Two new unreleased tracks are available in streaming mp3 format at 1sound.com/lovespirals for your listening pleasure. 4 additional songs are also available in streaming and free downloadable mp3 format, including the demo version of “Love Survives,” which the band is currently re-recording.
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Lovespirals featured on Forever 21 Site
Fashion retail store, Forever 21 just launched a brand new website which features an all new recording of the Lovespirals song, “Hand in Hand.” A clip of the track is used as a loop for the company info area (click the green dot), but the full song is also available in the Featured Musical Artists’ area. Just click on the speaker icon, then scroll over the band’s photo for a band bio and option to play the full track.
Hot Topic/Projekt Holiday Compilation
Projekt has paired up with Hot Topic for a special Holiday compilation CD. Comprised of the best tracks from the popular Excelsis series of releases, A Dark Noel includes songs by both Lovespirals and Love Spirals Downwards, plus many other Projekt favorites. This CD is sold at the budget price of $3.98 from Hot Topic stores nationwide.
FREE Amazon Mp3 download
Amazon.com is now offering a high quality mp3 file of Lovespirals’ song, “Our Nights” from Windblown Kiss in their Free Download area, the under Digital Discoveries section.
Lovespirals Featured by WRTU FM, Puerto Rico
Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico stations WRTU 89.7 FM and WRUO 88.3 FM are running a series of programs with Lovespirals on the ecclectic music show Frequencias Alternas. Last week, host Iohann Rashi, interviewed Ryan and Anji about their new release, Windblown Kiss. Tommorrow he will run a special show hosted by Anji, highlighting some of the bands and songs which inspire Lovespirals. The program runs from 9pm to midnight.
Here is a Google Translation of Rashi’s recent review of Windblown Kiss.:
The Sound of a Kiss to the Air
By Iohann Rashi, WRTULovespirals Windblown Kiss
THE GROUPING
Lovespirals is the fusion of talents of Anji Bee and Ryan Lum. Anji, is the one in charge to give voice to the project, Ryan music through different types from guitars. Both create a unique sound that explores all type of styles and textures, that include from eclectic and the ethereal thing, until experimentations with I touch of jazz, ambient, folk and world music. A quality that distinguishes them is its expressive freedom in its musical composition, allowing the imagination to travel freely by any route that the sound of its compositions allows it.THE DISC
Windblown Kiss is the turn out to join tastes and influences of both integrates in a unique style that has given the seal them that distinguishes them. We can appreciate in the voice of Anji Bee a sweet and enthusiastic voice that molds its intensity in each cut, showing to us the guitar and enchantment much that can express a voice that without technological complications can fill to its ears and their minds with beautiful stamps. This disc includes 10 songs, plus a hidden additional song at the end of the CD Between the additional enchantments of this disc, a song sung in titled Spanish “Déjame” and “Windblown Kiss” is included who includes letters in English and German, in addition to a tribute to the America band with the song “You girl”.THE RECOMMENDATION
When listening to this album you will notice a mixture of all type of styles, which gives it its particular singularity: it has something of blues, jazz, rock, folk, world music, ethereal, gothic. But it is not any of them. Or perhaps it is all them all simultaneously. That is what is so special about Lovespirals, its capacity to fuse so many influences and turn them something so simple and simultaneously so diverse. Reminding us that music is a freedom of expression, as a kiss sent to the air.Our qualification from 0 to 5: 5 radios
DJ Anji Bee on Radio Reflektionen
Radio Reflektionen is currently hosting a streaming online radio
program assembled by Anji, called “From Dusk to
Dawn”. Featuring 4 hours of 56kbps mp3s, the show
encompasses many of Anji and Lovespirals’ musical inspirations
as well as their own music, and music by friends, peers, and
labelmates. This program will be on continuous loop for
approximately one month.
Exclusive 1sound Mp3
Rod Underhill, formerly of Mp3.com, is launching a brand new site called 1sound.com with streaming and downloadable music content, free blogs and much more. “Love Survives” is currently featured on their front page, but, more excitingly, Lovespirals have included a never before heard track on their artist page. Come listen to “One More” – only on 1sound!
New Audio Interview on Mp3.com
You can listen to an excellent audio interview conducted by DJ Carolee of KPSU in streaming Hi-Fi or Lo-Fi mp3 format on Lovespirals’ mp3.com page . Ryan and Anji discuss their recent West Coast tour, the new album, and much more with the lovely hostess of “A Strange Choice of Favorites.”
New 'Windblown Kiss' Reviews
A number of positive reviews have gone online at the following music sites:
JazzReview.com: “With a touch of soft blues and world music motifs, this entry into the smooth jazz category is a surefire hit and should appeal to a wide listening audience. The music is refreshingly original and likeable, enjoyable in all ways. Ryan Lum is a master of guitar, his techniques fresh and pleasant, and the sensual vocals of Anji Bee perfectly reflect the high quality of the musical compositions. Windblown Kiss is a magical listening experience, and filled with sensitivity and beautiful soft jazz sounds. Lovespirals is topnotch.”
