Solilians

Solilians are: Neptune Sweet - Vocals, Stylus: Benjamin Malkin - Banjo, Bass, Keyboards: Gabriel Walsh - Modular Synth, Guitar, Producer: Paul Doliner - Guitar: Habiba Alcindor - Microkorg: Dave Gould - Drums.

Solilians began as the 7-inch soundtrack to The Binah Comics, a super-powers tale sans violence, about a woman sick of all the insanity and nuclear posturing surrounding her homeland. A collaboration between Malkin's writing and the great illustrator Ian Densford, The Binah Comics proved successful, and Malkin put together a dream team of some of today’s best space rock minds to create ambient reflections of the comics. Released in 2013, Neptune Sweet (Electric Djinn), J. Cep (The Stargazer Lilies; Soundpool), and Gabriel Walsh (Earthly Frames, Timesbold) joined Malkin (So L’il, Soundpool) for the Binah’s Dream 7-inch, a sublime creepy affair.

In 2019 Solilians were joined by low rock drummer Mike Margulis, and their sound evolved into the hazy, sub-aquatic drone rock featured on their 2019 split 7-inch and digital full-length with psychedelic, middle eastern blues band Skyjelly, In the Running I, on the iconic I Heart Noise Record Label. (On the final track of the album [‘The Sisko’], the two bands collaborated; I Heart Noise’s brilliance bringing together a Jewish Space Rock band and a Lebanese Psychedelic band in the great coming together.) In 2021 Solilians were joined by Doliner on guitar, who Malkin played with in ambient clawhammer duo Yar Dreams of Sela. In 2022 Habiba Alcindor joined the fray on Microkorg, and Neptune and Benjamin's old bandmate Dave Gould from Ideas Are Birds joined on drums.