Lovespirals will be featured tonight (Sunday night) at 10pm EST on “The Indie Revolution”, on WMIR 100.9 FM Long Island, NY. The show is also streamed live via www.indierevolution.fm and archived in podcast format on indierevolution.mypodcast.com.
ReGen Magazine features Lovespirals interview
ReGen Magazine is currently featuring Lovespirals front page with a great new interview by Matthew Johnson. Ryan and Anji discuss their musical influences, recording techniques, and how their music has evolved from Windblown Kiss to Long Way From Home. The band also talks about Love Spirals Downwards, the podsafe music movement, Second Life, the digital music revolution, Radiohead’s new album, and more.
Chillin' with Lovespirals: Live in Second Life
In this special episode, we present our Second Life acoustic performance from Oct. 27th. This was recorded directly from the mixer so there’s no ambient sounds like the water — or the laughing fish that resides near the stage we played. If you have no idea what I’m taking about, check out the video capture of “Walk Away” on YouTube. This is the first live set in support of Long Way From Home, and the first Lovespirals Second Life performance. By the way, the folks from PodShow Island said we had 760 listeners on their audio streams in addition to the full house watching in-game, pretty crazy! We hope you enjoy this stripped down set.
UPDATE: In addition to the live listeners, this episode has now had over 15,000 downloads/streams!
Setlist :
- “Our Nights” from Windblown Kiss (2002)
- “Walk Away” from Free & Easy (2005)
- “Treading the Water” from Long Way From Home (2007)
- “Empty Universe” from Long Way From Home (2007)
- “Abide” from Free & Easy (2005)
- “Lazy Love Days” from Long Way From Home (2007)
- “Caught in the Groove” from Long Way From Home (2007)
- “Once in a Blue Moon” from Long Way From Home (2007)
- “This Truth” from Long Way From Home (2007)
- “Motherless Child” from Long Way From Home (2007)
Links:
- Lovespirals
- PodShow Island
- SoHo Island
- Accident Hash
- Flickr Photo Set of Anji Bee’s Second Life
- Lovespirals on Podsafe Music Network – get “This Truth (Live)”
Buy CDs from lovespirals.com — personally autographed by Ryan & Anji!
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'Long Way From Home' CD Audio Promo
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Check out this cool little promo for Lovespirals new album created by Brian Noe at PodShow. If you’re a podcaster, Internet radio broadcaster, or other broadcaster please feel free to play this on your show!
All Music Guide reviews Long Way From Home
Ned Raggett reviews Long Way From Home for the All Music Guide
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. For all that the duo’s roots have been seen as being goth, their previous albums touched on a variety of approaches with aplomb, and at this point it’s just as accurate — and ultimately limiting — to say that Long Way From Home is blues, or country, or rock and roll. It’s a blend that has a low-key presentation, an easygoing pace, and an ear for all kinds of unexpected details that change the feeling of a song in an instant without disrupting it. The traditional standard “Motherless Child,” where the album title comes from, shows this clearly, where the harrowing lament of the lyric becomes a cool flow, Bee’s vocals paying homage to famous interpreters of the song like Sarah Vaughan and Billie Holliday without trying to actually replicate them. Meantime, a song like “Caught in the Groove” has a gentle, echoed percussion flow that sounds like late eighties Cocteau Twins, twangy guitars and piano that suggests majestic early seventies country, and Bee’s coolly sweet vocals calling to mind crooners from an even earlier time. This resplendent variety, which defines the sound of much of the album, helps the band further cement its own protean sound, increasingly recognizable on its own merits rather than just being the sum of its many parts. Some individual moments feel very thrilling — the wheezing guitar/harmonica background to “Treading the Water,” the sudden low-key funk on “Lovelight” — without overwhelming the overall flow, a fine balancing act.
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Shameless Plugcast Features Lovespirals
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Zack Daggy interviews Ryan Lum and Anji Bee of Lovespirals about their band history, musical process, brand new album, Long Way From Home, and more in a Shameless Plugcast feature. Included in the show are two podsafe Lovespirals songs. Zack’s also running an autographed CD contest – see shamelessplugcast.com for details!
