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NYC independent home label - Bipolar Explorer and Tremosphere.
By @bipolarexplorer.info and @sylviasolanas.com @tremosphere.com
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Bipolar Explorer - Memories of the Sky (2024) 💿
Tremosphere - saturated solace (2025) 💿
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C’est bientôt le 1er anniversaire de la sortie du 12e album de @bipolarexplorer.info, Memories of the Sky.

Découvrez l’album sur notre site, ainsi que sur Bandcamp, @ampwall.com, et certains streamers.

Memories of the Sky est disponible en double album CD avec livret, et en téléchargement.
Couverture de Memories of the Sky: [Sunset] par Roland Searle, New Zealand (1920, domaine public). Photo ancienne dans des tons sepia, vue sur l’océan et le ciel, de la lumière apparaît entre les nuages.
November 19, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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We’re approaching the one year anniversary of the release of @bipolarexplorer.info’s 12th album, Memories of the Sky.

Find the album on our website, on Bandcamp, @ampwall.com, and selected streaming services.

Available on double CD with booklet, and digital.

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Memories of the Sky cover: [Sunset] by Roland Searle, New Zealand (1920, public domain). old picture, in sepia tones, with sky and ocean, light coming out from the clouds.
November 19, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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PRE-ORDER
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Grey, white and black tones, this is a poster ad for: Exclusive Audioplay read by the author REAL REAL GONE A play by Michael Serafin-Wells - "Heralding the arrival of a writer with an acute sense of language and a special ability to dramatize human behavior through language that rivets with its imagery and humor." - The Star-Ledgar (Newark) - "The best of the bunch! With language that laces the natural poetics of the street with erudition, dramatic relevations and passionate resolves." - Variety (New York) November 2nd on Bandcamp. illustration: a flask with the Manhattan sky in the background
October 24, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Today 📻 on @campradio.bsky.social

Bipolar Explorer’s The Other Room
@bipolarexplorer.info

9am NYC / 15h France

live on CAMP listen.camp
replay tomorrow on Mixcloud
Blue grey sky, deep green ocean, almost white sand. Picture taken in 2019 by Sylvia Solanas, Carmel Beach, California. CAMP radio logo in the top left corner, Live: listen.camp, Replays: mixcloud.com/camp_fr. Name of radio show in center. 3 urls at the left corner, bottom: bipolarexplorer.info, bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com, bipolarexplorer-the-other-room.sluggrecords.com
October 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Slugg Records presents “The Hauntology Series”

“In The Hours Left Until Dawn” (2023) Listening Party
Wednesday August 27th

RSVP bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com/merch/in-the...
SLUGG RECORDS Presents The Hauntology Series BIPOLAR EXPLORER In The Hours Left Until Dawn (2023) Listening Party Wednesday August 27th BIPOLAR EXPLORER In The Hours Left Until Dawn 11 am Los Angeles / San Francisco 2pm New York / Boston 19h London / Glasgow 20h France / Berlin RSVP bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com
August 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Sortie aujourd’hui du 4ème album de Tremosphere @tremosphere.com

“saturated solace”

disponible en CD et numérique sur Slugg Records, Bandcamp, AppleMusic / iTunes, et autres.

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On a black background, we see the picture of a woman, twice. She's a cis white woman, in the dark, naked, her long brunette straight hair falling on her breasts. No make up. The first iteration of the picture has a pink filter, the second a dark lavender one. Band name and album title are written in that same dark lavender tone.
May 16, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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www.resonancefm.com

Bipolar Explorer, on A Duck in a Tree
Resonance FM, London
Resonance FM front page Resonance on air - Make a Donation If you've missed our fundraising events or our eBay Charity Auction, you can still make an online donation, with a one-off gift or a smaller regular donation via our donations page On now • 7:00pm - 8:00pm 45 minutes left A Duck in a Tree • The zoviet * france: radio show. After the Day. This week's edition features new releases from Helena Espvall, Ernesto Diaz-Infante and Marjorie Sturm; Billow Observatory; Bipolar Explorer; and Cadlag; interleaved with post-circadian recordings by Cousin Silas and Kevin Lyons; Mads Emil Nielsen; Lalo Schifrin; Paulo Faria; François Bayle; Canonbury; Jeff Duke; Lezet; and Hazard. [Repeats Tuesday 12am.]
May 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Tomorrow on Bandcamp

New single by @bipolarexplorer.info

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Cover image for Bipolar Explorer’s new single, Dreams of the Bell Tower Watchman. “The Shepherd's Dream, from 'Paradise Lost'"- Henry Feseli (1793, Public Domain). In a dark-lit room, still wearing his day clothes, a man has fallen asleep. A woman is seen smirking in the background. A group of 4 angel-like women are dancing in a circle, flying above the man.
April 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Free Bandcamp codes to discover Bipolar Explorer

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cover image for of Love and Loss 10th anniversary Live Set, with a light pink border and the album cover: a white woman drapping herself under the sea, which is a painting "Meditteraneo" by Alex Amany (used with permission).
April 17, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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This Thursday, Michael @bipolarexplorer.bsky.social will guest on Silent Radio for a listening of Bipolar Explorer’s “Memories of the Sky” and interview.
Tune in!

