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The Chaos Serpent Single

by black tape for a blue girl

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To thank the 260 backers that pledged $13,282 to help bring Black Tape For A Blue Girl's A CHAOS OF DESIRE reissue Kickstarter to life, the current 3-piece โ€œSerpentโ€ line-up releases this 2-song single with neoclassical reinterpretations of two songs from the 1991 album.

The focus on strings and vocals reveals a new shine upon the dark existential beauty. These passionate tales inhabit a chaotic realm of memory, fear and desire confronting pained emotions.

Bandleader and synthesist Sam Rosenthal is joined by Swedish cellist and experimental musician Henrik Meierkord and vocalist Jon DeRosa, the latter known for his projects Aarktica, Dead Leaves Rising & Pale Horse and Rider. With this line-up, their poetic and profound pathos has gracefully evolved to a minimalist trio โ€” the subtle, dramatic interweaving of synth and strings is the ideal basis for Jonโ€™s expressive, sorrowful voice.

Blending darkwave, ambient and neoclassical, the unique character of this introspective and starkly compelling music seamlessly befits the lyrical despair. These two tracks are a captivatingly elegant addition to Black Tape For A Blue Girl's 36+ year discography.
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Sam writes: In late-December while planning the Kickstarter for A CHAOS OF DESIRE I wondered about how to bring the 2022-era band into the past and involve us in the campaign. Inspiration strikes!!! Jon, Henrik & I could record new neo-classical versions of tracks from chaos. I formed these recordings by reusing my synth parts from the digitized 1990 8-track master tape; Jon and Henrik added vocals and strings in their respective hometowns. Then โ€” like when I mixed The Cleft Serpent โ€” I pulled as much of myself out of the mix as I could to end up with lush, beautiful, mournful versions of "A chaos of desire" & "Could i stay the honest one."

Jon and I tossed around ideas and thought it would be a wonderful surprise at the end of the campaign to give you something entirely fresh: the new band reinterprets the past. We're thanking you for your pledges which brought us to the funding goal and then to the stretch goal.

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released April 15, 2022

Cover art by Shaheen www.instagram.com/p/Bgd2mLyHPm9/

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Jon DeRosa โ€ข vocals
Henrik Meierkord โ€ข strings
Sam Rosenthal โ€ข electronics

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