Michael Serafin-Wells
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Michael Serafin-Wells
@bipolarexplorer.info
Composer, writer, musician. Co-founder experimental dreampop bands Bipolar Explorer and Tremosphere. New York, NY.
https://linktr.ee/bipolarexplorer

“Holy sonic icons.” -Max Reinhardt (BBC 3/Soho Radio)
Listening now!
November 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
...I already liked and admired him but this made me love the fuckin' guy.

God bless and rest you, Mr S. I think there's a red headed siren up there waiting to greet you. Maybe you have another role for her...

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:37 PM
...one night at The Geary, Stoppard ambled out the shadows and told her he loved her work on his play. She was stunned and delighted and managed to compose herself before her indescribably memorable entrance, which was akin to Cleopatra arriving on her royal barge...
November 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Thank you so much!
November 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
But, yeah, somewhat irregular signal boost, find it here: bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com/track/better...
Better Girl, by Bipolar Explorer (c/p. 2018 Slugg Records)
track by Bipolar Explorer (c/p. 2018 Slugg Records)
bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Both tracks are from "The Only Place" -the band's 2nd album released a little more than a year after Summer's tragic passing. The former is far more known. I wrote to Bethany to explain our cover & why this song- a seemingly forgotten deep track- had so moved me. I never heard back. Maybe someday.
November 29, 2025 at 3:43 AM
... coming back from his retreat on Cape Cod with his artwork for OF LOVE AND LOSS - our first album since Summer's tragic passing and dedicated, like all our subsequent work, to her. "Better Girl" was not on that mixtape. It was their track "Up All Night" but so filled with beauty & longing...
November 29, 2025 at 3:24 AM
We released it on Valentines Day in 2018 a few weeks before I got hit by a car and died for 10 minutes. Had I not survived it would have been the final track from the band. I only knew Bethany Cosentino and her group because our bandmate Sean Lahey had sent me home with a mixtape in 2011 when I was
November 29, 2025 at 3:17 AM