21h France / Italy
4pm NYC

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Instagram screenshot from silentradio33 Giovedì 13 Marzo dalle ore 21.00 torna Michaelouis Serafin-Wells per raccontare un nuovo capitolo dei Bipolar Explorer. Questa lunga storia, questo atto d'amore che non ha uguali. Una telefonata che parte da Fantecolo per arrivare a New York City. Tra di noi un Oceano, ma solo apparente. #memoriesc ° #sky #love #celebrations #music #song #ambient #dreamy #postpunk #dreampop #postrock #voices #bipolar #explorer @bipolarexplorer and album cover picture of Memories of the Sky.
March 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Newsletter 12 - Winter Solstice edition

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Slugg Records Newsletter NYC independent home label Welcome to the 12th edition of the Slugg Records newsletter and Happy Winter Solstice, everyone! Here's a few of the goings-on from our little corner of the world...
December 19, 2024 at 9:23 AM
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Listening Party - December 21st

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On a soft dark green background, there is the cover image of Bipolar Explorer's 2018 album Til Morning is Nigh: A Dream of Christmas, which is a painting representing Jacob wrestling with the Angel by L’udovit Kochol. Text on the poster announces the 2024 listening party for the album, on Bandcamp, on Saturday December 21st. with Sylvia & Michael 2pm San Francisco / Los Angeles 5pm New York City / Boston 22h London / Glasgow 23h Paris / Berlin
December 10, 2024 at 5:49 PM
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Memories of the Sky, by Bipolar Explorer

reviews:
BIPOLAR EXPLORER Memories of the Sky "Brilliant. Deep and dark and one of the best albums of the year. As soon as it finished playing, I wanted to play all of it again. A fantastic album." -black_ops (UK) "Another precious piece of this infinite picture that tells of a love that is forever alive and present. The enchantment of enveloping sounds, of atmospheres that warm the heart, of a deep nostalgia that leads to greater sensitivity is renewed. Seagulls singing, a face on the horizon and a hand shaking that of someone we don't want to leave." - liberio Faedi, Silent Radio (Italy) "Epic, granitic, devastating, visionary. Album of the month!" -Alex Dematteis, Musicshockworld (UK) Available on double CD album, and digital 22 tracks, 18-page booklet https://sluggrecords.com https://www.bipolarexplorer.info https://bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com BIPOLAR EXPLORER Memories of the Sky "It's a silver lining in dark times like these, but anguish and the examination of one's self and our path through life tends to extract the finest creative impulses from the artistic community, and both artistic reflection and troubling trends around the world have doubtless informed Bipolar Explorer's 12th album, "Memories of the Sky" (their 5th double album). It's a soundtrack to a mighty storm, where the passage of time brings increasing challenges, the pressure threatening to tear us from our very sense of self. Memories of the Sky might be our guidebook through this meandering path, as the journey is not always clear. Its chiming ambience brings us to places both desired and unbidden, the trio drawing back curtains on visions of delight and disenchantment. It is, quite simply, their crowning achievement, their finest work thus far. Five Stars. One of my Top Albums of the Year" -Brian Damage, KFJC (California) Available on double CD album, and digital 22 tracks, 18-page booklet https://sluggrecords.com https://www.bipolarexplorer.info https://bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com BIPOLAR EXPLORER Memories of the Sky "An even more sonically expansive album, filled with ever more exploratory sonics, liminalism, lost and found, hauntology - it's kind of like dreampop futurism. May its unearthly glow permeate even the toughest of hearts. It will! You'll see. Bipolar Explorer, keep on exploring. You are much loved by this show" - Max Reinhardt, Soho Radio (London) "A gorgeous album! Lush tracks, soundscapes and songs. Really beautiful stuff." -Irene Trudel, WFMU (New York) "Another giant-ass, double-length offering from this fertile, wonderfully apocalyptic crew. Unflinching and unpretentious." -Bleek Swinney, KHUH (Seattle) "Astonishingly beautiful." -Jeffrey Davison, CKUT (Montreal) 你众你你改 Available on double CD album, and digital 22 tracks, 18-page booklet https://sluggrecords.com https://www.bipolarexplorer.info https://bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com
December 1, 2024 at 11:37 AM
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SLUGG RECORDS Presents BIPOLAR EXPLORER Memories of the Sky 11 am Los Angeles / San Francisco 2pm New York / Boston 19h London / Glasgow 20h Paris / Berlin Listening Party bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com Sunday December 1st
November 27, 2024 at 3:02 PM
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Pre-order Memories of the Sky, new double album by @bipolarexplorer.bsky.social

