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Plutonium Live

THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS

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Cover ImageRelease date and tracklist

December 1, 2013
MP3  self released on Bandcamp

  1. Introduction/My First Zonee/Peace of Mind
  2. Faded Photograph/Rainbows Too?
  3. A World with No Mirrors/Cubic Caesar/No Matter What You Do
  4. Torchsong/Grain Kings

 


Credits

  • Edward Ka-Spel
  • Martijn De Kleer
  • Niels van Hoorn
  • The Silverman
  • Raymond Steeg

Notes 

An audience recording of exquisite quality from LPDs show at The Orangerie, Munich on April 23,2009.A small crowd (it always is in that city) but it meant a recording that is as clear as a bell from old LPDs friend, Adi.
Even if it took The Dots a while to build up a head of steam, the band most certainly got there in an incendiary final stretch.

 

 

Live in Montpellier 1994

THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS

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Cover ImageRelease date and tracklist

2005
CDR Trademark of Quantity

November 30, 2013
MP3  self released on Bandcamp

  1. Introduction/A Crack in Menlancholy Time/On Another Shore
  2. Siren/Vigil-Anti/Love Puppets/Love in a Plain Brown Envelope
  3. Lillith/Dance of the China Dolls/Crumbs on the Carpet
  4. 15 Flies in the Marmalade/9 Shades to the Circle/Premonition 13
  5. Belladonna/Aarzhklahh Olgevezh/Pruumptje Kurss/City of Needles

 


Credits

  • EK
  • Ryan Moore
  • Martijn De Kleer
  • Niels van Hoorn
  • The Silverman
  • Raymond Steeg.

 


Notes

Double cdr edition on the Dots’ own TOQ label lovingly home-made with card cover and insert.

May 27, 1994 at The Rockstore in the beautiful town of Montpellier. A small crowd but a very intense atmosphere…and it was Ryan’s birthday!

This double cdr dates back a few years but is making it’s online debut in a slightly enhanced capacity.  A show that captures the spirit of that wild spacey phase of The Pink Dots.

 

 

Plutonium Blonde

THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS

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Cover ImageRelease date and tracklist
7 October 2008
CD  RUS8305

22 November 2013
MP3 Redux available on Bandcamp

  1. Torchsong
  2. Rainbows Too?
  3. A World With No Mirrors
  4. My First Zonee
  5. Faded Photograph
  6. An Arm And A Leg
  7. Mailman
  8. Oceans Blue
  9. Savannah Red
  10. Cubic Caesar
  11. Uncomplicated*
  12. Bad Mood*
  13. An Arm & A Wasp*
  14. A World With No Mirrors (demo)*
  15. My First Zonee (demo)*
  16. A Cubic Collage*

* MP3-only bonus tracks (released on Bandcamp 22 November 2013):


Credits

  • Edward Ka-Spel – voice, keys, devices
  • The Silverman – keys, devices
  • Niels Van Hoorn – saxophones, flute, bass flute and bass clarinet
  • Martijn De Kleer – acoustic and electric guitars, fuzz bass, banjo and exotic percussion
  • Raymond Steeg – mixing and engineering

Cover art – original image from Panorama, customized by Astrid Mutsaers and Anna


Notes

2008. A year in the making, Plutonium Blonde was especially ambitious. Songs would be written, recorded, road-tested, then re-recorded.

Two songs failed to make the deadline (“Uncomplicated” and “Bad Mood”) and were completed a year after the album’s release.

Still it felt like a landmark, but it was also the album which finished an era for The Dots as Martijn and Niels left The Dots before the band entered the studio again.

