Last Lights

Bipolar Explorer

William Degouve de Nuncques - Nocturn in the Parc Royal, Brussels (1897) - pastel painting. View of an empty French-style park (trees in rows, linear pathways), night is falling, streetlights appear through tree branches, beaming like moons in the deep blue and green colors of the painting. Quietness.

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“Perhaps more present than before is the idea of memory – in abundance, here, I think – and an element that acknowledges as we’re all growing older, our thoughts wander both forward to what may be beyond this life and at the same time to remember all we’ve known. One recurring theme of the record is simply to come home. To me, to us, that’s not geographic. It’s not a spot on any map. It’s the memory of events, feelings and time, dotted throughout our lives – those moments when we felt the most whole, happy, fulfilled, our true selves – when we had the keenest sense of belonging. It’s that safe return, both the journey and arrival into a greater light and the arms of all we’ve loved and known.”

Releases on 21 June 2026.

This Distracted Globe

01. Stratiform
02. The Light Calls to Us
03. St Nestor’s Day
04. Four Saints, Part I
05. Secret Angels Beneath the West Side Highway Overpass
06. Behind the Sun
07. The Ides of March
08. Passage
09. Slow Motion
10. Across the Northern Winter Sky
11. Halcyon Days
12. Turnabout

A Better Place

01. That I Wept to Dream Again
02. A Better Place
03. Of Things to Come
04. Four Saints, Part II
05. Anyhow
06. Two Miles Away
07. Foreign Film
08. Falling
09. Orchestral Moves
10. It’s Getting Dark
11. East of Elsinore
12. Nightships
13. Guided
14. Dreams of the Bell Tower Watchman (bonus track)

Summer Serafin – vocals, spoken word.
Michael Serafin-Wells – vocals, guitars, e-bow, bowed guitar, baritone guitar, bass, Moog synth, organ, sine pad, melodica, chimes, tape loops, percussion, spoken word.
Sylvia Solanas – spoken word, synths, backing vocals.

All songs, music, lyrics and spoken word narrative poems by Michael Serafin-Wells.
c. 2026 Thirteen November Music (ASCAP).

Recorded live, noisily and in a hurry at The Shrine in New York City (NY) and the house in France.
Field recordings on location – New York, California, France, Northern Atlantic Coast.

Produced and mixed by Bipolar Explorer.
Mastered by Scott Craggs – Old Colony Mastering, Boston (MA).
Graphics by Sylvia Solanas.
Layout by Audun Grimstad.
Booklet by Sylvia Solanas and Audun Grimstad.
Cover image: “Nocturne au Parc Royal de Bruxelles” (1897) – William Degouve de Nuncques. Public domain.

For Summer with love forever.

c/p 2026 Bipolar Explorer, Slugg Records and Thirteen November Music (ASCAP).
All rights reserved.