Black tape for a blue girl
Given where Black Tape for a Blue Girl began over thirty years ago with founder Sam Rosenthal’s exploration of brooding, extended electronics and strings meshed with deeply revealing lyrics and darkly textured, melodramatic vocal performances, it’s striking to see his muse and inspiration reach a new peak with his recent 11th and 12th albums (These fleeting moments, and To touch the milky way). The ethereal, gothic and dark ambient stylings that made the band one of the originators of American darkwave are in full force on these recent releases.
Rosenthal reinvigorated their classic sound with Fleeting‘s return of original vocalist Oscar Herrera, absent from music for 17 years. In 2018, To touch the milky way brought in vocalist Michael Plaster (of Soul Whirling Somewhere) to complement Dani Herrera’s emotional and heartfelt voice. The band emerged from the studio with powerful, gorgeously yearning tracks born from the same place as their 90s classics Remnants of a deeper purity and A chaos of desire. Sam’s lyrics explore the existential predicaments of time’s passage, choices questioned, and loves lost.
Rosenthal’s pensive electronics and revelatory songwriting has made fans of director David Lynch, former adult actress Sasha Grey, writers Poppy Z. Brite and Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan. Supporters of the music regularly tell Rosenthal that it was the emotional and personal connection to the music they felt during times of stress and personal crisis that knit them to the band’s moving sound.
Currently Kickstarting the 30th anniversary edition of Ashes in the brittle air on 2CD and clear vinyl LP. Remastered with 21 bonus tracks.
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Aarktica & Black Tape For A Blue Girl: Eating Rose Petals (name-your-price) (Digital)
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All my faith lost… Redefine my pure faith
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As Lonely As Dave Bowman: Monolith (limited edition CD)
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As Lonely As Dave Bowman: Monolith (Plexibox)
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Sale!$12.00
As Lonely As Dave Bowman: POD (Sam Rosenthal: side project) (CD) #CDSale
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As Lonely As Dave Bowman: POD Ultra-Limited Edition (Out-of-Print)
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black tape for a blue girl: a chaos of desire
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Black Tape For A Blue Girl: A Chaos of Desire (2022 Remaster) (2CD/2LP/MD)
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Black Tape For A Blue Girl: A Chaos of Desire (2022 Serpent Single) (Digital)
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Sale!$15.00
black tape for a blue girl: A Retrospective (the best of…) (Russian Import) (CD)
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Black tape for a blue girl: A Teardrop Left Behind (1991, a retrospective) (Digital)
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black tape for a blue girl: across a thousand blades (1996, a retrospective) (CD)
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Black Tape For A Blue Girl: Across a thousand blades (demos+live) (Digital)
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Black tape for a blue girl: Archive 01 (Digital)
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Sale!$12.00
black tape for a blue girl: As one aflame laid bare by desire (CD)
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black tape for a blue girl: ashes in the brittle air (2020 remaster) (2CD/LP)
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black tape for a blue girl: ashes in the brittle air (CD)
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Black Tape For A Blue Girl: Bastille Day (Serpent Single) (Digital)
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Black Tape For A Blue Girl: Blood on the Snow (Maxi-CD)
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Black tape for a blue girl: Forbidden Colours (Digital Single)
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black tape for a blue girl: fragments (vhs video) (Out-of-Print)
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Sale!$12.00
black tape for a blue girl: HALO STAR (CD)
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Black Tape For A Blue Girl: Highlights 2016-2020 (Digital) (name-your-price)
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Black tape for a blue girl: June 2014 Studio Access
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Black Tape For A Blue Girl: Limitless (Digital)
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Sale!$12.00
black tape for a blue girl: mesmerized by the sirens (CD)
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black tape for a blue girl: PROMO16 / 2002 sampler (CD)
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black tape for a blue girl: remnants of a deeper purity (1-CD edition)
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Sale!$15.00
black tape for a blue girl: remnants of a deeper purity (20th anniversary 2CD)
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black tape for a blue girl: remnants of a deeper purity (2LP or 2CD)
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Sale!$1.00
black tape for a blue girl: Rope Face Sticker ~ 50% Off
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Sale!$3.00
black tape for a blue girl: Tarnished (cd-single) (50% OFF)
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Sale!$9.00
Black Tape For A Blue Girl: The “Bike Shop” Vinyl 12″ EP
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black tape for a blue girl: The Aflame (ep)
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Black Tape For A Blue Girl: The Cleft Serpent (CD/LP)
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Black Tape For A Blue Girl: The Collection (Digital) (free!)
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Sale!$7.00
black tape for a blue girl: the first pain to linger (maxi-cd only) ~~ SALE $7
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black tape for a blue girl: The Pleasures Everlasting (Digital ep)
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black tape for a blue girl: The Remnants ep
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black tape for a blue girl: the rope 25 (2-CD 25th anniversary remastered edition)
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Sale!$2.50
black tape for a blue girl: The Scarecrow ep (Maxi-CD) (50% OFF)
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black tape for a blue girl: the scavenger bride (CD)
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Black Tape For A Blue Girl: The Scavenger Bride (Gold & White or Black & Blue Vinyl LP)
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Black Tape For A Blue Girl: These fleeting moments (Limited deluxe edition) (CD)
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Sale!$24.00
Black Tape For A Blue Girl: These fleeting moments (Limited vinyl edition) (2-LP)
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black tape for a blue girl: this lush garden within
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Sale!$16.00 – $24.00
black tape for a blue girl: To touch the milky way (CD/LP)
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Black Tape For A Blue Girl: What does the cat say? (Digital)
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black tape for a blue girl: with a million tear-stained memories (2-CD)
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black tape for a blue girl: with my sorrows (3″ CD)
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black tape for a blue girl: with my sorrows (vinyl)
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Sale!$12.00
Mark A. Michaels & Patricia Johnson: Ananda Nidra: Blissful Sleep (2-CD) #CDSale
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Sale!$8.00
Mark Seelig ~ Sam Rosenthal: Journey to Aktehi (Cassette)
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Nicki Jaine: Nicki Jaine Live (Out-of-Print)
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Projekt – Spring 2019 (Free digital album!)
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Sam Rosenthal / jarguna: Sunwashed evening fire (CD)
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Sam Rosenthal & Projekt Artists: Tim, where are you now? (CD)
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Sale!$16.00 – $20.00
Sam Rosenthal with Nick Shadow & Steve Roach — The Gesture of History (CD/LP)
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Sam Rosenthal: before the buildings fell (CD)
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Sam Rosenthal: Rye (an erotic novel)
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Sam Rosenthal: Tanzmusik (Limited Edition 2012 Vinyl LP)
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Sam Rosenthal: Tanzmusik LP (Out-of-Print)
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Sale!$12.00
Sam Rosenthal: The Passage (CD) #CDSale
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Thanatos: An Embassy To Gaius [vhs video]
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Sale!$12.00
The Sleep of Reason: A Logical End (CD)
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The Sleep of Reason: The Sleep of Reason (remastered) (Digital)
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VA: a tribute to Black tape for a blue girl — Of these reminders (Digital)
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Various Artists: Excelsis ~ a dark noel (2021 remaster) (CD/LP)
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Sale!$5.00
Various Artists: More Than Nine Lives (2CD) (Warehouse Sale)
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Various Artists: Projekt2022 (CD)
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Various Artists: Summer 2014 – electronic & ambient sampler
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Various: Dune (2021 Rescored Reimagined) (Digital)
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vidnaObmana & Sam Rosenthal: Terrace of Memories (Digital)