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Slugg Records presents Bipolar Explorer Memories of the Sky album cover: [Sunset] by Roland Searle, New Zealand (1920, public domain) old picture, in sepia tones, with sky and ocean, light coming out from the clouds. "A gorgeous album! Lush tracks, soundscapes and songs. Really beautiful stuff." -Irene Trudel, WFMU (New York) "Another giant-ass, double-length offering from this fertile, wonderfully apocalyptic crew. Unflinching and unpretentious." -Bleek Swinney, KHUH (Seattle) "Astonishingly beautiful." -Jeffrey Davison, CKUT (Montreal) "Brilliant. Deep and dark and one of the best albums of the year. As soon as it finished playing, I wanted to play all of it again. A fantastic album." -black_ops (UK) Bipolar Explorer are Summer Serafin, Michael Serafin-Wells and Sylvia Solanas. All songs, music, lyrics, and spoken word narrative poems by Michael Serafin- Wells. c/p. 2024 Bipolar Explorer, Slugg Records, Thirteen November Music (ASCAP). All rights reserved. https://www.bipolarexplorer.info https://bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com https://sluggrecords.com
November 19, 2024 at 5:46 PM
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Bipolar Explorer, live!

@bipolarexplorer.bsky.social next week on @keeptru.bsky.social show

@gtdradio.bsky.social /
@wfmu.bsky.social
BIPOLAR EXPLORER LIVE on Irene Trudel Monday November 25 on wmu.org / GTDR bipolarexplorer. info bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com sluggrecords.com
November 19, 2024 at 5:41 PM
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#NewMusic

Bipolar Explorer
Memories of the Sky

Pre-order today:

- on our website sluggrecords.com/shop/albums/...
- on the band’s Bandcamp bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com/album/memori...
Poster for the upcoming release of Bipolar Explorer’s Memories of the Sky. The band’s 12th album, their 5th double album. 22 tracks, on digital and double CD with a 28-page booklet. Out december 1st on Slugg Records. Bipolar Explorer are Summer Serafin, Michael Serafin-Wells and Sylvia Solanas. All songs, music, lyrics and spoken word narrative poems by Michael Serafin-Wells. c/p. 2024 Bipolar Explorer, Slugg Records, Thirteen November Music (ASCAP). https://www.bipolarexplorer.info https://bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com https://sluggrecords.com
October 18, 2024 at 2:42 PM
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NEW 💿 #music #ambient 🎛️🎧

Preorder Bipolar Explorer’s 12th album

“Memories of the Sky”
out december 1st, double album, 22 tracks.

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album cover [Sunset] by Roland Searle, New Zealand (1920, public domain) old picture, in sepia tones, with sky and ocean, light coming out from the clouds.
October 17, 2024 at 6:38 AM
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SLUGG RECORDS presents The Hauntology Series BIPOLAR EXPLORER Sometimes in Dreams (2018) Listening Party Saturday September 14th Noon San Francisco / Los Angeles 3pm New York City / Boston 20h London / Glasgow 21h Paris / Berlin join us https://bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com
September 7, 2024 at 10:08 AM
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get to know our bands 🎛️🎧

Bipolar Explorer
promo card for NYC experimental dreampop trio Bipolar Explorer, with images of their 11 albums. Websites: bipolarexplorer.info sluggrecords.com Instagram: @instagram Buy their music: bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com
August 6, 2024 at 11:21 PM
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get to know our bands 🎛️🎧

Here’s Tremosphere
promo card for band Tremosphere, with a band picture of Sylvia and Michael, as well as the cover pictures for their three albums and their latest single. Websites: tremosphere.com sluggrecords.com Instagram: @tremosphere Buy their music: tremosphere.bandcamp.com
August 6, 2024 at 11:18 PM
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💁🏻‍♀️
VP Kamala Harris holding a vinyl meme, this time with a copy of Bipolar Explorer’s double album Deux Anges (2020)
July 29, 2024 at 6:21 PM
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NEW 📻

