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Projekt Festivals

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I would like to say thanks to everyone that came to see us at the Projekt Festival (and at our Border’s in-store) in Chicago. Suzanne and I had a fun time once again. For those of you who were trying to enjoy our set, I am sorry about all the rude loud motherfuckers that talked during our set and the sets of all the more quiet bands. Those people obviously did not come for the music and ruin it for those who did. If there is another festival next year, I hope to have a solution worked out with Projekt and the venue for dealing with such situations. Anyway, we’re just a fews days from the Projekt Festival Mexico, in Mexico City, with Lycia and Arcanta! I should probably go pack.

Love Spirals Downwards performing at the Vic Theatre in Chicago Friday August 1, 1997
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Borders, Chicago performance

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On Saturday August 2 at 2 PM (the day after Love Spirals Downwards perform at the Projekt Festival in Chicago), Suzanne and I will be doing a live in-store performance at a Borders Books and Music in Chicago as well. Borders is located at 2718 N Clark (Clark, Diversey & Broadway, near the Day’s Inn).

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News & Updates

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This is Ryan from Love Spirals Downwards.

If you had trouble locating our latest releases, Ever and the CD-single Sideways Forest, our label has finally solved the distribution problem that it was facing at the time of these releases. Now, they should be pretty easy to find at Tower, Borders, and most other record stores.


We have just two shows planned for this summer. First, we will be in Chicago at the Vic Theater for the Projekt Festival. We will play on the first night on Friday August 1. Tickets are $30 — which covers admission to both Friday & Saturday evenings( or $20 for one night). Tickets are on sale at the Vic box office, through Ticketmaster (Chicago only), or from Projekt at 312-913-9162. And on Saturday August 16, we will play again in Mexico City at the Cine Bella Epoca (Tamaulipas Y Alfonso Reyes S/N, Col. Condesa). Fellow Projekt artists Lycia and Arcanta will be playing as well. More info on these shows can be found on the Projekt ‘live’ page on their web site (www.projekt.com/live).


For those who are wondering, we are working on new music, some of which we are playing live. So, we should have a new album released next year. And for those who have asked about lyrics, sorry but we don’t have them available.

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Ever Distribution

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There were a few things that happened in the past few months regarding our music distribution that I would like to mention. The German release of Ever happened a few months back, with EFA being the new distributor for Projekt in Germany. And in the United States, we now have great distribution here through ADA, a Warner subsidiary.

Many people have written to us saying how difficult it was to find Ever and our other releases. I too had a tough time finding them. Now our CDs are everywhere once again: Tower, Borders, and all sorts of other stores. So, if you haven’t got it yet, now’s the perfect time to get a copy of Ever .

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Summer ‘Tour’

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We have just two shows planned for this summer. First, we will be in Chicago at the Vic Theater for the Projekt Festival. We will play on the first night on Friday, August 1st. Tickets are on sale at the Vic box office, through Ticketmaster (Chicago only), or from Projekt. Along with us on night 1 of the two-day festival will be The Moon Seven Times, Ben Neill, Vidna Obmana, and Steve Roach. For more complete information on the Projekt Festival, check out the Festival pages.

Our second show of the summer will be in Mexico City on Saturday August 16, 1997 at the Cine Bella Epoca (located at Tamaulipas Y Alfonso Reyes S/N Col.Condesa). Fellow Projekt bands Lycia and Arcanta will be performing as well. This should be a lot fun and I (Ryan) am really looking forward to seeing our friends there and eating at every possible opportunity!

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Acoustic Guitar Interview

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SOUND SPIRALS UPWARDS

By Bryan Reeseman

“ONE THING I LIKE ABOUT OUR NEW album is that it’s almost impossible to categorize with any of the conventional musical categories,” declares Ryan Lum, guitarist and keyboard player for Love Spirals Downwards. “There are really folky songs, really electronic ambient dance songs, and then these weird, loopy psychedelic songs. I think it all works together really well. It isn’t a huge shock from one to the next.”

Lum and vocalist Suzanne Perry create a lush, inviting sonic template on their third and newest album, Ever. Important components to their sound are Perry’s beautiful, dreamy vocals, Lum’s delicate, sometimes cryptic acoustic six-string melodies, and their integration of swirling keyboards and subtle effects, all of which produce a captivating kind of romantic, ethereal folk.

Live, Lum uses two tunings: standard and E A D G A D, a variation on D A D G A D. “Instead of my first note being D, it’s E,” he says. “That way, all the strings are tuned normally except for the high two strings, so I can fret chords on the low strings as I normally would and have all those drones on the top two strings.”

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New music

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We are currently finishing up some new tracks for an EP/CD-Single to be released in the Spring of 1997. It’ll be quite unlike anything we’ve released before. Also, I think it’d be appropriate and fun to end the year with my (Ryan’s) favorite releases of 1996.

  1. Mojave 3 – Ask Me Tomorrow
  2. Everything But the Girl – Walking Wounded
  3. Logical Progression (v/a drum & bass compilation)
  4. Perfume Tree – A Lifetime Away
  5. Red House Painters – Songs For A Blue Guitar
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LSD “living room concert”

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Here’s the latest information I received from Echoes regarding our recently taped performance. Check their website to find out what local radio stations you can hear this on:

December 13, 1996
A Living Room Concert with Love Spirals Downwards

Actually, it’s a bedroom concert since that’s where Suzanne Perry and Ryan Lum of Love Spirals Downwards have their home studio. We visit the duo in their Los Angeles boudoir, where they unfold the delicate filigree of their music in an intimate performance for the heavenly voice of Perry and the acoustic guitar of Lum, playing music from across their 3 albums, including the latest, Ever (Projekt).