Releases-EKS

Amy’s Personalities

EDWARD KA-SPEL

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Release date and tracklist
June 23, 2017
NL MP3 self-released on Bandcamp

  1. Amy’s Personalities

 

 

 

Credits

Edward Ka-Spel

Notes

On this day, when The Brown Acid Caveat is finally revealed, we at Chez Dots felt it pertinent to address concerns for Amy and her troubled existence. Rather than putting forward a long and tedious explanation, we felt it was better to allow those personalities to speak for themselves. This upload will be deleted in precisely 48 hours…

 

The Perfect Patch (Berlin – Amsterdam in the 1980s)

EDWARD KA-SPEL

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Release date and tracklist

June 02, 2017
SK cassette 4mg Records, 4mg Bandcamp, actually called The Perfect Patch. 

side one- The Berlin Sessions I & II

side two- Devascape A- An Amsterdam Space Jam

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November 10, 2024
NL/UK MP3/CD-R self-released on EK’s Bandcamp

  1. The Berlin Sessions 1 & 2 (Berlin 1981)
  2. Amsterdam Space Jam (A’dam c. 1986)

 

 

Credits

  • Edward Ka-Spel

cover art by Alice (cassette version)

Notes

Notes from the LPD Bandcamp notes-
Featuring “the Berlin Session” on side 1 and a lost analogue synth extravaganza (on the Yamaha CS30) on side 2 with a delightful cover by Alice.  On 4mg Records label from Slovakia.

notes from 4mg records about The Perfect Patch-
Limited to 100 copies. Each copy contains a unique download code on card to get this release digitally.
Cover by Alice.
listen here
order through Discogs

Liner notes from the sleeve:
SIDE 1 The Berlin Sessions 1 & 2
The sound of Edward Ka-Spel lost in the Zone with synthesisers and effects units back in 1981, later developed a little, but never heard by the wider World in it’s entirety until now. There have been snatches revealed, on “Kleine Krieg” in particular but the full-on Kosmisch Attack was perhaps considered too indulgent for public consumption during the last 30 years.
Even so the session has a history. It was largely created in Conrad Schnitzler’s mighty music room in Berlin. EK stayed with him in 1981, ostensibly to make an interview for a fanzine (which sadly never appeared) and the great pioneer kindly gave him shelter for almost a week.
One night Conrad had a dinner appointment and invited The Pink Dots’ singer to “do whatever he wanted“ on the synths and echo chambers scattered around the magical space.
It was the equivalent of 15 Christmases arriving at once. He indulged himself and recorded the results for posterity. Bless you Conrad…we all miss you!

SIDE 2 DEVASCAPE A – An Amsterdam Space Jam
From the vault, a slightly edited, enhanced session from EK on the Yamaha CS30 synthesizer from 1986. Hours of this material in fact remains unheard, but this was deemed worthy of a wider audience than the contents of a cupboard.

 

Notes about the 2024 remastered version:

First ever CD-R edition of this title. Lovingly created by the artist. Edition of 49.

This is a release for die-hards only. It’s the sound of Edward Ka-Spel lost in the Zone with synthesisers and effects units back in 1981, later developed a little ,but never heard by the wider World in it’s entirety until a few years ago. There have been snatches revealed, on “Kleine Krieg” in particular but the full-on Kosmisch Attack was perhaps considered too indulgent for public consumption during the previous 36 years.

Even so, the session had a tantalising history. It was largely created in Conrad Schnitzler’s mighty music room in Berlin. EK stayed with him in 1981, ostensibly to make an interview for a fanzine (which sadly never appeared ), and the great pioneer kindly gave him shelter for almost a week.

One night Conrad had a dinner appointment and invited The Pink Dots’ singer to “do whatever he wanted “ on the synths and echo chambers scattered around the magical space.

It was the equivalent of 15 Christmases arriving at once. He indulged himself and recorded the results for posterity. Bless you Conrad…we all miss you!

November 15 2018…After several requests, the “B” side of the cassette edition was added to the original release. “An Amsterdam Space Jam” was created a little later in the 80s and is culled from several hours of improvisation on the Yamaha CS30 synthesiser which EK still owns and loves.

