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The Victoria Dimension

EDWARD KA-SPEL

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Cover ImageRelease date and tracklist

Oct 31, 2014 (pre-order availability)
Jan 15, 2015 (official)
US CD  Beta-lactam Ring Records mt268
US CD + CD/record  Beta-lactam Ring Records mt268bonus

  1. Limburgia
  2. Red Highway
  3. The Border of Beyond
  4. Night Terrors
  5. Victoria
  6. Shine + Bones
  7. I’ll Come to you / Continuo
  8. Conclusion

Bonus CD/record: A Victorian Odyssey (image)

 

Apr 14, 2015
NL MP3 self-released on Bandcamp

August 1, 2024
UK/NL remastered MP3 self-released on EK’s Bandcamp

  1. Limburgia
  2. Red Highway
  3. The Border of Beyond
  4. Night Terrors
  5. Victoria
  6. Shine + Bones
  7. I’ll Come to you / Continuo
  8. Conclusion
  9. A Victorian Odyssey
  10. Farewell Good Queen Vic

Credits

  • Edward Ka-Spel

Artwork by Jesse Peper

Notes

CD + CD/record:
Special hyper-limited 2 disc format.  Packaged in a bookbound gatefold case and numbered insert with a bonus duel format CD-Record* “A Victorian Odyssey” Only available from BLRR or Edward’s mail order.

*20 minutes of audio for your cd player and 3 minutes of audio playable on your record player issued as an edition of 60 120 copies

Edward Ka-spel: “The special Victoria edition was expanded to 120 (ie 2 runs of the special cd) as it quickly became obvious that 60 was never going to be enough.Originally we thought that it would be…”

Press Release

D’Archangel rises. And yawns. Wiping the crust from his eyes, he stumbles from his cryogenic coffin and makes his way to the head, the dull thrum of machinery his only companion. Disturbed by the cracked and worn face staring back at him from above the washbasin, he wonders if something went wrong in stasis. Surely there shouldn’t be stubble! No matter, it’ll be good to be back home. Making his way to the cockpit, he spins the dial on the subspace radio, flipping past caterwauling clockwork orchestras ticking off by-the-numbers covers of White Noise and The Incredible String Band. Oldies again! As he fumbles through his 8-track collection, he catches a glimpse of the vast world hovering in the inky blackness beyond the cockpit window, it’s landscape pitted and scorched. A knot forms in his stomach as he punches in his descent pattern. That’s the trouble with these long business trips – you never know what nightmares await you upon your return.”

 

Apples (Big!) China Doll

EDWARD KA-SPEL

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Cover ImageRelease date and tracklist

1987
US CS Audiofile Tapes AT 34
DE CS Staubgold/P.E. Distribution PE-D 21

side a

  1. Flesh Parade
  2. Aaδzhyd China Doll
  3. The Qa’Spell
  4. Suicide Pact
  5. Lilith’s Daughter

side b

  1. Avengelist
  2. God In A Cupboard
  3. Black Zone
  4. Love In A Plain Brown Envelope
  5. Interview

 

March 14, 2016
NL MP3 self-released on Bandcamp

  • Flesh Parade / aazhyd China Doll / The  Qa’Spell
  • Suicide Pact / Lilith’s Daughter
  • Avengelist / God In A Cupboard / Black Zone / Love In A Plain Brown Envelope
  • Coffee With Carl

Credits

  • Edward Ka-Spel – voice, synthesizer [Roland Juno-1]
  • Dave Ogilvie – mix

Cover Photo – Eileen Arnow

Notes

inside image with notes

This document profiles the complete set of Edward Ka-Spel on tour with Skinny Puppy in NYC and Boston, USA, on May 23-24, 1987. Ka-Spel plays a Roland Juno-1 furnished by Cevin Key. Genius live mixes both nights by Dave Ogilvie. NYC date is an audience recording; Boston is a soundboard recording as broadcast on WZBC-FM by Dave Prescott. All music © 1987 by Edward Ka-Spel. This is an artist-approved non-bootleg release.
Track B5 was added to this release at a later date and was not included on initial copies.

