Up and coming Chilean melodic trance producer and DJ, Aerotek, has released an official video for his 2012 collaboration with Anji Bee, “My Lonely Sunset.” This dreamy single had been slated for a May 2013 release on Perceptive Recordings, including a remix by Mobil, and a radio edit. Sadly, it still has not come out, despite much support from fans, bloggers, and online DJs. Hopefully 2015 will see it made available for sale at long last! Check out the video below and be sure to comment on YouTube if you’d like to be able to buy a digital download of this song on iTunes, Bandcamp, or another online store.
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Anji Discusses First Solo Album At YouTube Space LA
Anji Bee recently sat down in the studio of YouTube SpaceLA to discuss her debut album, ‘Love Me Leave Me.’ This short interview gets into the sexy album photoshoot and cover shot selection, why this is an Anji Bee album and not a Lovespirals album, plus a little bit about the album fundraising effort and limited edition CD & poster set on Bandcamp. The video features clips from several album tracks, as well.
MUSIC IN THIS VIDEO:
- “Got All I Need”
- “Love Me Leave Me”
- “Foolish”
- “Sleight Of Hand”
- “Mi Amor”
- “Try To Forget”
- “Put Some Music On”
Like the music? Pick up a digital download or limited edition autographed CD (and poster) from Anji’s Bandcamp page — and remember to use discount code YOUTUBE for 10% off! at anjibee.bandcamp.com
Prefer Apple/iTunes? Anji’s music is over there, too: itunes.apple.com/anjibee More into Spotify? open.spotify/anjibee
Listen to a 1-hour feature about “Love Me Leave Me” featuring behind the music stories on The Chillcast with Anji Bee:
Music Tap Reviews ‘Love Me Leave Me’
Long time fan of Anji Bee’s work with Lovespirals, Matt Rowe, wrote a very positive review of her debut album for the site, MusicTap. Likening her vocal work and musical style to the smooth jazz of Sade, Rowe concludes that, “Love Me Leave Me is an excellent, jazz-fueled, chillout set. If you like smooth jazz (or chill music), then this album hits all the right spots.” Read the full review below, or over at musictap.net
Anji Bee, the honey-voiced chanteuse of Lovespirals, has gone and made what many fans of the band was waiting a long time for, her own solo album. Any fan aware of Lovespirals already knows the style of Anji Bee’s approach. She uses a breathy, light toned vocal to infuse their songs with a commanding attraction, escalating the smooth jazz that Ryan Lum produces musically.
On her debut solo release, Anji Bee uses the smooth jazz style to a greater degree than heard on the Lovespirals albums. She would call it chill music, which is simply, a mellow style with beats throughout. And that is what her new album is. Love Me Leave Me is a collection of eleven indispensable tracks that each have their own mesmerizing quality. The sexiness of Anji Bee’s voice conspire to get your blood racing with her style that is only matched by Sade.
Each song moves different directions. A song like the incredible “Saudade”, which, loosely translated means “a profound melancholic longing for an absent someone that one loves…”. It is a potent listen not only for its engaging subject matter, but for the gorgeous construction of the song. “Saudade” is one of those songs that bring the Sade fascination sharply to mind. But it’s all Anji Bee, who enviably owns a voice that few can lay claim to.
The Lovespirals mix of “Love will Turn your Head Around” is a beautiful remix of the Karmacoda/Beth Hirsch/Anji Bee track with Anji Bee and Ryan Lum adding their hypnotic Lovespirals blend. It is ethereally a musical departure on the album but nevertheless I’m glad it’s there. “Buddahood” uses chill to top effect with an Asian guitar style to accent it.
I love the club jazz of “Sleight Of Hand”. With its entrancing repetitive music, its tinkling piano parts, and that sexy saxophone that floats throughout the song, it’s easily one of the album’s best. “Put Some Music On” is the album’s most direct ode to sack time. But, in fact, much of Love Me Leave Me is geared toward the alluring of music to closeness.
Love Me Leave Me is an excellent, jazz-fueled, chillout set. If you like smooth jazz (or chill music), then this album hits all the right spots.