Alas, the Cassette edition is long gone, and a very limited CD-R edition is in the works as this missive is being typed.

High On Station Yellow Moon

EDWARD KA-SPEL

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Release date and tracklist

May 17, 2017*
US CD/LP SOL194CD/SOL194 Soleilmoon Recordings

Part 1

  1. OMG 666
  2. The Flick Of A Switch
  3. The Visitors’ Lounge
  4. The Leary Cloud
  5. Nowhere To Float To

Part 2

  1. Provisional
  2. Layer Cake
  3. Trespass
  4. Eight Mile Bride
  5. Good Book

Bonus tracks (CD only)

  1. The Leary Cloud (Slight Return)
  2. No-one To Hear You Squeak

 

September 7, 2017
NL MP3 self-released on Bandcamp

  1. High On Station Yellow Moon Part 1
  2. High On Station Yellow Moon Part 2
  3. The Leary Cloud
  4. No-one To Hear You Squeak
  5. Stuck On My eyes

Credits

  • Edward Ka-Spel- voice, instruments
  • Amanda Palmer- voice on Leary Cloud and Eight Mile Bride; keyboard on Eight Mile Bride; piano on Leary Cloud (Slight Return)

Thanks to Ray Steeg and Peter Van Vliet for their mastering skills
Cover art by Daria Musienko

Notes

LP
Glorious vinyl version on Soleilmoon Records of the doomed scenario high up there with wonderful artwork by Daria Musienko. Do note that this edition features NO bonus tracks.This edition is also available directly from www.soleilmoon.com
shipping out on or around May 23, 2017
edition of 500
CD
Two bonus tracks, edition of 199
There is a station where the train never arrives, where the Waiting Room is always occupied, where the conversation is inevitably awkward  and where you’re never quite alone, but perpetually ALMOST alone.
Ladies & Gentlemen, welcome to Station Yellow Moon, the final bastion of humanity , the last stuttering blip on the life support system, the domain where Access Is Denied perpetually – but who the Hell would want to go there anyhow?
Well, some pay handsomely for the Great Escape, despite the risks….

“High On Station Yellow Moon” is a new solo album by Edward Ka-spel, of The Legendary Pink Dots and marks the beginning of his collaboration with long term friend and fellow traveller Amanda Palmer, from the Dresden Dolls.  It doesn’t get more conceptual than this.

The song displayed here is a BONUS song from the cd edition of “High On Station Yellow Moon” and will also appear on vinyl as part of a hyper limited 10″EP in June- this vinyl release will also include one long exclusive piece (“Stuck On My Eyes”). The vinyl edition of of the main album will not include bonus material due to space limitations.

*There are discrepancies on the release date, with Discogs saying May 10th and other sources saying the 15th and the 19th.

MP3
IMPORTANT NOTICE: All who bought the vinyl or cd version with the previous 1-track”teaser” post are entitled to a free download of the full digital album posted here. Please send a personal message via Bandcamp and in return you will be sent the necessary code.

Lyrics

OMG 666
This Year’s rock’s 5 miles across
and heading for Vienna.
Though it’s 10 light years away,
our scientists are clever.
We have the technology so no
cause for alarm.
Could lose a few old monuments,
but now we’re fully armed ….
We’ll perforate the sunset,and split that comet in
15…
We’ll twist it ,turn it ,blow the dust to China.
And all that’s in between…

Cameras rolling.Time to show them the appalling 2nd option.
Now Part 96, and nothing lives except
the Doctor. And ,Oh there’s us out here
on Station Yellow MOON.
Think I’ll make another round….
I will sing this loony tune.
Nah …..What’s up doc?
Nah,,,,,nothing much .I’m talking to myself too much
I’m drifting,

