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black tape for a blue girl

a chaos of desire (out of print)

1991 | Projekt | PRO00030

CD

This album is available digitally. There are no physical copies.
Tracks:
  1. these fleeting moments
  2. a chaos of desire
  3. pandora's box
  4. tear love from my mind
  5. the hypocrite is me
  6. beneath the icy floe
  7. we watch our sad-eyed angel fall
  8. one last breath
  9. of these reminders
  10. how can you forget love?
  11. chains of color
  12. could i stay the honest one?
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Swimming in a sea of memory, a heart filled with a mixture of pain and joy . . . existential tales of memory, fear and desire set upon dense electronic sounds as calm ambience confronts pained emotions. Powerful, touching vocals from Julianna (of Skinner Box) strongly complement Oscar's searing voice and Vicki Richards' snake violin.

Other Press Comments: "Songs of tragic beauty. Often moody and foreboding, soaring to incredible tonal levels. The vocals are clear and sparse, laden with emotion and intrigue." - THE GAVIN REPORT. "This is beauty with an edge, perhaps even a slightly desperate air." -WHOLE EARTH REVIEW. "Black Tape For A Blue Girl is a treasure of a band. Their sound is lush, full and beautiful, which is not to say wimpy. This is beauty with an edge, perhaps even a slightly desperate air. Vicki Richards supplies sensuous violin lines. Recommended." -SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE. Moody songs of tragic beauty. The music is often moody and foreboding, soaring to incredible tonal levels. The vocals are clear and sparse, laden with emotion and intrigue. Certain to satisfy the neo-classical afficionado." -THE GAVIN REPORT. "This is more of that unexplainable type of lacy textured, swaying music. It's actually sort of hallucinatory, the way things add and subtract and slowly swell...like the ocean. A CD for people who listen to Dead Can Dance and see mystical visions. This makes the Cocteau Twins sound upbeat; with more of an emotional depth, more of a real despondency." - BSIDE.
A review from Netwerk Fanzine:
Believe it when I say that listening to this album with leave you motionless, in a dreamlike state of mind. Its atmosphere is so intense, it makes you feel like you're dreaming. A Chaos Of Desire represents exploring the possibities between gothic, classical, and ambient music. What most of this LP enforces is thought of tranquility translated through musical mean. It's melodies are full. Vocals are very opera-like but concise and haunting. It's underscore is definitely peaceful. It's not often that collections like these appear in such full context of simplicity in thought and manner. Death in June and Current 93 are both examples of comparisons, but what makes this collection different is that it's feel is more relaxed and ethereal instead of religious or malevolent. What is most impressing is that live and electronic instruments work hand in hand along with the opera-like vocals which is rarely seen in any ambient or gothic music collections. A Chaos Of Desire is an ambient texture full of glory, and peace with instrumentalism.
A review from Option Magazine:
#37: Melancholy streams of electronics and strings, with either floating female vocals or gothic male intonations - reminiscent of certain Dead Can Dance pieces (especially guest vocalist Loren's reading of the title track), although without the mysticism, scholarship, and anachronistic plunderings. These pieces are contemporary interpretations of the gothic mind set, and the lyrics are often maudlin and self pitying: try "shine shuddered light into my eyes / I cannot escape, unending lies" from "The Hypocrite Is Me." The music itself is a pleasant depressive drone, and certain songs - "Pandora's Box," with its busy rhythm, guitar, and Roxy Music-like melody, and "Tear Love From My MInd," with its piano highlights and SkinnerBox's Julianna Town's fine singing - are good listening no matter what your genre preferences.

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