Yearly Archives: 2002

Windblown Kiss

How The Thieves Ride

Oh when the dust blows
How it clouds my eyes
Oh how I wish I could see you

Oh how the thieves ride
They scream through the night
Oh how I wish I could lose them

I’ll refuse them
Then I’ll lose them
I won’t abuse them
But I’m gonna lose them
I’ll refuse them
Then I’ll lose them
I won’t abuse them
But I’m gonna leave them behind

Oh when the shells fall
And wicked men play games
Oh how I choose to refuse them

Now as the day ends
And clouds close my eyes
Oh how I wish I could see you

Oh when the thoughts bite
And drain my hollow head dry
Oh how I know I must forsake them

I’ll refuse them
Then I’ll lose them
I won’t abuse them
But I’m gonna lose them
I’ll refuse them
Then I’ll lose them
I won’t abuse them
But I’m gonna leave them behind

I’ll refuse them
Then I’ll lose them
I won’t abuse them
But I’m gonna lose them
I’ll refuse them
Then I’ll lose them
I won’t abuse them
But I’m gonna leave them behind
Behind (x3)

By Sean Bowley

Windblown Kiss

He Calls Me

He calls me
Every night he calls me, calls me
I listen, open up my heart and listen
His voice is like a song
I hear the melodies
So I learn them
Write them down so I can play them

People say I speak in tongues
People say that I am channeling
People say I speak in tongues
People say that I am channeling

People say I speak in tongues
People say that I am channeling
Help me, help me
Show them your glory

People say I speak in tongues
People say that I am channeling
Help me, help me
Show them your glory

He calls me
Every night he calls me, calls me
I listen, open up my heart and listen
His voice is like a song
I hear the melodies
So I learn them
Write them down so I can play them

Let them understand
You are in everything we do
(He calls me, every night he calls me)
(Help me, help me show them your glory)

— By Anji Bee (BMI)

Windblown Kiss

Dejame

Que somos?
Donde vamos?
Por que somos como somos?

Nada me turbe
Nada me espante
Todo se pasa

Que toda la vida es sueno
y los suenos, suenos son

Hay mas tiempo que vida
Dejame — sin miedo
Hay mas tiempo que vida
Dejame — sosegada

Nada me turbe
Nada me espante
Todo se pasa

Que toda la vida es sueno
y los suenos, suenos son

Hay mas tiempo que vida
Dejame — sin miedo
Hay mas tiempo que vida
Dejame – sosegada

Que somos?
Donde vamos?
Por que somos como somos?

Nada me turbe
Nada me espante
Todo se pasa

Hay mas tiempo que vida
Dejame
Hay mas tiempo que vida
Dejame

— By Anji Bee (BMI)

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Ha ha ha!!!

This is a funny review from a New York punk & rock n roll fansite called New York Waste:

LOVESPIRALS Windblown Kiss is a soft, gentle breeze blowing through the white curtains of your perfect house on the hill with little flowers growing all pretty in a row in a garden of soft green grass to stretch out on in those lazy days we call summer. Okay, enough, enough, I’m gonna puke! Okay, very lovely stuff. Dreamy voices floating over spanish guitar, this a huge potential in some hot European country, just keep it out of mine!

So who the heck sent them this review copy?

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Lycia

Just joined the Lycia mailing list about a week ago and have entered into many lively chats with Tara and friends about all kinds of fun stuff. She’s kinda sad that they missed the Projekt Fest… There’s been a lot of talk about getting all the AZ Projekt bands together to do a show out there sometime, so maybe we can get either Lycia, Estraya or Tara Van Flower to make an appearance?

Anyway, if you like Lycia, too, come check out their newslist at: http://lycia.darkspire.net/

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Site Updates

Made a few little additions to the site this week. Now the journal entries are separated into batches of 10, so it won’t get too overwhelming. The Photos page has been updated to accommodate a new section, containing fan photos from ProjektFest 2002. I thought it would be a little nicer than pasting them into the Journal… Also added a new link in the Interviews section, and fixed a dead link by just hosting the content ourselves. Fun, fun, fun!

Reviews

All Music Guide reviews "Windblown Kiss"

Music critic Ned Raggett reviews “Windblown Kiss” for the All Music Guide:

When the original partnership of Ryan Lum and Suzanne Perry in Love Spirals Downwards dissolved, the result was a new romantic and musical union between Lum and singer/songwriter, Anji Bee. With the band slightly renamed to indicate the difference between the new directions the duo explored, the first effort from the two was the excellent Windblown Kiss.

Advantageously, it isn’t a radical departure from Lum’s earlier work  this isn’t Mojave 3 as different from Slowdive, say  but instead a fascinating and beautiful new path that draws from his past without repeating it. It’s evident not merely in his own playing  he’s just as apt to explore moody blues licks, acoustic flamenco and bossa nova lines, as well as his trademark digital delay lushness  but the range of the songs as a whole.

Bee’s singing is key here  instead of the angelic bliss-out of Perry, her approach blends that touch with a subtly sassier tang, reflecting her love for singers like Billie Holiday. Indeed, much of the album feels like a performance at a very classy (but not dull) late-night establishment, with subtle grooves and the sense of passionate love suffusing the air. That she can manage the wonderfully romantic Spanish-language song “Dejame,” with appropriately delicate Latin pop arrangements — not to mention equally fine singing elsewhere in German and French — as well as a cover of an obscurity by America, “You Girl,” gives a good sense of her abilities.

With fine guest work from Doron Orenstein on saxophone and, in two excellent duets with Bee, “How the Thieves Ride” and “You Are the Gun,” Eden’s Sean Bowley on both vocals and guitar, Windblown Kiss adds up as an enveloping, invigorating listen that avoids any easy “Goth” tag to find its own darkly passionate medium. (4 stars)

allmusic.com

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Nice comment!

DJ Bryan, of “The Witching Hour: on WRSU, New Jersey, was sweet enough to including this quip in his weekly playlist:

“Windblown Kiss has got to be my favorite release from Ryan Lum. Even the DJ who spins house music before my show liked what he heard. He described it as ‘seductive’.”

Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside…

88.7 WRSU FM can be heard over the web at http://wrsu.rutgers.edu/

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P-Fest

I’ve started hearing back from a few of the fans who attended Projekt Fest 2002. Its so nice to know that people enjoyed our show! We weren’t sure how folks would take to our jazzy new sound, but it seems like it was a success. And my kazoo was a big hit!

Looks like we might have a half dozen shows set up this year when everything is verified. Big stuff, for us! We’re thinking about adding a few more songs to the setlist, perhaps some more electronic stuff?

Reviews

First WK review

Lovespirals – Windblown Kiss (Projekt): Love Spirals Downwards remove the “Downwards,” dispense with the electronic beats of Flux, and change the singer, but remain as ethereally innocuous as ever, if a bit more eclectic. — Angry Robot

Pretty much to the point, eh? I looked up “innocuous” just to make sure that there actually is a positive use for it. Ha ha!