 


Press Release

The Legendary Pink Dots have created their most commercially appealing album to date with Plutonium Blonde, the follow up to 2006’s Your Children Placate You From Premature Graves. Frontman Edward Ka-Spel and his crew capture the listener’s imagination with lush and haunting songs. “A World with No Mirrors” is as beautiful and emotionally charged as any Belle & Sebastian song, while “My First Zonee” comments upon our narcissistic love affair with modern technology. “An Arm & A Leg” reminds us of the fragile state of our mental and physical health. Plutonium Blonde is more than just an album; it’s an aural and visual treat, a collection of stories that could have very well been written by a modern day Brothers Grimm.  — ROIR

 


Reviews

The Dots are as focused and as diverse a group as I can name. For over 25 years they’ve been releasing record after record of bizarre and colorful music. Even with such a voluminous catalog behind them, their output remains completely unique and peerless. Plutonium Blonde is a trance-like, somewhat awkward record that meshes their eccentric pop sensibilities with dark, aggressive machine music.

From the start it is obvious that this record is a move away from the jam-band tendencies that have popped up in the Dots’ music over the past couple of records. The album opener, “Torch Song,” is an aggressive and concise electronic nightmare that thrives on synthesized beats and cascades of blurry keyboard effects. There are guitars on this record, but they take a back seat to the electronic errata conjured up by The Silverman and Edward Ka-Spel. The emphasis on computerized music isn’t just a stylistic turn for the band, but a natural continuation of the themes that run through Ka-Spel’s lyrics. From the ’50s era model on the cover, the cracked mirror she’s holding, and the truncated image of a mushroom cloud inside of the booklet, to the themes of paranoia, isolation, and distress in the song’s words, it is clear that technology and its effect on mankind is a central theme on the record. When the odd guitar or errant flute emerges from the flux of noise, drone, and found sounds that populate the majority of these songs, they bring a good deal of comfort and relief. Whether or not that relief is necessary is something worth considering, however.

Some of the songs on Plutonium Blonde feature an approach to songcraft that fans of the Chemical Playschool series will be happy to hear. Stuttering tape collages, dark synth pads, organic burps, and quiet percussive elements swim by beneath Ka-Spel’s narratives on both “An Arm and a Leg” and “Oceans Blue.” The intensity and creepiness of the vocals harmonize with the brooding haziness of the instrumentation creating a strong synthesis of abstract, psychedelic sound and conventional song-writing. Both “Torchsong” and “Rainbows Too?” favor a semi-melodic, direct approach to creating atmosphere, but are also the first two songs on the album. Plutonium Blonde thus feels like a slow descent into unfamiliar waters, one that ends up with the crushing woe of “Cubic Caesar.” The song begins with a biting quip: “My learning curve was so acute it formed a perfect circle / My whole wide world was virtual so I sank back in my shell.” From there Ka-Spel utilizes a combination of dry, phone-like tones and half-dead, choking keyboards to spin a tale of slowly atrophying ideas and feelings. Martijn De Kleer’s guitar work is most successfully worked into mix on this song; he draws a blues-like desolation out of his strings that emphasize the loneliness present in Ka-Spel’s lyrics. The song reaches a climax as Ka-Spel muses over the safety of virtual reality: “I know that far away exists mysterious adventures / A life beyond / Uncensored where there’s nothing guaranteed / It’s not for me / Oh I’ll live with it.”

My only complaints about this outing revolve around a pair of songs that interrupt the slow descent I described earlier. While “A World with No Mirrors” and “My First Zonee” draw their lifeblood from the same topics found in all the other songs, the musical aesthetic on both are so different from everything else on the record that they seem almost entirely out of place. “A World with No Mirrors” is composed of acoustic guitar and flute and sounds pastoral despite its nocturnal and ambient ending. “My First Zonee” is, on the other hand, a jaunty piece that only emphasizes how difficult it is to use a saxophone on a rock record and not come away sounding cheesy. Were these two songs removed or replaced, the album might be exceedingly bleak and somber. Yet, I find myself wanting to skip past both in order to get to the meat of the record. “Faded Photograph” manages to lighten the mood without breaking the album’s continuity and so both the aforementioned songs seem just a bit superfluous. That being said, both songs stand well on their own and are nowhere near distracting enough to ruin the record. I suppose I’m simply more endeared to Ka-Spel’s darker creations, which is why Plutonium Blonde keeps me coming back. It is twisted, dark, and filled with a multitude of musical approaches that few (if any) other musicians have ever even thought of blending.

