The Legendary Pink Dots
| The Legendary Pink Dots | |
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 The Legendary Pink Dots at Castle Party in Poland (2007) |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Indie rock |
| founding | 1980 |
| Website | http://legendarypinkdots.org/ |
| Current occupation | |
singing |
Edward Ka-Spel (founding member) |
Keyboard |
Phil Knight (founding member) |
guitar |
Erik Drost |
Sound engineering |
Raymond Steeg |
The Legendary Pink Dots (LPD) are an Anglo-Dutch experimental rock formation that was founded in London in August 1980 and moved to Amsterdam in 1984. The core of the band is made up of singer and mastermind Edward Ka-Spel (who always wore cracked lines on his face on stage) and keyboardist Phil Knight (better known as "The Silverman"). Otherwise, the band had around three dozen colleagues over the years and decades. Among these are the violinist Patrick Q. Wright (1984–1989) and the bassist / drummer Ryan Moore (1992–2000).
The band name comes from a piano used in the early years, on the white keys of which dots were painted with pink nail polish to mark finger positions.
The Legendary Pink Dots had live performances at the Wave-Gotik-Treffen in 1994, 2002, 2006, 2011 and 2016 and the M'era Luna Festival in 2008.
style
In terms of music, the Legendary Pink Dots range between all the varieties of psychedelic rock of the 1960s and wave music of the 1980s, but on the other hand they defy any classification. Bizarre, avant-garde sound collages dominate , but they can also take on the shape of catchy catchy tunes. Comparisons have been made with Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd (especially with regard to the lyrics), but also Brian Eno and the Krautrock around Can , Neu! and Kraftwerk are mentioned from time to time. The style of LPD has differentiated and varied over the decades, but has remained unmistakable.
Ka-Spel's singing is characteristic: it always seems overdone, overdrawn and overstretched, and is sometimes used as an instrument. The texts are partly preaching, partly screaming and have their own mythology, mostly dark or marked by dark humor. In terms of content, they revolve around apocalyptic or fantastic events, or grotesque incidents in an apparent reality. Here, suggestive images are primarily played with.
A popular legend has it that the LPD actually got an offer from a bigger pop label, but it was undetected in the fan mail for over a year.
Although the band never really found themselves in the mainstream catchment area, they now have a worldwide fan base and can boast an output of well over 40 albums (although some early works were released on cassette). There are also several side projects, some excursions on solo paths, some collaborations (" Mimir " or "Tear Garden" with cEvin Key from Skinny Puppy , as well as guest contributions to Nurse With Wound and Andrew Liles ).
Nevertheless, the band asks on their website: "Support Your Band" - although this is essentially about sending private recordings of previous concerts.
Discography
- 1981: Only Dreaming
- 1982: Brighter Now
- 1983: Curse
- 1984: Faces In The Fire (Mini LP)
- 1984: The Tower
- 1985: Prayer of Aradia
- 1985: The Lovers
- 1985: Asylum
- 1986: Island Of Jewels
- 1988: Any Day Now
- 1989: The Golden Age
- 1990: Four Days
- 1990: Crushed Velvet Apocalypse
- 1991: Greetings 9 + Premonition 11
- 1991: The Maria Dimension
- 1992: Shadow Weaver
- 1993: Malachai (Shadow Weaver Part 2)
- 1994: Nine Lives to Wonder
- 1995: From Here You'll Watch the World Go By
- 1997: Chemical Playschool 10
- 1997: Hallway of the Gods
- 1998: Nemesis Online
- 2000: A Perfect Mystery
- 2002: All The King's Horses
- 2002: All The King's Men
- 2004: The Whispering Wall
- 2004: Poppy Variations
- 2006: Alchemical Playschool
- 2006: Your Children Placate You from Premature Graves
- 2008: Plutonium Blonde
- 2010: Seconds Late for the Brighton Line
- 2012: The Creature That Tasted Sound
- 2012: Chemical Playschool 15
- 2013: Taos Hum
- 2013: The Curse Of Marie Antoinette
- 2013: The Gethsemane Option
- 2014: 10 to the Power of 9, Vol. 1
- 2014: 10 to the Power of 9, Vol. 2
- 2015: The Seismic Bleats Of Quantum Sheep
- 2016: Pages of Aquarius
- 2019: Angel In The Detail
Web links
- Official website
- former website with extensive discography and text archive
- The Legendary Pink Dots at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ LPD-March 2010 Newsletter: Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Option Magazine 1987: Interview with Edward Kaspel ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ WGT - artist 1994
- ↑ Mera Luna History - The Lineup 2008
- ↑ Edward Ka-Spel : The Legendary Pink Dots - A 20 Year History (2000)
