Anji contributed lyrics and vocals to 2 tracks (“Love Me Leave Me” and “Smoke”) on the brand new Bitstream Dream album, Integrated. You can stream or download “Love Me Leave Me” via BeSonic.com.
Ecstatic EP available on Last.FM
Lovespirals’ out of print 1999
Ecstatic EP is now available digitally, in 192kbps mp3 format. It is 40 mintues long:
You can also check out every release by Lovespirals and Love Spirals Downwards, including audio clips of every track. Plus, you can take a peek at some of Anji and Ryan’s favorite music at Lovespirals’ user page.
Windblown Kiss on iTunes
Apple is now selling Lovespirals’ 2002 album, Windblown Kiss,
and Love Spirals Downwards’ 2000 retrospective compilation,
Temporal: A Collection of Music Past & Present, in their iTunes
music store. You can purchase either individual songs or the entire
album. Click the button below to launch Windblown Kiss in your iTunes store:
Synerdata Lovespirals Feature
This month Synerdata Radio is hosting a 2+ hour streaming radio feature on the history of Lovespirals and Love Spirals Downwards in 160kbps mp3 format. The show includes 2 cuts from every album, plus unreleased and demo tracks, as well as numerous interview clips of the band members taken from various sources, compiled and hosted by Anji Bee. The show is in medium to heavy rotation on both the main feed and the “secret hidden underground” feed, so keep an ear out for it!
Lovespirals on MySpace
Ryan & Anji have joined the new music area of the trendy
community site, MySpace, because… you know, everyone who’s cool is
doing it!
Anji Bee hosts show on Synerdata Radio
Synerdata Radio is streaming “The Lovely Ladies of Electronica with Anji Bee” featuring female fronted electronica and personal commentary. Anj’s show is in regular rotation in the Synerdata Radio programming beginning Monday May 24th.
Editor’s Pick on CNET’s Download.com
Lovespirals are now CNET’s new music.download.com. In fact, we were the editor’s pick on 5/6/2004, with the following editorial commentary:
The smooth grooves conjure comparisons to Portishead and Everything But the Girl. Combining jazzy torch-song vocal stylings with modern trip-hop sounds and rhythms, Lovespirals craft an infectious and exotic down-tempo sound that you might hear playing in an upscale New York club or Parisian underground lounge.
Lovespirals on Garageband
Lovespirals have a new page on garageband.com that includes several free downloads plus online sales of their album, “Windblown Kiss” for just $8.99. Garageband is known for its ongoing “contests,” held by a review process which is actually quite fun to get involved with. Be sure to check out the reviews of Lovespirals’ tracks when you head over.
Windblown Kiss on Sale at CDBaby
Lovespirals have just added Windblown Kiss to the popular online music store, CD Baby, for the low, low price of just $8.99.
CD Baby is also carrying the 8-year career retrospective colection, Temporal, by the band’s former incarnation, Love Spirals Downwards. Help support the band by buying directly from them, via CD Baby!
Lovespirals VS Rick Springfield
Anji was recently quizzed about favorite music by the Voices and Visions
website. You can read her responses, just below Rick Springfield’s, here.
Lovespirals 2004 Biography/Discography
We’ve been sending out demos of some of our new dance and downtempo tracks to various labels, just to see if there’s any interest for compilations, singles, or even a full album. This is the latest bio to go along with the the tracks:
Since 1999, producer/musician Ryan Lum and singer/songwriter, Anji Bee have made an unlikely marriage of dusty vinyl classics to sparkling new CDs, informed by a lingering affair with Jazz. Familiar, yet exotic, the sounds and styles of this creative duo guide modern electronic composition in a more organic direction, forsaking simplistic sample loop based production in favor of traditional song writing and performance.
The interplay of Bee’s sensual vocals and Lum’s emotive guitar playing – given equal importance with the beats — illustrate their love of melody in song craft; something all too often missing in electronica music. From track to track, and even within each tune itself, the duo culls their favorite aspects of music past and present – those most beautiful, soulful, haunting, or groovy – to create their own unique flavor; fresh and tasty.
Lum and Bee, working under the moniker, Lovespirals, have released various compilation tracks, downloadable singles, and even an album, Windblown Kiss (for indie Projekt Records), and have also performed all across North America with a semi-live set featuring guitar, sax, and vocals over a backing track on laptop. Lum has also appeared in Los Angeles and San Francisco clubs with traditional DJ sets, often including dub plates of their material.
If you are seeking music for the mind and soul, as well as the body, then Lovespirals are for you.
And while I’m at it, here’s our current discography:
DISCOGRAPHY:
(2000) Claire Voyant – Time Again – Metropolis Records “Bittersweet (LSD Mix)”
(2001) V/A – Chill Out in the City – Water Music Records “Beatitude”
(2001) V/A – Chill-Out Lounge v. 2 – Water Music Records “Hand in Hand (Radio Edit)”
(2001) Lovespirals – Ecstatic EP – MP3.com
(2001) V/A – Excelsis v.3: A Prelude – Projekt Records “Aspenglow”
(2002) V/A – Mondisk: A Celebration of 13 Years – Monitor Records “Hand in Hand”
(2002) Lovespirals – Windblown Kiss – Projekt Records
(2002) V/A – The Arbitrary Width of Shadows– – Hot Topic “Dejame”
(2002) V/A – A Dark Noel – Hot Topic “Aspenglow”
Change is a comin'
This may well be the final journal entry. We’re preparing to overhaul the site and I think we’ll probably axe the journal. We just don’t write in it very much. I already update the news and man the messageboard, so that doesn’t leave a lot of inspiration for the journal. Plus, those in the know already read my personal journal elsewhere…