AmbientTrance.org: “What’s in a name-change? Just by dropping the ballast of “downwards” from the previous moniker, Lovespirals drifts upward into the light (and surprisingly “straight”) musical forms which float like a Windblown Kiss. Rather than prior scenes of swirly guitartronic etherality, Ryan Lum with new vocalist, Anji Bee, spin up sweet, bouncy, loungey songs which shift between various flavors of exotica, often with nostalgic airs. Lovespirals soars on Darkwave’s lightest mists, arising with only a few shadows tainting the warmth and intimacy of Windblown Kiss. So nicely done I don’t much flinch at the “normalcy” as it’s obscured by lush artistry and sensuality. “
MusicReviewer.com: “Founder and long time force behind Projekt band Love Spirals Downwards, Ryan Lum has a new partner, a new band name, and a new style. Leaving long time partner Suzanne Perry — and quite a bit of the Love Spirals Downwards formula — behind, Lum and Bee have come up with an album that grabs you from the first note. Anji Bee has an incredible voice that moves from sultry to sensual to surreal to earthy, that winds its way around the guitar work of Ryan Lum like smoke. Where Perry always sounded sweet and ethereal no matter what she was singing, Bee showcases a wide variety of vocal styling, which, in my opinion, gives the duo much greater latitude on this and future albums. I totally respect what Lum and Bee are trying to put across here and I think this partnership may go much farther than Love Spirals Downwards did – and that’s saying a lot!”
GothicVixen.net: “A strange blend of diverse cultural influences, Windblown Kiss is an eclectic collection of gothic-flavored world music, featuring vocals from Anji Bee and the songwriting and instrumentation of Ryan Lum… Overall, the album is engaging, and successful in creating a dark and dreamy mood. Anji Bee handles both lead and backing vocals with equal grace, displaying excellent range and control. Lum’s songwriting continues to improve, making this release perhaps his most impressive to date, and his guitar work is precise and crisp throughout. More importantly, the musical chemistry between the artists is obvious, more so than in Lum’s previous work with Suzanne Perry in Love Spirals Downwards. Spanning four languages, more than a dozen instruments, and too many cultures to count, Windblown Kiss is a definite must-have for fans of Love Spirals Downwards, other Projekt releases, and world music.”
Recent Interview & Album Review
Anji was interviewed about Lovespirals by Shaun Hamilton for Chain D.L.K. online zine this week. Craig Gidney, owner of the Ethereality Yahoo! Group, posted an insightful Windblown Kiss review that reads, in part:
Ryan Lum’s Love Spirals Downwards has come a long way from its ethereal gothic roots. Gone are Suzanne Perry’s wafting vocal glossolalia, the dark Cure-meets-Siouxsie basslines, and the Robin Guthrie guitar atmospherics. They have been replaced by the smooth-as-silk vocals of Anji Bee; the mysterious Eastern-flavor by dashes of flamenco, lounge, jazz and Brazilian pop, and even –gasp- mainstream pop. Of course, this transformation has been a long time coming. Lum has always pushed the envelope in atmospheric music, assimilating electronica, drums and bass along side such core foundations as folk and shoegazer into the mix. The last LSD album, Flux, was a successful mix of Massive Attack-style songs and gentle breakbeats, not unlike those heard on the Six Degrees label. This new incarnation, though, seems to model itself after the sophisticated pop of Everything But the Girl, once and for all ditching the Cocteau Twins blueprint that has dogged the band since its humble beginnings.
–Craig L. Gidney
Anji Bee featured on Mp3.com
Mp3.com is currently featuring Anji on their popular Women of Mp3.com station, as well as the Hot Artist of the Month Spotlight. Jianda Johnson recently interviewed Anji about her musical career, including both Lovespirals and side collaborations. Read — and hear — more at the following URLs:
- Women of Mp3.com
- Mp3.com Interview: Anji Bee
- Hot Artist Spotlight – Easy Listening
From MP3.com Hot Artist Spotlight (July 2002):
Anji Bees one half of the lovely yin-yang equation named Lovespirals (mp3.com/lovespirals). Though her presence and electronic collaborations are quite prominent online, oftentimes people arent fully aware of her Lovespirals connection (to Ryan Lum , other music-half), or the depth of her project involvement. Anji’s soft, seductive voice comforts, rather than crushes you, hitting your consciousness in rolling waves. Hence, her popularity with collaborations in a myriad of other projects. If you love lounge, shoegazer, down tempo, ambient, or classical music (or its variations — from subtle to razor-sharp), visit Anji — it’s a damn good trip. Sugary sweet picks: “Perfect Boy (Bitstream Dream & Anji Bee)” & “Goodbye (Bitstream Dream & Anji Bee).”
– Jianda Johnson
First Lovespirals Radio Appearance
We will be making our first radio appearance during our West Coast Tour with Mira, doing a live performance and interview on A Strange Choice of Favourites with DJ Carolee on KPSU 1450 AM in Portland, OR. The date is set for Mon August 26 from 5 – 6 pm. If you aren’t in listening range of this college radio station, no worries! You can tune in online at — http://www.kpsu.org