For your listening pleasure, whether on your computer or iPhone – yes, your iPhone! – I present two tasty mixes on the cool new Muxtape service; Lovespirals Muxtape and Anji Bee Muxtape. The former is a mix of the more ethereal dreampop of Lovespirals and instrumental Love Spirals Downwards songs, while the later is a selection of various bands featuring the vocals and lyrics of yours truly. Anji Bee collabs include a brand new one with Chandeen, plus a recent Moosefrog track, plus cuts with Bitstream Dream, Plastic Chair, and more. So come listen, enjoy, and pass the link on to a friend! By the way, you geeks out there might want to check try creating a Muxtape Jukebox using Coverflow in Fluid .
Category Archives: Lovespirals
Posts about Anji Bee’s band, Lovespirals.
Anji and Lovespirals in New iProng Issue
The April 2nd “100% Podsafe” issue of iProng Magazine features a hefty little interview with me, Anji Bee, discussing Lovespirals, going podsafe, getting into podcasting, music licensing, live performance vs studio recording, and much more. Also included this issue is a great article on eMusic vs Amazon downloads, interviews with fellow podsafe artists Geoff Smith and Natalie Gelman, and a feature article with Rich Robinson of the Black Crowes, who recently released their new single to the Podsafe Music Network. By the way, you can check out tons of Lovespirals tracks on the PMN for use on podcasts, internet radio, Second Life DJ sets, and more!
Lovespirals ‘Long Way From Home’ Reviews
Reviews are still popping up of Lovespirals recent album, Long Way From Home, in partial thanks to the efforts of Ariel PR who helped to push the album when it was released this past October 23rd.
Jason Moore of Opus writes:
Ultimately, Lum and Bee are all about creating a mood with their music, a relaxed and blissed-out vibe that should be no stranger to fans of dreampop, chill-out electronica, and atmospheric pop. This is music for both late night sessions and noon daydreams, for both listening to at work when you need to escape the pressure of the day and at home when you simply need to unwind with a good book and a glass of wine.
Miles Klee said in Hot Indie News:
Bluesy slide guitar work sometimes shades over into Santana-like finger-meandering, and vocalist Anji Bee’s layered voice paints bright glaze over already dreamy arrangements. It’s as though the glancing disaffection of 80’s and 90’s dream-poppers has been filtered through an AM radio, a mutation that works by dint of sounding completely natural on an evolutionary view.
From the Green Arrow Radio blog:
More than melancholic music, there is a sense that they traveled with you on similar & familiar roads with the radio tuned to the same left of the dial station in the middle of wherever. After nearly a decade of artistic collaboration between singer/songwriter, Anji Bee, & multi instrumentalist & producer, Ryan Lum, it is no wonder that they have managed to put together an album of answers to questions yet asked with a subtle sultry sense of sound security.
The Celebrity Cafe‘s Ray Anderson mused:
Empty and sad, but of full of emotion, their album Long Way from Home is medicine for those that dig the alternative. How can you take a gut-wrenching classic like “Motherless Child” and make it sadder? Let the “Lovespirals” get a hold of it. It’s easy to fall into the loose, country-tinged groove of “Caught in a Groove” and let your soul be taken for a ride. By the time the “upbeat” “Lovelight” comes on, you won’t mind being “A Long Way from Home,” and I think you’ll want to stay there.
Have you read or written a great review of Lovespirals? Then post a link here, by all means!
New Lovespirals Remix Contest Begins
Remix Lovespirals‘ podsafe single, “This Truth,” from their latest album, Long Way From Home, for the PeaceLoveProduction Remix Contest! The finalist will win an iPod Touch, a year’s subscription to the PLP Producer’s Vault, and all 3 Lovespirals’ CDs – personally autographed by Anji Bee and Ryan Lum – plus inclusion on a Lovespirals remix digital EP and CD. The runner-up will win the 3 CDs plus inclusion on the remix EP and CD. Additionally, the top 5 remixes will be offered as podsafe singles on the Podsafe Music Network. The contest began 2/8/2008 and runs until 4/1/2008. Good luck!
Listen to Anji’s audio promo: [audio:http://chillcuts.com/promos/Lovespirals_Remix_Contest_Promo.mp3]
Podcasters & Radio DJs:
- Download the Lovespirals Remix Contest Promo (1 min)
- Download the original track on Lovespirals’ PMN page
- Download the Favemix on Fave Nite’s PMN page
- Download more remixes from the Lovespirals Remix PMN page
Solipsistic NATION Features Lovespirals
In honor of Valentine’s Day, the excellent Solipsistic NATION podcast is featuring Lovespirals! Bazooka Joe interviews Ryan and Anji via Skype about the band’s evolving sound, their musical history, the effect of technology on the band, the duo’s songwriting process, and much more. Interspersed with the interview are 7 full length songs — including several special permissions (non-podsafe) tracks — and a few of my side projects. Check out the full feature — solipsisticNATION no. 76: Lovespirals.
[audio:http://media.podshow.com/media/9683/episodes/98300/nation-98300-02-07-2008_pshow_226443.mp3]
Download Solipsistic NATION Lovespirals Feature MP3
Playlist
- Lovespirals “Beatitude”
- Interview with Anji Bee and Ryan Lum of Lovespirals
- Lovespirals “Motherless Child (Chris Caulder Remix)”
- Interview with Anji Bee and Ryan Lum of Lovespirals
- Bitstream Dream “Love Me Leave Me”
- Interview with Anji Bee and Ryan Lum of Lovespirals
- Lovespirals “Deep in My Soul”
- Interview with Anji Bee and Ryan Lum of Lovespirals
- Plastic Chair “Requiem”
- Interview with Anji Bee and Ryan Lum of Lovespirals
- Lovespirals “Trouble”
- Interview with Anji Bee and Ryan Lum of Lovespirals
- Lovespirals “Walk Away (Bitstream Dream Remix)”
- Interview with Anji Bee and Ryan Lum of Lovespirals
- Promo: Fallen Nation
BTW – happy birthday to my brother, Brian!!!
Lovespirals on Accident Hash Podcast #255
Talk about seminal music podcasts… The award winning PodShow podcast, Accident Hash turned 3 today and the show’s amazingly talented and sweet producer, C.C. Chapman, dedicated it the Troops. What a guy! Several podcasters — including Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff, Mike Yusi, Christopher Penn and me — recorded special holiday messages for the Troops, which are featured in this show. In addition to tracks by podsafe artists Matthew Ebel, RaykoKRB, Black Lab, Chance and many others, this episode includes Lovespirals’ “Motherless Child.” 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!
Lovespirals on Coverville Podcast #409
The latest “indie edition” of the legendary Coverville podcast includes Lovespirals‘ rendition of the classic American Spiritual, “Motherless Child.” Ryan and I met Brian Ibbott at the Podcast and New Media Expo last year, where I was accepting an award for my work with the ShowGirls podcast. I 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 podcast!
Download Coverville 409: Indie Boys, Girls, and Motherless Children MP3
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 on iTunes+ & Amazon Mp3
Lovespirals’ Motherless Child EP has just been released on iTunes+ 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. The songs can be purchased individually in high quality 256k AAC no DRM format for just 99 cents each or download the whole collection for $5.94