THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS
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Release date
October 23, 2012
DVD (NTSC) Metropolis Mailorder MET 822
Description
Running time: 81 minutes
9 Lives To Wonder, A Film by cEvin Key documents the time that cEvin Key spent with The Legendary Pink Dots recording their seminal album of the same name. A first-person look into the process of musical creation, and the life that happens around it.
THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS
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Release date and tracklist
2012 15 December 15
CD/CD+DVD-r Rustblade digipack RBL037/ Limited Box RBL037BOX /Ultra Limited Deluxe Purple Bag RBL037BOX
7 December 2013
MP3 released on Bandcamp
CD
DVD
Bonus CD (Ultra Limited Deluxe Purple Bag only)
Credits
Description/Notes
* The Opium Den is listed as parts 1-3 on the CD and parts 1-2 on Bandcamp.
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A journey to a far-off place although you never managed to leave that couch; CP15 was largely recorded during an intense weekend in August 2012. The version presented here adds the rare bonus cdr which came with the deluxe boxed and bagged edition from the estimable Rustblade label.
The aforesaid release also boasted a dvd, a T-shirt and many trinklets. Nothing left here now except the recordings…. Edward Ka-Spel (notes from Bandcamp)
Press Release
The Legendary Pink Dots are back with there highly anticipated new album. Chemical Playschool is a concept in which more then ever an indulgence in extended ballads and psychedelic improvisations allows Edward Ka-Spel’s voice to engage us with his unique brand of storytelling, and the use of synthesizers brings to mind vintage space rock adapted for the modern age. The album opens with the beautifully epic “Immaculate Conception” where Ka-Spel transports us into a world of stars and planets surrounded by voices and distant echos. In “The Opium Den Parts 1-3″ we find a melancholy piece with classic LPD folk essence, arriving then at the ritual tribal ballad “Ranting and Raving”. Chemical Playschool is able to surpass all of our expectations for a band always able to surprise as they lead us through their peculiar dream world. A truly inspired release representing one of the most beautiful concepts created by this eclectic and mythic band. – Rustblade
Reviews
Lyrics
I live at the center of the universe.
My joy is impossibly maintained.
No dark guilty secrets, no worry increases.
I’m reborn each and every sunny day.
I sit at the center of my universe.
Don’t care what the other people say.
I stand back unconcerned…
These ears never burn.
Be assured I’m immaculately sane.
All’s well in the center of the universe.
I don’t feel the need to step outside.
I will look through the window and watch that big world go by…
He lives at the center of the universe.
His joy is impossibly maintained.
No dark guilty secrets, no worry increases.
Again… (???)
Sparks Fly/Museum
Not me… not scared of the wire.
Not me… I snatched it, two strong hands.
Watch me… my hair’s on fire
Catch me if you can…
Hang on to my rubber soles
Climb upon my rugged shoulders
Touch the stars,
feel the…(???)
Ignite this dark satanic corner.
Watch sparks fly…
Sparks fly…
So the world is waiting for this.
If I step outside, will I be trampled by an uncontrollable herd of guide (???) dogs?
If I voice my dissent, will they beat me with their white sticks?
That is, if I don’t move too fast for them.
That is, if I don’t immerse (???) myself into luminous pink paint, wear a top hat and (???) it on Nelson’s head in the floodlights, with the sirens wailing, and cameras rolling, and horns blazing, waving my arms.
I’m here, suckers, I’m right here, and that thing is an aberration.
That thing is a (???) abomination, an insult to color.
It absorbs light. It absorbs life. A Venus flytrap that seeks out beauty, envelops it and (???) it down with the cheapest, grossest instant coffee and then spits it out randomly, tinged with acid, (???), melting my eyes like a (???) Medusa, I’m pulling down the shutters of an already-dark planet (???).
I hold you responsible for the demise of humankind.
They (???) on their knees before you, as still as you wish them to be. Shattered stones strewn across the landscape for you to recapture in an ugly way across another (???).
Will you… message received
The experiment has failed.
You failed! Time to start… (???)
with bated breath…
The Opium Den Parts 1-3
Just breathe in.
Now exhale.
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Ranting and Raving
lyrics
Immaculate Conclusion
You all belong to me…
The Petrified Florist
lyrics
Premonition 39
lyrics
THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS
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Release date and tracklist
2012
CDr self released on Trademark of Quantity
March 10, 2013
CDr / MP3 self released on Bandcamp
Credits
None listed.
Notes
The cdr release from 2012 was a serious labour of love. The title piece was first tested in the live scenario by EK and The Silverman in Brussels in 2010, then the band played it twice in The Netherlands during the following year with music and words steadily mutating .The studio version is presented here. –E K-S
EDWARD KA-SPEL AND MARK SPYBEY
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Release date, label and tracklist
November 21, 2011
US 7” vinyl Tourette Tourette026
Credits
Notes
Part of Dead Voices on Air 20th Anniversary Series, Limited edition of 350 copies with a color printed outer sleeve and a black inner sleeve.
EDWARD KA-SPEL
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Release date and tracklist
November 11, 2011
NL CDr Trademark of Quantity
March 13, 2013
NL MP3 self-released on Bandcamp
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January 6, 2024 
NL/UK MP3/CD-R remaster self-released on EK’s Bandcamp
Credits
Edward Ka-Spel- Voice, Keyboards (analogue, digital and virtual), electronics, acoustic things, devices.
Notes
11.11.11.11 was recorded during Remembrance weekend in 2011 and issued as a CDr only release 2 months later. Released on Bandcamp after a number of requests.
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2024 remaster:
CD-R edition, now remastered and blessed with a new cover.
This release is now 10 years old but sadly relevant in these dark times. Sonically enhanced with the help of today’s tools.
EDWARD KA-SPEL
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December 2011
US LP Beta-lactam Ring Records mt266a
Side A
Side B
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US CD Beta-lactam Ring Records mt266b
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US Cassette Beta-lactam Ring Records mt266c
Side A
Side B
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US 8-Track Beta-lactam Ring Records mt266d
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September 15, 2016
NL MP3 self-released on Bandcamp
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February 2, 2024 mt266b
NL/UK MPe self-released on EK’s Bandcamp
The CD was a limited edition of 200.
The LP version was a limited edition of 150 numbered and signed copies in a handmade gimmix art sleeve by Ekul B. and Armchair Migraine Journey on 180 gram vinyl.
The Cassette version was a limited edition of 15 copies in handmade art sleeves. Also included an autographed card.
The 8-Track Cartridge was a limited edition of 15 numbered copies and included an insert with a wheel on one side and credits on the other as well as an autographed card.
2024 Bandcamp release:
Sonically enhanced and released for February 2024 Bandcamp Friday.
At last available here and sonically enhanced thanks to the wonder tools available in 2024. This one was previously available on vinyl (2 editions) , as a very limited cd, and even as an 8-Track cartridge!
A Pleasure Cruise Through 9 Dimensions successfully takes yet another left turn by presenting an album covered in concrete. Musique concrete. Edward Ka-Spel has eschewed all song structure in favor of avant-garde soundscapes. The word “soundscapes” is almost a dirty word in most cases, but EKS attacks sound like a master sculptor, freeing unique and surprising sonic forms from the ether. He brilliantly decoupages electronics with emotional otherness, punctuated by disembodied voices that bubble up from the beyond. This is what Xenakis and Schaeffer listen to in electro-acoustic Heaven. Why be outward-bound when you can be Edward-bound. –Beta-lactam Ring Records