A recent message from Fourth Dimension Records informed us about further delays in pressing Edward Ka-Spel’s Permission To Leave The Temple.  The latest estimation for its release is early next year.  Go here for more details.

The idea of a release by the founder of The Legendary Pink Dots on Lumberton Trading Company had been mooted for a number of years. In fact, we were close to issuing a 7″ around 11 or 12 years ago, but this fell through due to the usual problems facing small labels. The idea of still doing something with this prolific stalwart of music cut from those many folds where avant-garde abstraction locks horns with molten psychedelia, kosmische sounds, electronica and an approach to songwriting never afraid to go wherever the mood take, however, never left. Attached to all of this, as always, are Edward’s words, where wry everyday observations can mutate or be twisted into new forms given a distinctive surrealist slant.

Collected on this limited 10″ are five songs adding up to the length of a mini-album.

Edward may well be one of the most active artists to have first emanated from the early 1980s cassette network, but Lumberton Trading Company is more than happy to play a small part in this continually unfolding, and always interesting, story.

You can still pre-order this record HERE.

Join cEvin key this Sunday from the last show of The Legendary Pink Dots Tour 2022 as they setup for a special on off night of performances in Denver. New LPDS member Randall will host with Mark Spybey and give up a recap on the tour with thoughts from everybody. Mark Spybey will be performing DVOA set and will be there to co host and we’ll see what happens.

It’s Bandcamp Friday and a quieter one for The Dots as we explore the great continent of North America. Even so, we are announcing the deluxe 3 x cd edition of ‘The Maria Dimension’. The intention is to bring a bunch of them back to Europe with us.
As for other new titles released for the tour, we’re holding back for now but stay tuned! Love’n’peace -EK

Also, there is a very limited edition of The Museum Of Human Happiness Glow in the Dark 2LP.

(Also available on Metropolis Records.)

While Erik Drost is on tour with The Legendary Pink Dots, his band, The Dustbombers, released a song on Spotify. It’s the last one (this year).

“This is not my Dystopian Future” is a track on their EP Away, which is available on their Bandcamp page.

“We wrote ‘This is not my Dystopian Future’ a while ago (I think before this whole pandemic started) and we did already release it to our Bandcamp page. The song is about the broken promise of a bright and beautiful future. There’s some work left to do I guess.”

We’re a third of the way through our ‘Post Pandemic Tour’ and Randall Frazier has made an incendiary start with the Pink Dots after filling the big shoes left by The Silverman. Even so, Randall’s history in music goes back decades with his own wonderful Orbit Service project. In fact he teams up with Erik Drost for a spellbinding opening set on the current tour. The pair also combine on the new Orbit Service album, “Dreamless” which you can find here: orbitservice.bandcamp.com/album/dreamless Consider this link as a starting point to an intoxicating Universe of delights. -EK

This poster has been revised.  All the dates and venues are included and correct.

If you want to help promote the tour, you can download the poster as a printable pdf here.