About Us
The Solanaceae Artist Collective is a group of arthouse indie musicians from Winnipeg, Canada. We create music in a variety of genres.
We are dark, pretentious and drug addled.
All of our music can be found on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and all of those places. We can be found on Soulseek under the username ".:SolanaceaeCollective" I try to be online as often as I can. Of course, we give you permission to share our work wherever you please.
You will not be hearing what you are used to hearing, but don't worry we try not to be too difficult to your mainstream sensibilities. You will have to understand that you are about to experience something you never thought possible. You will not have realized music can do that. Don't worry, we're not
weird, we're never
weird, we don't make any
weird stupid noises.
Music is now reaching the point of total refinement. We no longer make any weird stupid noises. Pop music, though most of it falls under the sheen of unartful mediocrity, is most certainly refined. More importantly, underground art house music has discovered, broken, repaired and refined every element of sound. It is now ready to be brought to the attention of the general public and that is what we are here to do. We are here to take the advancements of the underground and make them palatable to the masses.
We don't want a record label, we don't need a record label, fuck your record labels. Take God's art and filter it through the sheen of unartful mediocrity to make it more palatable to the idiotic masses and then rape and rape your beautiful artists so you may hoard and hoard while your artists starve. We envision a future where success is based on artistic talent and not marketing. We envision a future where art is always free. Our music will always be free.
No you may not play our music on the radio, no you may not review our work on your website or magazine, no you may not give us any awards or accolades, no we do not sell merchandise. We do not despise these four things as we despise mainstream record labels but they are not for us. No you may not remix or cover our music if you are not an artist under our collective. No you may not use any of our music anywhere if you are not an artist under our collective or friendly with an artist under our collective, not for commercial purposes, not for non-commercial purposes. I apologize if this all seems a little over the top.
You may learn all about what we consider good music to be at
Bright Neon Lights. Our written words of fiction and poetry can be found at
Ethereal Pages. Our cute little indie role playing video games can be found at
Telephasic Workshop.
Announcements
November 19th, 2024 .: New Kit Carruthers Special Track
I did an abstract minimalism, but Kit Carruthers minimalism so a little easier to swallow minimalism. "
Shrieking Hatred, Frantic Hostility, Irrepressible Violence."
November 8th, 2024 .: New Kit Carruthers Special Track
I made an epic IDM electronic post-rock. "
I Am Asking the Questions."
October 23rd, 2024 .: New Resplendent Chromaticity, Incandescent Bioluminescence and Kaleidoscopic Geometry Album
Here's the fourth
Resplendent Chromaticity, Incandescent Bioluminescence and Kaleidoscopic Geometry. "
Sunshine and Birdsong and Rainbows and Butterflies and Cocaine LP." It's all bright and happy sparkles. And no that thing I did... No I am not making a statement about covering up a deep sadness with chemical support I just thought it was neat. I don't do music represents stuff instrumental music is telling a story stuff I just do a general this project is a feeling stuff. Then O Beautiful Death is going to be a little bit more of a statement than a feeling but it still isn't the instrumental sounds represent stuff.
September 25th, 2024 .: New Kit Carruthers Special Track
Every now and then we will create a track labelled "Special" that gets announced on this page. These tracks will never go on a compilation, they are stand alone. "
A Blinding Glare That Causes You to Turn Your Head but Then There's Another Blinding Glare." Drone is not usually a thing I will subject you to, I understand it can go over some heads, I understand some people view it as equivalent to... Eyugh, "new age," but no, this is not new age music, it is a whole different animal. Speaking of which I just wanted to say that I saw a story on a message board about a person who's friend said ambient is new age and he was all "I know a lot about music and no it isn't" and the other guy was all "Uh, no. You're an idiot. I know nothing about music and yes it is. Idiot." And I just wanted to say I hate you and I don't think you should have babies.
September 12th, 2024 .: New Resplendent Chromaticity, Incandescent Bioluminescence and Kaleidoscopic Geometry Album
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Not All of the Flowers Will Grow Again LP." I don't want to make the same album over and over and there isn't a whole lot of difference between this one and the last one but I had to do something special with my new drum machine and strings and flutes. This is an amazing professional drum machine software, I'll be able to use it long into me buying hardware. And now I'm going to need to give it a rest with album art colours that point into or spin around a centre, I know, unfortunately I already made another album cover with colours that spin around the centre for a future collaborative project with Chris but now I'm going to need to figure out how to design graphics that don't point into the centre. And I always need to give credit, "Red Is the Fastest" is a thought that came out of an old friend's mind, Travis, that is a thought that did not originate in my brain but I said it different. I'm not sure if it even is the fastest or if that is a myth but fuck you it's just a track title.
August 28th, 2024 .: First The Way of the Five Pecks of Rice EP
Here's the first
The Way of the Five Pecks of Rice. "
Please Murder Me EP." I found much better strings. I now have in my employ the BBC Symphony Orchestra. They don't know they're working for me but they're working for me. And that thing the strings are doing is deliberate they aren't always like that. I have a few things recorded that have not been released yet that still use the old strings so everything is all out of order and my OCD is very upset but what's done is done. And I do not intend on hypnotizing you into murdering me it is simply a polite request. And if you do plan on murdering me for the record I would prefer you to be a sexy lady.
August 24th, 2024 .: New Future Project Conceived
"The Way of the Five Pecks of Rice." Okay NOW I'm pretty sure I've gotten every project out that I've ever considered and I have officially declared every sound my soul feels. You're going to get an introduction to this project pretty soon. I thought of starting O Beautiful Death with a pure IDM EP but decided against it as then it just feels like I'm adding electric guitars to electronic music and that's gross. I fully understand that nobody would ever view it that way and everybody would understand but my brain doesn't want me to do it. That kind of thing is only okay in my mind if it isn't super serious music that you take real serious. This project, however, I feel I can safely start with a strictly electronic EP. It shouldn't be too terribly long before it's up.
August 15th, 2024 .: New Resplendent Chromaticity, Incandescent Bioluminescence and Kaleidoscopic Geometry Album
The next
Resplendent Chromaticity, Incandescent Bioluminescence and Kaleidoscopic Geometry album is now up. "
The Natural World Is Satan LP." I'm starting to make it a little glitch.
July 24th, 2024 .: First Resplendent Chromaticity, Incandescent Bioluminescence and Kaleidoscopic Geometry Album
Here is the introduction to
Resplendent Chromaticity, Incandescent Bioluminescence and Kaleidoscopic Geometry, it's kinda sorta standard, I will be expanding on it in the future. "
Talking to Trees LP."
July 17th, 2024 .: New Future Project Conceived
I've been working on this one already for the past few days but I didn't have a name for it yet so I didn't post it. Should only be a week or three before you get to hear it. "Resplendent Chromaticity, Incandescent Bioluminescence and Kaleidoscopic Geometry."
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