Aeterna/After The Flood/Lucid etc. projects info
Address:
AE
4751 12th Ave.,N.E. sect."A"
Seattle WA 98105
(206)527-6117
check or MO to Clark von Trotha
Email contact
Web page: http://overheard.homestead.com/overheard.html
Lucid's page at soundclick.com
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Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 23:55:38 -0600
From: "Igor V. Boronenkov"
To: Multiple recipients of
Subject: Lucid, Pram and Aeterna records
yet another products of aversion towards working on Sundays..
had some trouble locating albums from After the Flood and Lucid, highly
praised in the past (thanks, Gil!). finally, got a response from the guy at
Aeterna label in Seattle that released them.
Lucid "Idylls and the secret remain"CD aeterna
remember that feeling when you were 2-3 songs into your first listen of
HNIA's "home is in your head" or "livonia". Encountering Pram or mouse on
mars? here's another equavalent of L.Carrol's creatures: not exactly
bizzare for the sake of epatage, not terribly extravagant, but rather
subliminally twisted in an outlandish yet comfortable way. 28 tracks here
flow rather smoothly into each other evoking a mood of those rarely
surfacing memories when you were 5 , and your grandma insisted that you
sleep after lunch that summer at her countryhouse. You pretended under the
quilt and that smell of old furniture,
dust particles in the rays of light, a bee buzzing against a window...
guess i am getting long-winded. Call this music extreme minimalism: only a
distanced female vocs hold together a fairy tale gentle bells here and a
bit of lovely cello there. music to sleep into and see good dreams.
now Aeterna:
Lucid baby Labyrinthian CD
After the Flood CD s/t said to sound like This Mortal coil reincarnate
Pram music for your movies EP heard this one (thanks, Eric!), worth getting
if only for the tongue-in-cheek "carnival of Souls".first material
since
"sargasso sea".
plans:
end of February: Pram rarities' collection "Prambulations" (includes gash
EP on CD!), full length later this year! Maxine- lumiere Cd (with Sonic
Boom). 2CD After the Flood "featuring unreleased and manupulated material
from the following groups";
tortoise,R.Fripp,labradford,bowery electric, Colin newman,lucid, Steve
Fisk,Cindytalk.
god, sounds like the coolest label since.. oh, BTW, does it mean that Pram
are no longer with Too Pure?
prices? Screw distributors! $10/CD $5.50 EPs (incl.shipping)
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After The Flood project:
: : Various (featuring Warren Defever, Gordan Sharp,
Labradford, etc.) - 'After The Flood 2' 2xCD AE (M/M)Subject:
After the Flood2
FYI:
This CD came out today, thought it might be of some interest
here...especially to the folks that were asking about Gordon
Sharp recently....
After the Flood2 World Domination/AE6 78535-10069-2 ltd ed
2cd
>From the sticker on the front: "After the Flood2. Limited
Edition Double CD. Disc One: Vocal. Disc Two: Instrumental.
Includes unreleased music from: Labradford, Cindytalk and This
Mortal Coil's Gordon Sharp, Warren Defever from His Name is
Alive, Windy and Carl, Steve Ball (The League of Crafty
Guitarists, Robert Fripp), Lucid (AE) and many more."
Tracks: I (vocal) 1. Herald Steve Ball--guitar Dale
Lloyd--keyboards, percussion 2. Touching Still Gordon
Sharp--voice Richard Young--bass Dale Lloyd--electronics 3.
Misdeem Stewart Arentzen--guitar Christine Roskam--voice Dale
Lloyd--voice, bass, drums 4. Mother Resounded Mishka Heck--cello
Dale Lloyd--organ, tape, orchestration 5. Hand in Hand Gordon
Sharp--voice Richard Young--bass Dale Lloyd--bass, drume, ORGAN
6. Too See You Fall Gordon Sharp--voice Dale Lloyd--tape,
keyboards, electronics 7. Just As Well Marc Olsen--voice, steel
slide, bass Dale Lloyd--percussion, guitar, electronics 8. Follow
Sun Ra Gordon Sharp--voice Richard Young--bass, electronics Dale
Lloyd--drums, percussion 9. Beyond the Latter Dale
Lloyd--keyboards, percussion, voice
II. (instrumental) 1. So Near, So far Windy + Carl--guitar,
treatments Dlae Lloyd--electronics 2. Fecund Now Robert
Horton--amplified chair frame, vibrator, electronics
Labradford--drum machine, electronic sound Dale
Lloyd--electronics 3. Inch Meal Stewart Arentzen--electronics,
percussion, keyboards Dale Lloyd--electronics, tape 4. We Believe
You Warren Defever (His Name is Alive)--guitar, percussion, tape
Christine Roskam--clarinet Dale Lloyd--electronics 5. Left of
Wane Jeffery Taylor--tape, electronics Labradford--treated
strings sound 6. Mire Image Lyndia Pickering--percussion, ring
modulator Mishka heck--cello Dale Lloyd--tape, electronics 7. Lo,
Artimis Maxine--voice, percussion, keyboards Mark Halt--saxophone
Dale Lloyd--percussion, tape, electronics 8. So Inscribed, the
Changing Story Mark Canfield-Taylor--piano Dale Lloyd--treatments
9. Amethyst Dale Lloyd--guitar 10. Constellated and Consumated,
Then Stewart Arentzen--guitar Dale Lloyd--bass, keymonica, tape
I've listened to the first disc so far...it sure is nice to
hear Gordon again. The packaging is attempting something
great...but, well...it comes with these little postcard like
things and a spine card, but the spine card isn't attached and
the postcards are too long to fit in the CD jewel box, so you end
up with about five delicate things that require special
attention. Oh, it also has a CD condom that fits too tightly with
the postcards and CD stuffed inside it, so you have to be extra
carful pulling out the CD--like Lanterna. Look at me bitching
about insipid things, with all these lovely people on the CD. Bad
Delaney, bad.
~d Subject: Re: after the flood
> > . . .but is _after the flood_ worth it for those of us
who buy 4AD stuff > occasionally instead of collecting it? Lets
hear some critiques. > > -christian
both after the flood and lucid (another band on the same
label) are very much worth it. think of the wierd hallucinations
of his name is alive's "home is in your head" combined with this
mortal coil. i know that comparison's been made before, but it's
pretty accurate. it's very pretty and all, but in a creepy and
unsettling way. i think after the flood is a little more
listenable, but both artists are quite good. think very minimal
music mixed with wispy vocals, environmental and source
recordings, occasional strings, and sparse electronics.
definitely some of the more interesting and inspiring music i've
heard recently. true story -- while listening to some of this
stuff, i drifted off to sleep. however, i had to get up and
change the disc because i began having some very wierd dreams. it
just creeped me out, but i love listening to it.
V/A - After the flood 2 2xCD (ae records) Lavishly
packaged double cd set of this oft-rumoured and frequently
delayed this mortal coil-ish type project. The first disc is
entitled : Vocal, the second : instrumental. The players include
(among others) Labradford, Gordon Sharp (Cindytalk, TMC), Warren
Defever (His Name is Alive), Carl Hultgren (Windy & Carl), and
'ae's' in-house band Lucid. Comes in cardboard slipcase and 4
full-color postcards.
V/A - After the Flood 1 CD (ae records)