Big Thanx: Jim Levine, Cheryl Payne, Steve Montgomery, Terry McBride, Tiffany Chesler, and Ka-Spel fans for applauding.

The interview is not listed on the cover, but does appear on all editions.

 

AaΔzhyd China Doll

EDWARD KA-SPEL

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Cover ImageRelease date and tracklist

1987
NL LP Torso 33028
GR LP Penguin 30023

side a

  1. AaΔzhyd China Doll
  2. Flesh Parade
  3. The Qa’Spell
  4. The Unfortunate Demise Of The Fabulous Puccino Brothers

side b

  1. Nuts In May
  2. Traitors’ Gate
  3. Blowing Bubbles (Part 3)
  4. The Fool

 

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Cover Image1991
UK CD Torso CD187

1995
NL 2xCD Staalplaat STCD090- details here

30 June 2013
NL Remastered MP3 self-released on Bandcamp*

  1. AaΔzhyd China Doll
  2. Flesh Parade
  3. The Qa’Spell
  4. The Unfortunate Demise Of The Fabulous Puccino Brothers
  5. Nuts In May
  6. Traitors’ Gate
  7. Blowing Bubbles (Part 3)
  8. The Fool
  9. The Witchfinder Suite Parts I-VI

* Traitors’ Gate and Blowing Bubbles are combined into one track on the Bandcamp release.

Credits

  • The Prophet Qa’Sepel – voice, keyboards, samples and loops
  • Majest – guitars, drums
  • Lady Sunshine – lady vox
  • Hanz Myer – elektronixx, enhancement

Processed by Qa’Sepel/Majest/Myer

Notes

LP:
According to the liner notes, “This is merely part one of the AaΔzhyd trilogy”.
There was a CD edition of this album retitled THE RITUAL announced on Megaton Records, but it never took place (possibly a bootleg?).
This album was reissued along with CHYEKK CHINA DOLL as a 2xCD set in 1995.

CD:
The cover of the CD release incorrectly lists two bonus tracks, “When Old Gods Die” and “After the Tower”, that do not actually appear on the disc. These tracks were later included on the Lyvv China Doll release as “Wenn Alte Gotter Sterben” and “Tower 8”.
LYRIEX ESCRID

from Bandcamp:
Steve Stapleton planted the idea….”You simply have to make ACID China Doll…”

Living in my tiny little room in an Amsterdam squat, living out of the local snack bar on Tuesdays and Thursdays, living on crumbs of human kindness during the rest of the week, the challenge seemed huge. How to live up to a title like that.

I’d spent the last of my money on an 8-track recorder, a mixing desk and an Akai sampler. Getting from the door to the bed by the wall involved climbing very carefully. Engineering was done laying down as there was no room for a chair. Still Barry managed to set up his amp and play some inspired guitar parts on what was meant to become the ultimate album in the China Doll series.

In the end I was proud of the uneven beast that emerged, but not proud enough to call it “Acid China doll”. Consequently I changed the spelling.

The record company didn’t seem to like it and worse they released it in my absence (I was on tour). One whole channel dropped out on one of the tracks as no-one checked the test pressing.

I broke down in their office, pleading for a re-press. Somebody suggested that they released records by people like Edward Ka-Spel as an act of “charity.” This was a relationship that seemed doomed from that moment although they DID put a lot of things right with a cd reissue a few years later- something I still appreciate.

I love “AaΔzhyd China Doll”…just wish I’d made the record that didn’t require a change in the spelling. -EKS

Lyrics

AaΔzhyd China Doll

AaΔzhyd! It creeps and I fall and I’m peeled from the lips to the hips and my inside’s outside. Hide me in your bed God. You can spread me on your bread, God. Or throw me in the cell… You call it “Hell”, I call it warm! A fizz. Apokacidilipsmakk. I crack. I crawl. (So get those fucking horsemen off my lawn!).

