Apple is now selling Lovespirals’ 2002 album, Windblown Kiss,
and Love Spirals Downwards’ 2000 retrospective compilation,
Temporal: A Collection of Music Past & Present, in their iTunes
music store. You can purchase either individual songs or the entire
album.
Lovespirals on Precipice Vol. 2
Pat Ogle has released the second volume of his new zine/CD series. Guest List: Precipice Vol. 2 features Lovespirals’ song “Love Survives,” alongside “rare, one of a kind unreleased, and out-take tracks” from Darling Kandie, Angela Bowie-Barnett, Thanatos, Buzz McCoy, Grove Mann, illegalteenagebikini, Queen Mary, mmnpltr, X-VoreteX, Dendron, Chris Connelly with William Tucker, Numb Ones, Prime Rib, Nikekka RPM, and Cinematik.
“Psyche” #1 on CNET’s Download.com
CNET’s brand new Music.Download.com site has posted the Top 50 Downloaded Songs for Week 2 on their forum, and it turns out that “Psyche,” from Flux, is #1! This 1998 track featuring the vocals and lyrics of Suzanne’s sister, Kristen Perry, has already had over 4,000 downloads from May 3rd to May 9th – not too shabby! LSD is featured on the site’s front page with this editor’s review:
Have a hit of Love Spirals Downwards, which otherwise goes by LSD. Ryan Lum and Suzanne Perry make music that will set your mind drifting, inspired by such beautiful dreamers as the Cocteau Twins and Mojave 3. The difference is that this duo drops drowsy beats over their acoustic guitars.
Check out our page at music.download.com/lovespiralsdownwards!
Editor’s Pick on CNET’s Download.com
Lovespirals have joined CNET’s new music.download.com. The band is currently featured as the editor’s pick for 5/6/2004, highlighting “Love Survives” with the following editorial commentary:
The smooth grooves conjure comparisons to Portishead and Everything But the Girl. Combining jazzy torch-song vocal stylings with modern trip-hop sounds and rhythms, Lovespirals craft an infectious and exotic down-tempo sound that you might hear playing in an upscale New York club or Parisian underground lounge.
LSD move to SoundClick
SoundClick.com, reputedly the biggest mp3 hosting site since Mp3.com shut down, is now hosting several Love Spirals Downwards’ mp3 files. Check it out at soundclick.com/lovespiralsdownwards
Fiber Online Interview Lovespirals’ Anji Bee
Interview by Isobel Geo for Fiber Online, Oct 26, 2003
ISOBEL: What changed in the Lovespirals sounds with your entrance in 1999?
ANJI: The sound was already evolving in 1998, moving towards something more jazzy and funky than previously. Ryan was working with Doron Orenstein, a trained jazz saxophonist, when I joined. Adding my jazzy and soulful vocals helped to further that evolution. As we continued to work together, my song writing style brought a poppier edge to the music. The biggest change I brought to the band was that I encouraged a more collaborative song writing technique.
ISOBEL: The last album was ‘ Windblown Kiss,’ released last year, so what’s the new Lovespirals’ plans for albums, tours, or remixes?
ANJI: We’ve been writing and recording new songs ever since we finished touring for Windblown Kiss, and are about half way done with an album now. Soon we need to start preparing a new live set that includes all of these new songs. Right now we’re getting together files for a remix competition of our new song “Walk Away” that PeaceLoveProductions will be putting on. We are currently seeking a label to release our next album, as well as looking into possibly doing them ourselves.
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Hot Topic CD: The New Face of Goth Out Now
Love Spirals Downwards’ song “Stir About the Stars” from the 1992 debut album, Idylls, is featured on a brand new compilation CD. Entitled, Projekt: The New Face of Goth, this was curated specifically as an exclusive for the Hot Topic chain. The album features thirteen tracks by artists including Lycia, Android Lust, Audra, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Voltaire, Unto Ashes, and Mira, showcasing Projekt artists past and present. Label founder Sam Rosenthal describes it as “an intense new compilation of passionate Gothic music.” Look for it in a Hot Topic store near you!
Mucho Gracias Mexico
Wow, what a great week we had in Mexico. Thank you to everyone who came to see us in Leon, Morelia, and Puebla. And very big thanks all of the show producers and especially Aldo, our tour manager! This was by far the busiest of the several times I had played in Mexico before, having to travel several hours each day to get to the next city in time for radio and television interviews followed by soundchecks. We were lucky if we could get five hours of sleep each night. But the enthusiastic crowds every show energized us for some of our best performances yet. We’ll be back!
Projekt Partners with Hot Topic for New Holiday CD
Projekt has paired up with Hot Topic for a special holiday CD, A Dark Noel: The Very Best of Excelsis, which includes Love Spirals Downwards’ 1995 recording of Dr. Seuss’ “Welcome Christmas” from The Grinch Who Stole Christmas and Lovespirals‘ cover of John Denver’s “Aspenglow”. This CD is sold at the budget price of $3.98 from Hot Topic stores nationwide. Read a review of the comp by MusicTap.
Frequenicas Alternas Interview Lovespirals
The following is a transcription of Lovespirals November 9, 2002 interview Iohann Rashi from Frequenicas Alternas airing on Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico stations WRTU 89.7 FM and WRUO 88.3 FM. The questions of the DJ been translated from Spanish to English. Apologies for how rough they are.
Lovespirals is a group that has had a long history and is currently in a process of transformation, formerly known as Love Spirals Downwards. They face a new change, a new facet and new perspectives in their way of creating and producing music. For tonight, listening to the cuts of the album ‘Windblown Kiss,’ we will have Ryan Lum and Anji Bee, the members of Lovespirals, talking to us about this new creation. We will listen to Anji Bee, commenting in a brief and summarized form the historical process that Lovespirals has suffered from Love Spirals Downwards to today with this new production, ‘Windblown Kiss.’
ANJI: Let’s see, Lovespirals first started, I guess, in 1999. Ryan had started working on some solo material with the saxophone player, Doron Orenstein, who appears on our album, ‘Windblown Kiss.’ He was working on some drum and bass club songs. He and I had met through KUCI when I interviewed him for the album ‘Flux’ –I think I also interviewed him somewhat after ‘Ever’ came out– and we kept bumping into each other at different events around L.A. and we had a lot in common. I dunno, somehow he invited me into his studio to show me some of the music he was working on, such as a song called “Beatitude,” which is an instrumental, and the song that later became “Love Survives.” So he played me two tracks and we just kinda started talking about the possibility of me singing on some of his new tracks.
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