Brainwashed.com – 12 October 2008

 

More reviews

Plutonium Blonde (Taking It Too Seriously)  Neal Skorpen 28-11-08
Plutonium Blonde Review (Postmodern Accident) RTW 01-11-08
Plutonium Blonde / Dream Logik Part Two (Pitchfork Media) Joe Tangari 29-10-08
The Legendary Pink Dots – Plutonium Blonde (indieducky.com) Admin 13-10-08
The Legendary Pink Dots: Plutonium Blonde (PopMatters) Mike Schiller 13-10-08
A review of Plutonium Blonde (tinymixtapes.com) Gumshoe 07-10-08
A review of Plutonium Blonde (indieville.com) Matt Shimmer 06-10-08
A review of Plutonium Blonde (Aiding & Abetting) Jon Worley 29-09-08
Big Bang Day: The Legendary Pink Dots’ Plutonium Blonde (Popshifter) Hanna 28-09-08
Plutonium Blonde Review (psychedelicmusicblog.com) Geoff 21-09-08
Legendary Pink Dots – “Plutonium Blonde ” – [Roir] (KFJC) Humana 12-09-08
Plutonium Blonde Review (ReGen Magazine) Matthew Johnson 11-09-08
Plutonium Blonde Review (kevchino.com) Erick Mertz 11-09-08

 


Lyrics

Torchsong

With a star on my arm and a ring through my nose,
put my life in your hands and I’ll lay in the road.
As the TVs drop and the tear gas flows,
and the angel of mercy’s a sinister glow
To a moon that’s a blot where I’m fighting to go,
and I’m stiff as a doe in your headlights.

We burn so bright, we side with the righteous,
a rose in a rifle, a bed for a tank,
and I thank you for laughing and firing a blank
when I stood right before you and wept,
as I sank to my knees… to my sorry, sorry knees.

High as a kite and there’s so much to fight for,
so much to die for, so much to kill for
so much to hate, there’s so much to break,
god damn, for god’s sake! we’re damned,
and I’m late…

So forgive me, asshole.

I’m high as a kite, there’s so much to fight for,
so much to die for, so much to kill for,
so much to hate, there’s so much to break,
god damn, for god’s sake! we’re damned,
and I’m late… for a very important date.

 

Rainbows Too?

A rock can be a hard place when you’re in between the nagging
of a restless sea, a sorry sky, a darkening horizon…
When the one voice you can hear is just your own,
innocently thrown back by a gale that’s so damn angry
nothing sails, nothing dares— e
xcept my endless love for you.

Sing for me my siren, I am far away, but know that I can hear you.
Here it’s calmer. Here it’s clear— it’s Christmas on the Moon…
But still it’s just another rock,
wrapped up inside a fancy box, that’s just like all the others.
Time to throw back all the covers… time to FLY!

Cast away the rock that weighs you down… time to fly.
I’ll cast away the rock that weighs me down… time to fly.

 

A World With No Mirrors

Sometimes I catch an outline.
There are moments when I’m almost sure it’s safe to hold my head up,
and look into your precious eyes in search of you.
Still it’s just an outline.
Those sideways glances… I see you doubt me.
Our self-centered needs have left us floating when we should be holding hands.

A pair of hands. A share of hands. A comfort— no distortion.
Gazing down at my old shoes, there’s nothing awkward.
I can move and still be seen, I can lie with you and keep it clean.
I’ll slide in through the back door to the corner of your eye.
But we’re sinking as we shiver in a world which has no mirrors,
where the glass is just a sliver, where the river’s always dry.
Where ‘time and tide’ are just an outline… and always in retreat.

