THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS

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October 8, 2020
NL MP3 self-released on Bandcamp

1. Russian Roulette
2. Hauptbahnhof / Soft Toy
3. Choke
4. God & Machines
5. Exceptional Buddhist

Credits

• Edward Ka-Spel
• The Silverman
• Erik Drost

Notes

If only all radio stations could be like WFMU, New Jersey. The Dots enjoyed the privilege of playing live in the studio for Brian Turner’s show in 2010 and this relaxed, creative afternoon felt like a real highlight in an intense North American Tour. We even improvised for the unique “Exceptional Buddhist” which is only available here. For this release, the sound has been enhanced for your delectation.  A big thank you to Brian for inviting us!

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October 30, 2020
NL MP3 self-released on Bandcamp

1. Toytown / A Very Very Very Fine House
2. A 21st Century Ritual Parts 1 & 2

Notes

2020. The year when every day was Hallowe’en, but with just the horror and none of the fun…until now. Enjoy this journey. Cover art is by Alice made just for this project.

As with all holiday special releases, this was available temporarily for approximately 2 months.

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October 8, 2020
NL MP3 self-released on Bandcamp

1. Year 2017
2. Year 2018
3. Year 2019

Credits

The Legendary Pink Dots

Notes

Music for that “Special” occasion. Three years of it, packaged and delivered with love in three large bites. We are considering a physical CD box set release with ALL the Festive releases. Keep your eyes fixed on the small print.

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August 1, 2020
NL MP3 self-released on Bandcamp

1. Silverture / Flowers For The Silverman
2. Tower 1
3. A Lust For Powder
4. Black Zone
5. Astrid / Rope & Glory / Tower 3
6. Love Puppets
7. Lisa’s Party
8. Waving At The Aeroplanes
9. Stoned Obituary
10. Hanging Gardens
11. Kitto
12. Eight Minutes To Live
13. The Hill
14. So Gallantly Screaming
15. Femme Mirage
16. Our Lady In Chambers
17. Rattlesnake Arena
18. Premonition 16
19. Hotel Noir
20. the Month After
21. Lisa’s Separation / The Golden Age
22. The Light In My Little Girl’s Eyes
23. Waiting For The Cloud
24. Cloud Zero

Credits

• Edward Ka-Spel- vocals, lyrics, keyboards
• Phil Knight- keyboards, electronics
• April Iliffe- keyboards
• Michael Marshall- guitar
• Patrick White- sound engineer, percussion, guitar
• Roland Calloway- bass, keyboards
• Julia Niblock Waller- bass, keyboards, vocals
• Barry Gray- guitar, composing, drum programming
• Graham Whitehead- piano, synthesizers
• Jason Salmon- bass, percussion
• Hans Meyer- sound processing, saxophone
• Bob Pistoor- guitar, sitaar, bass
• Vincent Hoedt- sound engineer
• Patrick Q Wright- violin, viola, mandolin, keyboards, drum programming

Notes

1980. I was living in a flat over a small grocery shop on the major artery which connected London with the East coast. Whenever a large truck thundered past, the whole building would shake as if an earthquake was occurring. It seemed like these tremors occurred around every five minutes, although it was worse at night.

After a visit to the Stonehenge Free Festival I had invested in a Korg MS20 synthesiser, a drum machine with 12 rhythms to choose from which could be speeded up or slowed down with the turn of a pot, a small guitar amplifier and a very cheap microphone.
At the festival I’d witnessed a band at 3am utilising a shrieking synthesiser and a drum machine and I was extremely impressed. Fellow travellers April and Phil felt the same way.

Although we were all sleeping in separate tents, the din at the end of the field was so striking, we all found ourselves wandering in the deep night to the tiny stage saturated with white pulsing lights. We WERE the audience. Nobody else came to watch and the 3 members of that mysterious band seemed oblivious to the trio of spectators.

We said nothing to each other as we returned to our respective tents and I’m not alone in wondering if this was a phenomenon known as a “shared dream”. Certainly we all remember the occasion, including the odd fact that the 3 of us never exchanged a single word throughout the whole experience.

Still, this voyage into the Twilight Zone was the trigger for me to try and make music again after a couple of false starts in my school days. Happily April and Phil wanted to join me and Mick swiftly turned the fledgling Dots into a quartet.

