{"id":1082,"date":"2022-05-16T05:37:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T05:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.projekt.com\/store\/product\/lycia-ionia\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T16:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T16:53:09","slug":"pro00032","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/product\/pro00032\/","title":{"rendered":"Lycia: Ionia (CD, Shirt &#038; Tote Bag)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 307px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3769102202\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a href=\"http:\/\/projektrecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/ionia\">IONIA by Lycia<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>2LP released by Italian label AvantGarde. <A HREF=https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/product\/ava00414>Order here<\/A>.<\/h3>\n<div class=\"hideme\">\n<ol>\n<li>Ionia<\/li>\n<li>A Brief Glimpse<\/li>\n<li>November<\/li>\n<li>Fate<\/li>\n<li>Desert<\/li>\n<li>Renewal<\/li>\n<li>This Moment<\/li>\n<li>Monsoon I (Anticipation)<\/li>\n<li>Monsoon II (Aftermath)<\/li>\n<li>Granada<\/li>\n<li>The Realization<\/li>\n<li>Distant Eastern Glare<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<table width=\"400\" bgcolor=\"dacdcd\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">Purchase in Europe for fast, inexpensive shipping:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/Projekt-Europe-1.png\" width=\"350\" \/><br \/>\nInformation in English <a href=\"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/projekt-europe-webstore\/\">here<\/a>. Click to order <a href=\"https:\/\/deejaydead.de\/en\/projekt\/lycia\/lycia-ionia-2017-re-release-cd-digipack-2017-ltd-500\" target=\"BLANK\" rel=\"noopener\">CD<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><BR>Released in 1991, <strong>Ionia<\/strong> is Lycia\u2019s debut on Projekt. With its brilliant blending of intense cascading guitar, droning synths and deep, whispered vocals, the release quickly found a home with fans of independent, underground goth as well as spacey ambient music. On this influential and much-admired album, songwriter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Mike VanPortfleet speaks to a melancholy that\u2019s intentionally left open-ended. A raw mournful mood pulses beneath songs of isolation, existence, love and loss.<\/p>\n<p><BR><strong>Ionia<\/strong> is a post-punk musician\u2019s attempt to create an ambient record. VanPortfleet (with musical assistance on a few tracks) created hypnotic soundscapes that turned the mournful into the majestic. Inspired by the primal sounds of bands like Swans, Big Black and Cindytalk, and a desire to take it into realms of deeper experimentation, VanPortfleet reflects, \u201cThe mood of the album was influenced by my growing interest in darker-themed books and films, mysticism and existentialism, as well as an increasingly isolated and aloof personal life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><BR><strong>Ionia<\/strong> appeared as a completely realized concept, putting Lycia on equal footing with influential bands of the time such as Dead Can Dance, Joy Division, The Swans, and Bauhaus. Ionia instantly fit into a fan\u2019s music collection, never seeming like an newcomer\u2019s debut, but rather like a classic one had always owned.<\/p>\n<p><BR>Darkly beautiful, flooded with a sense of loss and mystery, <strong>Ionia<\/strong> is devastating yet hopeful. Breathtaking and bewitching, the striking atmospherics and yearning lyrics create an achingly entrancing panorama of bittersweet longing.<\/p>\n<p><BR>Twenty-six years later, <strong>Ionia<\/strong> returns in a sonically-revealing remastered edition, overseen by VanPortfleet and Martin Bowes (Attrition). This is the reverb-drenched gothic take on ambient that put Lycia on the map.<\/p>\n<h3>Recent press about LYCIA:<\/h3>\n<p><BR>PITCHFORK: \u201cFor over two decades, Arizona\u2019s Lycia has been pioneers of \u201cdarkwave,\u201d a reverb-drenched, gothic take on dreampop. This is the Cocteau Twins if they looked so far inward that they began to focus on the darker, downer-ridden side. Along with lovesliescrushing, who freed shoegaze from pop conventions, they became one of the noteworthy and boundary-pushing acts on the goth music label Projekt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><BR>POP MATTERS: \u201cLycia\u2019s influence, and the respect it\u2019s afforded, has been far more profound than any record sales figures would suggest. While VanPortfleet might have felt his band was under-appreciated, you only need look to the resurrection of deathrock, the rise of witchy and hauntological electronica, shoegazing metal, eerily psychedelic Americana, or the rejuvenation of dark ambient music to see that Lycia\u2019s legacy inspired a raft of musicians across a broad range of musical genres.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Press from back in the day<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"color: 976d57; font-family: TIMES;\">&#8220;The whole album is a complete work of art that will go down in time as one of the best alternative\/gothic albums ever to come out of the \u201890s. We will look upon <strong>Ionia<\/strong> as we look upon other great works of the past, like all Bauhaus albums, early Christian Death, early Xymox (Clan of).&#8221; &#8211; Isolation Magazine <\/span> <\/p>\n<h3> Release history<\/h3>\n<p><BR>2017 Re-release in 4-panel digipak<\/p>\n<li>Art Card signed by Mike included with order while supplies last<\/li>\n<li>Limited CD edition of 500<\/li>\n<li>Remastered by Martin Bowes (Attrition)\n<p><BR>2021 2nd digipak edition<br \/>\n<Li>edition of 300<\/p>\n<div class=\"socials\"><h2>love it, share it<\/h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.projekt.com%2Fstore%2Fproduct%2Fpro00032%2F&t=Lycia%3A+Ionia+%28CD%2C+Shirt+%26%23038%3B+Tote+Bag%29\" class=\"socials-small facebook-small\"  target=\"_blank\" title=\"Facebook\" >facebook<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.projekt.com%2Fstore%2Fproduct%2Fpro00032%2F&text=Lycia%3A+Ionia+%28CD%2C+Shirt+%26%23038%3B+Tote+Bag%29\" class=\"socials-small twitter-small\"  target=\"_blank\" title=\"Twitter\" >twitter<\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.projekt.com%2Fstore%2Fproduct%2Fpro00032%2F&media=https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/PRO00032TT.jpg&description=\" class=\"socials-small pinterest-small\"  onclick=\"window.open(this.href); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Pinterest\" >pinterest<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.projekt.com%2Fstore%2Fproduct%2Fpro00032%2F&title=Lycia%3A+Ionia+%28CD%2C+Shirt+%26%23038%3B+Tote+Bag%29\" class=\"socials-small google-small\"  target=\"_blank\" title=\"Google\" >google<\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/projektrecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/ionia\" target=\"BLANK\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/store\/assets\/images\/Button-Bandcamp.png\" width=\"129\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":25764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[54,105,25,98,571,130,241,159,738],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-1082","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-all","product_cat-alternative-rock","product_cat-darkwave","product_cat-goth","product_cat-lycia","product_cat-merchandise","product_cat-post-punk","product_cat-shirt","product_cat-variations","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-variable","border"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}