SoftSun – Daylight in the Dark (2024), Eternal Sunrise (2025)

Hello, Dear Readers! Hope you are all having a splendid Thursday.

Yesterday I told you about this weekend’s Mojave Experience festival taking place Friday and Saturday in the California desert.

Well today, I’d like to call your attention to another group who will be making an appearance in the Yucca Valley this Friday night (20 March): SoftSun, a collaboration between Norwegian bassist/vocalist Pia Isaksen (also known for her solo act Pia Isa as well as being a member of Superlynx (reviewed here) and Californian guitarist Gary Arce (whose other band Yawning Man will ALSO be at the Mojave Experience on Saturday) with the trio rounded out by a different drummer on each of their first two albums.

 

SoftSunDaylight in the Dark (Ripple Music, 08 November 2024)

 

SoftSunEternal Sunrise (Heavy Psych Sounds, 07 November 2025)

 

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35 Tapes – Home; Ole Teigen – Aske og Jord (2021)

Well, another day, another couple of records I’d like to call your attention to. These both came out during the first half of last year, and both inhabit kind of the mellower end of the sound spectrum, ranging from prog rock to a sort of minimalistic classical/jazz. Here we go!

 

35 TapesHome (Apollon Records, 12 February 2021)

 

Ole TeigenAske og Jord (Apollon Records, 02 June 2021)

 

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Superlynx – New Moon (2019), Electric Temple + Solstice (2021)

Hello there! Just in time for Christmas — well, the eve of Christmas Eve — I’d like to gift your ears with some carols performed by a MacBethan trio of weyward musicians…

 

SuperlynxNew Moon (Dark Essence Records, 15 March 2019)

 

SuperlynxElectric Temple (Dark Essence Records, 16 April 2021)

 

SuperlynxSolstice (Dark Essence Records, 08 December 2021)

 

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