Anji contributed vocals and lyrics to a special “hidden” track on the upcoming new Chandeen album. Entitled Teenage Poetry, the 12 song disc is due out March 2008 on Chandeen’s own Kalinkaland label. As a free album preview for fans, the band are uploading one song per week (or so) to their MySpace page. This will be the first new Chandeen album in 5 years.
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Lovespirals on Accident Hash Episode #255
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Download Accident Hash #255 For The Troops MP3
Talk about seminal music podcasts… The award winning Accident Hash turned 3 today and the show’s amazingly talented and sweet producer, C.C. Chapman, dedicated it the Troops. What a guy! Podcasters including Christopher Penn, Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff, Mike Yusi, and Lovespirals’ own, Anji Bee, sent in audio messages to the troops for the holidays, which are sprinkled throughout the show, which features tracks by Matthew Ebel, RaykoKRB, Black Lab, Chance and many others – including, of course, Lovespirals! C.C. was the very first podcaster to hear Long Way From Home and we’ve got a mutual love thing going on with that man. Congrats on 3 years, CC!
And while we’re on the topic of supporting the Troops, Lovespirals and Projekt records donated several hundred CDs via Ryko Distribution to Boatsie’s Boxes, who sent out 16,178 Christmas stockings to men and women serving in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kuwait over the holidays.
Lovespirals on Coverville #409
The latest “indie edition” of the legendary Coverville podcast includes Lovespirals’ rendition of the classic American Spiritual, “Motherless Child.” We met Brian Ibbott at the Podcast and New Media Expo last year, where Anji was accepting an award for her work with the ShowGirls podcast. We slipped him a pre-release copy of our Long Way From Home CD, which he was very enthusiastic about, but what with one holiday after the other these past few months… well you know how these things go. We’re just stoked to make our 2nd appearance on this seminal music podcast!
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Download Coverville: Indie Boys, Girls, and Motherless Children (MP3)
Chillin' with Lovespirals #46
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Download Chillin’ with Lovespirals #46 MP3
The band usher in the new year with news of their expanded studio, Lovespirals’ most popular episode, the official release of the Motherless Child EP, recent webtool and shareware discoveries, online and terrestrial radio airplay of the new album, Anji’s Chillcast announcement, and more – including a recent collaboration with Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff! By the way, you can purchase this collboration on eMusic.
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Request Lovespirals on Auralgasms Radio
Auralgams Radio — one of the coolest indie Internet stations out there — has added “Caught in the Groove” and “Treading the Water” from Lovespirals’ new CD, Long Way From Home, to their playlist. The band would love to have you request Lovespirals on Auralgasms Radio using their handy online request page.
Lovespirals' Motherless Child EP Out
Lovespirals’ Motherless Child EP has just been released on iTunes+, eMusic, and Amazon Mp3. This digital only release features 6 remixes of the first single from the duo’s most recent album, Long Way From Home. Artists included are Karmacoda, Hungry Lucy, MoShang, Chris Caulder of Beauty’s Confusion, and The Black Channel Citizen — plus one by Lovespirals’ own Ryan Lum.
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Lovespirals Christmas-Cast ft. "Little Drum 'n' Bass Boy"
This might bring back memories for a few of you longtime fans. It’s Ryan’s 1999 version of “The Little Drummer Boy,” featuring Gabriel D. Vine on Rhodes piano. Totally unreleased except via the Internet as a free holiday download. Enjoy!
Free Lovespirals Holiday Mp3 on Losing Today Site
It’s that time of the year again! The holidays means holiday music, and you can download the classic Lovespirals’ cover of John Denver’s “Aspen Glow” gratis from the fine folks at Losing Today. This song is special to us, as it was the first ever officially released Lovespirals song, recorded in 2001 for the Projekt holiday compilation, Excelsis Vol 3. You can still buy this CD, in fact, its currently on the Projekt Top 10. “Aspen Glow” was also included on the 2002 limited edition of A Dark Noel: The Very Best of Excelsis release created for Hot Topic stores.
Lovespirals are special guests on The Pod 5 podcast
This week’s The Pod 5 show includes Ryan and Anji of Lovespirals as special guests, along with Matthew Ebel and Anji’s fellow ShowGirl, Share Ross, for a discussion of the future of the recording industry. Topics include CDs vs Mp3s, major vs indie labels vs self-released, Radiohead scaring the music industry, and much more fun and madness!
Music Critics Weigh in on Lovespirals' Long Way From Home
Reviews are starting to come in for Lovespirals new album, Long Way From Home, and the critics have been kind.
All Music Guide‘s Ned Raggett writes,
For their third album as Lovespirals, Anji Bee and Ryan Lum again create a lush series of songs that synthesizes disparate influences into a warm, enveloping listen.
Matthew Johnson of Re:Gen Magazine writes,
It’s not an understatement to call Long Way from Home the duo’s most accomplished work up to date; as enjoyable as their previous explorations of laidback electronica and jazz fusion have been, this album captures Lum and Bee’s warm musical chemistry in a way that previous releases only hinted at.
Matt Rowe of MusicTap.net writes,
From the band’s early years as Love Spirals Downwards — with a vocalist all but forgotten for Anji Bee’s lovely, dreamy, and expansive vocal pleasantries — to their current album, Lovespirals have always been a band of change. Their latest, the wonderfully titled Long Way From Home, is one of superior work and can easily rank as the band’s best work in either incarnation.
cadencerevolution.com podcast blogs:
It’s very rare these days to come across an entire CD which you will listen to over and over from beginning to end non-stop, and even rarer to find one which makes you want to grab everyone you know and tell them “you must listen to this.” However such is the case with the third release, Long Way Home, from the California based duo Lovespirals.
Come hear what all the fuss is about at lovespirals.com/longway!
"This Truth (Live)" #1 on Podsafe Music Network Chart
Lovespirals’ live acoustic version of “This Truth” from their recent Second Life concert ranks as the #1 most played song of the month on the Podsafe Music Network Acoustic Top 10. Historically, Lovespirals have ruled the PMN Downtempo Top 10, where “Love Survives” from Lovespirals’ 2005 CD, Free and Easy, still holds the #1 position for most played song of all-time, followed by “Walk Away (Bitstream Dream Remix)” in the #2 position, and “Ecstatic (Podsafe Edit)” the #7 spot. Anji Bee’s 2004 collaboration with Bitstream Dream, “Phantasma,” holds the #3 position. Podcasters can find these and other podsafe Lovespirals songs at lovespirals.com/podsafe and lovespirals.com/podsaferemix. Please be sure to report your podcast plays to the Podsafe Music Network to help Lovespirals rise in the charts!
Lovespirals & Love Spirals Downwards Dominate Projekt Top 10
The Projekt.com Top 10 currently lists the newly released Love Spirals Downwards – Idylls [Remastered Reissue] at the #1 spot, followed closely by Love Spirals Downwards – Ardor [Remastered Reissue] at #3. Trailing slightly behind is the new Lovespirals – Long Way From Home (which was actually released by Chillcuts, not Projekt) at the #8 position and Lovespirals – Windblown Kiss — which Projekt released back in 2002 — at #9. With the #5, #6, and #10 albums being comps that include tracks by Lovespirals and/or Love Spirals Downwards, I guess you could say that we’re dominating the Projekt Top 10 charts!