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Because the release schedule its really cranking up (see Beta-Lactam's web site). Because the Legendary Pink Dots threads don't mention his copious solo work. Because he deserves it!

I have most of the Ka-Spel albums. As mentioned about the Pink Dots in their threads, they're pretty much all worthwhile. I'd be curious if anybody around here has heard the geekier super-limited art-boutique stuff on Beta-Lactam (Meltdown, etc.).

My top five:
Chyekk China Doll LP (on CD with Aazhyd)
Down In The City Of Heartbreak And Needles #1 CD
The Blue Room 2LP version
Absence Of Evidence LP
Pieces Of Eight 2LP version

My bottom three:
Tanith And The Lion Tree
Aazhyd China Doll
O'er A Shalabastyr Tyde

Out now or upcoming on Beta-Lactam:
O Darkness! O Darkness! LP/CD
Happy Birthday LP
A Long Red Ladder To The Moon triple LP (!)

Has anyone heard these?

― sleeve (sleeve), Saturday, 24 September 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

Public Disturbance was all right, though I was confused to discover it wasn't a DVD despite the packaging.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 24 September 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

That was a live one, I think. There's a lot of those too. I'm sad that I missed the now-typical Pink Dots double-vinyl-with-4th-side-not-on-the-CD version of this. The fourth side had nine Ka-Spel loop tracks, which I would probably love. Long Red Ladder... comes with not only a bonus 4th side, but an entire 'nother album with the first 200 copies!

There is also an actual DVD coming out of a LPD show from 1987.

― sleeve (sleeve), Saturday, 24 September 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

I STILL say that tear garden's sheila liked the rodeo and the last man to fly are underrated (or more likely never heard by people who would like them) and that they should get more credit for pioneering the healthy electro-industrial psych-folk scene that we all enjoy today. if, in fact, there is such a scene. even to be an angel blind, the crippled soul divide had its moments. knowwhatimean? the good thing is, you can find all of these CDs for a dollar. i would totally encourage someone to buy the last man to fly for a dollar. maybe even five dollars. okay, i'm leaving.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 24 September 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

I STILL say that tear garden's sheila liked the rodeo and the last man to fly are underrated

For sure. And yes, that scene should sorta exist somewhere, and sorta does. (Stone Breath, Unto Ashes...sorta.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 24 September 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

I only know one track, from a Soleilmoon sampler I got with a recent order, BUT I listened to it while in an airplane severely sleep-deprived last week and it completely kicked my ass! The guitar sound was fuckin raspy and the corny-ass vocals kicked my ass. A+.

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Saturday, 24 September 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

tanith and the lion tree is really, really weird. i hated it the first time i heard, 7 or 8 years later it sounded like twisted genius. i like most of his solo stuff (i thought "o'er a shalabaster tyde" was at least interesting) but i'm definitely more of an LPD fan, i suppose, especially the string of reissued early cassettes.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Saturday, 24 September 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

I really love "Tanith and the Lion Tree".

― John Justen (johnjusten), Saturday, 24 September 2005 23:08 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I didn't mean by placing those records in my bottom three that they were BAD or anything... just not the ones I'd recommend first.

― sleeve (sleeve), Sunday, 25 September 2005 00:37 (twenty years ago)

I'm a big Tanith fan, too. You're right to put Chyekk China Doll near the top, though. The Tear Garden stuff will move up a position on my listen-to list, thanks to this thread.

― brianiac (briania), Sunday, 25 September 2005 00:51 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

I AM GOING TO LISTEN TO TANITH AND THE LION TREE AND THE LAST MAN TO FLY AND TO BE AN ANGEL BLIND, THE CRIPPLED SOUL DIVIDE TODAY. OKAY?

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 20 January 2007 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

excellent, Scott.

I am going to listen to the new Ka-Spel double LP "Fragments Of Illumina" while pickled in mind-altering substances. We will be brothers together in psychedelic electronica.

Those later Tear Garden records get overlooked, but I like them.

This is also where I note that Beta-Lactam is slowly reissuing all of Ka-Spel's old records, a most welcome development.

― sleeve version 2.0 (sleeve testing), Saturday, 20 January 2007 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

i might even play tired eyes slowly burning too even though it's not one of my faves. i haven't played it in years though, maybe i'll like it more now.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 20 January 2007 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

That is my fave Tear Garden fwiw.

