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).
News & Updates
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.
Ever Distribution
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 .
Summer ‘Tour’
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!
LSD to perform in LA
We are now confirmed for a Los Angeles show on Friday April 25 at the Dizzy Debby 467 S. La Brea Ave, at 6th (213-938-1398). Local band Mine, as well as Claire Voyant from Sacramento, will be opening. Doors will open at 8:30 pm.
Acoustic Guitar Interview
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.”
Continue reading Acoustic Guitar InterviewLSD in Acoustic Guitar
For all you more musicianly types, there is story on us in the current March issue of Acoustic Guitar. And for further guitar and gear secrets, check out the “Gearbox” section of that issue for a second small article on us.
New music
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.
- Mojave 3 – Ask Me Tomorrow
- Everything But the Girl – Walking Wounded
- Logical Progression (v/a drum & bass compilation)
- Perfume Tree – A Lifetime Away
- Red House Painters – Songs For A Blue Guitar
Interview in Requiem Vol. 6, Winter 1996
California’s LOVE SPIRALS DOWNWARDS is an enchanting outfit indeed! For those of you who aren’t familiar with LSD, please allow the words of vocalist Suzanne Perry and guitarist Ryan Lum to soak into your soul; just as their music does much of the same. LSD were formed out of two minds swirling towards one goal: to make ethereal music. And this Los Angeles-based duet have done nothing but make ethereal, transcending music on their two LP’s for the Projekt label (who have since relocated to Chicago). While the band are in the mid-way stages for their as-yet-to-be titled third LP, I urge anyone into billowing vocals and celestial guitar work to check out their latest release titled, “Ardor.” Ascending with LSD…
Requiem: You’re currently pursuing degrees at the university there, but what led you to start the on musical side of things?
Suzanne: l’ll answer that one. That’s a neat question
Ryan: Well, it was kind of something I had always been doing… It was never like, “I’m going to quit school music,” never looked at music as something that I wanted to pursue seriously. I enjoy doing it, and it doesn’t take up that much time. So I’m going to school and whenever the time struck me to make music, I go off on my own way.
Suzanne: So what was the question again? Sometimes he changes it when he answers it (laughter).
Continue reading Interview in Requiem Vol. 6, Winter 1996LSD “living room concert”
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 DownwardsActually, 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).