Flesh Parade

Up before the Flesh Parade… The pretty faces… The bedroom eyes… The pouting lips. The longing thighs say “Come in for a night, you won’t regret it – but don’t make any plans”. She likes a man, but a hand is just as effective. A mutual need. No need to talk. No moonlit walks, no sun-drenched beaches. Just a bed and just an alarm clock, says your time is up. Go find another body (boy, girl) in the Flesh Parade.The line-up never changes. And, sure, nobody’s perfect. Just good at Perfect crimes. We have the standard phrases; ask the time. How about the weather? Don’t care about the spots. My only interest is your mind.(Got the time for a grind in the Flesh Parade?)

The Qa’Spell

Kissing frogs is fine when you’re single, when you’ve time to spare. You hold the mirror, comb your hair, the manna drops down from heaven. But spare a thought for me; light a candle. Place me in the flame…Handle me with care, I’ll maybe melt away. If you do believe in me; yes if you are convinced – I’ll be your prince now and forever. No more wincing as you kiss a frog, and no more waiting…

The Unfortunate Demise of the Fabulous Puccino Brothers

The host of heaven welcomed seven ghosts. He gave them coffee, showed them’round but the catastrophe had left them speechless.They’d tried to teach us kids how human beings could be pyramids when Gideon went sliding on a banana skin. The stage caved in. They hit the cellar. Hit the deck. Stone dead and seeing red when gates were golden[….?….] Peter told them how they’d like it there… make tightropes,tiptoe gently through the clouds. And if they fell, just ring a bell. Anet would catch them, stop them dropping headfirst into hell!

Nuts in May

Nuts in May go firing guns while Nuts in June write speeches.They find a box to preach on while the kiddies screech in prams. And mum sucks on a choc-ice, mumbles how the weather’s nice. It’s like a desert island; the cannibals run twice around the pot and pop you in and pick you out all red and chewy. Then turn you into superglue for kids to sniff on… makes them nuts in May with guns and Nuts in June who write those speeches.

Traitor’s Gate

The river’s wide, the river’s deep. I know I scraped the bottom with
a rock chained to my feet – the fishes feed on my mascara…
You were smiling when you met me… Yes, you promised me the world.
You said that you’d protect me…
You were smiling as they threw me from the viaduct.

Blowing Bubbles (Part III)

Sometimes you criticise me, analyse me, dice me in eight equal slices; I’m cut down to size. It’s alright – I love you! It’s a long drop, I’ve been there far too many times. But you always caught me and fed me and warmed me. (I’m flying too high!)
I love you.

The Fool

You call me up. They cool me down. They drown me with a syphon spewing ice-knives, nail me to my shadow, case me in a plaster-cast and cast me down the mine. I’ll dig until my fingers shine and blood runs down the wall. They wanted coal but I’ll keep scraping until I’m striking gold.It’s fool’s gold, but I’m just a fool – be sure, it’s real enough for me! I’ll make a crown. I’ll take my princess to the holy ground, we’ll waltz around the stones. So fast, we’ll twist into another time. Another home! Just you and me; a few well-chosen friends because we need them. It’s so lonely caged in eden eating apples only cause we’re so damn bored.

A DREAM IS A DREAM, NO MATTER NO MEANING
A DREAM IS A DREAM – BUT IT’S REAL AT THE TIME!

 

Khataclimici China Doll

EDWARD KA-SPEL

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1988
DE LP DOM V77-12 (back cover)

side a

  1. Tick Tock [MP3]
  2. The Shadow Mask
  3. Hotel Rouge [MP3]
  4. Our Lady In Madras
  5. The Shadow Box [MP3]

side b

  1. Another Tango
  2. Dotzsong
  3. Der Khataclimici

 

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Cover Image1995
DE CD Streamline 1009

12 November 2012
NL Remastered MP3 self-released on Bandcamp*

  1. Tick Tock [MP3]
  2. The Shadow Mask
  3. Hotel Rouge [MP3]
  4. Our Lady In Madras
  5. The Shadow Box [MP3]
  6. Another Tango
  7. Dotzsong
  8. Der Khataclimici
  9. Tszrnikowskiyarrh, The Baptist

* Dotzsong /Der Khataclimici are combined into 1 track.