 

My First Zonee

Calling you now on my first Zonee.
Milking the cow with my first Zonee.
Out on the trail, I’ll spank the pony.
I’ll conquer the world with my first Zonee.
Under the ocean, seeding the clouds you’ll be with me.
Forgive me, there is no need to shout it
from the top of the mountain or down in the well.
I can text you, “I like you”.
No scabby hands with my first Zonee.
No stubborn stains with my first Zonee.
No sleeping around my one and only.
I’ve never been lied to by my first Zonee.
When I’m lonely, when I’m sad
I go through my ringtones deleting all the dead ones.
There’s no time for tears, there’s no regret. (? last part of this line uncertain- listed here as in album booklet but it sounds different)
All I have to do is SEND.
I’m never alone with my first Zonee.

 

Faded Photograph

I found a faded photograph of you, clearing out this crowded room.
See me so proud, dressed up to the nines, sipping dandelion wine.
Did it seem the sun would never set?
We’d stay young, forever blessed in our Sunday Best.
But I’m Wednesday’s child and I am cursed to stay locked inside your purse.
It’s night and I’ll come to you once more, I’ll forget to use the door…
Did I startle you?
Oh no… not me.
For you see through me… it hurts.

 

An Arm and a Leg

What a wonderful world. Do you sometimes feel that it’s yours? That you could cup your hands, scoop up all of that glory and drink it down, like an oyster? Your oyster. We can serve you your oyster on a platter, lined with pearls. Or perhaps you’d rather try to find it by yourself?

Uh oh… Just when you though you had everything under control, that mean old mud pie hits you between the eyes. And what do you know? it drips and makes a mess of the designer shirt you paid an arm and a leg for.

But what about the other arm, the other leg? Don’t worry friend, we’re still here, and we’ve made such advances.

Uh, oh… Quick! where’s the stretcher? No, make that TWO stretchers. NURSE, the screens! You, out of the way! Don’t worry friend, we have everything under control, and believe me, we’ve made such advances.

So now we come to that boring part. You are covered, aren’t you?

No need for none, to think of a scheme for folks like you. I mean, do you need both of those kidneys? Let me tell you a story… I had a little dog, Freddy— yes, his name was Freddy— and that little guy, well, he lived for nearly eight years without a liver. Like a puppy, too, right up until the end of his days. That’s a good heart you have there, I know someone who exchanged his heart for yours to take (? not sure about this), You could even make a little money. Don’t worry friend, we’re here! This doesn’t have to cost you an arm or a leg, but we’ve made such advances.

 

Mailman

Mailman, mailman, why the face? You are my deliverer.
Mailman, mailman, does it taste of baby snails and cut liver?
Mailman, mailman, you’re my friend. You bring me those packages.
When the dog bites, I’ll pretend to wrap you up in bandages.
Oh, mailman…

Mailman, mailman, don’t be sad. I’ve got pills to calm you down.
Mailman, mailman, if it’s bad, I’ll make lots of funny sounds, like…

Mailman, mailman, mailman…

 

Oceans Blue

Do you read me loud and clear?
The sea sings sweetly in my ear.
Can toss this shell, and cast my fears away now.
A gesture and a private tear
shall keep my face, let no one near.
We served for you.
Will not veer from the path that’s straight…
the path that brought me here.

 

Savannah Red
(instrumental)

 

Cubic Caesar

My learning curve was so acute it formed a perfect circle.
My whole wide world was virtual, so I sank back in my shell.
It’s 16 cubic feet and i shall keep you all outside.
I have this screen before me and I click. I watch paint dry…
It’s such a waste. I watch paint dry…
I fall from grace. Oh me, oh my…
I rest my case. I watch paint dry…

Perhaps it’s been a decade since I touched another person.
I was always so uncertain so I chose to stay alone.
And all the kids I never had… they’re standing right before me.
I hope that they’ll forgive me as I turn to face the wall.
It’s such a waste. I watch paint dry…
I fall from grace. Oh me, oh my…
I watch paint dry.

I know that far away exists mysterious adventures.
A life beyond uncensored, where there’s nothing guaranteed.
It’s not for me. Oh, I’ll live with it.
Don’t have the time.
My schedule’s full from noon ’til night.
It isn’t great, but I’ll get by…
I watch paint dry.

