Italian indie music zine, Losing Today, is hosting a free download of Lovespirals’ wintry John Denver cover song in their Mp3 Today section . Download “Aspenglow” for your holiday listening pleasure.
Yearly Archives: 2003
Walk Away Remix
Wow, Peace Love Productions says we’ve already gotten 500 downloads of our remix files since Friday! I wonder how many actual remixes we’ll get? I wonder how many other people will try to illegally use our samples? I hope they won’t but I’m sure someone will.
Some people have already asked about posting the remixes on their sites. I think that would be cool. I guess I should get together a credits file to be posted with the mixes. I should ask DJ Puzzle about adding something to the remix site for folks to use.
Sounds like PLP might end up doing some kind of remix CD, if the entries are cool enough.
Lovespirals Remix Competition
PeaceLoveProductions is currently hosting a remix competition for Lovespirals’ recent song, “Walk Away.” Prizes include Ableton’s Live 3 and Live Power, Dsound’s RT Player Pro & Stompin’ FX, and PeaceLoveProductions sample CDs. The contest is being sponsored by Ableton, CoolBreeze, Time+Space, Muska & Lipman, DSound and MixMeister. For full details and remix files, go here
Lovespirals Move to SoundClick
SoundClick.com , reputedly the largest mp3 hosting site following the demise of Mp3.com, is now hosting an assortment of Lovespirals’ streaming and downloadable mp3 files. Hear them at soundclick.com/lovespirals
Mp3.com is DEAD: Long live SoundClick!
Gothic Jazz?
Just came across the funniest mention of us in a Devics review online.
Slow, teary-eyed gothic jazz was an inevitability as darkwave, dream pop, and shoegazing became further and further intertwined. Lovespirals’ “Windblown Kiss” of 2002 was heralded as the style’s official birth and fulfilled the lifelong dreams of darkwave and lounge lovers like myself by blending the melancholy, ethereal vocals of the former with the breezy, slow sway of the latter.
Even though I have heard one or two other people make similar mention, I can’t get used to the idea that anyone would still think we’re Gothic, in addition to Jazz. It’s just too crazy! Why not “Dark Jazz” at least? LOL.
Ha Ha! First Ryan invents “Gothic Trip Hop” (Flux) and now “Gothic Jazz” (Windblown Kiss). I suppose next we’ll be “Gothic Soul”? No… People can’t possibly try to lump our new music in with Gothic. Can they?
Fiber Online Lovespirals Article
Brazilian music site, FiberOnline, is currently running an interview/ article with Anji by Isabel Geo, discussing Lovespirals past and present. Read here or listen to 2 tracks at FiberOnline’s Lovespirals’ artist page (In Portuguese).
Lovespirals on Losing Today
Italian indie music magazine, Losing Today, is currently hosting a downloadable mp3 of “Hand in Hand” on the Mp3 Today
section of their website.
Fiber Online Interviews Lovespirals
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 more poppy edge to the music. The biggest change I brought to the band was that I encouraged a collaborative song writing technique, which had been lacking in the band up to that time.
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 are getting together files for a remix competition using 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 Interviews LovespiralsPlaying live
I’m starting to miss playing live again, it’s been so long. I can’t help thinking about how much more fun it would be, though, if we had more musicians to fill out the sound. A bassist would be a huge improvement, at least. It could be cool to have a keyboardist, too. Or maybe somebody who could play both, depending on the song. Like John Paul Jones, that would be nice.
Kolo Online Music Comp.
A cool new idea in music distribution, Kolo: an independent sound library puts together online music compilations. Typically, they include hi-res 192kbps mp3 files of each song, a DJ mixed set of the material, plus downloadable artwork for the CD. After a brief hiatus this summer, they’re back with a groovy chill-out set, including Lovespirals’ “Our Nights.”
Genres, Schmenres
Sometimes I get frustrated by how much genre identity has pervaded the music world. It seems like nowadays bands are forced into taking on a genre niche to be accepted anywhere. Why can’t we just make/listen to music that we like and enjoy, without having to worry about pigeon-holing everything?
The press have always tried to stick music into boxes, for sure, and the fans have been doing it for awhile, but it feels like now even the bands themselves need to jump on some bandwagon or other to even gain label acceptance, never mind the fans or the press!
Lovespirals do not want to embrace any one genre. We are multifacted people with various music interests. Sometimes we feel upbeat and dancy, other times soulful or bluesy. Sometimes we wanna rock, sometimes we wanna groove, sometimes we wanna romance it old school jazz style. Why should we hold ourselves back?
Talk Talk
On one of our recent outings of buying used vinyl albums, we picked up Talk Talk’s album The Colour of Spring. We finally had the chance to give it a good listen the other night, and damn was it good!
For those who remember the band as just a new wave synth pop band, well, maybe that could be said of their first album or two, but they evolved a lot with each release.
The Colour of Spring is a great and very hard to classify album. It’s soulful, with hints of jazz, and quite ethereal at times. The Hammond organ is just amazing. I swear I can hear the birth of the Manchester sound coming from this record.
Next I want to pick up the album they released after this, Spirit of Eden, where they took a more stripped down, improvised approach.