Samara Lubelski


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 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 and Out of One, Through One and to One ; Ted Leo and the Pharmacists on Hearts of Oak ; Magik Markers on Untitled, Blues for Randy Sutherland and I Trust My Guitar, Etc. ; the Fiery Furnaces on Blueberry Boat ; Sightings on Arrived in Gold ; Black Dice on Creature Comforts and Miles of Smiles ; Oneida on Secret Wars and The Wedding ; Mouthus on Saw a Halo ; and Religious Knives on It's After Dark.

Career

Lubelski grew up in an artistic community in SoHo, New York, United States. 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, 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.

Discography

Studio albums

  • In the Valley
  • The Fleeting Skies
  • Spectacular of Passages
  • Parallel Suns
  • Future Slip
  • Wavelength
  • String Cycle
  • The Gilded Raid
  • Flickers at the Station
  • ''Partial Infinite Sequence''

Live albums

  • ''Unrock Series – November 19, 2009''

Singles

  • "Did You See?"/"Spectacular of Passages" 7-inch

Cassettes

  • Quartet single-sided cassette
  • Joy Rides single-sided cassette

EPs with Of a Mesh

  • Of a Mesh 12-inch EP
  • Broken 12-inch EP

Albums with Metabolismus

  • Azzafatazzam
  • Grounded
  • Terra Incognita
  • Anthem of the Moon
  • Sprießwärtsdrall
  • ''SUS''

Singles with Metabolismus

  • "Snowy Meadow"/"Somnia" 7-inch

EPs with Pacer

  • Pacer 10-inch EP

Albums with the Sonora Pine

  • The Sonora Pine
  • ''II''

Albums with Hall of Fame

  • Hall of Fame
  • First Came Love, Then Came the Tree
  • Hall of Fame
  • ''Paradise Now''

Singles and EPs with Hall of Fame

  • Coliseum Rising 7-inch EP
  • Split 7-inch with Golden Calves
  • "The Cannibal"/"Superstring Theory" 7-inch

Albums with the Tower Recordings

  • The Folk Scene
  • The Futuristic Folk of the Tower Recordings Volumes 1 & 2
  • The Galaxies' Incredibly Sensual Transmission Field of the Tower Recordings
  • ''Message from the Celestial Explosions''

Albums with Metal Mountains

  • ''Golden Trees''

Albums as Marcia Bassett/Samara Lubelski

  • Sunday Night, Sunday Afternoon
  • 110 Livingston St.
  • Live, NYC
  • ''Morning Flare Symmetries''

Albums with Chelsea Light Moving

Albums with Augenmusik

  • ''Augenmusik''

Albums with Bill Nace

  • ′′Samara Lubelski/Bill Nace′′
  • ′′Live in Belchertown′′
  • ''Live in Brussel''

Guest appearances