 

Uncomplicated

A little room (???) without a bed …surplus to requirements (???)
counting years I came in late, considering retirement.
I’m feeling pretty scared, you know I almost dyed my hair,
but I’m far too gone to care… oh baby, please, now, easy on the spray.

Now (???) and stroking feet, I kissed around the (???)
and cursed me from his lofty seat and walked this earth forever.
I’m feeling pretty tired since you tied me up with wires.
I concede to you Messiah, just go easy, easy on the spray.

(????)

It’s a lousy lonely road and I know every little pebble.
Throw my arms high in the air and took my feet off both the pedals.
But I’m feeling sick inside, maybe even suicidal
Is there nowhere I can hide? oh baby, please go easy on the spray.

(????)
…uncomplicated.

 

Bad Mood

Who amongst you has the right to sanction what is real and what is fake?
Who is so damned perfect who can claim there has not been some mistake?
Nothing high and mighty now, look upon the blighted ground.
Take a rock and throw it down, break our spirit, drag us down… down… down…

Imprisoned by these pounds of flesh, locked up inside these spiteful tiny minds.
And if we should die today, whomever could we trust to take the time?
To make a little monument that tries to make a little sense,
for what we did was never meant to fill up space inside this fence.

Flat on rooftops, taking aim, and picking off the midgets down below.
Feel that rush of glory, seize it now, that cruel wind will surely blow.
And all you were is covered up, and there shall be a deadly hush.
A matchstick planted in the dust. I need a little cheering up… up… up…
Up… up… up…!

 

An Arm & A Wasp
(instrumental)

 

A Cubic Collage
(instrumental)

The Curse of Marie Antoinette

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September 13, 2013
Picture LP  Rustblade RBLLP001

October 16, 2013
MP3  self-released on Bandcamp

July, 2014
CD-r   self-released on TEKA / Bandcamp (alternate image)

Side A

  1. The Curse of Marie Antoinette
  2. Something’s Burning
  3. Hallucination 33

Side B

  1. Catwalk
  2. Ballerina on a Rice Paper Leaf
  3. Ghost of a Summer to Come

Credits

  • Edward Ka-Spel- voice, keyboards
  • Phil Knight- keyboards, electronics
  • Erik Drost- guitars
  • Raymond Steeg- live sound engineer

Press Release

The Curse of Marie Antoinette is a concept album created exclusively for this picture disc release limited to 299 copies. It’s unique atmosphere runs like a thread from the title track piano lullaby graced by Edwards melancholic voice to the repeating bassline and psychedelia of “Halluination 33″, arriving then at the transformations of Side B’s lysergic tones and disturbing offerings like “Ballerina on a Rice Paper Leaf” and “Ghost of a Summer to Come”… 45 minutes of storytelling touching on reincarnation, other worldly dimensions, romance and fear to be enjoyed by candle light. A collector’s jewel not to be missed by lovers of the cosmic music that The Legendary Pink Dots so aptly create. -Rustblade


Notes

A surprise release from the Dots in 2013 in the form of a vinyl picture disc on the estimable Rustblade label from Italy.  A mix of sad songs and sorrowful scapes that ends in the loneliest of places. -E. K-S.

CD-r: After many requests we’re happy to present Marie Antoinette on cdr with a card cover and beautiful artwork by The Silverman. As always, lovingly made at home….  edition of 199


Lyrics 

Transcribed by Kris Nelson

The Curse of Marie-Antoinette

The curse of Marie-Antoinette insured we’d suffer yet discover that death was not an end but a conspiracy, a cover-up, a myth that one day all the pain would go away.   Please go away!  And every festering laceration, every open wound is a reminder of a night that’s yet to come, a cage beneath the setting sun.  A rusted lock, a gentle breeze. The jailer teasing, same routine repeating.  Keeps repeating!  And I too regret my words Marie-Antoinette, and I’d wish we’d never met,  Marie-Antoinette – years ago…

Something’s Burning

Butterfly lie spinning on a whale.  Father, please don’t break it, just sit still.  Take in all the colours, the kaleidoscope, feel the revolution stirring, rising. 

