Lyvv China Doll Redux (2024 Master)

by Edward Ka-Spel

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1.	The Char Char (version 1) 03:55	buy track
2.	When Old Gods Die 04:59	buy track
3.	Tower 8 04:28	buy track
4.	Bleak House 01:34	buy track
5.	Corridors of Deceit 02:24	buy track
6.	Dada 02:52	buy track
7.	Infirmary Waltz 02:42	buy track
8.	(Untitled) 01:50	buy track
9.	Lying in State 05:08	buy track
10.	Sneezing Choirs 02:16	buy track
11.	Anorexic Locusts 01:56	buy track
12.	Beautiful, Plastic 03:07	buy track
13.	Pretty Ribbons 03:29	buy track
14.	Vla 03:26	buy track
15.	Culumnyetz 02:49	buy track
16.	God Bless the Cavalry Parts 1 & 2 04:44	buy track
17.	Zyrrup 01:30	buy track
18.	The Horn Section 01:12	buy track
19.	Intent 00:44	buy track
20.	Bleeding Finale 01:18	buy track
21.	So Gallantly Screaming (Delden NL 1985) 08:49	buy track
22.	Flesh Parade 05:42	buy track
23.	Aazhyd China Doll 04:38	buy track
24.	Dance of the China Dolls 03:48	buy track
25.	Golden Dawn 05:44	buy track
26.	Avengelist / God in a Cupboard 07:15	buy track
27.	Love in a Plain Brown Envelope 05:23	buy track

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"Lyvv China Doll" started life as an elaborate but very elusive cassette release from The Dots' TEKA label- it was half live material and half comprised of bits and pieces that needed a home.
Later it became a cd for the Staalplaat label and the live side was dropped while more bits and pieces came into view.This remaster brings the two releases together.
The first live piece in the track listing is actually "The Horn Section" while a little later the first ever performance of "So Gallantly Screaming." can be heard as a mere idea rather than a finished song. The year was 1985 and the venue was in the village of Delden in the far East of The Netherlands.
Never heard of Delden? Guess what, they hadn't heard of us either (EK, Ignit, Ed van Kaye)..You could say the reaction was minimal when the screaming started; it even became mildly hostile when that horn section (actually miniature plastic saxophones from the gas station) were introduced. I'd like to think they still talk about it in Delden but they probably forgot decades ago.
Other live tracks were from an especially heavy solo show in Vienna (1988) and Strasbourg (1986) where The Silverman and Stret Majest Alarme completed a particularly incendiary line-up.
Other notable songs from Lyvv" include "Tower 8" and "When Old Gods Die" (with Patrick Q.Paganini) which were the famous "missing " bonus songs from the original "Chyekk China Doll" cd. After this mysterious omission, the master tapes were delivered to a guy in Sweden for an intended 7" release. Sadly tapes and guy disappeared. Thankfully EK had rough cassette copies in his drawer .
Finally I must thank Hero Wouters for his amazing work on "Dada" and "Beautiful Plastic" (he wrote the music for the latter piece). Always a joy to work with Hero....Thanks too to Bianca Wouters for her voice ...This is the enhanced 2024 master. EK

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released June 1, 2024

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