{"id":30137,"date":"2025-07-17T17:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T17:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/?post_type=product&#038;p=30137"},"modified":"2026-04-09T21:55:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:55:44","slug":"pro000131","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/product\/pro000131\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Rosenthal: Islands (2025 remaster) (LP + Download)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 307px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album= 3979901996\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless> <a href=\"https:\/\/blacktapeforabluegirl.bandcamp.com\/album\/islands-2025-stereo-mix\"> Inner Real Life<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"hideme\">\n1. \ud83d\udcc0 Disc 1 \u2022 gapless\u00a000:04<br \/>\n2. Islands (pt1-10) \u2014 gapless\u00a048:28<br \/>\n3. \ud83d\udcc0 Disc 2 \u2022 bonus tracks\u00a000:04<br \/>\n4. My Islands Desert Me (isolated)\u00a001:54<br \/>\n5. Oh, Inquisitor (isolated)\u00a004:54<br \/>\n6. Islands Pt 8 (isolated)\u00a003:57<br \/>\n7. \ud83d\udcc0 Disc 3 \u2022 individual tracks\u00a000:04<br \/>\n8. Islands pt 1\u00a006:45<br \/>\n9. Islands pt 2 \u2022 My Islands Desert Me\u00a001:37<br \/>\n10. Islands pt 3\u00a008:30<br \/>\n11. Islands pt 4\u00a007:20<br \/>\n12. Islands pt 5 \u2022 Oh, Inquisitor\u00a004:51<br \/>\n13. Islands pt 6\u00a003:59<br \/>\n14. Islands pt 7\u00a002:52<br \/>\n15. Islands pt 8\u00a004:17<br \/>\n16. Islands pt 9\u00a003:23<br \/>\n17. Islands pt 10\u00a004:50<br \/>\n18. \ud83d\udcc0 Disc 4 \u2022 December 1985 re-recording\u00a000:04<br \/>\n19. Islands (leading to the edge + oh inquisitor)\u00a008:50<br \/>\n20. Islands (leading to the edge + oh inquisitor + ambient end with lara)\u00a010:12<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--- <center> \n\n<table bgcolor=\"bcbce0\" cellpadding=\"30\" width=\"\u201c400&quot;\">\n\n\n<tbody> \n\n<tr> \n\n<td align=\"center\">\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:10px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:12px;\">Purchase in Europe for fast, inexpensive shipping:\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deejaydead.de\/en\/erik-wollo-gateway-2025-remaster-2cd-digipack-2025\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"BLANK\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/Projekt-Europe-1.png\" width=\"350\" \/> <\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:10px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:12px;\">Purchase in England for fast, inexpensive shipping:\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.littleuniversemusic.co.uk\/product-page\/erik-w%C3%B8llo-gateway-2025-remaster-2cd\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"BLANK\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/Projekt-UK-400.png\" width=\"290\" \/><\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\t <\/td>\n\n <\/tr>\n\n <\/tbody>\n\n <\/table>\n\n ---><\/p>\n<h3>The physical formats of <B>Islands<\/B> were funded via Kickstarter. 140-gram color vinyl (two color options), MiniDisc, and cassette will be available here fall of 2025.<\/h3>\n<p><BR><span style=\"font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;\"><\/p>\n<p>Sam Rosenthal \u2022 synthesizer, drum computer, direction<br \/>\nOscar Herrera \u2022 vocals parts 2 &#038; 5<br \/>\nLara Radford \u2022 violin parts 3, 4, 6, 7 &#038; 10, voices part 8<br \/>\nDave Brasgalla \u2022 fretless bass parts 7 &#038; 10, distortion parts 1 &#038; 9, synthesizer part 8<br \/>\nKim Prior \u2022 backing vocals part 5<br \/>\nAnne Sunstrom \u2022 saxophone part 2<br \/>\nKathy Rohrbach \u2022 voices part 8<\/p>\n<p><BR>Genres: Electronic, Minimal Wave, Synthwave, Minimal Synth<br \/>\nFor Fans Of: Philip Glass, early-70s Kraftwerk, mid-70s Tangerine Dream<\/p>\n<p><BR>The 40th anniversary of Black Tape For A Blue Girl founder Sam Rosenthal&#8217;s early electronic cassette. Pulsing minimal\u00a0synths emerge from this time capsule of the era&#8217;s vintage sound. Released in 1985, Rosenthal&#8217;s 8th album was the first to include tracks sung by future BlackTape vocalist Oscar Herrera as well as other guest musicians. Rosenthal remixed <B>Islands<\/B> from new transfers of the original 4-track master tapes.<\/p>\n<p><BR><BR><U>Dino DiMuro, OPTION MAGAZINE, May\/June 1986:<\/U> <em>&#8220;Sam Rosenthal&#8217;s circular synth composition <B>Islands<\/B> is spread over two sides of this tape. His current points of reference seem more Reich-inspired than Eno-esque, creating a pleasant sustained soundscape with slick self-assurance. Many unexpected touches grace the composition, notably a grand violin solo on the first side and baroque vocals introducing the second. The sound quality is excellent and the packaging extraordinarily professional.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><BR><BR>The pulsing electronic music reflects the influences of Philip Glass and early Kraftwerk. Discogs classifies the release as &#8220;Electronic, experimental, minimal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><BR>Rosenthal says, &#8220;This album was unique. While it&#8217;s primarily my solo electronic music, it&#8217;s also proto-BlackTape: Oscar sings two tracks, Lara plays processed violins on a number of tracks (bits of which were later repurposed for &#8220;slow blur&#8221; on 1986&#8217;s <strong>The Rope<\/strong>, and Kim sings backing vocals on one. Along with my electronics, right there you have the core of the band that appeared on our debut less than a year later.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><BR>He continues, &#8220;I was 19 when I recorded this album, releasing it around my 20th birthday. Nearly 40 years later, to assemble this reissue I baked and digitized the original 1\/4-inch 4-track multi-track master recordings at Steve Albini&#8217;s Electrical Audio in Chicago. I brought the files into my studio; while staying true to the original flow I gave the mix the discrete attention and shaping I wasn&#8217;t capable of in 1985 with the primitive studio equipment I had at the time. What surprises me is how good the recordings sound considering it was recorded with a cheap Radio Shack mixer going into the 4-track. That, my two synths and some shoddy microphones were all I had to work with. They sound great in this new mix. I hadn&#8217;t listened to this album in over 20 years. It was nice to come back to it and enjoy what past-Sam envisioned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><BR>The 1985 cassette liner notes say, &#8220;(<B>Islands<\/B> is different) with the introduction of outside musicians to the electronic brew. The synthesizer\/drum computer tracks were put down first, then the other artists added their parts individually. It has almost become a band &#8211; though not quite. The mood evolves and swirls in the song-per-side structure \u2014 building upon the basics developed over the past seven releases but entering a new area of mood-music.&#8221; In the late 80s, Projekt described it as, &#8220;Sam is joined by violins and some vocals for a song per side journey. 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