Category Archives: Lovespirals

Posts about Anji Bee’s band, Lovespirals.

Lovespirals on Accident Hash Podcast #255

Talk about seminal music podcasts… The award winning PodShow podcast, Accident Hash turned 3 today and the show’s amazingly talented and sweet producer, C.C. Chapman, dedicated it the Troops. What a guy! Several podcasters — including Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff, Mike Yusi, Christopher Penn and me — recorded special holiday messages for the Troops, which are featured in this show. In addition to tracks by podsafe artists Matthew Ebel, RaykoKRB, Black Lab, Chance and many others, this episode includes Lovespirals’ “Motherless Child.” C.C. was the very first podcaster to hear Long Way From Home and we’ve got a mutual love thing going on with that man. Congrats on 3 years, CC!

Download Accident Hash #255 For The Troops MP3

Lovespirals on Coverville Podcast #409

The latest “indie edition” of the legendary Coverville podcast includes Lovespirals‘ rendition of the classic American Spiritual, “Motherless Child.” Ryan and I met Brian Ibbott at the Podcast and New Media Expo last year, where I was accepting an award for my work with the ShowGirls podcast. I slipped him a pre-release copy of our Long Way From Home CD, which he was very enthusiastic about, but what with one holiday after the other these past few months… well you know how these things go. We’re just stoked to make our 2nd appearance on this seminal podcast!

STREAM COVERVILLE PODCAST #409

Download Coverville 409: Indie Boys, Girls, and Motherless Children MP3

Lovespirals’ Motherless Child EP on iTunes+ & Amazon Mp3

Motherless Child EP Lovespirals’ Motherless Child EP has just been released on iTunes+ and Amazon Mp3. This digital only release features 6 remixes of the first single from the duo’s most recent album, Long Way From Home. Artists included are Karmacoda, Hungry Lucy, MoShang, Chris Caulder of Beauty’s Confusion, and The Black Channel Citizen — plus one by Lovespirals’ own Ryan Lum. The songs can be purchased individually in high quality 256k AAC no DRM format for just 99 cents each or download the whole collection for $5.94

Lovespirals’ special guest on Pod 5

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The Pod 5 guys had Ryan and I on as special guests this week, along with Matthew Ebel and my fellow ShowGirl, Share Ross, for a discussion of the future of the recording industry. Topics include CDs vs Mp3s, major vs indie labels vs self-released, Radiohead scaring the music industry, and much more fun and madness!

Lovespirals ‘Long Way From Home’ Feature

In this special extended episode, Anji and Ryan play each song from their new album Long Way From Home as they discuss how the album was created. In this behind-the-scenes podcast, the duo talk about the album’s influences, song writing, production secrets, and personal anecdotes. This features gives you great peek into Lovespirals‘ brand new third album!

Buy a physical CD or digital download of Lovespirals ‘Long Way From Home‘ directly from the band at Bandcamp:

Also available from Apple Music, CDBaby, Amazon or Amazon Mp3, eMusic and more.

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Reviews of Long Way From Home CD

Reviews are starting to come in for Lovespirals new album, Long Way From Home, and the critics have been most kind.

All Music Guide‘s Ned Raggett writes,

For their third album as Lovespirals, Anji Bee and Ryan Lum again create a lush series of songs that synthesizes disparate influences into a warm, enveloping listen.

Matthew Johnson of Re:Gen Magazine writes,

It’s not an understatement to call Long Way from Home the duo’s most accomplished work up to date; as enjoyable as their previous explorations of laidback electronica and jazz fusion have been, this album captures Lum and Bee’s warm musical chemistry in a way that previous releases only hinted at.

Matt Rowe of MusicTap.net writes,

From the band’s early years as Love Spirals Downwards — with a vocalist all but forgotten for Anji Bee’s lovely, dreamy, and expansive vocal pleasantries — to their current album, Lovespirals have always been a band of change. Their latest, the wonderfully titled Long Way From Home, is one of superior work and can easily rank as the band’s best work in either incarnation.

cadencerevolution.com podcast blogs:

It’s very rare these days to come across an entire CD which you will listen to over and over from beginning to end non-stop, and even rarer to find one which makes you want to grab everyone you know and tell them “you must listen to this.” However such is the case with the third release, Long Way Home, from the California based duo Lovespirals.

Come hear what all the fuss is about at lovespirals.com/longway!

Chillin’ with Lovespirals #45

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Download Chillin’ with Lovespirals #45 MP3

The band talk about recent Long Way From Home news items including last week’s live performance podcast, Lovespirals’ Re:Gen Magazine feature, Lovespirals’ Shameless Plugcast feature, airplay on terrestrial radio, recent reviews from the All Music Guide and Cadence Revolution, fan reviews on Amazon, iTunes, plus announce next week’s special feature and close the show out with Brian Noe‘s awesome Long Way From Home promo.

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