 Credits

  • Prophet Qa’Sepel – voice, keyboards, electroni, sephtesmesc
  • Stret Majest Alarme – guitar, drums, glox
  • The Silver Man – clangs
  • Christoph Heemann – cover artwork, remix on “Tszrnikowskiyarrh, the Baptist”
  • Ramon Creutzer- sound engineer

Notes

This is merely part two of the Aaδzhyd trilogy”
LP:
LP edition is limited to around 2000 copies, some on clear vinyl (750 or so) and 1250 on black. 500 copies were numbered by RRRecords without the knowledge of Edward or the label, so there was not an official numbered edition. Includes printed inner sleeve with lyrics.

Much love to Marylou.

CD:
First CD edition was limited to between 800 and 900 copies.
The second CD edition is limited to 800 copies.
“Tszrnikowskiyarrh the Baptist” was recorded in 1994 and serves as a link to the forthcoming (?) third part of the Aaδzhyd trilogy.

TSZRNIKOWSKIYARRH

Bandcamp:
One of the most joyous solo recordings EK can remember.
For sure the actual songs were written and laid down on tape in the small untidy room which EK inhabited in Amsterdam at the end of the 80s. The 8-track tape recorder occupied the centre of the floor , the mixing desk was next to it. Wires were everywhere. No chairs…
Despite all that Barry Gray turned the place into a palace with his simply stately guitar, and the desire to experiment was intense.
Nevertheless, the best part was in the mixing. A REAL studio in Aachen. Christoph Heemann and Achim Flamm from HNAS firing ideas to turn an already psychedelic record into a full-blown peyote ritual in the depths of the jungle.
Remastering has been subtle this time around as the original sounded good.
Thanks to Christoph for his magnificent artwork too.
A physical cd reissue is also planned for the future on the mighty Beta-Lactam Ring label.

Review

Subtitled “merely part two of the Aaδzhyd trilogy” (for which there is no third part at this point), 1988’s Khataclimici is in fact brighter and much more varied than the album which precedes it. The sound is also fuller, almost to the point that it could be a Pink Dots release. More self-references run amok: “Hotel Rouge” is less melancholy than “Hotel Blanc” and more exciting than LPD’s “Hotel Noir” (on The Golden Age). “Our Lady In Madras” is equally as dark as the four LPD “Our Lady” tracks but more percussion-based, and therefore, aggressive. “Another Tango,” a dramatic narrative about a woman named Lilly who is trapped in an abusive relationship, should be about Lisa. Finally, the cute ditty called “Dotzsong” is just that, as it’s built around the “Sing While You May” motto which appears on all Pink Dots releases. Again, a twenty-minute sound collage is stapled onto the end of the album but it somehow seems more appropriate here, and apparently “Tszrnikowskiyarrh the Baptist” (as it’s called) serves as the link to the third part of the trilogy. Khataclimici was reissued by German label Streamline and distributed by Soleilmoon in 1995. – Rex

Lyrics

Tick Tock

I’ll throw the clock against the wall at nine when it starts ringing –
raining springs and wheels. We’ll take cover in the covers; kill some time
and sleep ’til twelve when bells ring in the church across the street. The
metal creatures keep the beat – the way it’s been since 1600. Shoot them!
get my gun… They’re dead! Get back to bed. Kill time. We’ll sleep…
sleep… sleep ’til six, when all the offices unload their bodies; checking
watches made in switzerland. I’ll fix them. I’ll slip a bullet in a zero
and like a hero i’ll crawl back to bed and sleep… sleep…. sleep. ’til
nine (I’ll throw the clock against the wall. I never could stand clocks at
all!)

