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“Spinning Circles” Official Music Video

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An official music video for the song “Spinning Circles” from our ‘Life Goes On’ album is out now on the Lovespirals YouTube channel.

Over the past 2-3 years I’ve been filming various scenes I thought would work well with the lyrical concept and I finally took the time to edit them together for this fun must video that contrasts black and white and super colorful scenes. The parasol scenes were shot on Laguna Beach during the performance of ‘The Shoreline Project’ by artist Elizabeth Turk. We had randomly been on site just as 1000 people converged for this performance piece, and it was quite surreal! The carousel and teacups ride scenes were both shot at Disneyland, and the stupa scene was shot at Maui Dharma Center in Paia. 

Hope this video makes you smile!

Stream music from Lovespirals or Anji Bee on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, Google Play, or Pandora. Buy digital downloads or CDs from lovespirals.bandcamp.com 

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“Life Goes On” Official Music Video

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To celebrate the start of a new year, Anji put together a music video for the title track of the latest Lovespirals album, “Life Goes On,” featuring some of the peaceful moments filmed over the past 12 tumultuous months. Here’s hoping this new year is better than the last!

Stream ‘Life Goes On’ by Lovespirals on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, Google Play, or Pandora. Buy digital downloads or CDs from lovespirals.bandcamp.com 

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Lovespirals Guest on Sam Rosenthal Album for Tim Leary’s Birthday

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Projekt Records founder, Sam Rosenthal of Black Tape for a Blue Girl, just released a new album to commemorate what would have been Timothy Leary’s 100th birthday this month. Entitled Tim, where are you now?, this collaborative album features many special guests, including Lovespirals, Steve Roach, Erik Wøllo, Mike VanPortfleet of Lycia, Brian Viglione of The Dresden Dolls, Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, Reggie Watts, and more. Ryan and Anji contributed to “Starseed,” alongside Forrest Fang and Rosenthal, as well as “PSY PHI love means High Fidelity” alongside Byron Metcalf, Martin Bowes, and Rosenthal. These songs highlight musical sides of Lovespirals you may not have seen before. The CD is currently in preorder on Bandcamp, where you can alternatively purchase a digital download on the “Name Your Price” deal (meaning you can pay $0 if you want…), and it’s also available to stream on all digital platforms, including Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube.

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“Why Not Today?” Single and Video Out Now

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Lovespirals’ soulful new single, “Why Not Today?” is now available on Bandcamp! The download of our single ALSO includes this brand new music video, shot at gorgeous Crystal Cove beach here in Southern California. With extremely chill vibes and super smooth production, “Why Not Today?” pulls from our r&b/soul side with a little jazz and blues twist. Melancholic, dreamy, and filled with soft yearning for a better time and place, the accompanying video is a lovely reminder of the healing power of nature, even in this time of human disconnection and unease. We hope this single will bring you some joy!

BUY THE DIGITAL SINGLE & MUSIC VIDEO:
You can download in any (or all) of the following formats on Bandcamp: MP3 V0, MP3 320, FLAC, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, ALAC, WAV, AIFF.
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Chillin’ with Lovespirals Podcast #86: New Album Charting & More

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The Chillin’ with Lovespirals band podcast makes it’s return! We have so much news to share this episode, including our new album charting pretty heavily, which is super fun. We get into some background on our song, “Are You Lonely,” Ryan gets into the inspiration for the overall sound of ‘Life Goes On,’ Anji digs up some unreleased video, plus more news and conversation. We really hope you dig hearing/watching us talk about music because we have lots more stories to share about the making of the album and what inspires us to create!  Check out http://somafm.com for our music and other great indie bands

FOLLOW US ON MIXCLOUD: For more audio podcasts, interviews, DJ mixes etc at https://www.mixcloud.com/lovespirals

Continue reading Chillin’ with Lovespirals Podcast #86: New Album Charting & More →
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Pandora Adds ‘Life Goes On’ To Library

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The popular music discovery site, Pandora, has added our new album, ‘Life Goes On,’ to its music library. This is a nice surprise, as they had previously rejected our 2010 album, ‘Future Past,’ returning our package unopened, with a cryptic note that they already had too much of “this genre” in their collection. We were pretty shocked that they felt there were too many albums which combined the sound of female fronted trip hop and chillout with the sounds of guitar-heavy classic rock ala Pink Floyd, but hey, maybe we were just ignorant of how mainstream our music was at the time? (Yeah, right…) Anyway, we’re more than happy to let bygones be bygones, as the service has seen fit to add the latest Lovespirals album to their library, which also includes our 3 albums prior to ‘Future Past,’ as well as a 2012 remix EP. Who knows? Maybe one day they’ll even add in that missing 4th album to have the complete set.

