Solilians are: 

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​Shoshi - Vocals, Omnichord

Neptune Sweet - Vocals, Stylus

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

Paul Doliner - Guitar

Habiba Alcindor - Microkorg

Dave Gould - Drums​

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Klezmische Deluxe - Bring Them Home Now, calls attention to the necessity to free the hostages now, and is Solilians new LP on I Heart Noise Records, to be released October 25, 2024. The LP fuses the spirits of Jewish Psychedelia, Kosmishce, and Space Americana, making a resoundingly proud Jewish aesthetic statement (in a world increasingly hostile to Jews), chronicling the interstellar journeys of mystic seekers, creating mantra minimalism for the next generation.

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Led by Shoshi and Sweet’s duel celestial female vocals, Benyomin’s circumjacent clawhammer, Gabriel’s cosmic modular (not to mention brilliant production), Dave & Mike’s majestic drums, Paul’s glistening guitar, and Habiba's Microkorg wanderings, astral exploration and structured improvisation make Solilians songs the love child of Stereolab, The Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music, and the Masada Songbook.

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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 Benyomin's writing and the great illustrator Ian Densford, The Binah Com­ics proved successful, and Benyomin put together a dream team of some of the day’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 (The Earthly Frames, Timesbold) joined Benyomin 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 Shoshi, 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 Gabriel's psychedelic sci-fi edge and Benyomin's slow motion ambient dub prisms of klezmer melody, their debut full-length Shin arrived in 2016 on Goodbye Better. Solilians space drone dreams 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, and saw the release of American Klezmische, EP on I Heart Noise Records in 2022, shortly thereafter. Later that year Habiba Alcindor joined the fray on Microkorg, and Neptune and Benyomin's old bandmate Dave Gould from Ideas Are Birds joined on drums.  (An additional Merc Yes Remix for Solilians 'There Is No Michigan' was released in 2023.)

 

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.

 

"... 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

 

“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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Former Solilians: 

Mike Margulis - Drums

J. Cep - Guitar

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