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.
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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.
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.
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.
Continue reading Fiber Online Interview Lovespirals’ Anji Bee
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.
Mexico City Area Tour
Plans are underway for us to do a few shows in and around Mexico City next month. It is unnerving waiting until the last moment like this, but our manager assures us it is happening. Right now, talk is that we’ll do Mexico City, Guanajuato, and now possibly Morelia and Leon, as well. The show dates fall between the 12th and 15th so far. Looks like it will be a full week!
New Projekt Comp Exclusive for Borders
Projekt is releasing another new budget priced compilation! The Arbitrary Width of Shadows features Lovespirals’ song “Dejame,” alongside tracks from black tape for a blue girl, Audra, Mira, Voltaire, Unto Ashes, More Syphilitica, and more. This 13-tracks CD retails exclusively at Borders, with over 380 locations nationwide.
The Arbitrary Width of Shadows is our second budget-priced compilation cd created exclusively for the Borders Chain. 2001’s within this infinite ocean was a huge success, selling through its limited edition pressing within five months. Borders was so pleased, that they asked us to create a follow-up compilation, intended to introduce the music of the Projekt label to their customers. Of course, it’s also a great CD for the hardcore Projekt fans, capturing some of our best music together on one disc.
— Projekt.com
New Projekt Hot Topic CD Features Lovespirals
Projekt just released a new budget priced compilation for Hot Topic. Called Projekt:Gothic, it features Lovespirals’ song, “Swollen Sea,” as well as tracks from Audra, Mira, Voltaire, Attrition, This Ascension, Lycia, and more.
Through March 11, 2003, Projekt: Gothic will sell exclusively at Hot Topic, with over 425 locations nationwide. It’s available on the counter at all of their stores across the nation. After March 11th, Hot Topic will be joined by Borders and all other cool stores large and small with this title.
— Projekt.com
Back from our first West Coast Tour!
Lovespirals have returned from their West Coast mini tour with Mira, and are busy scheduling additional dates for this year. So far, Los Angeles has been added for October 2nd at the Knitting Factory. The band plans to include saxist, Doron Orenstein, for this date.
DJ Victoria Star, of KZSC in Santa Cruz, CA wrote the following review of the first show date:
San Francisco Projekt fans were given a spectacular treat last night when artists Mira and Lovespirals joined together for an evening of musical bliss at The Pound.Once again changing musical directions, Anji Bee and Ryan Lum presented their lush new sound as a taunting and swanky invitation to sing along. Taking the stage with a smile that never left her face, Anji’s vocal mastery was particularly poignant on new tracks “Oh So Long” and “Swollen Sea.”
In Music We Trust called Mira and Lovespirals “the sexiest concert bill of 2002” and had this to say in their review of the show at Portland’s Paris Theatre:
Next came the technical difficulties but delicious music of Lovespirals. While guitarist Ryan Lum and singer Anji Bee clearly seemed displeased with how their show was going, it did not stop them from presenting a lovely display of some obvious hard work. Closing out the set with a few jazz numbers, the audience weaved back and forth with Bee as she appeared as a nightclub chanteuse a little out of her element. Bee acknowledged this by remarking, “We don’t know how Mira does it. They’ve got like twelve shows left. This is only our third, and we’re like, ‘O, we want to go home.'” Nevertheless, Lovespirals presented their new material, which is absolutely marvelous, and sparked some interest.
Photographer Adam Michaud sent in these great photos from our Portland concert.
During their time in Portland, Ryan and Anji also did their first ever in-studio radio interview with DJ Carolee of A Strange Choice of Favorite on KPSU. The duo also performed a short acoustic set live on-air.