Solex makes new music and sound effects for Edward Albee's 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf'. The whole thing will be performed live at cinema Kriterion in Amsterdam on March 20st. Everyones invited for this evening of fun and games.
Overeasy's Bang Your Buck is the 2nd release on Discmeister Records. Overeasy is actually Robert who used to play drums in Solex. You can check out some of his tunes -and become his buddy- on MySpace
Solex on MySpace
Solex will play a Pakistan-benefit in Amsterdam @ Sugarfactory
Solex on Keeping It Peel, the John Peel memorial website.
Pic: Solex @ BUE-fest in Argentina
Andy Graydon made a video for the Solex cover of E&TB's The Cutter Watch it here.
New MP3 All You Can Hear. Check the MP3 Page
The new Bluesexplosion cds and 7" Crunchy features remixes by DFA, !!! and Solex. Out on Mute
At last: the MAE/Solex fishtank ep is up for sale. You can check some of the music at the Maarten Altena Ensemble website.
Fresh
Belgium tour dates! Holland Sucks!
(w. Voicst and The Sheer)
New: Solex classic T-shirt. Order it at You
Make Music.com
Fresh
Italian tour dates!
Read
The Diary update!
NEW:
The new Solex shop
is online @ youmakemusic.com
The
US leg of the tour is halfway. Read The
Diary!
NEW:
Lyrics Laughing Stock Of Indie Rock now online. Sing
Along ;)
Loads
of new tourdates. Check 'em out!
In
Europe the new Solex record 'The Laughing Stock Of Indie Rock' will be
released September 13th on Discmeister. The record is licensed by Arena
Rock for the U.S (release Sept. 28th), Magnum Music for Taiwan and China,
and by Ultrapop for South America. Solex will be in the US in October
and November. Check soon for the exact dates.
The
new Solex record, titled 'The Laughing Stock Of Indie Rock' will be out
in september. In the US it will be out on Arena
Rock aka ARRCo. Yes it's a company! And it's bi-coastal
Download the song Low Kick and Hard Bop as played live at VPRO's
Club 3VOOR12. You might wanna check the other 19 acts on
this free MP3 cd as well.
Also: check out a snippet of the Randy Costanza video on The Victoria Lucas site
(From
the Solex Newsletter)
First:
If you watch Dutch television and are into science, this is a should-see:
December 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 27th at 18.15 on Net 3 a program called
'Wetensnap'.
It only lasts about 7 minutes and looks like some strange kind of music
video. The 3 main differences are:
1) I've compiled the music and recorded the sound effects & voices
for it.
2) the 7 minutes cover more than just one song, but it's not Pink Floyd.
3) the singer isn't a 30+ guy under a Christmas tree wearing a latex cat-suit,
but a kid that not only raps / tells you how to do a scientific trick,
but also shows you how to actually do it. It's amazing how well the music
of Aavikko, Yo La Tengo, Pes, Paul Barman, Sad Rockets, David Shire or
Messer fur Frau Muller goes with kids.
Second:
A few weeks back I played with the Maarten Altena Ensemble on the nice
Crossing
Border Festival in The Hague (NL). Apart from some Charles Ives and some
Solex songs we played a brand new 25 minute song called '1+1=11'.
This song has a somewhat different than usual history. Maarten Altena
is working as a composer for about 25 years now. I took everything he
ever recorded in his life and gave it the Solex-treatment. I cut it up,
pitched it up & down, sampled it and tossed it round and round, untill
I had a 25 minute song. After that Maarten orchestrated it back to the
ensemble so we were able to play it live as well. Big fun to make, but
rather nerve wrecking to play live. I don't think I can remember a single
minute of the whole gig.That's it for now. Have a great holiday with good
food & nice drinks and a happy new year. Next time I hope to write
you with news about at least two releases.
Kiss, Elisabeth
Long time no habla!
After the last intense tour (that took me ages to recover from) I took a short vacation. Right after I started working on a new album. Now, almost a year later I'm in the middle of the editing process which will take me a 'little' more time.
As Bobby Zimmermann already knew: 'The times they are a changing'. For some that means a new haircut, for others a new pair of pants or for some people (that I don't know) a new Limp Bizkit record. For me it means that my next record will be released on an other label. Yes, Matador and Solex are no longer like Laurel and ...what was the other guys name again? They're still huge fans and promised to buy my new record. I will truly miss them.
Then on with the happier stuff: I always loved Pavement, and so decided to conTRIBUTE a song to a record called 'Everything is ending here'. The double cd features some 30+ covers by the likes of Quickspace, Fuck, Yuppie Flu, Tindersticks and Bardo Pond. Truly a nice compilation (redux deluxe and dvd to follow in the near future).
April 20th DJ Set in Rome
Sorry, no live shows in the near future.
Love, Elisabeth.
Chickfactor no. 15 features Elisabeth.
More shows with Maarten Altena Ensemble: check tourdates
Solex will do a Peel session on the 25th. The 26th Solex will play the 93 Feet East in London