THE FLICK OF A SWITCH
Stop me if you have heard this one before. There was a Russian ,an American and a Chinese billionaire who liked adventure holidays. The plan was for 6 months in a space station orbiting the earth.Everything went absolutely smoothly for a 180 days and nights until that fateful moment in May when a massive solar flare provoked the end of the internet on that slowly spinning globe on the screen. The screen that turned blue , then black.A hum that became perceptible only by it’s absence. Three gasps in a language they shared then that long awkward silence.That …pause.
In this dayless, nightless environment , the measurement of time seemed imperative to the travellers’ sanity , but the digital calendar no longer worked.Time itself had been suspended and the 3 of them just , well, hovered,gesturing to one another.
Let’s pause for a moment…. a long moment.let’s pause for that moment where probability mutates into a myriad of possibilities. let’s pause for that moment when confidence dissolves into improbable hope. let’s pause for the moment which hasn’t happened yet, when service is resumed as normal.Let’s pause for a moment and take comfort in the fact that if you think of any number, you can always add 1.

PROVISIONAL
SOME DAYS I WOULD LACK THE WILL TO REACH UP FOR A CAN..
STACKED HIGH ABOVE FOR RAINY DAYS
I TRUST YOU UNDERSTAND. IT WAS BETTER QUIETLY STARVING THAN JUST THROWING IN MY HAND,,GIVING UP MYSELF TO LADY FATE WHO REALLY IS A MAN.
WHO MAKES THE RULES?
WHO PLAYS A FOOL?
WHO KICKS THE STOOL AWAY?
WHO PULLS..IT TAKES MY BREATH AWAY, MY SOUL AWAY.
A STOWAWAY…I’M STACKED AWAY
A CAN
A CAN
AND I CAN NEVER NEVER NEVER

BALANCED ON A BELT , WITH ALL THE GOODNESS LOCKED INSIDE.
TAKE THAT ROCK AND HIT ME HARD, I’LL TAKE YOU FOR A RIDE.
TO CREEPY LANDS WITH PYRAMIDS ,THE PLACE WHERE
WE ALL HIDE..
INSIDE INSIDE INSIDE INSIDE
A CAN

EIGHT MILE BRIDE
There are moments when I’d swear my toes touch something solid.
I imagine myself beaming from a plinth.A freeze-frame humming bird. Impossibly blurred at the edges but bigger ,slower than anything else in this crate.
It’s as if the lights went out and I was there. A masthead for the ship that just goes round and round.Eye candy for the crew.
Untouchable,but if you toss me one of those pills, I’ll press a button and play “thank you” in a language of my choice.
By the way they look at me I guess I’m like them and sometimes I swear there’s recognition. A name, perhaps.Another place .
But then it’s gone and I remember my purpose. So fast,I’m static. No need for a suit,the icing on the Disney mountain.The entertainment for lonely men with fish bowls on their heads.
Untouchable.Your bride to be.
To simply be.

An Abandoned Laboratory- Volume 1

EDWARD KA-SPEL

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Release date and tracklist

January 3, 2017
NL MP3 self-released on Bandcamp

January 24, 2017
NL CDR self-released on Bandcamp

 

August 15, 2023
NL CDR self-released on EK’s Bandcamp

  1. A Toxic Kiss From Cancun / 1973
  2. Burden
  3. Complex
  4. Sepia
  5. Meltdown
  6. Karis In The Spring

 

Credits

  • Edward Ka-Spel

Notes

First volume of a trilogy containing lost or rare EK tracks spanning the last 3 decades. This volume focuses on explorations originally only available on the long out-of-print “Melancholics Anonymous” collection plus vinyl excursions and “Sepia” from a download-only album from Brainwashed.This volume will be available on CDR early in 2017.

2023 CDR release:
Available at legendarypinkdots1.bandcamp.com for some time, it felt appropriate to finally include “An Abandoned Laboratory Part 1” on this page, dedicated to EK solo works. Newly covered up ! The purpose of this release was to largely replace the long out-of-print CD, “Melancholics Anonymous”. Edition of 99.

