European music site, BeSonic, is currently featuring the Chill-Out Lounge Vol. 2 Jazz-Step version of “Hand in Hand” on their Music Recommendations page, along with a review by Jeza. Also available on BeSonic is the
Deep House remix of “Walk Away” by remix producers Sunburn in Cyprus.
Remixes
Man oh man there were a lot of remixes to listen to this weekend! First we whittled the 4 pages worth of entries to just 32 tracks, then down to 22 tracks, and finally to 8 tracks. Now we need to hone in on just one Grand Prize Winner and 2 Runner-Ups. We feel like American Idol judges! Ryan says he’s Simon and I’m Paula, but I think I’m a bit more like Randy… đŸ™‚
Anyway, I’m planning to unveil the final announcement by Friday, which will hopefully include our having all pertinent mixes uploaded to our SoundClick page for everyone to check out!
Remix Contest Ends Soon!
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!
Free Holiday Music from Lovespirals
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.
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.