Category Archives: Lovespirals

Posts about Anji Bee’s band, Lovespirals.

Lovespirals ‘Long Way From Home’ Feature

In this special extended episode, Anji and Ryan play each song from their new album Long Way From Home as they discuss how the album was created. In this behind-the-scenes podcast, the duo talk about the album’s influences, song writing, production secrets, and personal anecdotes. This features gives you great peek into Lovespirals‘ brand new third album!

Buy a physical CD or digital download of Lovespirals ‘Long Way From Home‘ directly from the band at Bandcamp:

Also available from Apple Music, CDBaby, Amazon or Amazon Mp3, eMusic and more.

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Reviews of Long Way From Home CD

Reviews are starting to come in for Lovespirals new album, Long Way From Home, and the critics have been most 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!

Chillin’ with Lovespirals #45

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Download Chillin’ with Lovespirals #45 MP3

The band talk about recent Long Way From Home news items including last week’s live performance podcast, Lovespirals’ Re:Gen Magazine feature, Lovespirals’ Shameless Plugcast feature, airplay on terrestrial radio, recent reviews from the All Music Guide and Cadence Revolution, fan reviews on Amazon, iTunes, plus announce next week’s special feature and close the show out with Brian Noe‘s awesome Long Way From Home promo.

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ReGen Magazine features Lovespirals

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 SecondLife

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Download Lovespirals Acoustic Second Life Concert MP3

In this special episode, we present our Second Life acoustic performance from Oct. 27th. 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! Anyway, we hope you enjoy this stripped down set, recorded directly from our mixing board.

Setlist (and links to original recordings):

  1. “Our Nights” from Windblown Kiss (2002) Lovespirals - Windblown Kiss - Our Nights
  2. “Walk Away” from Free & Easy (2005) Lovespirals - Free & Easy - Walk Away
  3. “Treading the Water” from Long Way From Home (2007) Lovespirals - Long Way from Home - Treading the Water
  4. “Empty Universe” from Long Way From Home (2007) Lovespirals - Long Way from Home - Empty Universe
  5. “Abide” from Free & Easy (2005) Lovespirals - Free & Easy - Abide
  6. “Lazy Love Days” from Long Way From Home (2007) Lovespirals - Long Way from Home - Lazy Love Days
  7. “Caught in the Groove” from Long Way From Home (2007) Lovespirals - Long Way from Home - Caught In the Groove
  8. “Once in a Blue Moon” from Long Way From Home (2007) Lovespirals - Long Way from Home - Once In a Blue Moon
  9. “This Truth” from Long Way From Home (2007) Lovespirals - Long Way from Home - This Truth
  10. “Motherless Child” from Long Way From Home (2007) Lovespirals - Long Way from Home - Motherless Child

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Buy CDs from lovespirals.com — personally autographed by Ryan & Anji!

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Shameless Plugcast Features Lovespirals

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Download Lovespirals’ Shameless Plugcast MP3

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. He’s also doing an autographed CD contest – see his site for details!

Lovespirals on Accident Hash #247

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Lovespirals are featured on today’s Accident Hash. CC Chapman plays his favorite track from Long Way From Home, the album opener “Caught in the Groove.” He also announces our Second Life show on PodShow Island tomorrow night, which Accident Hash is co-presenting, despite the fact that CC is attending Podcamp Boston and won’t have good enough Internet connectivity to attend. 🙁

Lovespirals in SL

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