Spectrescapes Volume 3

EDWARD KA-SPEL

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Release date and tracklist

July 30, 2016
NL MP3 self-released on (LPD) Bandcamp

September, 2016
NL MP3 self-released on (LPD) Bandcamp

  1. Spectrescapes 13, 14, 15 and 16

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March 1, 2024- remaster
NL/UK MP3/CDR self-released on Edward Ka-Spel’s Bandcamp and LPD’s Bandcamp

  1. Spectrescape 13
  2. Spectrescape 14
  3. Spectrescapes 15-16

 

Credits

  • Edward Ka-Spel

Notes

2016 Bandcamp release:
Limited edition lovingly made CDR release in handmade cover designed and assembled by the artist personally. 50 will be made available for the Pink Dots’ N. American Tour, with another 49 available via Bandcamp after the band has returned to Europe late in October 2016.

As part of our drive to fund the forthcoming LPDs Tour of North America (Tour Aquarian 2016), we’re happy to announce the release of “Spectrescapes 3” by Edward Ka-Spel. This is a work comprising of 4 parts which has slowly been growing to fruition over the last weeks and months. It is the third of four planned volumes.

 

2024 remaster:
Released as a digital album and CDR for Bandcamp Friday, March 2024.  The CDR is a limited edition of 69 signed and numbered copies.

notes on Bandcamp- The 3rd and final chapter in the ‘Spectrescapes’ series, sonically enhanced and sporting a new cover. EK

The Berlin Tapes 1981

EDWARD KA-SPEL

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Release date and tracklist

May 20, 2016 (track 1 only)
NL MP3 self-released on Bandcamp
November 15, 2018 (track 2)
NL MP3 self-released on Bandcamp

  1. Sessions 1 & 2
  2. An Amsterdam Space Jam

 

June 02, 2017
SK cassette 4mg Records, actually called The Perfect Patch

side one- The Berlin Sessions I & II

side two- Devascape A- An Amsterdam Space Jam

Credits

Edward Ka-Spel

Notes

This is a release for die-hards only. It’s the sound of Edward Ka-Spel lost in the Zone with synthesisers and effects units back in 1981, later developed a little, but never heard by the wider World in it’s entirety until now. There have been snatches revealed, on “Kleine Krieg” in particular but the full-on Kosmisch Attack was perhaps considered too indulgent for public consumption during the last 30 years.

Even so the session has a history. It was largely created in Conrad Schnitzler’s mighty music room in Berlin. EK stayed with him in 1981, ostensibly to make an interview for a fanzine (which sadly never appeared ) and the great pioneer kindly gave him shelter for almost a week.

One night Conrad had a dinner appointment and invited The Pink Dots’ singer to “do whatever he wanted “ on the synths and echo chambers scattered around the magical space. It was the equivalent of 15 Christmases arriving at once. He indulged himself and recorded the results for posterity. Bless you Conrad…we all miss you!

On the June 2017 cassette release, The Perfect Patch-
Featuring “the Berlin Session” on side 1 and a lost analogue synth extravaganza (on the Yamaha CS30) on side 2 with a delightful cover by Alice.  On 4mg Records label from Slovakia.

Limited to 100 copies. Each copy contains a unique download code on card to get this release digitally.
Cover by Alice.

Liner notes from the sleeve:
SIDE 1 The Berlin Sessions 1 & 2
The sound of Edward Ka-Spel lost in the Zone with synthesisers and effects units back in 1981, later developed a little, but never heard by the wider World in it’s entirety until now. There have been snatches revealed, on “Kleine Krieg” in particular but the full-on Kosmisch Attack was perhaps considered too indulgent for public consumption during the last 30 years.
Even so the session has a history. It was largely created in Conrad Schnitzler’s mighty music room in Berlin. EK stayed with him in 1981, ostensibly to make an interview for a fanzine (which sadly never appeared) and the great pioneer kindly gave him shelter for almost a week.
One night Conrad had a dinner appointment and invited The Pink Dots’ singer to “do whatever he wanted“ on the synths and echo chambers scattered around the magical space.
It was the equivalent of 15 Christmases arriving at once. He indulged himself and recorded the results for posterity. Bless you Conrad…we all miss you!

SIDE 2 DEVASCAPE A – An Amsterdam Space Jam
From the vault, a slightly edited, enhanced session from EK on the Yamaha CS30 synthesizer from 1986. Hours of this material in fact remains unheard, but this was deemed worthy of a wider audience than the contents of a cupboard.