NL CS Mirrordot Tapes/Jarmusic
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Packaged in a plastic bag with double-sided color insert of collage artwork, plus a double-sided b&w insert with live pictures and text, and a single-sided b&w insert with selected lyrics.
Limited, numbered edition of 834 copies.
The original intention was a simple live document...but, ultimately, that's as unsatisfying for me as it is for the listener. Hence, Lyvv features previously unheard pieces like 'When Old Gods Die', Tower 8 RETITLED of course for 'contractual' reasons as well as obscure oddities like 'Pretty Ribbons' and 'Corridors of Deceit'. Pieces I like but could never find the right place for. This K7 also documents the first performance under the banner 'Edward Ka-Spel / d'archangel' in Deventer, Holland back in 1985 with Ignit on keyboards.
NL CD Staalplaat STCD060
A collection of the studio material from the original cassette plus other "experiments" and outtakes.
The Char Char
The letter was corroded, the fuses had exploded, the circuts floated on a
pool of oil. They wrenched the (flecks) had snapped and sparks flew dark
blue clouds and jet black walls. An apple crumbled, firemen grumbled,
fumbled with a hose.
Toes were curling in their white boots, sweating in their tight asbestos
suits and Asmodeus played the flute. A table layed a chair and did the
char char charred spitting splinters. Blisters throbbed and sisters
sobbed behind the fence.
Fire that burned the incense blessed the ashes as they flew.
Fly away, fly away, fly away Peter, fly away Paul
Wenn Alte Gotter Sterben
Upside down and hanging. Gangreen. Dark green ankles. Rusty chains. And
lusting vultures bowling dice - see who gets first bite. Frostbite!
Lockjaw! MORE! See sores weep, flesh creep. Skin deep beauty lives inside
his rotting carcass. Locked away, it drains away. Like a love note in a
trashcan, like a sapphire in a sack. And no one's singing hymns to him. No
trembling sinners, no respect... We shed our tears, but we just accept -
this old God's dying of neglect. This old god's dying of neglect. Neglect.
Tower 8
Lie there face down and be quiet. Captain barked, "Red carpets roll."
??? left the helicoptor, left his marquee stroll. Respecting sores and
shouting scores. The white glove glowing in the spotlight. Probbing with
his stethescope for gold. The palace, the landscape with traitors as
lampshades, waiters were dumb and freezer was packed. The peacock she
roared with a wave from a window, a kiss on the wind and a swing of the
axe. It's the axe, see the sun, lick the blade as it swings like a
windmill, as it swings as a windmill. Blades were swinging in the red
night. Bonfires blazed and missiles flew. Wild guys gazed through
balaclavas, baracades were blue. The captain watched it on his video,
smiling cause he knew, "This is not the key to the tower!"(5x)
Bleak House (Instrumental)
Corridors of Deceit (Instrumental)
Dada
Dada. My third word. 'Oh dada' I'd shout.
And dada came running to clout me. To hurt
me. I'd howl.... And Mama went gaga.
And blah! blah! -they'd row. And dada walked
out. Ta ta dada.
Infirmary Waltz (Instrumental)
(Untitled) (Instrumental)
Lying in State
It was open house at Maggie's. Yes the door it was open, People filing by
for a final glimpse. Someone thought she winked, well it was just a trick
of the light. Bright lights. Stereo played Mendelhson, Maggie liked the
classics, no she couldn't stand the racket on the radio. So plastic.
Seems so Plastic. Now she's looking very plastic in her new expensive
hole. Made of fiberglass, it's customized. It must, designed to pass away
the years like seconds. And they told her in the advert, "If you go it's
best to go in comfort for it's swell. Cause the nights get so lonely
underground." Now they're firing rifles/singing hymns/reading poems/give
these to him (fruit glass)/someone swears and she snatches them away.
Says, "The claim of outrage, the ???? we're all sad today, when we've
been (handed cheese)." When Maggie's face on, well she looks so young and
still had all her faculties. Now she's gone away(12x) Away(repeated). Rest
in peace, rest in pieces Maggie. Maggots. Hooray(repeated) out of the way.
Sneezing Choirs (Instrumental w/ sample)
March of the Anorexic Locusts
couple of samples????
Tell me what you call, here's what you curse.
Beautiful Plastic
Swaying in the dawn, scrambled into bed. His face was red, his breath was
poison. Strike a match, the flames destroy a nation as he sleeps. His
wife is sleeping. He slapped his paws on both her breasts. Started
squeezing. Forced his tongue between her lips. Pleading, he'd reason
with her, teased her, pulled her hair, he swore. He smashed his fist into
her jaw, she wouldn't thaw, no she wouldn't thaw. Finally, he'd take no
more. He rolled, hit the floor and saw a note pinned on the door. It
said, "Bye honey, hope you like the doll."
Pretty Ribbons (Instrumental)
Vla
I will be your sacrifice... The love machine demands a sacrifice (?)...
Columnyetz
All cracked (started) we all will fail together??????????????????????
God Bless the Cavalry Part 1
In your eyes(2x). Through your ears.
God Bless the Cavalry Part 2 (Instrumental)
Zyrrap (Instrumental)
The Horn Section
We introduce the horn section
Intent
Life is bright since they gave us all these prisoners of war!
(sample:Slow Death)
Bleeding Finale (Instrumental)
Love in a plain brown envelope
Heaven is a hole. There's a whole lot of heaven in your (cavern), in your
avenue. Enjoy it? do you? do you? Of course you do... It's there in black
and white. There's every detail and every tale delights. The fannies and the
cranny's with the antelopes from Lapland. (Uh... so horny!). It's a perfect
land... the lips are lubricated and the pistons always stiff and glistening
driving upwards, onwards... it's like your dream. It's partly human and part
machine. Oh, Cyborg! as a man you're magic, as machine you're mean, mean
mean mean. Mean, mean[moans...all the way to climax] [sample on phone]I'm
wondering I'm fondling myself. Come to me (sweet) woman. Talk to me. Come to
me sweet thing. Come come come to me. Touch yourself, come on, touch
yourself.
Originally released in 1989 as a cassette-only compilation of rare solo material and live performances (thus the title), Lyvv China Doll was reconfigured with no live material and more outtakes on CD in 1993 by Staalplaat. It features a handful of truly bizarre instrumental experiments, an alternate version of "The Char Char," a revisit to LPD's The Tower ("Tower 8"), a creepy duet with an unnamed female vocalist which unfolds dramatically ("Lying In State"), and tends to be the least essential Ka-Spel release. - Rex