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SOLSUN is the analog, alternate(ative,) elektro-human, creative guise of KEITH MILO 

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BLIND ALLEGIANCE

 

Released on February 29, 2020, BLIND ALLEGIANCE is the brand new SOLSUN digital single, and first release to follow the debut album NAKED MACHINE in late 2018. 

"Written as a satirical, alternate reality, elektro-human tale that takes place “on the other side," where the connected world is separated, and social discord has ensued. 

The narration is delivered with sardonic perspective as both observation and as a larger scope "to what end" existential question: 

Who wins when the lines of chaos and polarized divisions reign supreme over intellectual integrity and honesty?"  

To be continued... 

-Keith x 

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Welcome to the SOLSUN “bio” page.  

 

Since i’m writing this page myself, I guess it’s less of a “bio” and more of an “auto-biography.”

 

I’m not sure I want to write an “auto-biography," so instead, I’m going to tell you a little bit about each of the songs on the debut SOLSUN album, 'NAKED MACHINE.'  

 

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LUNAR THEME:

 

LUNAR THEME is a song about perspective.   Its also one of two song lyrics which contains the album title NAKED MACHINE -

which for me is a reference to humanity in general.  Singular and plural. 

 

We’re all born little naked machine(s).  As we grow older, I think we tend to cover up and show the world what we choose.   For reasons, myriad.

 

But when you step back and think about the fact that we live In a Universe that is 14 billion years old where humans have only existed for a blip of a second on a planet that might be equal to a solitary grain of sand on an infinite beach, it makes us think and look beyond our noses for a bit.   And question... In this expanding Universe, with hundreds of millions of suns and galaxies…  Just how (in?)significant can any one of us seven billion ants swaying to the moon and tide cycle on planet Earth really be?   

 

Despite claims that some may make, the truth is, no one knows - we can only speculate and dream about human purpose and where we fit into the scheme of things,

and so we do.

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‘THE ONLY ONES?’

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“Hey boy, what if we’re not the only ones to spin around a sun?”

 

This is a new album mix/master of the first SOLSUN digital single release, and i’m joined by Dania Morales, on backing vocals.   

 

Lyrically, this song was inspired by a 1971 Yoko Ono Art Exhibition entitled “THIS IS NOT HERE.”  

 

Could it be?

 

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BIG FISH:

 

About a year ago I came across a David Bowie interview clip on YouTube called “Never play to the gallery.”  It inspired me to write the story of “Big Fish.”  

It’s probably the most delicate song and production on the album with a bit of Leonard Cohen inspiration as well.. 

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RAINBOW ROAD:

 

I won’t say too much about this one.   I definitely know what inspired it.   But for me, I think it evolved into something more than I had originally intended. 

It’s very much a “head song” and It ended up being one of my personal favorites.

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THE SCIENCE OF DUST:

 

“Hello, perhaps my reputation precedes me….”  

 

NAKED MACHINE  is *my* science of dust, unburied.   It’s my confidence/insecurity, strengths/vulnerabilities, light/dark, happiness, and sometimes sadness.    I think it’s a very organic elektro-human album and the most creatively gratifying work I’ve ever done.   

 

That’s not to say that i’m not proud of the things I was a part of and released prior to SOLSUN, I am.  But I didn’t want SOLSUN to be defined by anything I’ve done before.  

 

Today, it feels like everything before has brought me to NAKED MACHINE.   I’m a different person than the kid who wrote ‘It’s Over Now’ twenty-five years ago.    A song which was quickly added and beamed from just about every major alternative and pop radio station across the country and ended up reaching millions of peoples ears -

and that is still absolutely baffling to me. 

 

But there were a lot of people involved to make that happen.   NAKED MACHINE is me alone, and of course, you.   It’s us.   A smaller much more intimate “indie” scale, yes. 

But it can’t matter, because eventually every single one of us will be defeated by The Science Of Dust.   So, carpe diem.  I suppose. 

 

And that’s all squeezed into a one minute song along with a bit of Moog, Juno 106, Rhodes, and a vocoder. 

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SIREN CALL:   

 

SIREN CALL actually started as a slower dark and moody ballad that I wrote on acoustic guitar.   It wasn’t until I started producing it that I raised the tempo,

brought it up a few keys, and it turned itself into a gritty SOLSUN elektro track which was created almost entirely on a KORG MS-20.     

 

Lyrically, I feel like it was pretty specific when I wrote it.   But as Dania Morales, who sings with me on the song said, “It could be about anything, even chocolate.”     

However it’s interpreted, It’s not meant as a judgement, nor a glamorization.   Just a question really:  Can you heed the siren calling?

 

  

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TRUE BLUE (LOVESONG)

 

I think this may be the most pure elektro/synth-pop song I’ve ever written and it was entirely an accident.   

 

It started out as a darker sardonic track about the insipidness the fills the lyrical space in many pop songs, but it ended up becoming something entirely different.  

A lovesong, to my husband, the man who has been the anchor in my life for 22 years.     

 

Never in a million years did I imagine that I would ever start a song with the lyric “baby, I love you” but once I did, the entire song spewed out in a matter of minutes.

  

  Despite being a lovesong in the key of Dminor, ‘TRUE BLUE (LOVESONG)’ was a happy elektro-human accident, but definitely one with a  SOLSUN stamp on it.

 

 

 

BITTER PILL:

 

‘Bitter Pill’ Is the oldest of the songs on the album. I wrote it several years back on acoustic guitar and didn’t actually record the first demo until about a year later.  As a drum-less ballad in 6/8 that starts small and gets big in an 80’s synth and vocal way, It was kind of my black sheep track and I’d been teetering back and forth about including it.   But I kept coming back to it, and lm glad I did.  I’m generally a fan of black sheep, and this one has found it’s home as track #8 on the album.

 

Lyrically, I wrote this one from the perspective of a friend who was going through an ugly break up with his longtime partner.   Witnessing the incident inspired me to write BITTER PILL, which i guess more than anything is a universal message about the confusion at the end of a relationship and learning to move on.

 

Sonically, This is one of the songs I wanted to remain simple and minimal.   The piano, strings and organ are all Juno 106, with some sequence chop chords running through the Moog filter and some Ms20 perc-hits.  It’s about as simple as I’ve ever presented a song.

 

 

HOME:

 

Home was written much like the lyric states as a stream of consciousness atop a repeating piano riff, almost a minuet.   A quirky and somewhat awkward introspective lyric and melody which turned into a quirky production created almost entirely on a Moog Subsequent 37.  

 

 

ECCENTRIC UNCLE (bonus track)

 

The album officially ends with HOME.    Eccentric Uncle is a bonus b-side which hearkens the tale of my favorite teenage uncle.   I think there may be a bit of uncle in all of us.  

 

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NAKED MACHINE is released as Limited Edition Split-fold Vinyl, Deluxe Edition Compact Disc, and High Definition Digital formats.    Available at all fine outlets starting September 21, 2018.   Vinyl ships December 2018 (sold out.)  

 

Prior to SOLSUN, as the synth-half of ‘Cause and Effect,’ Keith Milo released the Albums & EP’s: 

 

TRIP | InnermostStation | The Sunrise EP | Artificial Construct Part One | Artificial Construct Part Two | The Happiness? EP  

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2020 (and BEYOND)

 

TO BE CONTINUED...

 

 

Keith x