Lovespirals are now CNET’s new music.download.com. In fact, we were the editor’s pick on 5/6/2004, 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.
Anji was recently quizzed about favorite music by the Voices and Visions
website. You can read her responses, just below Rick Springfield’s, here.
The Peace Love Productions remix competition of “Walk Away” has ended, and the winning remixes are all featured on Lovespirals’ SoundClick page. The Grand Prize Winner is SinQ, from Holland, with his “Don’t Look Back” mix, while Canada’s Bitstream Dream and Finland’s Funklovers produced the two Runner Up mixes. Lovespirals also selected a number of additional remixes as Honorable Mentions.
The Prizes for this contest included a copy of Ableton Live 3, Abelton Live Power, the Alien Guitars CD, the Dsound RT Player Pro & Stompin’ FX, plus the PLP Disco Tech Loop CD. Lucky winners!
You can also read a Side-Line story on Lovespirals PLP remix contest.
The PLP “Walk Away” remix competition ends February 5th, after which
time all of the entries will be judged and a Grand Prize winner selected.
Lovespirals will host an mp3 of the winning mix and several runner-ups
on their newly launched SoundClick page. Plans are also underway for a remix CD highlighting a wide range of remix styles, so stay tuned for more news!
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
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!
Lovespirals are up for the vote on TalentMatch.com’s “Smash or Trash” promotions this month. You must sign up as a member of the free entertainment site to vote, but even non-members can come view our artist page and listen to the audio files. Come on down to talentmatch.com/lovespirals to hear a Real Audio file of “Just Trouble” or a WMA mp3 of “Hand in Hand (album mix)” — both new and unreleased songs!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
