Samara Lubelski | |
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 Samara Lubelski playing at Centro de Artes Visuais in Coimbra, Portugal on February 1, 2013 | |
| Background information | |
| Genres | Indie rock, psych-folk, post-rock, experimental |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, composer, engineer |
| Instrument(s) | Violin, guitar, bass, vocals |
| Labels | The Social Registry, De Stijl, Ecstatic Peace!, Amish Records, Siltbreeze, Ultra Eczema |
| Website | samaralubelski |
Samara Lubelski is an American singer, violinist, guitarist and bassist. She has been a member of numerous bands, including Of a Mesh, Metabolismus, Salmon Skin, the Sonora Pine, Hall of Fame, the Tower Recordings, MV & EE and the Bummer Road, and Chelsea Light Moving. Since 2003, she has released nine solo studio albums.
Lubelski is a prolific guest musician, performing (predominantly on violin and occasionally on bass) on dozens of recordings by artists such as the Fiery Furnaces, White Magic, Thurston Moore, God Is My Co-Pilot, Jackie-O Motherfucker and Sightings.
As a recording engineer, she has also worked with Double Leopards on Halve Maen (2003, Eclipse Records) and Out of One, Through One and to One (2005, Eclipse); Ted Leo and the Pharmacists on Hearts of Oak (2003, Lookout! Records); Magik Markers on Untitled (2003, self-released), Blues for Randy Sutherland (2004, Arbitrary Signs) and I Trust My Guitar, Etc. (2004, Ecstatic Peace!); the Fiery Furnaces on Blueberry Boat (2004, Rough Trade Records); Sightings on Arrived in Gold (2004, Load Records); Black Dice on Creature Comforts and Miles of Smiles (both 2004, DFA Records); Oneida on Secret Wars (2004, Jagjaguwar) and The Wedding (2005, Jagjaguwar); Mouthus on Saw a Halo (2007, Load Records); and Religious Knives on It's After Dark (2008, Troubleman Unlimited Records).
Lubelski grew up in an artistic community in SoHo, New York, United States.[1] She began her career as a violinist, later on expanding into a multi-instrumentalist playing cello, guitar, bass and mellotron.
Lubelski made her solo debut in 2003 with In the Valley, followed by eight additional full-lengths: The Fleeting Skies in 2004, Spectacular of Passages in 2005, Parallel Suns in 2007, Future Slip in 2009, Wavelength in 2012,[2] String Cycle in 2014, The Gilded Raid in 2016, and Flickers at the Station in 2018.
In 2006, Belgian tape label Sloow Tapes issued a single-sided cassette, Quartet. A live album, Unrock Series – November 19, 2009, was released in 2010. The album Sunday Night, Sunday Afternoon was released as a duo with Marcia Bassett in 2012. A second duo record with Bassett, 110 Livingston St., was released in 2014 on Golden Lab Records. An eponymous album by Augenmusik, an offshoot project of Metabolismus, was released on cassette by Eiderdown in 2015.