The Shadow Mask

Born and raised on rainy days. No chance. No space. He waits. He plays. He
knows the rules, keeps his disguise – he dips his head to bigger guys.
He’ll save his knives for midnight when lights are out and mice play
perfumed statues in the doorways, kissing air and winking good times for a
price. He’ll hang out with the smaller guys and pounce… could never stand
a man who’s not a man; whose hands aren’t strong enough to strangle; legs
aren’t hard enough to kick; whose heads are made for flying bricks. He
leaves them dead, his trousers wet, but he keeps his mask in place – it’s
the only way to keep respect. To stay alive, to live a lie. Night after
night. Keep your mask in place.

Hotel Rouge

My fingers run through cinders where a fire glowed a day ago. But through
the black and silver still a thousand faces stare. They’re all the same.
I’m watching you through crystal crying crystal tears. They tear red
ribbons in my face. One thousand years is much too long to wait, to find
and then be torn away. Now I watch you ride your white horse from my room
high in hotel rouge.

Tikka Tikka Tikka Tikka tick Tandoori. Jury stands and judge condemns >>impurity<<. His head rests in his hands; one finger pointing to the oven. So I covered up my eyes (it’s my duty!). And you were on a skewer waiting for the man to light the gas. The fire. The cleansing fire. So goddamn hot, the court retired to an air-conditioned room. They had a party. Cheap wine, cheese, chapatis. I was parched, I was hungry, but I’ll stay with you. I’ll burn with you this night, my friend. I’ll burn with you! We’ll burn together … okay? Okay?

The Shadow Box

Someone smashed the lamp, so all the shadows stretched and spun a web as
haircuts took short cuts. Blades sharp for a deep cut… Dropping from the
rust and the ruts just like a guillotine. A blood red rag to mute the
screams – sixteen hands are ripping, stripping… waving shredded flags in
red and in white in the shadow box balconies of eyes are spying unseen in
eiderdowns, dressing gowns, negligees and towels. Unwinding… launching,
grinding… they roll off the couches. The devil crouches in the shadow box!

Another Tango

It’s sundown down in lemon town and lilly’s looking sad. She’s staring at
the mirror counding bruises, bags and sacks to catch the tears. She pulls
the sapphire from her ear; runs a buzzsaw across her wedding ring but cuts
her finger (it stings!). She shrieks, remembers when he branded >>LOVE
YOU<< on her arm and it swelled up like a big balloon. She cried an
afternoon; he watched T.V. ’til he felt the need to take her. And Lilly
always takes him back. She’s waiting for the knock; she snaps a comb, she
spreads the make-up thick. She spreads the bed. It’s almost ten – she can’t
stand another night alone.

DOTZSONG/Der Khataclimici

Sing while you may
thorugh it’s hard to sing underwater.
Sing while you may… cos it may not be so very long!
Mountains walk and empires burn and crumble into seas.
We talk about it, read about it… watch it on T.V….
Just sing while you may. Like a fly that’s trapped on a window.
Sing while you may
cos there’s nothing in the world that you can change.

 

Perhaps We’ll Only See a Thin Blue Line…

EDWARD KA-SPEL

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1989
BE LP LD/Play it Again Sam LD 8944

side a

  1. Moments [MP3]
  2. Even Now [MP3]
  3. And the Lord Said “Rise” [MP3]
  4. Tikko [MP3]
  5. Splash

side b

  1. The Fool, With Hammers
  2. The Unspeakable Revenge Of The Killer Grapefruit
  3. Chasing the Carrion
  4. Volicie [MP3]
  5. Jesus Wept

Credits

  • Edward Ka-Spel – vox, keyboards, percussion, attempted violin
  • Lilly Ak – lady voice
  • Stret Majest – guitar, drums, glox
  • Hanz Myer – electronix

Notes

A collection of tracks from the Dance China Doll 12″, live material, compilation appearances, and other rarities and previously unreleased work.
Limited to 2000 copies

Tracks A1 & A2 from “Dance China Doll” EP (1984).
Track A3 from “For Your Ears Only” compilation (1985).
Tracks A4 & A5 as yet unreleased material (1986).
Track B1 live in Vienna (1988).
Tracks B2 to B4 as yet unreleased material (1987/88).
Track B5 from “Is That You, Santa Claus?” K7 (1987).

