EDWARD KA-SPEL

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Release date and tracklist

December 2011
US LP Beta-lactam Ring Records mt266a

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Credits 

• Edward Ka-Spel- Keyboards (analogue, digital and virtual), electronics, acoustic things, devices.
• Alena Boyokova- Devices and voice

Notes 

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!

Press Release

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

EDWARD KA-SPEL

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• Edward Ka-Spel- instruments, voice

Notes

Limited edit of 300 copies.  Both sides play at 33 1/3 RPM

EDWARD KA-SPEL

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2022 Expanded release
This collection will replace the album “The Singles Remastered”.  A whole new master was created at the end of 2020 with massively improved sound quality and lots of additional material. Available in physical format as a signed, handmade double CD-R. Limited edition of 99.

Lovingly handmade. Each copy is prepared individually and signed.

EDWARD KA-SPEL

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Release date and tracklist

March 08, 2013
NL CD-r / MP3 self released on Bandcamp

1. A Step Too Far
2. Mr. Negative
3. Entrance & Illumination
4. One Big Happy Family
5. The Sad Society
6. Surfing the Volcano
7. Untitled

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June 2014
US cassette  Beta-lactam Ring Records mt286a

Side A

1. A Step Too Far
2. Mr. Negative
3. Entrance & Illumination

Side B

1. One Big Happy Family
2. The Sad Society
3. Surfing the Volcano
4. Untitled

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January 6, 2024
NL/UK MP3/CD-R self-released on EK’s Bandcamp

1. A Step Too Far
2. Mr. Negative
3. Entrance & Illumination
4. One Big Happy Family
5. The Sad Society
6. Surfing the Volcano
7. Untitled

Credits

• Edward Ka-Spel- instruments, voice

Notes

Very limited edition cassette release of 99. CDr limited edit of 399 in card cover with home-made artwork, insert and exclusive short story.

8.34 on the Richter Scale. –E K-S

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2024 release is a 2023 remaster.
A serious sonic overhaul for this album which dates back a few years. All songs were written and partly recorded on the genuinely fiery island of Lanzarote.  Limited edition CD-R of 99.

EDWARD KA-SPEL

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Release date and tracklist

January 2013
US CD BLRR mt179a

1. Looping ‘72
2. A Slighter Fade of Whale
3. Friends of the Earth
4. Desert Bong
5. Mining a Dead Moon

January 2013
LP BLRR mt179b (alternate cover)
Cassette BLRR mt179c (alternate cover)

Side A

1. Looping ‘72
2. A Slighter Fade of Whale

Side B

1. Friends of the Earth
2. Desert Bong
3. Mining a Dead Moon

March 30, 2014
NL MP3 self-released on Bandcamp (alternate cover)

1. Looping ‘72
2. A Slighter Fade of Whale
3. Friends of the Earth
4. Desert Bong
5. Mining a Dead Moon

February 2, 2024
NL MP3/ CD+CDR deluxe self-released on LPD’s Bandcamp and EK’s Bandcamp

1. Looping ‘73
2. A Slighter Fade of Whale
3. Friends of the Earth
4. Desert Bong
5. Mining a Dead Moon
6. The Ruin Parts 1-3
7. The Ruin Parts 4 & 5
8. The Ruin Part 6

Credits

Edward Ka-Spel- instruments, voice

Notes

2013 Bandcamp release:
Issued mid January 2013 in a custom made and hand printed 6 panel case as an edition of 500 copies. The ghosts of decades past are blocking the doors but you carry the future in the palm of your left hand. It promises a gentle landing, a transformation in soft colours. Hope. Eternity. Now, for the sake of posterity, one last pose before the ruin…..please.

Reflective and a little melancholy, parts of it could have been made back in ’73, but in another more innocent dimension.  Mostly instrumental, apart from that odd interlude concerning a turkey.

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A largely instrumental album from EK (although there is a curious tale of missing turkey recited on “Friends of The Earth”), “One Last Pose” is drenched in the artist’s earliest musical memories. There is a distinct flavour of the 70s prevailing throughout the work and instruments used in it’s creation date from decidedly ancient beasts through to an eclectic collection of soft synthesisers. – notes from Bandcamp page

February 2024 expanded release:
Released for February 2024 Bandcamp Friday, One Last Pose Before the Ruin is presented as newly covered up and greatly expanded.  The deluxe offering included the original cd from 2013 plus a CDR of new music created in January of 2024.  This is a limited edition of 86.  The CDR is also available separately under the title The Ruin.  The digital version has the new image as seen above.