(We will)

Never could take these things lying down.  Never could take these things lying down.  Neither should you.

(We will)

Hallucination 33 (instrumental)

Catwalk

Welcome to the catwalk.  The tightrope. The view.  But keep your arms stretched wide friend, because that big wide world below wants to consume you – whole.  It wants to add colour to a canvas that slowly turns from blue to grey to red. 

Red.  Red. Red.

It’ a red planet.  It’s a hot red planet – and it needs… to feed. 

Ballerina on a Rice Paper Leaf (soundscape)

Ghost of a Summer to Come

No need to wipe that lens my friend, the small distortion is there.  It’s not a trick of the light.  There is no malfunction.  You see, it’s Wednesday – and she walks on Wednesdays.  No, that’s not the wind your hear, it’s her tragic moaning as she carries her head as I carry this tray of soft drinks, packets of crisps, ham sandwiches.  It’s Wednesday, so it’s special offer day.  “So, can I help you sir?”

(the crowd:  “She’s over there.  No, over there.  Over there.  Over there”).

Damn fools!  She’s right here before me and her lovely head sits on perfect shoulders. Her hair lifts and drifts in the steady breeze as she offers me her hand, which I take, hardly daring to look into her eyes.  There’s so very,  very much I’d like to ask her, but she shakes her head and whispers: “This is the time for mischief.”

We slide through the crowd.  Damn fools.  They don’t seem to even notice us.  But a little girl laughs as my white lady slaps the tray and scatters the soft drinks, the packets of crisps, the ham sandwiches.  (“Over there”).  “This is a time for mischief.”

To the river bank: “Is this where you drowned, white lady?”  The riverbank.  There is no shyness as you step out of your dress. “Is this your wedding dress white lady?”  – but the question dissolves like snowflakes on freshly scorched earth.  “This is a time for mischief.” (“Over there”).     And I make no protest as she undresses me right there on the riverbank; and I feel no shame as we make love right there, in front of the crowd.  (“Over there.  Over there”). And we’re loud; we revel in this mischief.  We’re provoking you.  Outrageous!  Aren’t we being outrageous enough? 

Damn fools!  (“Over there”). Can’t you even see us here? (“Over there”).  And, what’s next? Next, it’s time for her to leave: “But it’s still Wednesday white lady, and Wednesday is the day when you walk” – yet still she fades.  “Can I come with you?”  Still she fades.  And again, I find myself alone in the crowd, pointing (“Over there!  Over there, over there”).

I need a coffee and I address the man with the tray, but he walks right through me. (“Over there!  Over there!”)  “Look, I’m right here dammit!”

(“Over there!  Over there”). “Damn fools! What’s wrong with you? Ain’t my money good enough for you?”  (“Over there, over there”). 

(unintelligible spectral voice).   “No.  I know my place.” 

“Here I come”. “Here I come!”  “Here I come!”

Code Noir

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Cover ImageRelease date and tracklist

September 20, 2013
CD / MP3    Beta-Lactam Ring Records #mt282a

January 24, 2017
Tour Aquarian Edition
CD NL self-released through Bandcamp

October 14, 2019
LPD Anno 40 Edition
CD US self-released through Bandcamp

  1. Six Easy Lessons
  2. Cloud 6
  3. Spare Change
  4. Life is Hard
  5. Ascension 3
  6. Testing 1.2.3.
  7. Two Steps Beyond

 


Credits 

  • Edward Ka-Spel
  • Phil Knight
  • Eric Drost
  • Raymond Steeg

Notes 

The sister album to The Gethsemane Option album, this is a limited tour CD (499 copies) for the LPD 33 anniversary tour of 2013. It was available on the tour and copies to sell were made available Sept. 20, 2013 through BLRR for those unable to attend a concert. All copies ordered from BLRR are autographed.