 

Lyvv China Doll

EDWARD KA-SPEL

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Cover ImageRelease date and tracklist

1990
NL CS Mirrordot Tapes/Jarmusic

side a

  1. Wenn Alte Götter Sterben
  2. Tower 8
  3. The Char Char – [MP3]
  4. Corridors Of Deceit
  5. Dada
  6. Infirmary Waltz
  7. (Untitled)
  8. Lying In State
  9. Sneezing Choirs
  10. March Of The Anorexic Locusts
  11. Beautiful, Plastic
  12. Pretty Ribbons
  13. The Horn Section

side b

  1. So Gallantly Screaming
  2. Flesh Parade
  3. Aaδzhyd China Doll
  4. Tanz Der China Doll
  5. Golden Dawn
  6. Avengelist
  7. God In A Cupboard
  8. Love In A Plain Brown Envelope

 

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Cover Image1993
NL CD Staalplaat STCD060

  1. The Char Char
  2. Wenn Alte Gotter Sterben
  3. Tower 8
  4. Bleak House
  5. Corridors Of Deceit
  6. Dada
  7. Infirmary Waltz
  8. (Untitled)
  9. Lying In State
  10. Sneezing Choirs
  11. March Of The Anorexic Locusts
  12. Beautiful, Plastic
  13. Pretty Ribbons
  14. Vla
  15. Culumnyetz
  16. God Bless The Cavalry Part 1
  17. God Bless The Cavalry Part 2
  18. Zyrrup
  19. The Horn Section
  20. Intent
  21. Bleeding Finale

 

2014 (remaster)
Cover ImageNL MP3/CDr self-released on LPD’s Bandcamp

  1. The Char Char (version 1)
  2. When Old Gods Die
  3. Tower 8
  4. Bleak House
  5. Corridors Of Deceit
  6. Dada
  7. Infirmary Waltz
  8. (Untitled)
  9. Lying In State
  10. Sneezing Choirs
  11. March Of The Anorexic Locusts
  12. Beautiful, Plastic
  13. Pretty Ribbons
  14. Vla
  15. Culumnyetz
  16. God Bless The Cavalry Part 1 & 2
  17. Zyrrup
  18. The Horn Section
  19. Intent
  20. Bleeding Finale
  21. So Gallantly Screaming
  22. Flesh Parade / Aazhyd China Doll
  23. Dance of the China Dolls / Golden Dawn
  24. Avengelist / God in a Cupboard
  25. Love in a Plain Brown Envelope

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June 1, 2024 (redux)
NL/UK MP3 self-released on EK’s Bandcamp

  1. The Char Char (version 1)
  2. When Old Gods Die
  3. Tower 8
  4. Bleak House
  5. Corridors Of Deceit
  6. Dada
  7. Infirmary Waltz
  8. (Untitled)
  9. Lying In State
  10. Sneezing Choirs
  11. Anorexic Locusts
  12. Beautiful, Plastic
  13. Pretty Ribbons
  14. Vla
  15. Culumnyetz
  16. God Bless The Cavalry Part 1 & 2
  17. Zyrrup
  18. The Horn Section
  19. Intent
  20. Bleeding Finale
  21. So Gallantly Screaming (Delden NL 1985)
  22. Flesh Parade
  23. Aazhyd China Doll
  24. Dance of the China Dolls
  25. Golden Dawn
  26. Avengelist / God in a Cupboard
  27. Love in a Plain Brown Envelope

 

Credits

  • Edward Ka-Spel
  • Ignit- keyboards

Notes
Cover Imagecassette:
Limited, numbered edition of 834 copies.

