Mauve Sideshow - Stray Apparitions – Refraction Sound, KK#3, LP, ‘90, New - Rare
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Mauve Sideshow - Stray Apparitions – Refraction Sound, KK#3, LP, ‘90, New
The pictures shown are of the actual item - will be shipped in a "real" LP Mailer
This Out of Print LP has been in a protective sleeve since it was given to me by the artist to list on my now defunct music distribution catalog J.S. Laboratories – there is a sticker on the back bottom right corner of that label – the album was issued without “shrink wrap” – the original stamps on the LP label have since faded or rubbed off – this LP has never been played and the only time it has been out of the sleeve was today when I took pictures of it.
Label: Refraction Sound ?– KK#3
Format: LP, Album, Limited Edition (200)
Country: USA
Released: 1990
Genre: Electronic
Style: Dark Ambient, Abstract, Experimental
Tracklist
A1 Beneath The Rose 8:26
A2 Stray Apparitions 14:40
B1 Lost 19:00
Credits:
Mellotron, Strings [Sounds] – Dusty Lee
Voice – Treva
MarsHottentot says:
Floating somewhere within the lysergic clouds of heavy psychedelia, noise, lo-fi, spoken word and goth, Stray Apparitions is built out of waves of Mellotron manipulation (Mellotron was, essentially, the first sampler using racks of audio tape embedded within a keyboard, made popular by The Beatles, The Moody Blues and prog. rockers).
The textures vary from beautiful to queasy, Treva Dea's vocals hopping from nursery rhyme simplicity to ambient ghost cries while Dusty Lee's Mellotron recalls the 60's then annihilates any sense of nostalgia with a battery of echoes, minor keys, detuning and 'wow and flutter' (warbling). To be sure, there are no identifiable pop songs here, though the labels 'ambient' and 'noise' certainly don't fit any better. Extreme Psychedelia, stripped of any Acid Rock leanings would be best, I suppose.
There really isn't anyone else like Mauve Sideshow, the closest relatives I can think of would be Nurse with Wound, Twin Infinitives era Royal Trux and Faust. And those are only by marriage.
Mauve Sideshow are one of the earliest incarnations of a linked series of American 'darkwave' outfits, including Mistress of Strands, Torn Curtain, Angel Provocateur, Minus Infinity and Thistle, all of whom are supposed to have used Mellotron at one point or another. It seems they all highlight different aspects of their gothic inclinations, with one being more electronic, one more ambient, one more atonal, etc. I believe most (if not all) of the disparate outfits are essentially the husband-and-wife team of Dusty Lee (Mellotron, electronics) and Treva Dea (vocals, electronics), leading me to believe that Lee is the male half of the team.
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Their first two releases were vinyl-only albums, 1990's Dark Flowers and Stray Apparitions from the Mauve Sideshow from the following year. The mere half-hour Dark Flowers consists of atonal-yet-ethereal soundscapes, for want of a better term, with mostly wordless female vocals and muttered threats drifting in and out of the mix, alongside echoed synths and other unidentifiable sounds. However, I'm pretty sure there's no Mellotron on the album, despite thinking I heard some flutes on opener Golden Sand, reiterated on their eponymous compilation, below.
Stray Apparitions from the Mauve Sideshow is a full-length LP featuring all of three tracks (hey, it's prog! OK, it isn't). More atonal madness, unsurprisingly, just in longer form here, just about the only thing distinguishing it from its predecessor being its Mellotron use. Lee adds cellos and strings to Beneath The Rose, while Stray Apparitions is the 'Tron classic here; cellos, flutes and strings all duel for the first couple of minutes of the piece, and various sounds (including choirs) dip in and out over the succeeding ten minutes, although the near-twenty minute Lost has to be the most challenging track on the album, but then we all like a nice challenge, don't we? DON'T WE??!
1993's Mauve Sideshow is a compilation of tracks from the above two LPs, with one new track. The compilation is probably best described as 'very weird shit indeed'; Mauve Sideshow are most certainly the 'atonal' part of the collective's oeuvre, and unless you're well into avant-garde oddness, you'll find this very hard going indeed. Lee's Mellotron appears at odd moments throughout the album, on the two tracks from Stray Apparitions and strings on Hide in the Rain, the one track unique to this compilation.
But seriously, folks... Mauve Sideshow are most decidedly uneasy listening, but if you're prepared to persevere with their stuff, it's (probably) worth it, and the 'Tron's good, too. They've made another three albums since: Meet Me in the Wasteland and The Girl (both '94) and Blood Will Tell ('97).
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