Anji Bee Hosts RockMe. Session on Me.dium
On Wednesday Nov. 7th, Anji will host a Lovespirals RockMe. Session on Me.dium, taking users on a tour of various band assets online in this unique social browsing platform. Come chat and interact with Anji and fans of the band in this first-of-its-kind online music event beginning at 1pm PST. For more info, see the PR Newswire press release.
Anji Bee says “hello” to Me.dium users for her RockMe session
Chillin' with Lovespirals #44
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Ryan and Anji chat about seeing Neil Young perform and discuss how he’s inspired the band, talk about the official release of Long Way From Home – including being on the newly launched iTunes+, share a few fan emails and listener reviews from Amazon, iTunes, and LastFM, announce other sites selling or promoting the new album, including CDBaby, iLike, Virb, and iMeem, talk about their first performance in Second Life on PodShow Island, announce the Love Spirals Downwards reissues, and more. The show closes with “This Truth” live and acoustic!
- Lovespirals Second Life show pix — Anji’s Flickr album
- Student Loan Radio Cover Cast — Lovespirals cover Pink Floyd
Cadence Revolution reviews Long Way From Home
Cadence Revolution reviews Long Way From Home, 10/27/2007
It’s very rare these days to come across an entire CD which you will listen to over and over from beginning to the 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, consisting of Anji Bee on vocals and Ryan Lum on instruments.
Fusing sounds from jazz, chill, folk, Americana and even a touch of country, this latest release will grab you and wrap you in an aural blanket of warm with a soothing hand on the brow that shows off why the indie music scene is our salvation from the commercial corporate music machine, and Lovespirals is one of it’s shinning stars.
From the opening jazzy/country sound of the aptly named “Caught In The Groove”, to the groovy feel of “This Truth”, to the lazy summer afternoon feeling of “Sundrenched” this CD is a wonderful blend of vocals and music coming together in an intertwining dance of harmony deftly expressing emotions in both delivery and composition.
Perhaps the one track that shows off their ability to combine emotion with production is the track “Motherless Child”, which had been released as a remix by MoShang on his Asian Variations CD earlier this year. On the Long Way Home version, Lovespirals have gone with a less-is-more approach and stripped the song down to the barest and starkest in this presentation.
Anji’s emotion-filled delivery holds nothing back in delivering the full emotion of grief and loss. While Ryan’s haunting and simple layered guitar work echoes her delivery, but neither overpowers the other, and the two come together to powerfully capture the feeling of being alone and isolated.
Throughout Long Way Home, the duo convey a wide range of feelings and emotions as words and music come together or swirl around and through each other in a mesmerizing dance of audio.
Lovespirals have found the perfect balance, resulting in a release that never falters from one track to the next that is rare these days, and is the perfect aural vacation everyone should take at least once a day.
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Lovespirals “Walk Away” live in Second Life
A video of us performing “Walk Away” at our SecondLife concert was uploaded onto YouTube. In case you missed it, now you can see what this unique experience was like. PodShow Island features a waterway complete with laughing porpoises, so you’ll hear them pipe up occasionally throughout our set, lol. It’s too bad the avatars watching the concerts don’t make audible clapping sounds, too! Anyway, we had a great time sharing our music with both the listeners in-game and online via the audio livestream. Thanks again to the folks who hosted us!
Lovespirals Perform in Second Life TONIGHT
Lovespirals’ avatars, Anji Riel and Ryan Lumley, are setting up for their first ever performance in Second Life tonight, Saturday October 27th, at 7pm SLT (PST) on PodShow-SoHo Island. They tell me the sim is gonna fill up fast, so be sure to get there on time so you aren’t left out! Direct link to venue: slurl.com/secondlife/SoHo/11/158/23
'Long Way From Home' on iTunes+ and Amazon Mp3
Lovespirals’ brand new 3rd album is now available for sale on iTunes+ and Amazon Mp3. Both of these new digital services offer music in 256k no DRM format for just 99 cents per track. Now you can download Lovespirals’ music in wonderful high fidelity with the ability to listen on any device you own, hassle free! Amazon also offers ‘Long Way From Home’ in CD format, as does CDBaby, and the Lovespirals Webstore.