Packaged in a plastic bag with double-sided color insert of collage artwork, plus a double-sided b&w insert with live pictures and text, and a single-sided b&w insert with selected lyrics.

The original intention was a simple live document…but, ultimately, that’s as unsatisfying for me as it is for the listener. Hence, Lyvv features previously unheard pieces like ‘When Old Gods Die’, Tower 8 RETITLED of course for ‘contractual’ reasons as well as obscure oddities like ‘Pretty Ribbons’ and ‘Corridors of Deceit’. Pieces I like but could never find the right place for. This K7 also documents the first performance under the banner ‘Edward Ka-Spel / d’archangel’ in Deventer, Holland back in 1985 with Ignit on keyboards.

CD:
A collection of the studio material from the original cassette plus other “experiments” and outtakes.

2014 Bandcamp remaster:
On cdr in card sleeve with insert

“Lyvv China Doll” started life as an elaborate but very elusive cassette release from The Dots’ TEKA label- it was half live material and half comprised of bits and pieces that needed a home.  Later it became a cd for the Staalplaat label and the live side was dropped while more bits and pieces came into view.This remaster brings the two releases together.

The first live piece in the track listing is actually “The Horn Section” while a little later the first ever performance of “So Gallantly Screaming.” can be heard as a mere idea rather than a finished song. The year was 1985 and the venue was in the village of Delden in the far East of The Netherlands.

Never heard of Delden? Guess what, they hadn’t heard of us either (EK, Ignit, Ed van Kaye)..You could say the reaction was minimal when the screaming started; it even became mildly hostile when that horn section (actually miniature plastic saxophones from the gas station) were introduced. I’d like to think they still talk about it in Delden but they probably forgot decades ago.

Other live tracks were from an especially heavy solo show in Vienna (1988) and Strasbourg (1986) where The Silverman and Stret Majest Alarme completed a particularly incendiary line-up.

Other notable songs from Lyvv” include “Tower 8” and “When Old Gods Die” (with Patrick Q.Paganini) which were the famous “missing ” bonus songs from the original “Chyekk China Doll” cd. After this mysterious omission, the master tapes were delivered to a guy in Sweden for an intended 7″ release. Sadly tapes and guy disappeared. Thankfully EK had rough cassette copies in his drawer .

Finally I must thank Hero Wouters for his amazing work on “Dada” and “Beautiful Plastic” (he wrote the music for the latter piece). Always a joy to work with Hero….Thanks too to Bianca Wouters for her voice …EK

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June 1, 2024 Redux:
This one only needed a little enhancement as the 2014 master sounded very decent… but today’s tools do offer so many possibilities!

 

Lyrics

The Char Char

The letter was corroded, the fuses had exploded, the circuts floated on a pool of oil. They wrenched the (flecks) had snapped and sparks flew dark blue clouds and jet black walls. An apple crumbled, firemen grumbled, fumbled with a hose. Toes were curling in their white boots, sweating in their tight asbestos suits and Asmodeus played the flute. A table layed a chair and did the char char charred spitting splinters. Blisters throbbed and sisters sobbed behind the fence. Fire that burned the incense blessed the ashes as they flew. Fly away, fly away, fly away Peter, fly away Paul

Wenn Alte Gotter Sterben

Upside down and hanging. Gangreen. Dark green ankles. Rusty chains. And lusting vultures bowling dice – see who gets first bite. Frostbite! Lockjaw! MORE! See sores weep, flesh creep. Skin deep beauty lives inside his rotting carcass. Locked away, it drains away. Like a love note in a trashcan, like a sapphire in a sack. And no one’s singing hymns to him. No trembling sinners, no respect… We shed our tears, but we just accept – this old God’s dying of neglect. This old god’s dying of neglect. Neglect.

