The band are honored and delighted to learn that deejay extraordinaire, Brian Damage, and California's great KFJC will air an extended preview of their upcoming 13th album, Last Lights, in a special two hour broadcast today, Tuesday, May 5th. Tune in: 3pm Europe/2pm UK/9am US Eastern/6am US Pacific.
The band will release its 13th album, another double-album - Last Lights - on the day of the Summer Solstice (June 21st). More news soon…
The band were hugely honored to be back on the air with the legendary Max Reinhardt ( the founder of BBC 3's “Late Junction” and a huge champion of Bipolar Explorer, having Michael on for multiple interviews on his Soho Radio “Late Late Lunch” show). Michael and Max played tracks, discussed current affairs, the upcoming BPX album (with an exclusive preview) and more. Listen to the now archived broadcast here. Thank you so much, Max!
The band were honored and delighted to have been featured on Seattle's KHUH this Saturday during the annual special 24 hour broadcast observing “Art's Birthday” (a celebration in memory of Fluxus artist Robert Filliou who declared, on 17 January 1963, that Art had been born exactly 1,000,000 years before).
The group shared an hour with Spanish composer and sound artist, Ishak Benevides. Listen again on MixCloud here.
The BPX set begins near the 22 minute mark and includes four tracks - “eleven:eleven”, “The Storm Passes”, “In Between Hours” and “The Dark Outside, The Light Within” - from their 2021 album, Forests, Voices, Coastlines, Dreams.
Today we observe the 46th birthday of BPX co-founder, Summer Serafin.
This morning, the band released a new video in her honor - for “Hold My Soul” from their 12th album, Memories of the Sky. Find it below and also on the band's YouTube channel.
Happy Birthday, Summer!
The band has begun working with a new artist friendly service - Ampwall.
Currently, the band's 11th and 12th albums (In The Hours Left Until Dawn and Memories of the Sky, respectively) and their most recent single (Dreams of the Bell Tower Watchman) are all available on the site - as well as the brand new BPX black on black t-shirts!
Eventually the group intends for its entire catalog to go up on the site, as well. Have a look at the Bipolar Explorer Ampwall page here.
The band are enormously grateful to the UK's great This is Darkness and Editor Rich Dodgin for their naming Memories of the Sky among their Top Albums for the month of June. Excerpt of review below and full article here. Thank you so much!
“…Containing elements of dark ambient and drone, but also shoegaze, dreampop, and post-rock, Memories of the Sky – the latest release from Bipolar Explorer – is impossible to pigeon-hole… and that’s no bad thing! Featuring 22 tracks of brilliantly dark, deep, and meditative music, this album is perfect for sitting inside as you watch the thunderstorm and lashing rain through the window, and contemplate your life and the wider world around you. Simply divine!”
-Rich Dodgin, editor- This is Darkness (UK)
It's only just come to our attention that the band's 12th album, Memories of the Sky, was 15th in the WFMU charts of Most Heavily Played Records in March. Huge thanks to everyone at the station - especially the great Irene Trudel, who had the band live on her show and was the group's earliest champion, first debuting their work on her program over a decade ago. Thank you!