Crystal Mass

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Crystal Mass
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Studio album by
Released2000
Genre Psychedelic
Length57:45
Label Nettwerk/Subconscious
The Tear Garden chronology
To Be an Angel Blind, the Crippled Soul Divide
(1992)
Crystal Mass
(2000)
The Brown Acid Caveat
(2017)
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Crystal Mass is the fourth album by The Tear Garden, released four years after To Be an Angel Blind, the Crippled Soul Divide . It has the same line-up as the previous release.

The Tear Garden

The Tear Garden is a psychedelic/experimental/electronic band, formed by Edward Ka-Spel of The Legendary Pink Dots and cEvin Key of Skinny Puppy in 1985 after Key served as a sound engineer on tour in Canada for Ka-Spel. An EP, The Tear Garden, was released that same year. The pair have since released a number records with the assistance of various guest musicians. Their most recent release, The Brown Acid Caveat, was released in July 2017.

<i>To Be an Angel Blind, the Crippled Soul Divide</i> album by The Tear Garden

To Be an Angel Blind, the Crippled Soul Divide is the third album by The Tear Garden, released four years after The Last Man to Fly.

Contents

This was their last album released on Nettwerk.

Track listing

All tracks by The Tear Garden

  1. "Lament" – 6:28
  2. "The Double Spades Effect" – 5:13
  3. "Desert Island Disc" – 5:23
  4. "Hopeful" – 3:28
  5. "Her Majesty's Trusted Food Taster" – 6:54
  6. "Castaway" – 5:17
  7. "Feathered Friends" – 4:56
  8. "To Mourn the Death of Colour" – 12:39
  9. "Six of One" – 7:26

Personnel

Edward Ka-Spel British singer

Edward Ka-Spel is an English singer/songwriter and musician residing in Nijmegen, Netherlands. He is best known for his work with the band The Legendary Pink Dots, which he co-founded. He is also known for his work on The Tear Garden with Skinny Puppy's cEvin Key. In 2017, he collaborated with Amanda Palmer on the album I Can Spin a Rainbow.

cEvin Key Canadian musician

cEvin Key is a Canadian musician, songwriter, producer, and composer. He is best known as a member of the industrial music group Skinny Puppy, which he co-founded in 1982 with singer Nivek Ogre. Initially a side project while he was with the new wave band Images in Vogue, Skinny Puppy quickly became his primary musical outlet following a record deal with Nettwerk Records in 1984.

Crystal Mass has a tracking error: tracks 4 and 5 ("Hopeful" and "Her Majesty's Trusted Food Taster") are indexed as a single 10:23 track. In addition, the track listing on the album mistakenly titles track 6 as "Her Majesty's Trusted Food Taster" when in fact it is "Castaway".

"To Mourn the Death of Colour" is used as a lyric in The Legendary Pink Dots song "Cheraderama".

The Legendary Pink Dots band

The Legendary Pink Dots (LPD) are an Anglo-Dutch experimental rock band formed in London in August 1980. In 1984 the band moved to Amsterdam, playing with rotating musicians and having, as core members, singer/songwriter/keyboardist Edward Ka-Spel and keyboardist Phil Knight. As of 2012, the group is composed of Edward Ka-Spel, Phil Knight, Erik Drost (guitars) and Raymond Steeg.

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References

  1. Goldman, Rich. Crystal Mass at AllMusic