Tower 8

Lie there face down and be quiet. Captain barked, “Red carpets roll.” ??? left the helicoptor, left his marquee stroll. Respecting sores and shouting scores. The white glove glowing in the spotlight. Probbing with his stethescope for gold. The palace, the landscape with traitors as lampshades, waiters were dumb and freezer was packed. The peacock she roared with a wave from a window, a kiss on the wind and a swing of the axe. It’s the axe, see the sun, lick the blade as it swings like a windmill, as it swings as a windmill. Blades were swinging in the red night. Bonfires blazed and missiles flew. Wild guys gazed through balaclavas, baracades were blue. The captain watched it on his video, smiling cause he knew, “This is not the key to the tower!”(5x)

Bleak House (Instrumental)

Corridors of Deceit (Instrumental)

Dada

Dada. My third word. ‘Oh dada’ I’d shout. And dada came running to clout me. To hurt me. I’d howl…. And Mama went gaga. And blah! blah! -they’d row. And dada walked out. Ta ta dada.

Infirmary Waltz (Instrumental)

(Untitled) (Instrumental)

Lying in State

It was open house at Maggie’s. Yes the door it was open, People filing by for a final glimpse. Someone thought she winked, well it was just a trick of the light. Bright lights. Stereo played Mendelhson, Maggie liked the classics, no she couldn’t stand the racket on the radio. So plastic. Seems so Plastic. Now she’s looking very plastic in her new expensive hole. Made of fiberglass, it’s customized. It must, designed to pass away the years like seconds. And they told her in the advert, “If you go it’s best to go in comfort for it’s swell. Cause the nights get so lonely underground.” Now they’re firing rifles/singing hymns/reading poems/give these to him (fruit glass)/someone swears and she snatches them away. Says, “The claim of outrage, the ???? we’re all sad today, when we’ve been (handed cheese).” When Maggie’s face on, well she looks so young and still had all her faculties. Now she’s gone away(12x) Away(repeated). Rest in peace, rest in pieces Maggie. Maggots. Hooray(repeated) out of the way.

Sneezing Choirs (Instrumental w/ sample)

March of the Anorexic Locusts

couple of samples???? Tell me what you call, here’s what you curse.

Beautiful Plastic

Swaying in the dawn, scrambled into bed. His face was red, his breath was poison. Strike a match, the flames destroy a nation as he sleeps. His wife is sleeping. He slapped his paws on both her breasts. Started squeezing. Forced his tongue between her lips. Pleading, he’d reason with her, teased her, pulled her hair, he swore. He smashed his fist into her jaw, she wouldn’t thaw, no she wouldn’t thaw. Finally, he’d take no more. He rolled, hit the floor and saw a note pinned on the door. It said, “Bye honey, hope you like the doll.”

Pretty Ribbons (Instrumental)

Vla

I will be your sacrifice… The love machine demands a sacrifice (?)…

Columnyetz

All cracked (started) we all will fail together??????????????????????

God Bless the Cavalry Part 1

In your eyes(2x). Through your ears.

God Bless the Cavalry Part 2 (Instrumental)

Zyrrap (Instrumental)

The Horn Section

We introduce the horn section

Intent

Life is bright since they gave us all these prisoners of war! (sample:Slow Death)

Bleeding Finale (Instrumental)

Love in a plain brown envelope

Heaven is a hole. There’s a whole lot of heaven in your (cavern), in your avenue. Enjoy it? do you? do you? Of course you do… It’s there in black and white. There’s every detail and every tale delights. The fannies and the cranny’s with the antelopes from Lapland. (Uh… so horny!). It’s a perfect land… the lips are lubricated and the pistons always stiff and glistening driving upwards, onwards… it’s like your dream. It’s partly human and part machine. Oh, Cyborg! as a man you’re magic, as machine you’re mean, mean mean mean. Mean, mean[moans…all the way to climax] [sample on phone]I’m wondering I’m fondling myself. Come to me (sweet) woman. Talk to me. Come to me sweet thing. Come come come to me. Touch yourself, come on, touch yourself.