Distract'd by a Kaleidoscope Salesman

by SPIRIT RADIO

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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
The deluxe Artists Edition of the new Spirit Radio release comes with:
- CD of Distract'd by a Kaleidoscope Salesman
- Spirit Radio " Subject of Dreams" print.
- Handmade Handstitched Handprinted Vellum CD bag / envelope. Silver metallic thread.
- Altered antique b/w photos, with the words FADING handprinted in metallic embossed ink. Each photo is unique.
- Spirit Radio Tags ( each unique )
- Editions Vaché Tags ( each unique )
- Altered Playing Card with hand-stamped lyric line from "Fading into View". Each card Unique, from two or three antique decks....
- Other, surprise items ( not mentioned here ) from the Editons Vaché Storehouse, etc....
- This Artists Edition is limited to 43 pieces.

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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Cd version includes :
-Cd of Distract'd by a Kaleidoscope Salesman
-Spirit Radio "Subject of Dreams" print
-Spirit Radio Tag
-Other goodies as the Vaché office is moved to include......

Includes unlimited streaming of Distract'd by a Kaleidoscope Salesman via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Download available in 24-bit/44.1kHz.

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1.	DOCTRINAL 03:20		buy track
2.	DRUUM 03:18		buy track
3.	ALEMBIC 01:53		buy track
4.	LEAFWHELMED 04:06		buy track
5.	POSTCARDS 03:52	lyrics	buy track
Know me by my Postcards and I'll know you by your days You could make some diamonds and I'll show you all my ways You move with ghosts and gamblers and the wind that passes by the spectres of your lovers whisper in the wasted sky I could tell you a story You could tell me a story We could you a story He could tell you a story She could tell us a story I could tell you a story He could tell me a story They could tell us a story
6.	HORNSILVER 05:06		buy track
7.	RADIANT 02:50	lyrics	buy track
Let's be Radiant
8.	IN THE WOUND 02:08	lyrics	buy track
( so what I wrote was...) Something must happen in the wound It could be the world or the wound ( so what I wrote was...) Something must happen in the wound It could be the world or the wound
9.	MECHANICAL CHESS PLAYER 01:54		buy track
10.	THE FORMLESS 05:52	lyrics	buy track
As I was walking in a beautiful pine forest I cut my leg on a branch but no blood came from the wound only water the water flowed and flowed and formed a stream the stream flowed and flowed and formed a river the river flowed and flowed and formed an ocean as the water rose I climbed higher and higher I climbed and climbed until I was on an island I climbed as high as the clouds and at the very top I found a single flaming white crystal stone and I bent down to pick it up........
11.	ZAFFRE 03:08		buy track
12.	BREATH AMEN 03:57		buy track
13.	BLUE REMAINS 05:14		buy track
14.	FADING INTO VIEW 08:11	lyrics	buy track
I know I see there is another Fading into view

about

"The duo now returns with their second album “Distract’d By A Kaleidoscope Salesman”. On this album, they are assisted on the cello by Arthur Mervyn. In just over 53 minutes they bring 14 tracks, which again cross so many genres, but color outside all the frameworks. In a spooky, cosmic and cinematic way you get pieces that manage to transport you to another universe...."
de subjectivisen, Netherlands

"What would ghosts listen to"?
(Bluesbunny, Scotland)
Further answers to this question as SPIRIT RADIO releases their second full-length for Editions Vaché. Stephen Spera and Tamalyn Miller continue down their cosmic path....

"Every now and then an album comes along that simply blows you away. Distract’d by a Kaleidoscope Salesman is one such album – blending together elements of dark ambient / drone, classical music, folk, and eerie field recordings to create something very special indeed. This is an album to lose yourself to, with each and every listen offering something new, as the swirling, evolving sonic soundscape carries you with it. Simply wonderful." - this is darkness / frozen in time sept 2024

"Stephan Spera is a New York based artist working in the fields of music, art and photography. Spera composes songs wrapped in layers that combine electronic and acoustic sounds together with environmental recordings, producing vaporous textures that navigate into the waters of ambient. His discography has been released on renowned labels such as LAAPS (France), Handstitched (Great Britain), Parvoart (Germany), Red Records (Amsterdam), Tessellate (London), TraceRecordings (London) and Editions Vaché (New York). Spirit Radio is Stephen Spera and musician, poet, multi-instrumentalist and visual artist Tamalyn Miller, who also works with Craig Chin as Invisible Collage and in the psychedelic folk quartet Goddess. This is their second album under the Spirit Radio moniker. On the new album “Distract’d by a Kaleidoscope Salesman” Tamalyn Miller plays handmade horsehair fiddle and vocals. Stephen Spera plays guitars, keyboards, electric sitar, percussion, instruments, production, and as a guest artist, Arthur Mervyn play cello. The sudden dialogues and the choppy radio recordings of “Doctrinal” – which opens the album – augur a sober, intense and evocative album of folk and ambient landscapes, with nods to oriental music as in “Alembic”, and “Leafwhelmed”, where the violin seems at times to have a similar timbre to the Turkish Kabak Kemane violin. “Postcards” transports to a dreamlike world with little stories in which Tamalyn Miller’s heavenly voice glides. On “Hornsilver” the duo explores slowed down dub rhythms, along with Miller’s loop vocals, then enters with uplifting melodies and mysterious vocals on “Mechanical Chess Player”. The arabesque air of “The Formless” lends an enigmatic character to this song that is accompanied by Miller’s reading that apparently is an English translation of a language I can’t identify. Where the heroine makes a wound with the branch of a tree and emerges – like a magical tale – water instead of blood. And that water creates currents, from which rivers are formed and from those rivers, oceans…. In “Breath Amen” Spera displays several layers of ambient textures, along with the violin thickness, and Miller’s whispering voice and the ethnic percussion. The strings seem to be plucked from a guitar on “Blue Remains”, creating a dreamy atmosphere that continues on “Fading Into View” which closes the album, along with distant backing vocals, small noises and chimes. The song “Postcards” by Spirit Radio allows climb higher and higher on a mountain to observe from there, a calmer and beautiful landscape."- LOOP.cl

"the recording takes on the character of phantom transmissions reaching our ears through archaic devices of one kind or another...."
( textura )

credits

released September 1, 2024

Tamalyn Miller : Vox, Handmade Horsehair Fiddle
Stephen Spera: Everything else
Cello Drones by Arthur Mervyn
Produced by Stephen Spera
Recorded at Studio Vaché, New York.
Art Direction, Photography, Design : Stephen Spera
All songs,©2024 SPIRIT RADIO
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SPIRIT RADIO New York, New York

SPIRIT RADIO is Stephen Spera and Tamalyn Miller.

Spera has had many releases,on labels like LAAPS,handstitched,Parvoart, Trace recordings, Tessellate, ReRed, and Editions Vaché

Tamalyn plays her handmade horsehair fiddle and performs live with a host of other improvisors.Tamalyn's new solo album "Ghost Pipe" is available from Editios Vaché.
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