Check out Lovespirals ‘Life Goes On’ via Pandora and give a thumbs up to your fave tracks

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Stream ‘Life Goes On’ on Spotify NOW

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Lovespirals’ brand new 5th album, ‘Life Goes On,’ is available to stream on Spotify. We’ve been putting a little time into developing our artist profile over there, and plan to create more playlists featuring some of our musical influences and inspirations, so please “follow” us over there to stay up to date! Meanwhile, we hope you’ll find some tracks that you love enough to share on your own playlists, and that you’ll give our album a “thumbs up” on this popular streaming service. And if you’d like to pick up a limited edition eco-friendly CD, autographed by Ryan and Anji, you can still grab one of those from shop.happyhealthyvegan.org — the first 100 orders come with a ‘Life Goes On’ pin!

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Life Goes On Preview On MusicTap

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MusicTap made a little write up about our very soon to be released album.

Since 1992, the genesis of the current Lovespirals began a recording career as Love Spirals Downward (Ryan Lum and Suzanne Perry). After four exquisite recordings (Idylls – 1992, Ardor – 1994, Ever – 1996, Flux – 1998), all on Projekt Records. After a short hiatus, the band regathered with a new vocalist by the name of Anji Bee, and released four additional excellent sets (Windblown Kiss – 2002, Free & Easy – 2005, Long Way From Home – 2007, Future Past – 2010) as Lovespirals. After a long, long break from recording as a duo (Anji Bee released a solo album, Love Me Leave Me, back in 2013), the Lovespirals iteration will deliver their fifth album, Life Goes On.

Head over to MusicTap to read the full article.

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“Motherless Child” Official Music Video

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The first single from Lovespirals’ 2007 album, ‘Long Way From Home,’ was a heart-rending ethereal blues cover of the anonymous American spiritual, “Motherless Child.” It also appears on the ‘Motherless Child EP‘ released September 16, 2007. Anji filmed the scenes for this music video on a road trip to Sonoma County, California.

The ‘Motherless Child EP’ is available on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, Bandcamp and other online music stores.

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“Heartstrings” Single & Music Video Out Now

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Part Dream Pop, part Americana, the new single from Lovespirals is considerably more upbeat than “Brother Against Brother,” the first single. Ryan juxtaposes driving blues riffs and dreamy shoegazer guitar, finding a delicious balance between his earlier Love Spirals Downwards work and more recent Lovespirals work. Anji’s vocals exude the confidence born from years of familiarity with the material, with a lovely harmony of her natural earthy tone and haunting upper register.

“Heartstrings” is a lovely high point in the tracklisting for Lovespirals’ upcoming 5th album. The song is a celebration of the duo’s creative connection and the love that goes into Ryan and Anji’s music. The music video, created by the band themselves, is a beautiful representation of the song, shot during the height of California wildflower season. With 3 years of experience shooting, editing and producing videos for their YouTube channel, Happy Healthy Vegan, this creative couple have created what is surely their best and most professional looking music video to date.

Buy the new single & music video on Lovespirals’ Bandcamp to help fund the band’s upcoming 5th album

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“Sandcastles” Official Music Video

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Enjoy this new video for “Sandcastles,” the epic closing track to Lovespirals’ album, ‘Free and Easy.’ Enjoy two gorgeous sunsets over the Pacific Ocean, shot at the pristine So Cal beach, Crystal Cove. The first sunset was shot from down on the beach, while the second one was filmed from up on the bluff. The second sunset is the most amazing technicolor sky Anji and Ryan have ever experienced, and it really brings the gospel like chorus and electric guitar solo of the end 3rd of this song to life!

MUSIC: “Sandcastles” by Lovespirals From the album, ‘Free & Easy’ (2005) Available at http://lovespirals.bandcamp.com Or iTunes, Amazon, Google Play or Spotify

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