Solyoni gears up for concept road album

It looks like Solyoni co-frontmen Dan Lurie and Dominic Aulisio have finally worked out their differences with the corporate executives at Velvet Fallopian Tube productions. The label has agreed to finance all aspects of an upcoming concept album in which Lurie and Aulisio will travel across country in an unreliable compact Honda automobile. Along the way the duo will write songs of the road, and eat plenty of beef jerky. It seems Velvet Fallopian Tube was ready to nix the deal when Aulisio demanded that the label pay for upwards of 5 pounds of jerky per travel day. In the end both sides compromised and it was agreed the Tube would pay for 3 pounds of jerky and one container of that jerky chaw stuff per day. 

The dynamic duo will travel north from Ohio, then head west through the Dakota badlands. If they manage to survive the difficult terrain, they will eventually wind up in Seattle. Once there, they will begin a feverish 48 hour recording session in which they will take the songs created during the road trip and turn them into a glorious conceptual album set to be released this summer by Velvet Fallopian Tube Productions. The excitement level is high for this album, especially since no one has any idea what Lurie and Aulisio will create on the road. Giving this much creative freedom to the demented pair is a huge gamble for Velvet Fallopian Tube, as for all they know the duo could arrive in Seattle with twelve songs about beef jerky, which may or may not be a bad thing. 

Solyoni's third key member, Bethany Gordon, will not be making the trip. She's finishing up her undergraduate work at a university located deep in Ohio. What good this degree will do for a world-famous rock star, no one is quite certain. But rest assured, Gordon's fleeting vocals and kinder-jamboree instrumental melees will resurface very soon.

Without the presence of Gordon for the Seattle sessions, the group will be collaborating with numerous Northwest musicians including recently signed drummer John Kilian, and sound engineer Aaron Semer. Creating orchestral string arrangements for the album will be a mysterious yet talented man who requested to be referred to simply as "Divita." 

Updates on this project as it progresses will of course be found here at solyoni.com! The Journey begins mid-May.

Lurie and Semer hit the Spot

Those in the Seattle area should head on over to Mr. Spot's Chai House in Ballard tomorrow (Thursday 4/4). Besides their usual selection of Chai tea, the House will be offering up a thirst-quenching musical lineup of mildly epic proportions. Chai patrons will witness a delicately powerful solo set from solyoni's Dan Lurie. Following Lurie will be Aaron Semer, a man whose post-contemporary, pre-medieval, semi-sweet songcraft could potentially move you to cry and/or wash his car. The show starts around 8 p.m.