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.

EDWARD KA-SPEL

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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

EDWARD KA-SPEL

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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.

EDWARD KA-SPEL

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February 20, 2016
NL MP3/CD-r self-released on Bandcamp

1. The Byte Of Spring

October 5, 2023

NL CD-r self-released on Bandcamp

1. The Byte Of Spring Part 1
2. The Byte Of Spring Parts 2-3
3. The Byte Of Spring Part 4

Credits

• Edward Ka-Spel

Notes

Virtual honey from a digital bee.  Blessed Be 20.2.2016- EK

Lovingly made cdr in a card cover with full colour artwork created by EK.  Limited edition of 199.

2023 CD-r release- remastered limited edition of 99. Released for Bandcamp Friday 2023.
“An instrumental voyage from a few years back imported from legendarypinkdots1.bandcamp.com. Now sonically enhanced!” -EK

EDWARD KA-SPEL

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December 15, 2014
NL MP3 self-released on Bandcamp

1. Spectrescapes 8, 9, 10 & 11
2. Spectrescape 66
3. Spectrescape 88

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Nov 28, 2015
IT CD Rustblade RBL051

1. Spectrescape 8
2. Spectrescape 9
3. Spectrescape 10 & 11

IT 2xCD Rustblade RBL051BOX

Disc 1

1. Spectrescape 1
2. Spectrescape 2
3. Spectrescape 3
4. Spectrescape 4

Disc 2

1. Spectrescape 8
2. Spectrescape 9
3. Spectrescapes 10 & 11

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March 1, 2024
NL MP3 self-released remaster on Edward Ka-Spel’s Bandcamp

1. Spectrescape 8
2. Spectrescape 9
3. Spectrescapes 10 & 11
4. Spectrescape 66
5. Spectrescape 88

Credits

• Edward Ka-Spel

Notes

Spectrescapes Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 LTD edition- 299 copies.
Includes Spectrescapes Vol 1, originally released as the 2^nd CD in the Ghost Logik box set from 2012 (RBL035BOX and RBL035BOX2), comes with a postcard, pendant and old stellar map.

This a concept album where Edward Ka Spel (legendary pink dots) pays homage to long pieces and experimental ambient songs . the sound of Edward takes us out of time in the long trip taking us with her ​​warm voice.

Don’t gaze into Outer Space in search of a new mystery to solve.
Don’t prowl by night trying to catch the figure that walks through the wall.
Don’t examine that photograph for blemishes or try to hear voices in the static.
You are already there in the centre of the mystery.
You are the anomaly, the thing that can’t be explained and you inhabit a space that is teeming with life.
The microscopic, the herculean, solid,transparent, heaving, dissolving…
The door is always open, but it helps if you can see it.
(Edward Ka-Spel)

From Bandcamp 2014
With Spectrescapes 2 becoming steadily rarer on cd as the days pass, it seemed like the right time to post the web edition – especially as Hallowe’en is just 3 days away as I type.

2024 remaster
Released as a digital album on Edward Ka-Spel’s Bandcamp for Bandcamp Friday- March 2024.

The second volume in the ‘Spectrescapes’ series, sonically boostedwith today’s uncanny tools.

EDWARD KA-SPEL

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October 31, 2015
US CD BLRR MT290a, MT290b

1. CybersKapes Parts 1-6

October 31, 2015
US CD BLRR MT290, MT291

1. CybersKapes Parts 1-6  (43:04)

CD audio 1

1. Space Station Chapel Part 1. (7:34)

CD audio 2

1. Space Station Chapel Part 2. (7:48)

Turntable audio

1. The Extra Mile. (3:27)

November 26, 2016
NL MP3 self-released on Bandcamp

1. CybersKapes Parts 1-6
2. The Space Station Chapel Part 1
3. The Space Station Chapel Part 2
4. The Extra Mile

November 2015
CL tape Templo Sagital TS-004

Side A

1. CybersKapes Parts 1-6

Side B

1. The Space Station Chapel Parts 1-2
2. As Above, So Below Parts 1-3
3. Spectrescape 66
4. Spectrescape 88

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cybersKapes Revisited
August 4, 2023
NL MP3 self released on EK’s Bandcamp

1. CybersKape 1
2. Cyberskape 2
3. CybersKapes 3 & 4
4. Marlow / God’s Gift / Play It For Me
5. Singing In The Shower
6. Romance Reborn / The Airing Cupboard / Boxes
7. Sadness Day / The Longest Trip / The Closed Colliery Choir
8. The Extra Mile
9. The Space Station Chapel Part 1
10. The Space Station Chapel Part 2

cybersKapes Deluxe
August 4, 2023
NL CD/CDR self released on TLPD’s Bandcamp

CD

1. CybersKapes Parts 1-6

CDR (cybersKapes 2)

1. Marlow / God’s Gift / Play It For Me
2. Singing In The Shower
3. Romance Reborn / The Airing Cupboard / Boxes
4. Sadness Day / The Longest Trip / The Closed Colliery Choir
5. The Extra Mile
6. The Space Station Chapel Part 1
7. The Space Station Chapel Part 2

Credits

• Edward Ka-Spel

Notes

Deliciously presented cd version of cybersKapes on Beta-Lactam Ring Records with artwork by Jesse Peper.

2015 cybersKapes Special Edition (MT290 & MT291)
Two discs in this package- the regular cd and the dual format disc. Included on the extra disc is “The Space Station Chapel parts 1 & 2” on the cd section and “The Extra Mile” on it’s vinyl centre.

2016 Bandcamp release:
To digitise a sunset and make it more vivid, more beautiful. To capture it and wrap yourself in it so you’ll never need to leave this room again. To play God from the comfort of your armchair, humanity at your fingertips. To make a stranger’s day…or destroy it utterly. Without flinching. And if it gets too much, simply hit delete.
Are you the One or a zero?

2023 reissues:
A spindle of 81 CDs was found and reissued as part of cybersKapes Deluxe, which includes a CD-r of cybersKapes 2, created in 2023.  Limited edition of 81.

CybersKapes Revisited is the digital version of the same material offered in cybersKapes Deluxe.

Lyrics

Mercy me..Sweet nursey please go easy on the opium.
Go tell it in the Odeon, the old dog’s biting back.
We are not talking resurrection.
We are citing cold hard facts.
Remove the tubes.
Dismiss the preacher, strike the sack.
I need a cold one…can’t hurt now….

So gather round ye predators I bring depressing news..
It’s 4am, there are no taxis here ,
I need to be amused.Just pretend you’re happy..
Clap your hands…
If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands…

Woke up this morning , read the news..
I refuse to take things lying down