Originally released in 2008, Solar Bridge was the proper introduction to Emeralds — musicians John Elliott, Steve Hauschildt, and Mark McGuire — kickstarting a prolific, critically acclaimed five-LP run before they disbanded in 2013. There is and was a sense that the Ohio trio, known for their sprawling improvised live sets, searched for something beyond physical mediums, which contributed to the power of Solar Bridge, the first attempt to archivally preserve their fluid craft. Made primarily with synthesizers and guitar, Emeralds' music possessed an astral psyche indebted to German kosmische forebears like Ash Ra Tempel, Klaus Schulze, and Tangerine Dream, descending from that pioneering era with a home-crafted and distinctly Midwestern rust belt noise/drone edge. Giving Solar Bridge top honors in their 2008 Rewind issue, The Wire wrote: "John Elliott and Steve Hauschildt’s billowing synth drones, together with Mark McGuire’s sedately plangent guitar melodies, are uncannily good at carving out a space for the imagination to crawl into and wander about." Since its release on Aaron Dilloway's (Wolf Eyes, etc.) Hanson imprint, the album has become a cult favorite and one of the band's most sought-after LPs, a moment of glistening primacy that boots up a catalog and legacy that the heads still grapple with. Emeralds begin to make sense of it in the fall of 2022 with a remastered Solar Bridge LP release on Ghostly International.