4/16/08: APRIL 2008 UPDATE
LEGENDARY PINK DOTS ON TOUR
Spring began in The Netherlands with a flurry of snow, pelting hail and gremlins chewing the wires at Chez Dots. The heart of our studio was temporarily broken as the hard drives crashed in our both recording machine and our back-up device and for a few tense hours it looked as if we had LOST our work since the start of the year.
Happily , all has been retrieved and the new album, "Plutonium Blonde" will be released on schedule by ROIR in the summer.
That's not the only activity. The Silverman's latest album "(Blank) for your own message" will be available from TEKA this week, while Edward Ka-Spel just put the finishing touches to "Dream Logik 2". For those who wait for the first Dream Logik volume to appear on vinyl, plans are being hatched at Beta Lactam Ring Records for an extremely special and desirable release. Keep you ear to the ground about this.
A new Tear Garden album is also in the works while LPDs long lost album "Chemical Playschool Volumes 8/9" is also set for a reissue in the next months.
Here is the latest tour information:
| Date | City (Country) | Venue |
| APR 18, 2008 | Maastricht (NL) | Intro |
| APR 19, 2008 | Sindelfingen (D) | Pavilion |
| APR 20, 2008 | Freiburg (D) | Cafe Atlantic |
| APR 21, 2008 | Basel (CH) | Hirscheneck |
| APR 24, 2008 | Haarlem (NL) | Patronaat |
| APR 26, 2008 | Nürnberg (D) | Cult Club |
| APR 27, 2008 | Prague (CZ) | Rock Cafe |
| APR 28, 2008 | Smrzovka (CZ) | Park Hotel |
| APR 29, 2008 | Brno (CZ) | Faval |
| APR 30, 2008 | Budapest (H) | After Music Club |
| MAY 1, 2008 | Chodov - near Karlovy Vary (CZ) | TBD |
| MAY 2, 2008 | Darmstadt (D) | Villa Oetinger |
| MAY 3, 2008 | Geneva (CH) | L'Usine |
| AUG 9, 2008 | Hildesheim (D) | M'era Luna Festival |
| AUG 27, 2008 | Norrkopping (S) | Festival |
| SEPT 18, 2008 | Munich (D) | Feierwerk |
| OCT 9, 2008 | Tromso (N) | Electronic Music Festival (Edward Ka-Spel solo show) |
* We are always looking for new places to play. We are especially looking for shows on the way to and from Norrkopping on 27 August and around the Munich show on 18 September. If anyone has other venue suggestions or information, please forward to l_khata at yahoo.com.
NEW RELEASES
* Order from the TEKA Catalogue!
* LPD are currently working on a new album which is due in Spring 2008. The band is currently road-testing songs from this album.
* Recently released is a truly excellent DVD ("Roundhouse") from long term LPD friends, The Dresden Dolls documenting a special live event at the London Roundhouse in 2006. Interview and song footage involving Edward Ka-Spel and The Silverman is included.
* Prices listed below do not include postage and packing
| The Silverman
Blank for your own message (CD) |
A voyage to exotic ,colourful places on the wings of a black swan that speaks no earthly language. A rapidly changing but constantly enchanting landscape. On Beta lactam Ring records, we are now taking pre-orders. | 20 EUR (pre order) |
| Edward Ka-Spel
Dream Logik 2 (CD) |
Expect this CD in late spring. | TBD |
| Legendary Pink Dots/b>
Chemical Playschool 8/9 (2 x CD) |
Expect these CDs in late spring. | TBD |
| The Tear Gardne
Eye Spy with my little Eye (CD) |
Back in stock. Only a few copies left! | 20 EUR |
BEAUTIFUL THINGS THAT CAME OUR WAY
The John Moran Corporation
Sometimes a CD comes along that makes you want to fling open the windows and scream
about to the rest of the World (only that would of course interfere with the beautiful music).
In the case of John moran, it wasn't one but 2 albums that turned up in the mail box.
Psychedelic in the braodest sense, tuneful, intelligent,happy, sad - dont know where to
stop. John is from Australia and his CDs are on the Puzzle Factory label. Seek him out,
and buy his music - you will not regret this.
Un Festin Sagital: Epitafio a la Permanencia
Imagine Christian Vander and Pierre Henry collaborating on a lost masterpiece when they were both at the peaks of their powers... Imagine the master tape turning up in Chile... Imagine it's reputation preceded it and turned out to be EVEN BETTER. Un Festin Sagital is a group I'd never heard of before, but I reckon I'll spend the next few years hearing them again and again such is the depth of this debut.Purchase from www.blrrecords.com now before it vanishes.