The notes from EK’s Bandcamp:
IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LENS
I WILL SUSPEND MY PLAUSIBILITY
AND POUT FOR ALL ETERNITY MISSHAPEN, SAD AND
AWKWARD.YOU
SEE, I CANNOT GET MY MOUTH QUITE RIGHT,
ITʼS LIKE I’M BEING TORTURED..
AND MY MELANCHOLY SOUL HAS JUST BEEN KIDNAPPED THEN DEPORTED…….AHHH
BUT THEYʼLL TAKE AWAY MY BLEMISHES AND GIVE MY HAIR SOME STYLE
TWO BRIGHT BLUE EYES TO LOOK THROUGH AND A MILLION DOLLAR SMILE
A BODY THATʼS BEEN WORKING OUT,
THEYʼLL PAINT OVER ALL THOSE TEARS
AND MY PRECIOUS PLACE UPON THIS EARTH WILL DISAPPEAR……..
LAST, THEY ‘LL STRIP ME OF MY NAME,
THEN THEY’LL BRAND ME WITH A CODE
THATʼS COMPOSED OF ONES AND ZEROES THAT STRETCH ACROSS THE ROAD.
AND I ENVY MY DEAR FOREFATHERS
IN SEPIA AND CHROME;
THE STEADY FADE HAS SERVED YOU WELL ….ALTHOUGH ITʼS SLOW.

Notes from LPD’s Bandcamp:
THE GHOSTS OF DECADES ARE BLOCKING THE DOORS BUT YOU CARRY THE FUTURE IN THE PALM OF YOUR LEFT HAND. IT PROMISES A GENTLE LANDING, A TRANSFORMATION IN SOFT COLOURS. HOPE, ETERNITY.NOW FOR THE SAKE OF POSTERITY, ONE LAST POSE BEFORE THE RUIN …PLEASE

Review

I am sitting with the newest release from mr. Edward Ka-Spel in front of me. This his latest effort is out, on the exciting and interessting label Beta-Lactam Ring Records, all packed up in a truly amazing cover and art work. As always it is very exciting when a new release comes out from Ka-Spel, as he is a true chameleon in music, every time putting out something very special and unique. 5 tracks in the well known Ka-Spel experimental, dark, droney style is what your ears are treated with. This is music that demands, your full attention to get the maximum experience. Sit down in your favourite listening chair, put on your headphones and let yourself be captivated by the music. Admitted, this music is not for everybody, but if you (like this reviewer) likes experiemental, complicated and drone music this will hit spot on. The solo albums are Edward Ka-Spels labatory, a place where he experiements and create excellent sounds out of this world. Edward Ka-Spel really have a sound off his own, that does not sound like anything else. I like most of his earlier releases and this his latest one does not dissapoint either. If you know Ka-Spel and his music you probally allready have this release, if you are a new listener this is a good place to start. Highly recommended !!!  – Complicated Sounds

EDWARD KA-SPEL

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2009
LP Plinkity Plonk Records  plink 25

Side A

1. Trapped in Amber

Side B

1. Christmas on the Moon

31 March 2014
NL MP3 self-released on Bandcamp

April 2014
NL CDR self released on EK’s Bandcamp

October 5, 2023
NL CD-R self-released on EK’s Bandcamp

1. Trapped in Amber
2. Christmas on the Moon

Credits

• EK-instruments,devices

Notes 

2014 release:
This 2 track LP is a limited edition of 350 copies.

Bandcamp notes:
An album conceived on a freezing day in Limburg. A walk in the forest with Alena, Phil and Astrid eventually led to a frozen lake. Children were hurling large chunks of wood into the ice and the sound was like a strange cannon fired from the clouds. Inevitably the audio recorder was produced and the sounds were captured and then used as foundations for Trapped in Amber. An aural painting and released only on vinyl by Plinkety Plonk Records.

2023 reissue:
CD-R edition of 99. Released for October 2023 Bandcamp Friday.
“An instrumental album originally released by Korm Plastics on vinyl (alas, now sold out). This editionhas been sonically enhanced.” -EK