Name: Rare Dreams: Solar Live 2.27.18
Brand: Chris Forsyth and The Solar Motel Band

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

AF05

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Colour

black

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Discs

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-04-23

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Forte

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

843563135969

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Chris Forsyth and The Solar Motel Band

Genre GB

Psychedelic

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On February 27, 2018, Chris Forsyth and 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 release, 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 of the Non Dream (No Quarter, 2017) and The Rarity of Experience (No Quarter, 2016) plus covers of two Neil Young songs - the autobiographical plaint “Don’t Be Denied,” lyrically relocated by Forsyth from Young's Canada and Hollywood to the more personally relevant geography of New Jersey and Philadelphia, and encore “Barstool Blues” (they’d run out of material to play, so another Neil Young tune it was).

Rare Dreams: Solar Live 2.27.18

Music GB