Bipolar Explorer’s The Other Room:
now on Tak Tent Radio

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Carmel Beach, California, 2019, on a grey yet luminous day 1. Christine Ott - L'incertitude du retour des oies sauvages 2. Philip Levine - An Interview with the Poet (1992), Other Minds Archives 3. Manuel Carbone - Leipzig 21/10/23 4. Audio Obscura - Departure Gate 5. Yannick Franck - Bois Rouge 6. The Conet Project - nnn german 7. Cloud Tangle - Gabriel's Dream playlist is written in white on a light blue grey (like the Carmel Beach sky) background
June 28, 2024 at 8:11 AM
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“In The Hours”: reviews by Max Reinhardt (Soho Radio London/BBC3), Fog Songs (UK), Irene Trudel (WFMU, NYC-NJ), Carson Street (KFJC, California), A Closer Listen (UK), black_ops (UK), Un Certain Reverie (Portland, OR), Jeffrey Davison (CKUT, Montreal), Conducive (UK), White Light/White Heat (Italy)
REVIEWS: "The new album I think somehow breaks new ground for holy sonic icons, Bipolar Explorer, because it feels and sounds like a whole, an unstoppable beating heart that's emanating fragile sonics and thoughts and words at the fringes of consciousness and subconsciousness, sleep and waking, dream and vision." -Max Reinhardt, Soho Radio/BBC 3 (London) "This is an album of nocturnal dreamscapes, filled with restless shadows and dim pulsating lights to guide you on your way. Embarking on this long, winding, hallucinatory sound journey is like entering a dark labyrinth of ghostly atmospheres, psychedelic meanderings and mysterious whispers...Bipolar Explorer are an experimental dream-pop band based in New York City, and this is their latest release - a sprawling 2-hour long double-disc album, which is a bold and ambitious move to make in the year 2023, but this band have done it well...'In The Hours Left Until Dawn' is a haunting and immersive listening experience. Musically, it's an e abstract field recordings, swirling vocalizations, percussive instruments and trippy audio manipulation techniques to create these gorgeous shimmering soundscapes that both haunt and comfort...'In The Hours Left Until Dawn' is an album of pure atmosphere and feeling. It's an epic accomplishment, and a gorgeous work of art that contains pop sensibilities, trippy experimentations and everything in between. Ideal introspective listening for the long quiet hours of the night. Highly recommended." -Fog Songs (UK) "An amazing album. Another new, beautiful soundscape from Bipolar Explorer! Two discs of wonderful, gorgeous, drifty music and strange, strange sounds. Utter dream sequences. I love it! It's just a beautiful work!" - Irene Trudel, WFMU (New York) "In The Hours Left Until Dawn is moody, atmospheric and filled with the calm vibrations we all need now. The music bed underlies explorations of darkness and light, all the while leaving us "a breadcrumb trail of stars" to light our way. "A sprawling suite of instrumentals, sung and spoken word. Loss permeates the music, gracing it with a tragic mystery." - A Closer Listen (UK) "A hallucinatory masterpiece. Grab this album." - Black_Ops Radio (London) "Beautiful, shimmering, hypnotic, dreamlike; always a sense of passage through unnameable dimensions; the haunt is palpable but as an enveloping wonder and at times I felt I was listening to stained glass..." - Uncertain Reverie (Portland, OR) "Just a gorgeous, gorgeous album. A lot of their music has a really strong spiritual undercurrent and maybe never more evident than on this new record, which is actually a 2-CD set." - Jeffrey Davison, CKUT (Montreal) "A dark, delightful sound journey, simultaneously haunting and comforting." -Conducive (UK) "Pick of the Week!" - White Light/White Heat (Italy)
April 7, 2024 at 9:14 AM
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In celebration of Bipolar Explorer’s impressive body of work, we present: “The Hauntology Series”.

Join Sylvia and Michael on March 2nd for the 1st listening party of The Hauntology Series: Dream Together (2017).

Follow Bipolar Explorer on BC to get updates bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com/music
Poster image for The Hauntology Series: Dream Together listening party, by Bipolar Explorer. Saturday March 2nd. Noon San Francisco / Los Angeles 3pm New York City / Boston 20h London / Glasgow 21h Paris / France The image features Dream Together album cover: it’s a photograph by Natalia Deprina, of a red-haired white woman wearing a Victorian-style white laced gown, she’s peacefully sleeping on a rock. Tall trees and the moon can be seen in the background. The image is in a tone of sepia-maroon color.
February 17, 2024 at 6:12 PM