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A Carrington Event

EDWARD KA-SPEL

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Release date and track list

April 7, 2023
NL MP3 self-released on the EK’s Bandcamp

August 3, 2024
UK/NL CD-R self-released on LPD’s and EK’s Bandcamp

  1. John Doe
  2. Poaching Eggs / Hall Of Mirrors Parts 1 & 2
  3. Taming The Tiger
  4. The Mushroom Olympics / Imperfect Day / A Shout From Row 13
  5. Sterilisis / Opera For A Phantom

 

May 25, 2024
SK tape 4MG Records 4MGMC12

Side A

  1. John Doe
  2. Poaching Eggs / Hall Of Mirrors Parts 1 & 2
  3. Taming The Tiger Part 1

Side B

  1. Taming The Tiger Part 2
  2. The Mushroom Olympics / Imperfect Day / A Shout From Row 13
  3. Sterilisis / Opera For A Phantom
Credits
  • Edward Ka-Spel
Notes

Originally released for April 2023 Bandcamp Friday. The first new release of the year. All songs were written and recorded in the last month.

2024 cassette release:
A limited edition of 100 copies.

August 2024 CD-R release:
A limited edition of 99 copies.

 

Bandcamp Friday- April 2023

It’s Bandcamp Friday and what seems to be a real Spring Day at last, I’m happy to present the first new release of the year. All songs were written and recorded in the last month and the title is “A Carrington Event”.  For the foreseeable future, it’s download-only.

Even so, there is a pair of physical releases too. Firstly the last of ‘The Quarantine Series‘, “Songs Of Solitude” is ready for release in a lovingly homemade CD-R edition.

Finally, the Pink Dots’ historical collection, “Come Out From The Shadows Volume 3” has been expanded with rare tracks from long out-of-print anthology , sonically enhanced , re-ordered and given a new cover. It’s also available on pre-order as a CD-R.

The Legendary Pink Dots

An expanded Come Out From The Shadows Volume 3 – The 80s as a CDR edition on The Legendary Pink Dots’ Bandcamp page

 

Edward Ka-Spel

Songs of Solitude as a CDR available on both the Edward Ka-Spel and The Legendary Pink Dots’ Bandcamp pages.

 

A new Edward Ka-Spel solo (download only) is entitled ‘A Carrington Event’ can be found on Edward Ka-Spel’s Bandcamp page.

 

Orbit Service

radio hypnosis, volume 1
This is a cd-r with block printed cover art, signed and limited to 40 copies.
Available on Orbit Service’s Bandcamp page.

 

Bandcamp Friday April 2023 test

The Legendary Pink Dots

An expanded Come Out From The Shadows Volume 3 – The 80s as a CDR edition on The Legendary Pink Dots’ Bandcamp page

 

Edward Ka-Spel

Songs of Solitude as a CDR available on both the Edward Ka-Spel and The Legendary Pink Dots’ Bandcamp pages.

 

A new Edward Ka-Spel solo (download only) is entitled ‘A Carrington Event’ can be found on Edward Ka-Spel’s Bandcamp page.

 

Orbit Service

radio hypnosis, volume 1
This is a cd-r with block printed cover art, signed and limited to 40 copies.
Available on Orbit Service’s Bandcamp page.

 

Review: Edward Ka-Spel is a national treasure

Alan Rider seeks Permission to Leave the Temple

Outside Left Music
by Alan Rider, East of England Editor
Photo by Margolein van Elteren
March 2023

EDWARD KA-SPEL
Permission To Leave The Temple
(Lumberton Trading Company)
5 heart rating

Edward Ka-Spel is a national treasure.

Having ploughed a very unique musical furrow from the early 80’s with the Legendary Pink Dots – freshly returned from an extensive North American and European tour to promote their excellent ‘The Museum of Human Happiness’ album – there have been numerous and regular musical diversions along the way.

Ka-Spel’s work includes side projects such as The Tear Garden with Kevin Key from Skinny Puppy, collaborations with Amanda Palmer, Motion Kapture and others.

It is perhaps in his solo works and performances too numerous to list (though the Tanith and the Lion Tree album is a good place to start) that Edward Ka-Spel’s vision truly shines the brightest. Unrestricted even by the constraints, if you can call them that, of the Legendary Pink Dots (who these days are tantamount to Ed plus a backing band in any case), it’s only with his solo output, considerable though it is, that you get to appreciate in its purest form the true genius of the man and fume at the scandal of him not being more famous than Elvis.

The spoken, whispered, and sing song nightmares within nursery rhymes that make up the lyrical contents, accompanied by carefully constructed and delicately off the wall electronic compositions defy categorisation or comparison. They are simply Edward Ka-Spel and that’s the only and best descriptor.

In some ways a 10″ is his perfect medium. The length of a poem each side, there is just enough time for the stories to unfold before they evaporate, leaving a tantalising silence in their place. Permission To Leave The Temple is another essential piece of the neverending jigsaw that exists only in his imagination, comprising five short tracks that leave you wanting, no, NEEDING more.

Permission granted. You may leave the Temple but you will be back.

Source: https://outsideleft.com

Recommended by the Dots

Every so often, the Pink Dots will recommend a musician or album that they’ve been listening to.

The artists and albums listed below are from the LPD newsletter, which used to include segments, called ‘Beautiful things that drifted our way’ and ‘On rotation at chez dots’, in which the Dots recommended music they were listening to.  Most of these are from around 2013-2015.

Beequeen: http://beequeen.bandcamp.com/
Can- The Lost Tapes: listen / order
Chanting Sheep: Titanium and Anthracyte special offer for Dots fans / listen
Rhys Chatham- The Bern Project: listen/order
Chora(s)san Time-Court Mirage: listen / order
Frans de Waard and Freek Kinkelaar from Beequeen: http://brunnen.bandcamp.com/
Hildur Gudnadottir- Leyfdu Ljosinu: listen / Bandcamp
Robodop Snei- Strange Ongoings: Bandcamp
K-Salvatore- Tsar Ova Elk: http://decimus.bandcamp.com/album/tsar-ova-elk
Laughing Hands- vinyl box set: order
Richard Skelton: https://richardskelton.tumblr.com/
Laurie Spiegel- Expanding Universe
Surreal Funfair: listen / order / Bandcamp
Swans- The Seer: Bandcamp
Tapajawa- Of Unknown Origin
Orbit Service- http://orbitservice.bandcamp.com/
Tarotplane- The Ektachrome Dawn