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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.
The masters are now in the hands of the plant, but please note that there are still significant delays with vinyl manufacturing, unfortunately. We hope we will have test pressings in June 2021 and that the records themselves will be ready to ship by the end of August. Perhaps we’ll be lucky and this will happen sooner.
You can pre-order now to secure your copy anyway.
We’re happy to announce pre-orders for “Come Out From The Shadows Volume 4 – Live At Lounge Ax, Chicago” on 2 x cd, 2 x LP, and a Deluxe 3 x LP + cd, posters and photos). Release is slated for early June. Pre-order HERE.
This is the third and final installment from The Silverman’s cassette archive which had been gathering dust in a dark cupboard- and it’s a special one, especially for those who hold the “Shadow Weaver” and “Malachai” albums close to their hearts. It’s hard to downplay the importance of the show presented here.
Four years earlier, in 1989, The Dots anxiously anticipated their first show in Chicago (a city they viewed as one of the music capitals of The World) only for the date to vanish without explanation. In 1991, they were due to play third on the bill to Einsturzende Neubauten and old friends, Front Line Assembly at The Vic. In a chaotic scenario The Dots played filling in the sandwich between the 2 more famous bands, allowed a mere 15 minutes. It was a fiery show but most of the audience didn’t know who we were, as The Dots’ name was missing from the poster. Consequently this show at Lounge Ax in 1993 felt like our first “real” show in the city. Can you imagine the horror when EK succumbed to a throat infection in Milwaukee a night earlier? That show, in front of 30 people, was curtailed after 30 minutes. It was thanks to Nicoletta Stephanz and her box of medical wonders that the singer found his voice 24 hours later- and we have her to thank for this storming recording.
Spring breaks, Easter’s everywhere. The sky promises yellow, while the Earth duly delivers it as a mere detail in a plethora of loud colours. Good Friday. Bandcamp Friday. The perfect moment for a brand new missive from The Legendary Pink Dots. “Chemical Playschool Volumes 21 & 22” can be found in digital form here.
A double cd and twin cassette of this small monument will be available shortly while glorious gatefolded vinyl is slated for September. Do pass the word around.
Meanwhile, as is the tradition, the link below reveals a second set of new songs and scapes from a small room made just for this auspicious day entitled “Songs Of Solitude. You can find that one here.
Finally, a small slice is history has been dusted off with an expanded and massively enhanced reissue of “Aazhyd China Doll”, which will shortly be available on double vinyl and twin cassette. You can find out all you need to know here.