Though I’ve already reviewed the album and interviewed the band, something about Samsara Blues Experiment‘s Long Distance Trip still seems fresh to me. Maybe it’s because the record hasn’t been released yet. Take that, timing! You may have seen this news item over on StonerRock.com, but anyone feeling bummed that I got scooped should know it was up there because I posted it. Now it’s here because I posted it. Funny how that works out.

Samsara Blues Experiment are happy to announce the official release of their first album on March 31, 2010. The aptly-titled Long Distance Trip will take you out on a wild ride through the depths of psychedoomelia. Right now World in Sound Records is pressing the album on green and black vinyls, as well as on digipak CDs.

Preorders may be sent through our webpage. Dealers may contact World in Sound directly or get the album through Roughtrade or Clearspot.

Recently SBE have been added to the magnificent band roster of Sound of Liberation Booking & Management, which leads us directly to all coming concert dates, so check this out:

05. Mar 2010: Bar en Boos with Lucid Leiden – Netherlands
06. Mar 2010: SCSI Cell with Lucid Den Haag – Netherlands
07. Mar 2010: Little Devil with Lucid Tilburg – Netherlands
18. Mar 2010: White Trash with Baby Woodrose Berlin – Germany
02. Apr 2010: Borwaerk with Lucid Netzschkau/Vogtland – Germany
03. Apr 2010: White Pig with Lucid Frankenhausen – Germany
15. Apr 2010: Roadburn Festival Tilburg – Netherlands
29. May 2010: Kulturhof with Skywise Lübbenau – Germany
18. Jun 2010: Waldbad Open Air Fraureuth – Germany
09. Jul 2010: Stoned from the Underground Erfurt – Germany
17. Jul 2010: Burg Herzberg Festival Breitenbach am Herzberg – Germany
13. Aug 2010: Yellowstock Festival Geel – Belgium

Few bands’ demos struck a chord like Samsara Blues Experiment‘s did in 2008. The lush German four-piece — leader Christan Peters (ex-Terraplane) on vocals, guitar and sundries, Hans Eiselt on guitar, Richard Behrens on bass and recording engineering, and Thomas Vedder on percussive elements — produce a rich jam-based heavy psychedelia that echoes the creative freedom that birthed it. And yet, as we see in the interview with Peters and Behrens below, the process by which the expansive songs come together is nearly as complex and multi-layered as the tracks themselves.

Samsara Blues Experiment‘s recently reviewed full-length, Long Distance Trip, is set for release this year via World in Sound Records. The album contains the two songs that made up the demo, plus an assortment of new adventures just waiting to be discovered. Thanks to Peters and Behrens for the time and clearly-evident thought (and emoticons) they put into their answers for the Q&A, which can be found immediately following the jump. Please enjoy.

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