic interplay, intricate string sections and the matador trumpet of Gary Olson. Th e resulting cycle of

songs; in the end blends perfectly together, a summit of players lofting together in the heights of orchestrated pop.

What all these elements have added up to is cycle of songs that are almost deceptive in their catchiness. Layers of sound that are delicate

without being frail and create atmospheres of depth within her pieces. Th ey do not rely on the virtuosity of the players, but on them unifying

with each other and the words to create an ambience that is gentle and pulls you deeper into its folds. When it ends you are carried along on

its last currents.

SAMARA LUBELSKI

SPECTACULAR OF PASSAGES

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“A technicolor masterpiece” – Magnet Magazine

“Th is 21st century chamber folk harbours echos of bridget st john, pentangle and the velevet undergrounds lighter material” –Th e Wire

“And then you realize that you’re relaxed and transported and not even thinking about the mess that you made of your life” – Vice Magazine

“Abetted by an ever-shifting aggregation of fellow New Yorkers on ﬂ utes, cellos and tip-toeing tympani, the music scratchs away at the
subconscious with impressive tenacity” – Mojo

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SELLING POINTS:

1. FOR OVER A DECADE SAMARA HAS BEEN A FIXTURE IN

UNDERGROUND MUSIC AS A PERFORMER IN HALL OF FAME, TOWER

RECORDINGS, METABOLISMIS, ET ALL.

2. OVER THE LAST 12 MONTHS SAMARA HAS TOURED EXTENSIVLY IN

THE US AND ABROAD AS A SOLO PERFORMER AND AS A COLLABERATOR

WITH TARA JANE O’NEIL AS WELL AS THE MV/EE MEDICINE SHOW.

3. SAMARA ALREADY HAS A EUROPEAN TOUR IN PLACE LEADING UP

TO THIS RECORDS RELEASE AND IS IN THE PLANNING STAGES OF A US

TOUR.

4. THIS RECORD FEATURES MEMEBERS OF METABOLISMIS, THE NO

NECK BLUES BAND, LADY BUG TRANSISTOR & THE CLEAN.

5. COMPREHENISVE PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN BY THE SOCIAL REGISTRY

6. EXTENSIVE RADIO CAMPAIGN BY CHOUETTE RADIO PROMOTION.