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New FSOL/Amorphous Androgynous album

Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 12:46 pm
by purlieu
Well, it's not exactly the promised "late 2003", but it's here at last.

"Alice In Ultraland"
01. The Emptiness Of Nothingness
02. The Witchfinder
03. The Witch Hunt
04. All Is Harvest
05. The Prophet
06. Indian Swing
07. The Seasons Turn
08. High & Dry
09. Yes My Brother (You've Gotta Turn Yourself Around)
10. In The Summertime Of Consciousness
11. Billy The Onion
12. Another Fairy Tale Ending
13. The World Is Full Of Plankton
14. The Wicker Doll


The next album from Dougans and Cobain are releasing is another Amorphous Androgynous album, thus making AA an on-going project. The album started with further work on some music from The Isness sessions, although the three-year gap suggests there's a large amount of new material recorded. The tracks are also expectded to be in a slightly darker, funkier vein, possibly less playful and more spiritual than some of The Isness. Alice In Ultraland was one of the prospective titles for The Isness in the late '90s. The band are ressurecting the legendary Harvest imprint on the EMI label, famed for releasing psychedelic classics by Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett in the late '60s and early '70s, to release the record. The album will be out in September 2005, hopefully on the 26th.

And don't worry electro kids, the group have begun work on the follow-up to Dead Cities. Just wait a couple of years and you'll have some of that "real" music. :P

Woo.

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 10:04 am
by GoatSucker
Great news!
Just checked on Amazon.co.uk, and they have the release date as August 29, 2005.[/img]

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 10:06 am
by III
Yaaaaaaaaay.

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 10:46 am
by Timbob
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Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 11:25 am
by purlieu
GoatSucker wrote:Great news!
Just checked on Amazon.co.uk, and they have the release date as August 29, 2005.[/img]
It's definitely been moved back to September, I'm afraid.
I mean, it's FSOL. We probably still won't get it until 2007 anyway.

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 12:22 am
by GoatSucker
I figured Amazon's dates would be a bit off. But after this long, an extra month is nothing!

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 5:55 pm
by shadyboy
Good news indeed - but to be honest I would rather have the new FSOL stuff first!

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 6:30 pm
by purlieu
Yeah... I have a feeling this is going to lose them quite a few more fans who were expecting The Isness to be a side-project. We'll see, I suppose.

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 6:58 pm
by III
I much prefer amorhpous androgynous to the future sound of london.

AFSOLA

Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 6:01 pm
by Kansler
re purlieu: The isness should not have been such a surprise to those familiar with both some of the more ambient FSOL stuff proper, and with their earlier AA EP Tales of Ephidrina.

Stuff like Life Forms, and even one half of Dead Cities, is pretty close to AA, if less "acoustic".

But yea, it's cats and dogs to an extent, isn't it? At least what goes to "We Have Explosive" versus "Mello Hippo Disco Show". :)

I'm eagerly awaiting both FSOL and AA albums, no doubt.

Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 10:20 pm
by purlieu
Yeah, if you took away the sitar, half of the album would probably fit on Lifeforms or ISDN anyway... stuff like Elysian Feels, Her Tongue Is Like A Jellyfish and (especially) Guru Song is very FSOL.

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 4:46 pm
by shadyboy
Update on the official site - after a few seconds on the flash intro a link for Alice in Ultraland appears at the bottom left of the screen and you get a few samples from the album and more hippy pish from Garry.
God I love his music but the man can't half slaver some shite.....

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 4:58 pm
by purlieu
I think some of the stuff on the site is actually quite interesting and I agree with it.
And I don't think it's all intended to be entirely serious (see: teleportation).
The site can also be found at http://www.amorphousandrogynous.com for whatever reason.

Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:04 pm
by Kansler
haha, great stuff! :o

Now, that makes me want to buy The Isness/Otherness (I only have The Isness).

Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 2:50 pm
by purlieu
Try HMV, they might have the US import of The Otherness as its own CD.