Guy Blakeslee, best known as front-man for LA's The Entrance Band, is embarking on a Winter Tour, diving alone into cosmic troubadour fashion, playing acoustic and electric guitar and singing songs from his 2014 solo LP "Ophelia Slowly" (Everloving Records) as well as new material from his next solo record, the recording of which is currently underway. The tour begins as the eve of a forthcoming release of instrumental guitar compositions, "The Middle Sister," on January 29, 2016 at Leaving Records, Los Angeles. Having spent the past 2 years opening for friends and colleagues such as Cat Power, Spiritualized, Wymond Miles, Father John Misty and himself in larger venues throughout the USA, this finds Blakeslee in more intimate settings and performing his unique blend of psychedelia, poetic folk, blues and gospel in an inspired mood and new form, much like he once did as "Entrance" in the early 2000's before the formation of the Entrance Band.

Guy Blakeslee (The Entrance Band) delivers his first solo album in six years. Produced by Chris Coady (Beach House, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Ophelia Slowly), takes a step back from the dense rock sound his LA-based neo-psychedelic trio is known for, diving instead into a sparse, spooky dreamscape where slurred loops, psychedelics, and the occasional acoustic guitar riffs frame hushed atmospheres and vivid dreams. Recorded in New York in the fall of 2013, the album focuses on Blakeslee's recent descent wrestling with demons and angels alike. In the center of Ophelia's vision/sonic, excavates the hopeful fragrance of magic and family. It also offers a sweeping space of Conversation, Blakeslee's voice never to be fogged or wrapped for emphasis: right as the artist delivers a Shakespeare's Hamlet heroine. Recording undertook on an austere for the times, Blakeslee seems to hint that the intention is for past relics and narratives, and when you see the stage, his stage banter has more poetic desire to write for Spiritualized or Cat Power without his old devotion to that genre. Blakeslee has always been an endless fan of early American Delta blues, yet Ophelia Slowly is not the genre in its fact not only in his spoken prose, but handmade electric ballad poetry, which is a touch his musical experience inspecting the unknown. Ophelia's self-reflection is on par with the style as it would hit Nashville -- "Midnight Vesper" wanders into a land of quixotic tumbleweeds, picking up ghosts in soulful harmonics reminiscent of Tim Buckley. The entire record is a world in transit. For the first time there's not a relief of classic blues, rock – there's little reverb, but it doesn't drown out wonder and there's no wall of endless organs! He makes it beautiful, not heroic – allowing his vocals to pass through the story. As opposed to previous Blakeslee's latest albums, "Wandering Sempra" (the biggest, in part, by Chris Coady, who not only recorded Blakeslee's latest solo album, Wandering Sempra at the Panoramic House on the northern California coast in a reportedly haunted space where the fog envelops the house), as well as the hauntingly gospel opener, "Haunted City." For nine songs Blakeslee conjures spirits as "Modern Man," sings to an old lover whose memory could yet haunt the halls, and concludes with the masterful closer "Ophelia Slow," psychic vibrations that ring out with pristine hope and pain. "He was meant to make a play in New York City – but the craziness of traveling, exile and heartbreak kept Blakeslee living in solitude among memories of ghosts and the sea."

He wrote and recorded at night on borrowed equipment in his Manhattan neighborhood after moving out of the house where The Entrance Band tracked their albums and bringing his studio on the road. With minimal effects and simple tracking, Ophelia Slowly is layered with old memories and imbued with a spiritual longing. The album is a love letter to former lovers and friends, to the California coast and New York City. "I wanted something new, raw and honest – just me and the guitars and the magic of the night." The record's sound is both classic and unadorned, and the absence of effects heightens the intimacy of the songs. The self-revealing aspect gives the album an almost gospel-like candor at the end. He says: "It began as a long letter written at 3am to someone I loved that became this collection of songs and stories. No drums, no overdubs, just me." Standouts include the title track and "Haunted City" – the former opens the album in a haze of Americana and closes the circle on old friends and old ghosts. "Haunted City" is an ambling hymn for love and loss – "I wrote it for the friends I lost when we made the Entrance Band records in that house in Echo Park... it always brings me back home, even at my most homesick moments. It was written in a dream and appears as an unending loop at the end of the record for sustenance."

"Begin ranting" starts the album and "Soul" appears as a recently filmed video for Spike Jonze's Academy Award-nominated film "Her," starring Scarlett Johansson's OS voice/character where with Joaquin Phoenix, confusing the can't stop listening to it.