–Matt Rowe
Lovespirals “Brother Against Brother” Video & Single Released
The first new single from Lovespirals since their 2010 album, ‘Future Past,’ is in many regards a return to form for band founder, Ryan Lum. Lum exploded onto the American dream pop scene back in 1991 as Love Spirals Downwards on the Projekt Records label, quickly establishing himself as one of the best ethereal producers and guitarists this side of the Atlantic. “Brother Against Brother” is swirling, ambient, folk-tinged dream pop replete with heavily effected ethereal guitar and female vocals by his bandmate, Anji Bee. Bee created this appropriately heavenly video filled with fluffy slo-mo clouds and the duo dressed like angels in all white using her iPhone and Final Cut Pro. Each member selfied their own performance in the video. 🙂
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Buy the 2-song single at http://lovespirals.bandcamp.com
CREDITS:
Ryan Lum: composition, musical arrangements, all instruments, programming, tracking, mixing & production
Anji Bee: lyrics, vocals, vocal arrangements, co-production, & music video creation
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Below Zero Features Love Me Leave Me
Respected San Francisco based downtempo and chillout radio show, Below Zero, is supporting ‘Love Me Leave Me‘ in a big way. Anji Bee is currently featured as their Break Through Artist, featured on the front page alongside Julian Lennon’s “Pick of the Week,” Lou Rhodes, formerly of Lamb. Two singles from the album are included in their Weekly Top 10. “Love Me Leave Me” has been charting for 6 weeks, with the highest rank of #6, while “Got All I Need” has been charting for 3 weeks, with the highest ranking being #2. “Put Some Music On,” charted for 3 weeks back in February and March 2012, when the single was first released by 3345 Music.
BZ also supported Anji’s collaboration with friends of the show and SF local band, Karmacoda, and Parisian singer/songwriter, Beth Hirsch, when the “Love Will Turn Your Head Around” single first debuted in 2011. The original mix charted for 2 weeks, hitting #3, and the remix collection was given a feature story, as well. Anji’s album includes the Lovespirals remix of this epic tune, Lovespirals being her band with producer/instrumentalist, Ryan Lum.
Speaking of Lovespirals, Below Zero supported the Lovespirals “Baeleric Chill” Mix of “Love Me Leave Me” when the single debuted last year. The mix charted for 4 weeks in July and August, hitting a high of #4.
Check out Anji’s music and much more on Below Zero via Live356, iTunes, FlareSound or directly through their site www.belowzerobeats.com – and be sure to let them know you enjoyed her tunes!
Lovespirals Release Happy Holidays 2 Song Single
Out now on Bandcamp are two very different takes on the same holiday original, penned by Lovespirals vocalist, Anji Bee. While the lyrics are decidedly melancholy, the original 2010 recording adds an upbeat twist with its catchy disco house style, replete with wah wah guitar and disco strings. The 2012 version is classic Lovespirals dream pop with it’s soaring ebo guitar and glacial tempo. Anji’s vocal are, by turns, sensual and sublime, with a certain cheekiness to the house version and a mournfulness on the shoegazer version. There’s more than one side to this complex duo, and this single is the perfect illustration of their musical and emotional duality. Bandcamp offers affordable digital downloads in your choice of audio format including high-quality download in MP3, ALAC (Apple Lossless), AAC, Flac, Ogg Vorbis, WAV and AIFF formats.
Anji Bee Solo Album Released
Anji Bee, of The Chillcast, has just dropped her debut solo album, ‘Love Me Leave Me,’ featuring a mix of old and new songs recorded and produced over 3 years in her home studio. Though Bee has released 4 albums, 6 eps and numerous singles with her So Cal duo, Lovespirals, she’s still found the creative energy to collaborate on dozens of songs with artists such as Berlin club sweetheart, Bloody Mary, Parisian poptronica chanteuse Beth Hirsch, and Chilean trance producer, Aerotek, over the past decade.
“I love working with producers internationally via the Internet, but often feel my vocals could have been pushed further had we been in the studio together,” says Bee of her collaborative work. “After we released the last Lovespirals album [‘Future Past‘ released on Bee’s own label, Chillcuts, in 2010], Ryan suggested we put together an EP of fresh reworkings of some of my favorite Internet collaborations.” Bee is referring to her long time producer/partner, Ryan Lum, who originally formed their band as Love Spirals Downwards in 1991 and sold over 50,000 albums as one of Projekt Records most successful acts. Lum brings a lushness to the material that helps tie the songs together, regardless of genre. “There was a surprising flow to the recording sessions and the tracks were turning out so amazing that I was inspired to write several new compositions with Anji,” admits Lum.