― sleeve version 2.0 (sleeve testing), Saturday, 20 January 2007 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

my nephew tanith is on tanith and the lion tree!

― chaki (chaki), Saturday, 20 January 2007 23:44 (nineteen years ago)

no way! way?

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 20 January 2007 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

WAHT?

― John Justen says Toonces was one of the most talented cats on televison (johnjus, Sunday, 21 January 2007 00:12 (nineteen years ago)

tell us more!

btw, this new Fragments Of Illumina record is HEAVY, the best thing I've heard from Ka-Spel in a few years. Even an entire side (side two) of him fucking around with whatever esoteric equppment he's using these days sounds good. Awesome double LP art/packaging, too.

― sleeve version 2.0 (sleeve testing), Sunday, 21 January 2007 04:02 (nineteen years ago)

I've been rocking the shit out of "In Search of My Rose" recently. I certainly need to listen to more.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 21 January 2007 04:03 (nineteen years ago)

Chaki, what the hell, how dare you not tell me these things.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 21 January 2007 05:20 (nineteen years ago)

i might be wrong but he was on some kaspel album when he was little! ill ask!

― chaki (chaki), Sunday, 21 January 2007 07:46 (nineteen years ago)

six months pass...

my nephew tanith is on tanith and the lion tree!

i would still like to hear more about this!

I have not heard Ka-Spel's latest, supposedly in a more noisy musique concrete style.

― sleeve, Saturday, 18 August 2007 02:29 (eighteen years ago)

this guy is a hero

― Curt1s Stephens, Saturday, 18 August 2007 02:35 (eighteen years ago)

I wanna hear some Tear Garden some time. I know I would like them, I like LPD and Skinny Puppy and oGhr.

― Trayce, Saturday, 18 August 2007 02:42 (eighteen years ago)

Wait hang on, Ive heard "In Search of my Rose" before, you've played on WREK havent you Curtis?

― Trayce, Saturday, 18 August 2007 02:43 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

so the new split LP with The Silverman "Thirty Year Itch" is not one of their best efforts, I'm afraid. too much spoken word, not enough shimmery synths. maybe it will grow on me.

CD reissue of Chyekk is out and the remastering is a noticeable improvement like the others in the series. Bonus tracks are still weirdly off from the old Staalplaat CD version, but I think it's because they went with stuff from the same time period instead of the '94 tracks on the 1st reissue.

― sleeve, Monday, 22 November 2010 17:25 (fifteen years ago)

ten months pass...

upcoming ltd. CD and art edition LP on Beta-Lactam - judging from the samples, this is gonna be a great rekkid, esp. "Motorik". yes.

http://www.blrrecords.com/prod/2172/a_pleasure_cruise_through_9_dimensions.html

http://www.blrrecords.com/prod/2171/a_pleasure_cruise_through_9_dimensions.html

― (I Just) Died In Your Asshat Tonight, Friday, 21 October 2011 01:43 (fourteen years ago)

oh cool, this wasn't on my radar yet.

― sleeve, Friday, 21 October 2011 02:13 (fourteen years ago)

ten years pass...

such an incredible run of releases during the pandemic years, all worth a listen. eight 2021 full-lengths, four so far this year (I think, check his Bandcamp)

― thinkmanship (sleeve), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 00:49 (three years ago)

also, Chaki posted a picture of Tanith (mentioned upthread) rocking out to his show recently in Seattle! how time flies.

― thinkmanship (sleeve), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 00:53 (three years ago)

I'll never catch up completely but must endeavour to dig in more. "Songs Of Solitude" was easily one of my post listened to albums during 2021. So good.

― stirmonster, Tuesday, 26 July 2022 01:00 (three years ago)

most.

― stirmonster, Tuesday, 26 July 2022 01:01 (three years ago)

some recent faves off the top of my head are Random Time Machine, Prints Of Darkness, and Tales From The Trenches

― thinkmanship (sleeve), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 01:06 (three years ago)

just listening to Tales From The Trenches right now. so far, so great.

― stirmonster, Tuesday, 26 July 2022 01:11 (three years ago)

one year passes...

still cranking out great stuff on a regular basis

https://legendarypinkdots1.bandcamp.com/album/tease-seize-apply-5

― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Friday, 10 November 2023 16:28 (two years ago)

Truly! Thanks for the reminder, that slipped through my net last week.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 November 2023 17:12 (two years ago)

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