Sheesh! I can’t believe tomorrow is fricken December already! The year is over, more or less. The whirlwind of American Holidays is upon us, and we didn’t get our album out. We’ve been fiddling with this second one way more than the first one. Some of the songs have been recorded 2 or 3 times. Consequently, I think it’s way, way better than the first one. Still, I wish we had gotten it out in time for Christmas. Oh well! Early next year, perhaps?
Looking Goo-ood!
Man, the site is looking awfully sharp if I do say so, myself! After a heavy 2 days of geeking out, everything has come together just as we envisioned. We really needed a good first page, but when we first changed the site over, we still weren’t sure what we wanted. Now we’ve got a pretty nice balance of image and content, with an emphasis on all the basic things any first time or returning visitor would want to find. We even have a link to the previous incarnation of the band, to make it easier on old folks looking up the band for the first time in a decade. 😉
Ryan and Anji DJ set @ Relax
On Sunday December 12, come listen to Ryan and Anji deejaying a set of old school jazz, soul, and downtempo for Relax @ Kistch Bar, located in Costa Mesa, California. Relax starts at 10 PM and admission is free. See www.kitschbar.com for directions.
Always evolving
Looks like we updated the site yet again! Seems like there’s always something new we want to try out. Sometimes we bring back something old that we miss, but with a new twist — like this blog! Now ya’ll can comment on things, if you feel so inclined. We’re still in need of some new band photos, as Ryan and I look quite a bit different than we did back in the Windblown Kiss period, but it looks like we’ll be hooking up with our favorite photographer, Susan Jennings, early next year. It’s not as far away as it sounds…
Ryan and I have already made a New Year’s resolution to stay in better communication with our fans, and part of that will be accomplished by sending out newsletters more often. We get people signing up to the newslist every week, but it’s been months since I’ve sent one and I do feel a little bit bad.
We’ve also set up an RSS feed of our news page, and I think we’ll have one of the journal soon, too. Looks like we haven’t added that link to the site yet, though. I’ll have to pester our code monkey. Heh heh…
Dear Blog
There’s a reason why I never got into Live Journal and the like since I’d rather write in my website than in someone else’s. So here’s my first entry into our new blog here. For historical and curiousity’s sake, for now I’ve decided to leave up the older band journal posts, which you see here in the blog as old posts from many many months ago. Since I don’t keep a diary or anything like that, is it kind of interesting see what you were going through at times in the past.
"Love Survives" Garners Garageband Awards
“Love Survives” has been showered with Reviewer Pick Awards at Garageband.com this week, including top 3 awards in the categories of Female Vocals, Lyrics, Keyboards, Bass, Melody, Production, and Mood, as well as “Best Love Song,” “Best Feel-Good Track,” and “Coolest Chill-Out Track”. Check out the dozens of awards and reviews of “Love Survives” plus other Lovespirals songs at http://www.garageband.com/artist/lovespirals
Anji on new Bitstream Dream CD
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.