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  <div class="message"><p>The band are honored and delighted to learn that deejay extraordinaire, Brian Damage, and California's great <a class="no-pjax" href="https://kfjc.org/" target="_blank" data-link-type="url">KFJC </a>will air an extended preview of their upcoming 13th album, <a class="no-pjax" href="https://bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com/album/last-lights" target="_blank" data-link-type="url"><i><strong>Last Lights</strong></i></a>, in a special two hour broadcast today, Tuesday, May 5th. <a class="no-pjax" href="https://kfjc.org/" target="_blank" data-link-type="url">Tune in</a>: 3pm Europe/2pm UK/9am US Eastern/6am US Pacific. </p><img src="//images.zoogletools.com/s:bzglfiles/u/391564/3c6f85c1c58ae9fc1e12b31f905acebe6ca1bb48/original/last-lights.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" height="3000" width="3000" /></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>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). </p><p>The group shared an hour with Spanish composer and sound artist, <span id="L1">Ishak Benevides. Listen again on MixCloud </span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.mixcloud.com/UrbanMutant/arts-birthday-with-ishak-benavides-and-bipolar-explorer/" target="_blank" data-link-type="url"><span id="L1">here</span></a><span id="L1">. </span></p><p><span id="L1">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, </span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com/album/forests-voices-coastlines-dreams-recordings-for-the-dark-outside" data-link-type="url"><i><span id="L1">Forests, Voices, Coastlines, Dreams</span></i><span id="L1">. </span></a></p></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>Today we observe the 46th birthday of BPX co-founder, Summer Serafin. </p><p>This morning, the band released a new video in her honor - for “Hold My Soul” from their 12th album, <a class="no-pjax" href="https://bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com/album/memories-of-the-sky" target="_blank" data-link-type="url"><i>Memories of the Sky</i></a>. Find it below and also on the band's YouTube channel. </p><p>Happy Birthday, Summer! </p><p> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="DKHSwr1f-6Q" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DKHSwr1f-6Q?rel=0&amp;wmode=transparent&amp;enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div></div>
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<span dir="auto">The band is excited to announce that their label, NYC’s indie, Slugg Records, is launching its own Bandcamp page. All of Bipolar Explorer's releases will still remain on their own</span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank" data-link-type="url"><span dir="auto"> page</span></a><span dir="auto"> but the new Slugg Records page will offer special items including bundles, </span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://sluggrecords.bandcamp.com/merch" target="_blank" data-link-type="url"><span dir="auto">merch</span></a><span dir="auto"> and - to celebrate the launch - a new recording of Michael’s play, </span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://sluggrecords.bandcamp.com/album/real-real-gone" target="_blank" data-link-type="url"><span dir="auto">“Real Real Gone”.</span></a>
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  <div class="message"><p>The band has begun working with a new artist friendly service - <a class="no-pjax" href="https://ampwall.com/a/sluggrecords" target="_blank" data-link-type="url">Ampwall</a>. </p><p>Currently, the band's 11th and 12th albums <a class="no-pjax" href="https://ampwall.com/a/sluggrecords/album/in-the-hours-left-until-dawn" target="_blank" data-link-type="url">(<i>In The Hours Left Until Dawn</i></a> and <a class="no-pjax" href="https://ampwall.com/a/bipolarexplorer/album/memories-of-the-sky" target="_blank" data-link-type="url"><i>Memories of the Sky</i></a>, respectively)  and their most recent single (<a class="no-pjax" href="https://ampwall.com/a/sluggrecords/album/dreams-of-the-bell-tower-watchman" target="_blank" data-link-type="url"><i>Dreams of the Bell Tower Watchman</i></a>) are all available on the site - as well as the brand new BPX black on black <a class="no-pjax" href="https://ampwall.com/a/bipolarexplorer/merch/bpx-black-t-shirt-100-cotton" target="_blank" data-link-type="url">t-shirts</a>! </p><p>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 <a class="no-pjax" href="https://ampwall.com/a/bipolarexplorer" target="_blank" data-link-type="url">here</a>.  </p><img src="//images.zoogletools.com/s:bzglfiles/u/391564/1fde0ff8c828444a9caa20e9d00216b1fc00ae4c/original/memories-of-the-sky-cover.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" height="3000" width="3000" /><img src="//images.zoogletools.com/s:bzglfiles/u/391564/40498359f07fb27a2fa34f23857836790e010b63/original/dreams-of-the-bell-tower-watchman-cover-high-res.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" height="3000" width="3000" /></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>The band are enormously grateful to the UK's great <i>This is Darkness</i> and Editor Rich Dodgin for their naming <a class="no-pjax" href="https://bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com/album/memories-of-the-sky" target="_blank" data-link-type="url"><i>Memories of the Sky</i></a> among their Top Albums for the month of June. Excerpt of review below and full article <a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.thisisdarkness.com/2025/06/28/frozen-in-time-this-is-darkness-playlist-june-2025/" target="_blank" data-link-type="url">here</a>. Thank you so much!</p><p>“<i>…Containing elements of dark ambient and drone, but also shoegaze, dreampop, and post-rock, <strong>Memories of the Sky</strong> – the latest release from <strong>Bipolar Explorer</strong> – 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!”</i> </p><p>-Rich Dodgin, editor- <i>This is Darkness</i> (UK) </p><img src="//images.zoogletools.com/s:bzglfiles/u/391564/1fde0ff8c828444a9caa20e9d00216b1fc00ae4c/original/memories-of-the-sky-cover.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" height="3000" width="3000" /></div>
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