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Paris in the Spring

THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS

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Cover ImageRelease date and tracklist

May 05, 2014
MP3 self released on Bandcamp

  1. Pendulum/A Star is Born/The Garden of Ealing
  2. Rainbows Too/Casting the Runes
  3. A Stretch in Time/Salem/Ash & Sand
  4. Grey Scale/Poppy Day/Black List
  5. Isis Veiled/Ascension 2

 

Credits 

  • EK- vox, keys
  • The Silverman- keys, devices
  • Erik Drost- guitars
  • Randall Frazier- engineered

Notes 

A wonderful audience recording of The Dots in Paris on Sunday 13 April, 2014. Venue was Le Klub, a tiny but very special club not so far from The Louvre. A big thank you to Lio who programmed the Dots for a second time and to Renaud who recorded this show so well. -Edward Ka-Spel

 

12 Steps Off the Path

THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS

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May 18, 2014
CDr / MP3  self released on Bandcamp

  1. Old Sparky
  2. Goldilocks
  3. The Chair
  4. A Japanese Manual For A Broken Wheel
  5. A Moustache On The Mona Lisa And Other Things You May Find In The Trash
  6. Evolution Live
  7. Saucers Over Poznan
  8. Citadel (Poznan)
  9. A Velvet Resurrection (Poznan)
  10. I Love You In You Tragic Beauty (Poznan)
  11. Don’t Worry Dear, I’ll Be Holding Your Hand
  12. Out There Part 2

Notes

1992- 2014
12 tracks from compilations plus the bonus disc from the long out-of-print Polish three-disc collection, “Classics & Rarities”.

 

Red Sky at Night

EDWARD KA-SPEL (WITH ALENA BOYKOVA)

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10 October 2010
CD-r  Trademark of Quantity
MP3 self-released on Bandcamp

15 August 2014
Enhanced MP3 self-released on Bandcamp (different cover)

28 November 2022
CDR- self-released on Edward Ka-Spel’s Bandcamp

  1. Burning Church
  2. The Nursery
  3. Karis in the Fall
  4. Spook Mist
  5. Open

 

Credits

  • Edward Ka-Spel
  • Alena Boykova

electric organ, acoustic things, tapes, toys, voices

Notes

This plain white CDr came packaged in a white sleeve with laser printed stickers on front and back. A paper insert contained the following text:

“This cd-r represents a collection of sessions featuring Edward and Alena, recorded over the last two years.
Locations were Karis in Finland, where Alena lived for some time, and Limburgia in the Netherlands.
Instruments used include: electric church organ, percussion, laptops, analog and digital synthesisers.” -E K-S

The MP3 version was released on Edward Ka-Spel’s Bandcamp page.

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Notes from enhanced version upload:

Consider the scenario….A huge spooky house. No phone. No internet. Damn it, no working fridge in the kitchen.
The last problem isn’t as bad as it sounds as the house is in Finland and it’s Winter, and there is a dark room where the sun does not shine (ever).That’s where the milk, butter, curious Finnish beer (Lapin Kulta) goes.
Half of the house is shut off, sheets over the furniture. The “living” half is quiet apart from the odd creak in the night which could have emerged from any of the 8 or so rooms.

Such was Alena’s living space in the little town of Karis, provided by the college where she worked as a teacher. The previous occupant had been a missionary who disappeared with his family to Kazakhstan years earlier, generously allowing the college to use the house as they wished.

The nearest supermarket was 40 minutes away in the Summer, but somehow considerably further when the temperature dropped to minus 20 (and it frequently did).

Focal point of the living room was an electric church organ. It hadn’t been played for years when Alena opened the lid for the first time.

When EK entered her life, that instrument was almost permanently switched on. The sound was utterly glorious, much in evidence throughout these recordings and it still turns up in all kinds of places on recent releases from EK/LPDs.

“Red Sky At Night” is a collection of improvisations featuring EK and Alena from 2007-2010 largely made in Karis but also derived from sessions in The Netherlands.  It’s a humble cdr release that has always existed under the radar, but it delivers some truly special moments as well as a whole lotta love.

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2022- Lovingly made CDR edition by EK in an edition of 199. Also available at legendarypinkdots1.bandcamp.com. Shipping begins for this self-made edition after The Dots’ 2022 U.S.Tour

 

Zelphabet L

VARIOUS ARTISTS

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Release date and tracklist

January 31, 2012
CD  Zelphabet

  1. Zen- Lasse Marhaug
  2. Armistice- Leather Bath
  3. Decode Parms Uck Dub- Lee Gamble
  4. Goldilocks- The Legendary Pink Dots
  5. Museum for the Blind- Leticia Castaneda
  6. Natura Morta- Lionel Marchetti

Elemental

THE SILVERMAN

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2010
CD-r Trademark of Quantity

2012
MP3 self-released on Bandcamp

  1. Elemental

 

Credits

The Silverman- all instruments

Notes

Self-released CDR from 2010 in home-made cover..

This plain white CDr came packaged in a white sleeve with laser printed stickers on front and back. A paper insert contained the following text:

“The Silverman

Elemental

Dust slowly dances in the light that streams

through the cracks of a carefully built reality.

Where the light meets shadow it seems

potent…elemental even.”

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A 48 minute epic voyage into a deep red ocean that just goes down and down …..Don’t call it ambient , this is the stuff of lucid dreams where fleeting memories of past lives present themselves and tease you into chasing them through forbidden territories. Don’t be fooled by the blue cover- it’s red down there.

 

Time on Thin Ice

THE SILVERMAN

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15 October 2010
CD  Beta-lactam Ring Records mt241

18 April 2013
MP3 self-released on Bandcamp

  1. Droplets on a Trebling Leaf
  2. This Side of the Door
  3. Always is Now
  4. Ocean Calling

 

Credits

The Silverman – Keyboards, Electronics, cover art
Alena Boykova – Melodica on track 1
Edward Ka-Spel – Percussion and tape on track 1, voice and lyrics on tracks 2 and 3
Mastered by Raymond Steeg

 

Notes 

The first 50 copies- numbered and signed. Packaged in a full color gatefold sleeve. Featuring guest performer Edward Ka-Spel (Legendary Pink Dots). The man of silver is a master of negative space. His silences say as much as his notes. Perhaps this is how he can compose a thing that sounds like glaciers conversing. Ringing ubertones breathe sighs of bas-relief at the borealis. The Silveman’s sounds are quiet and delicious, like a Rainbow Generator sinking slowly into a rusted hull. These ambiences destroy fascists. Dark and twisting pulses hollowly respirate, imitating their dying. This is the good stuff.   —BLRR

 

Lyrics

This Side of the Door

I pleaded with him not to open that door…
…

Always is Now
I want to leave this dark corner and crawl to you, over you, maybe inside you and capture the moment and keep it preserved like a butterfly pinned to a page. To a place where the joy is the air we once breathed, where we sink to our knees with the beauty. Besieged but unflustered. The crumbs of our comfort descend when we call them and take only that which we need, then toss the remains like we’re scattering seeds. Where we do not believe because we don’t have to. Where we do not believe in the future, the past. Where we are… no questions. We are, and that’s it… There’s an eternity that clings which we stretch out, fend off and count the terrifying seconds in an everlasting twilight. And there’s an eternity with wings. It’s short and it’s sweet, it laughs at the mirror and always is now. Me? I remain forever yours. Trapped in Amber.