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A Chaos of Desire (2022 remaster)

by Black Tape For A Blue Girl

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2LP: 140-gram color vinyl with lyric insert. LP1: gold w/ black splatter, LP2: grimace purple & black marble. Limited edition of 500. Contains the first 12 tracks of the download.

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2CD in 6-panel digipak with 6-page lyric insert. Limited edition of 500. Disc 1 = Track 1-12. Disc 2 = Chapter ii mixes + one from Chapter iii + two not up digitally.

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	1.	These Fleeting Moments - 2022 Remaster 06:00		buy track
	2.	A Chaos of Desire - 2022 Remaster 05:18		buy track
	3.	Pandora's Box - 2022 Remaster 04:32		buy track
	4.	Tear Love from My Mind - 2022 Remaster 06:09		buy track
	5.	The Hypocrite is Me - 2022 Remaster 09:02		buy track
	6.	Beneath the Icy Floe - 2022 Remaster 06:34		buy track
	7.	We Watch Our Sad-eyed Angel Fall - 2022 Remaster 05:31		buy track
	8.	One Last Breath - 2022 Remaster 03:22		buy track
	9.	Of These Reminders - 2022 Remaster 08:50		buy track
	10.	How Can You Forget Love? - 2022 Remaster 04:13		buy track
	11.	Chains of Color - 2022 Remaster 02:31		buy track
	12.	Could I Stay the Honest One? - 2022 Remaster 05:21		buy track
	13.	Chapter ii — mixes 00:10
	14.	A Chaos of Desire - 1990 Lost Vocal Mix 03:11		buy track
	15.	Pandora's Box - 1990 Acoustic Mix 01:59		buy track
	16.	Tear Love from My Mind - 2022 Vocal Mix 02:42		buy track
	17.	The Hypocrite is Me - 2022 Revealed Mix 09:08		buy track
	18.	One Last Breath - 2020 Vocal & Violin Mix 03:14		buy track
	19.	Pandora's Dream ’92 - 2022 Remaster 03:14		buy track
	20.	Chapter iii — early demo 00:10
	21.	These Fleeting Moments - Earliest Instrumental Demo 01:57		buy track
	22.	A Chaos of Desire - Earliest Instrumental Demo 05:10		buy track
	23.	Pandora's Box - Earliest Instrumental Demo 05:08		buy track
	24.	Tear Love from My Mind - Earliest Instrumental Demo 02:45		buy track
	25.	The Hypocrite is Me / Honest One - Earliest Instrumental Demo 15:32		buy track
	26.	Beneath the Icy Floe - Earliest Instrumental Demo 05:04		buy track
	27.	We Watch Our Sad-eyed Angel Fall - Earliest Instrumental Demo 04:59		buy track
	28.	One Last Breath - Earliest Instrumental Demo 03:20		buy track
	29.	Of These Reminders - Earliest Instrumental Demo 05:43		buy track
	30.	How Can You Forget Love? - Earliest Demo 04:05		buy track
	31.	Chains of Color - Earliest Demo 02:28		buy track
	32.	Could I Stay the Honest One? - Earliest Instrumental Demo 06:06		buy track

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3-chapter deluxe remastered edition of A CHAOS OF DESIRE.
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There’s a new shine upon CHAOS’ dark beauty. On its 31st anniversary remaster, the ethereal gothic ambience of Black Tape For A Blue Girl’s 1991 fourth album swims in a sea of memory, a heart filled with pain and despondent hope. These 12 existential tales inhabit a chaotic realm of reflection, fear and desire set upon dense electronics confronting pained emotions. Oscar Herrera’s intense, searing vocals and Julianna Town’s sensitive siren song are strongly complemented by Vicki Richards’ sinewy violin. Throughout it all, songwriter and band leader Sam Rosenthal stirs up a brooding undertone of electronics, expressing the stages of desire and despair.

Remastered by Martin Bowes of Attrition, the digital release includes the full album, six of-the-era or modern alternate mixes, and the entire album in instrumental demo form.

What has been said about A CHAOS OF DESIRE?

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE: Black Tape For A Blue Girl is a treasure of a band. Their sound is lush, full and beautiful, which is not to say wimpy. This is beauty with an edge, perhaps even a slightly desperate air. Richards supplies sensuous violin lines. Recommended.

BANDCAMP FAN COMMENTS MASHED INTO ONE QUOTE: Lush and sensual, it perfectly brings together all of the elements that draw me to the music of Black Tape for a Blue Girl. Richly textured and beautiful, this is a particularly powerful release from their outstanding collection of albums. A milestone! The soundscapes touch me on a spiritual level. It comes with me to places I only thought I could get to alone. Aural Beauty!

ALL MUSIC GUIDE: CHAOS ratchets up the lyrical intensity even more strongly than before. Given how intense Rosenthal generally is anyway with his words, this may seem a hard task to accomplish, but one listen to the lengthy, majestic album centerpiece, “The Hypocrite Is Me,” will confirm it — Herrera delivers a lyric of deep self-loathing with command, while the music backing him is an intense series of rumbling electronic tones matched at the end by a great, gently reverbed violin solo from guest performer Richards.

BSIDE MAGAZINE: This is more of that unexplainable type of lacy textured, swaying music. It’s actually sort of hallucinatory, the way things add and subtract andslowly swell… like the ocean. A CD for people who listen to Dead Can Danceand see mystical visions. This makes the Cocteau Twins sound upbeat with more of an emotional depth, more of a real despondency.

OPUS: The twelve songs on A CHAOS OF DESIRE move from dark explorations of love and heartache (which often feature Hererra's melodramatic vocals) to softer, more ambient pieces that blend Rosenthal’s synths with fragile string arrangements (e.g., “Beneath the Icy Floe,” “Of These Reminders”). As you might imagine, I prefer the latter, as they provide a perfect example of Projekt’s 'vintage' darkwave sound.

THE GAVIN REPORT: Moody songs of tragic beauty. The music is often moody and foreboding, soaring to incredible tonal levels. The vocals are clear and sparse, laden with emotion and intrigue. Certain to satisfy the neo-classical aficionado.

This was funded via Kickstarter.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/samrosenthal/black-tape-for-a-blue-girl-a-chaos-of-desire-2lp-cd?ref=2pgos0

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released October 7, 2022

Fanzine + scans of '89-'90 early lyric drafts: www.blacktapeforabluegirl.com/chaos.pdf

PreOrder the Greek THE SCAVENGER BRIDE LP:
blacktapeforabluegirl.bandcamp.com/album/the-scavenger-bride

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