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A Chaos of Desire (2022 Remastered Deluxe Edition)

by Black Tape For A Blue Girl

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

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This is the 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 memory, 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.

We're crowdfunding the 2LP/CD/MiniDisc:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/samrosenthal/black-tape-for-a-blue-girl-a-chaos-of-desire-2lp-cd?ref=2pgos0

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.

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released March 4, 2021

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Black Tape For A Blue Girl Portland, Oregon

Black Tape For A Blue Girl creates darkwave, ethereal, neoclassical, ambient, goth albums. This page also includes my ambient/electronic music, as well as side-projects. Thanks for listening. Sam

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The Cleft Serpent

Oct 2021
The Instrumental Serpent

Oct 2021
Eating Rose Petals (free!)

Nov 2020
Tim, where are you now?

Sep 2020
Live KSBR 1987

Jul 2020
Sunwashed evening fire

Jun 2020
Highlights (name-your-price)

Mar 2020
the gesture of history

Aug 2019
To touch the milky way

Oct 2018
Journey to Aktehi

Oct 2017
Isotope

Aug 2017
Blood on the snow

Jan 2017
These fleeting moments

Aug 2016
Limitless (ep)

Jun 2016
the "Bike Shop" EP

Apr 2016
Across a thousand blades (demos+live)

Oct 2015
Monolith

Apr 2015
Monolith (addendum)

Apr 2015
The Collection (Free!)

Aug 2014
Tenderotics

Feb 2013
Archive 01

Oct 2012
Forbidden Colours

Oct 2012
The Passage

Nov 2011
Knock Three Times (2010 live with Nicki Jaine)

Jul 2010
10 Neurotics

Aug 2009
The Pleasures Everlasting (ep)

Aug 2008
The best of (deluxe: 2008+1991)

Jul 2008
Anthology Archive

Jun 2008
POD

Jun 2007
Halo Star (deluxe - Disc 2)

Nov 2004
Halo Star

Aug 2004
with a million tear-stained memories (2CD)

Dec 2003
Black Tape For A Blue Girl sampler 2002

Jun 2002
the scavenger bride

Apr 2002
As One Aflame Laid Bare By Desire (Deluxe)

Jun 1999
Kickstarter Holiday EP

Nov 1996
With my Sorrows (2012)

Oct 1996
Remnants of a deeper purity

Jun 1996
the first pain to linger (maxi)

Apr 1996
Of these reminders

Nov 1994
This lush garden within

Apr 1993
Terrace of Memories

Apr 1992
A chaos of desire

Mar 1991
Ashes in the brittle air

Aug 1989
ashes in the brittle air (2020 remaster)

May 1989
Mesmerized by the sirens

Oct 1988
Before the buildings fell

Aug 1986
The Rope (deluxe)

Aug 1986
Tanzmusik

Mar 1985
The Sleep of Reason (remastered)

Aug 1984
Round Trip

Feb 1984
the gesture of history (preview)

Feb 1919

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