Solilians are: 

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Neptune Sweet - Vocals, Stylus

Benjamin Malkin - Banjo, Bass, Keyboards
Gabriel Walsh - Modular Synth, Guitar, Producer

Paul Doliner - Guitar

Habiba Alcindor - Microkorg

Dave Gould - Drums

Sharon Malkin - Vocals, Omnichord

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American Klezmische, Solilians new EP on I Heart Noise Records and the second in the In the Running Series, fuses the spirits of Kosmische, Klezmer and Americana, like

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"... a dream laden, slow-motion drone that stretches out like a mirage fueled ride through a burning desert. "- Simon Lewis, Terrascope 

 

“For fans of dreamy psych & hypnosis-inducing drone." - Growls & Shrieks

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“The psychedelic krautrockers’…magnetizing meditations that cause a trance-like sensation with its repetitive flow and a hypnotic clawhammer banjo riffs" – Turn Up the Volume & Wormhole World

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Sweet’s female vocals of the interstellar order, Malkin’s circumjacent clawhammer, Walsh’s cosmic modular (not to mention brilliant production), Margulis’ majestic drums, and Doliner’s glistening guitar provide astral exploration and structured improvisation, making Solilians songs the love child of Stereolab, Dirty Three and The Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music.

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Solilians began as the 7-inch soundtrack to The Binah Comics, a super-powers tale sans violence, about a woman sick of all the insanity and nuclear posturing surround­ing her homeland. A collaboration between Malkin's writing and the great illustrator Ian Densford, The Binah Com­ics proved successful, and Malkin put together a dream team of some of today’s best space rock minds to create ambient reflections of the comics. Released in 2013, Neptune Sweet (Electric Djinn), J. Cep (The Stargazer Lilies; Soundpool), and Gabriel Walsh (Earthly Frames, Timesbold) joined Malkin (So L’il, Soundpool) for the Binah’s Dream 7-inch, a sublime creepy affair.

 

After the 7-inch, J. Cep left to focus on his band The Stargazer Lilies, and the New York and Maryland-based Solilians replaced him with Sharon Malkin, whose Mediterranean Hebrew beauty weaved with Sweet’s otherworldly cosmic majesty to create duel vocal interplay ala Stereolab slowed down to Stars of the Lid. Combined with Walsh's psychedelic sci-fi edge and B. Malkin's slow motion ambient dub prisms of klezmer melody, their debut full-length Shin arrived in 2016 on Goodbye Better. Solilians space drone dreams were the interstellar journeys of mystic seekers, mantra minimalism for the next generation, and featured many friends from multi-media label Goodbye Better's extended family, including DJ/Producer Merc Yes of MRC Riddims (formerly of shoegaze legends All Natural Lemon & Lime Flavors); avant-jazz & klezmer trombonist Dan Blacksberg of Hasidic doom metal band Deveykus; and the butterfly bowed guitar of J. Cep.

 

In 2019 Solilians were joined by low rock drummer Mike Margulis, and their sound evolved into the hazy, sub-aquatic drone rock featured on their 2019 split 7-inch and digital full-length with psychedelic, middle eastern blues band Skyjelly, In the Running I, on the iconic I Heart Noise Record Label. (On the final track of the album [‘The Sisko’], the two bands collaborated; I Heart Noise’s brilliance bringing together a Jewish Space Rock band and a Lebanese Psychedelic band in the great coming together.) In 2021 Solilians were joined by Doliner on guitar, who Malkin played with in ambient clawhammer duo Yar Dreams of Sela. In 2022 Habiba Alcindor joined the fray on Microkorg, and Neptune and Benjamin's old bandmate Dave Gould from Ideas Are Birds joined on drums.  

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Live Solilians have shared the stage with luminaries such as Jim White & Marisa Anderson, Wet Tuna, MV & EE, Implodes, The Stargazer Lilies, Guiding Light, Skyjelly, Deadleaf Echo, Brian Chase, More Klementines, and toured with legendary Connecticut ambient rockers Landing.

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Former Solilians: 

Mike Margulis - Drums

J. Cep - Guitar

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