For Booking and Press Inquiries:
MCL Recording Co.
Sammy or Heather Salazar
mclrecordingco@gmail.com
solarmaximum343@gmail.com
415.305.9231
Experimental, improvisation, multi-dimensional psyche-drone explorations in sound. Meditative. Slow whole notes that float in a liquid of ambient psychedelia! Heavy bass grooves dancing low in an aural sky. Bass drones. Avant-garde. Astrology. Minimalist. Improvisation. Lo-Fi. DIY. Just two basses... Sammy and Heather are passing thru a new and different understanding of musical extremes and exploring psychedelic droning soundscapes in a purely improvisational style. Slow and more mature, the minimalist approach becomes heavy and intense. More with less. SOLAR MAXIMUM is Sammy and Heather to the max! All with only two basses and a minimal beat.
SOLAR MAXIMUM performs sitting in chairs, facing each other, allowing for a more intimate feel to the affair. Improvising on established riffs as well as new ones, with the idea of taking the audience on a heady trip to another planet.SOLAR MAXIMUM has performed with:
-Indie rock band Fuck
-Folk-psyche troubadour Matt Baldwin
-Ex Brian Jonestown Massacre psyche-man Brian Glaze & Tiffany's,
-Todd Huth's Porch
-Sweden's prog powerhouse Necromonkey
Solar Maximum's sited influences are ambient artists like Dan Lanois and Brian Eno, experimental band Stars of the Lid and Le Monte Young, Can, drone-metal bands Sunn O)))), Earth and The Melvins as well as sci-fi writer Philip K Dick.
The band has been mentioned positively on DroningEarth (Finland), ATTN:Magazine (England), CaliperMusic (USA) and the Fiberglass Jacket blog (USA). For media links, click here.
"For the first 10 seconds of each of these pieces, Solar Maximum are playing a tectonically slow form of rock ‘n’ roll. After five minutes, they’re simply bodies humming in harmonic alignment, liberated from the burden of purpose, stripped from the clutter of semantics."
-ATTN:Magazine, England
" Over 30 Min monster...wonderful double bass guitar drone relaxation. its space time again, beam me up jim!" -DroningEarth Blog, Finland
"Classic solar maximum...Very experimentally individual style. I like the rolling mutation of the electric guitar sounds. Has a raw atmosphere-magnetism. It pulls you in. I like this record alot."
(reviewing Soundtrack: Event I Uranian Fire) - Simon Thomas at SineFM 102.6FM in Doncaster, England
Sammy and Heather have been writing, recording and performing together since 1999 when they started the fast and loud stoner punk band Leather Pills. Based in San Francisco Ca., the band played a blistering version of punk rock with themes dealing in urban living, survival and smoking as much pot as possible! Leather Pills released 1 EP and 1 full length CD before disbanding in 2004. They played the west coast and shared stages with, Marky Ramone, D. I. and The Lewd among others and performed at the Dee Dee Ramone RIP Tribute show in San Francisco.
Sammy also writes and records as closetLames, is a recording engineer, a screen-printer and a principal player in the Oakland-based music/art collective Her Majesty TheE Spleen and has been active in the SF bay area music community since 1995.
Heather is an astrologer, a poet and records her own art as pallasCatfight.
In addition to SOLAR MAXIMUM, Sammy and Heather own and operate MCLscreenworks (an indie screenprint shop specializing in handprinted work on garment, posters and other substrates), and their record label, MCL Recording Co. The label concentrates on releasing experimental, psyche and punk projects mainly involving Sammy and Heather, along with releases by veteran L.A. experimental sound addict DS Peligro.
LINKS:
Solar Maximum Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/solar
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/solar-maximum
MCL Recording Co. Bandcamp: https://mclrecordingco.bandcamp.com/
Videos on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVfqm29LwBMQFBA7Al6Lt9fn794_mLh7u
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