This collection represents a sketch of our first 10 years . Back then, a year felt like a lifetime with so many events and emotions packed into it. I guess that hasn’t changed.
This collection is lovingly dedicated to the memory of Marylou who was so much a part of those first 10 years.EK

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Tracks 1 & 18 from “The Lovers”; tracks 2-5 from “The Tower”;tracks 6-9 from “Curse” ; track 10 from “Brighter Now”; tracks 11-12 from “Faces In The Fire”;tracks 13-15 from “Asylum”; tracks 16-17 from “Island Of Jewels”; tracks 19-21 from “The Golden Age” tracks 22-24 from “Any Day Now”

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August 2, 2020
NL MP3 self-released on Bandcamp

1. A Crack In Melancholy Time
2. Zero Zero
3. Clockwise
4. Citadel
5. A Velvet Resurrection
6. Damien
7. Disturbance
8. Belladonna
9. Remember Me This Way
10. I Love You In Your Tragic Beauty
11. New Tomorrow
12. The Grain Kings
13. The Angel Trail / Nine Shades To The Circle
14. Joey The Canary
15. Sterre
16. The Saucers Are Coming
17. Hallway
18. Slaapliedje
19. Paris 4 AM
20. 9 Shades To The Circle / Premonition 13 Live In France

Credits

• Edward Ka-Spel- vocals, keyboards, electronics
• The Silver Man- keyboards, electronics
• Niels Van Hoorn- wind instruments
• Ryan Moore- bass, drums, percussion
• Martijn de Kleer- guitar, bass, drums
• Edwin von Trippenhof- guitar, bass
• Frank Verschuuren- sound engineer

Notes

The 1990s was a tumultuous decade. The World order we all thought was set in stone had become an illusion, and economies collapsed, horrendous new wars bubbled up and I just remember this feeling of continuous ominous uncertainty.

That uncertainty was epitomised by the “Millennium Bug”. The irony was inescapable. The World would not be terminated by an asteroid, an alien invasion or a virus from Hell but by a simple programming oversight in the computers we all relied upon.

I remember waiting with baited breath for planes to drop out of the sky as the clock chimed for the 12th time on the last day of 1999 – I’d had my Nostradamus phase like many others and…… nothing happened! We could all enter the 21st Century content that the World would be a calmer, happier, safer place. Oh joy of joys……

For The Dots, we began the 90s on a high with “The Crushed Velvet Apocalypse” and “The Maria Dimension” being embraced by a wider audience than we’d enjoyed before, but then we lost a precious friend and musician in Bob Pistoor to lung cancer.

That uncertainty had become part of our DNA.

We survived, we toured relentlessly, we recorded relentlessly as if to keep the big bad World away from our bubble. And still there was this nagging feeling that the bubble just might burst at midnight on the final night of the decade. I guess I overlooked the fact that they hit that moment far earlier in Australia and there were no devastating consequences. Even so, I turned into a pumpkin.

This collection is the third instalment of our “Decades” series and is dedicated with love to Bob.

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Tracks 1 & 13 from “9 Lives To Wonder”; Track 2 from “Shadow Weaver”; Tracks 3 – 6 & 9 from “From Here You’ll Watch The World Go By”;Tracks 7,8 & 12 from “The Maria Dimension” ;Tracks 10 & 11 from “ The Crushed Velvet Apocalypse”; Tracks 14 & 19 from “Malachai”; Tracks 15- 17 from “Hallway of the Gods”; Track 18 from “Nemesis Online”; Track 20 from “The French Collection”.

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July 2, 2020
NL MP3 self-released on Bandcamp

1. Shining Path
2. The Way I Feel today
3. Peace Of Mind
4. When I’m With You
5. Pain Bubbles
6. The Day Before It Happened
7. Brighter Now
8. Soft Toy
9. An Unlikely Event
10. The Warden/ Touched By The Midnight Sun
11. 12th
12. A World With No Mirrors
13. Our Dominion
14. No Matter What You Do
15. Rainbows Too?
16. The Made Man’s Manifesto
17. Personal Monster
18. The Equaliser
19. Faded Photograph
20. Cubic Caesar
21. The Brightest Star Over Bremen 2002

Credits

• Niels Van Hoorn
• Ryan Moore
• Martyn de Kleeer
• Frank Verschurren
• Edward Ka-Spel
• The Silver Man

Notes

You always remember exactly where you were when a World changing event occurs.
September 11, 2001. I felt good after writing and recording a song entitled “The Warden” and decided to treat myself to a small break by listening to the news on the radio. I tuned in as the second plane crashed into the twin towers in far-off New York….
The next song I wrote was “12th”,, a day later. It was an attempt to bring some kind of calm to a growing unease inside me that maybe we were all about to be witnesses to the end of the World.
In the rarefied World of the Pink Dots, an urgency took hold which resulted in the the twin albums, “All The King’s Horses” and “All The King’s Men” in 2002. Both are heavily featured in the collection presented here and, for me, represent our finest hours in a turbulent decade for the band.
Matters reached a head in 2009 when half of the band quit to pursue their own projects, but happily The Legendary Pink Dots is an enduring institution. If the planet can withstand a trauma like 9/ 11, then a small band of troubadours can battle through  a few sad line-up changes.
“A String of Zeroes “ is the second of four volumes representing decades of The Dots. This one is dedicated to dear friends who played their parts and moved on to pastures anew.

Hats off to Niels, Ryan, Martyn and Frank.