The 11 tracks on ‘Love Me Leave Me’ flow between deep house, trip hop, and world influenced poptronica, exploring every aspect of love; desire, satiation, longing, disillusion, and contentment, expressed at the peak of Bee’s abilities. “Its funny to listen back to the original recordings of songs like “Love Me Leave Me” and “Perfect Boy” [originally released by Canadian act, Bitstream Dream, in the early to mid 2000s], because they sound like demos compared to the album versions. I’ve grown so much as an artist over the decade.” Not only has her vocal ability improved, but her recording techniques. “In the early stages of production, we listened to some of the best female voice recordings I could find – Karen Carpenter, Fleetwood Mac, Sheryl Crow, Sade – for inspiration in getting her vocals to sound better than ever,” recounts Lum.
Following a low key album fundraiser initiative which urged fans to contribute what they wanted while buying their pick of 5 remix singles of the title track released over several months earlier this year, Bee pre-released the album for her Bandcamp fans. The ultra limited edition eco-friendly CD of ‘Love Me Leave Me’ and sexy full color 11×17 poster began selling moments after the page went live. Both the physical CD and digital download come with a digital-only bonus track, called “Just One Word,” as well as a 3-page digital booklet with 3 additional boudoir portraits of Bee by erotic photographer, Aga Furtak, plus the album lyrics and credits. Bandcamp offers 2 gift sets, both of which include a copy of ‘The Chillcast with Anji Bee Presents: 5 Years of Chillin‘ compilation on CD. The Holiday Gift Set also includes all 4 Lovespirals albums on CD, plus the 2012 Projekt Records holiday compilation, Ornamental, which is the only way to purchase the Lovespirals dream pop version of Bee’s original song, “Happy Holidays.”
‘Love Me Leave Me’ is also available on iTunes, Amazon, CDBaby and other digital retailers.
Video for Love Me Leave Me 2013 Version
Anji Bee and her Lovespirals partner/producer, Ryan Lum, filmed this intimate and sexy video for the title track from her brand new debut solo album, ‘Love Me Leave Me,’ in her own boudoir. She makes the vintage pinup style album art, originally shot by erotica photographer Aga Furtak, come to life! This recording is a lush new interpretation of Bee’s classic 2003 lyric – originally released with cult favorites, Bitstream Dream – which has been remixed by a host of international producers in celebration of its 10 year anniversary.
Pick up one of the ultra limited edition CD and poster sets — autographed by Bee — at http://anjibee.bandcamp.com before they run out. ‘Love Me Leave Me‘ and the ‘Love Me Leave Me Remixes‘ album are also available on iTunes, Amazon Mp3, CDbaby and other digital retailers.
Mr. Alfa + Anji Bee Release Doomed/Who Will Help The Girl Single
On the brink of releasing her debut solo album, Anji Bee first releases a new single in collaboration with German producer, Mr. Alfa, on his Venus Recordings label. The 2- song single, ‘Doomed/Who Will Help The Girl,’ was begun last November, when Alfa Kay sent Bee the instrumental demo which became “Doomed.” Perhaps ironically, Bee added these distinctly unromantic lyrics to the tune in a Valentine’s Day 2013 recording session. Its unusual for Bee to use her first take scratch vocals in a finished song, but the immediacy of the recording adds a refreshing looseness to the nearly 7-minute jazzy downtempo track. The flip side, “Who Will Help The Girl,” invites the possibility of future love with its questioning lyric and more upbeat chillout vibes.
Bee and Kay previously collaborated on the free single, “Winter Sun,” released last Christmas season, and Kay has remixed several of Bee’s tracks, including the title track of her upcoming CD, ‘Love Me Leave Me,’ and her collaboration with Karmacoda and Beth Hirsch, “Love Will Turn Your Head Around.” You can find all of these tracks at anjibee.bandcamp.com
Purchase ‘Doomed/Who Will Help The Girl’ by Mr. Alfa + Anji Bee on iTunes or Amazon Mp3 Store
“Love Me Leave Me (Lovespirals Baeleric Chill Remix)” Lyric Video
It’s the 10th anniversary of one of Anji Bee’s best-known songs, “Love Me Leave Me,” and she’s celebrating with a gorgeous all-new recording, co-produced by Ryan Lum of Lovespirals. This dreamy Baeleric-infused chill out mix strips down the electronica elements of the album mix and adds Lum’s trademark dream pop electric guitar, wistful acoustic guitar, and groovy congas, plus an additional soulfully ethereal backing vocal by Miss Bee. Very romantic! “Love Me Leave Me (Lovespirals Baeleric Chill Remix)” is available on the digital only ‘Love Me Leave Me Remixes‘ album on iTunes, Amazon, CDbaby, and Bandcamp. Use discount code YOUTUBE for 10% off at https://anjibee.bandcamp.com