Tour Aquarian Editionbc2017_codenoir
When “Code Noir” originally appeared ,more cds were manufactured than covers…and the first edition sold out within a few weeks. This is a special edition with HANDMADE covers designed by Dots’ members which appeared during the recent tour of North American. It’s an edition of 88 only…we brought 13 back to Europe. PLEASE NOTE- AVAILABLE FROM 24 JANUARY 2017.

 

LPD Anno 40 Edition
A spindle of discs turned up in a garage – alas, all without covers. In typical Dots’ fashion we painstakingly created new artwork and set about the necessary task with glue, scissors and a pen. Lovingly handmade. Most of this edition will disappear on tour but we set aside 25 for all who cannot make it to the shows.  Edition of 99

 

Come Out from the Shadows (Volume 3 – The 80s)

THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS

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Cover ImageRelease date and tracklist

September 3, 2013
MP3 private release on Bandcamp 

  1. The Light in my Little Girl’s Eyes
  2. Potsdammer Spats
  3. Lillith’s Daughter (first version)
  4. Lisa’s Party (first version)
  5. Timedance (instrumental)
  6. Nuts in May
  7. Twice Around the Pot
  8. Spiritus- full length version
  9. Our Lady in Walthamstow
  10. Escape from CP
  11. The Abominable Dr. K

 

Cover Image

May 29, 2022 Remaster
CS SK 4MG Records

Side A

  1. The Light in my Little Girl’s Eyes (Version 2)
  2. Potsdammer Spats
  3. Lillith’s Daughter (First version)
  4. Lisa’s Party (Demo)
  5. Timedance (Instrumental)
  6. Nuts in May
  7. Twice Around the Pot

Side B

  1. Spiritus- full length version
  2. Our Lady in Walthamstow
  3. Escape from CP
  4. The Abominable Dr. K

 

Cover Image

April 7, 2023
CDR NL self-released on Bandcamp

  1. Waiting For The Call / You’n’me (September 1980)
  2. Frosty (September 1980)
  3. Stoned Obituary 1980
  4. Timedance (Instrumental)
  5. Lisa’s Party (demo)
  6. Escape From CP
  7. Spiritus (Full Length Version)
  8. A Spanish Bridge
  9. The Light In My Little Girl’s Eyes) (Version 2)
  10. Lilith’s Daughter (Version 1)
  11. Nuts In May
  12. Twice Around The Pot
  13. Our Lady In Walthamstow
  14. Potsdammer Spats
  15. The Abominable Dr K

 


Credits

“A cast of thousands”


Notes

There was a box in a cellar crammed with cassettes. It sat there for years.

Sometimes I’d paw through the tapes (invariably separated from their broken boxes) and wonder what was on them. Sure there were markings as an initial ballpoint scrawl would be obliterated by a red felt tip which was then obliterated by a black line and replaced with a single word like “Lullaby”. Usually the code was a lie..I knew this and held back …until around 2 months ago.

I’m almost done now and quite astonished at the things that turned up.

Everything on this volume is previously unheard except for “Potsdammer Spats” which was released on an impossibly obscure 7″/12″ (with customised T-shirt) on Rund um den Watzmann Records around 23 years ago.  Some of the recordings are rough, some of the playing was rough and you’ll shout wow at all that flutter. Glad I finally took a dive into that box- now for God’s sake, hose me down….. -E. K-S.

4MG Records cassette release:
We’re delighted to announce the release of the 3rd Chapter of the “Come Out From The Shadows” series in physical format. 4mg Records (Slovakia) has committed this release to cassette, and the whole release received a massive sonic overhaul for the occasion.  -EKS
Limited edition of 100 cassettes.

 

2023 CDR release:
A massive expansion and sonic overhaul for the title which now includes ‘stray’ tracks from the long out-of-print ‘Stained Glass Soma Fountains’ plus ‘Stoned Obituary 1980’ from the first cd edition of ‘Prayer For Aradia’.  It has a new cover and is a limited edition of 99.