Spiritualized?

Musician and artist Daniel Johnston has become a cult figure amongst those in the 'know'.

This special concert brings together many of Daniel Johnston's admirers to perform on the same stage as him. Confirmed guests so far include Mark Linkous (Sparklehorse), Jason Pierce (Spiritualised) and Jad Fair.

An outsider with a history of mental illness, Johnston first came to the public's attention when rock legend Kurt Cobain was seen on MTV sporting Johnston's 'Goofy Frog' t-shirt design. Since then his raw and heartfelt music has been championed by everyone from Tom Waits to Beck.

The release of a compelling documentary The Devil & Daniel Johnston, which had the critics raving at the Raindance film festival, has further generated interest in this enigmatic figure.

Produced by the Barbican

I want to see that documentary though. It played in the SF film festival (at the same time as s1ocki's film!) and i missed it.

http://www.spiritualized.com/prescriptions/story.php?id=26

SPIRITUALIZED mainman JASON PIERCE is recovering after an illness left him close to death.

The star, who recently completed work on the band’s new album, is now at home after spending a lengthy time in intensive care for an as-yet-unspecified illness.

But in a posting on the band official website spiritualized.com, his partner Juliette says he is on the mend, but admitted that Pierce’s life was in serious danger during his spell in hospital.

The message reads: "So nearly dying twice in the last 2 and half weeks Jason has now and fantastically made an alarming and brilliant recovery and is due home today."

"He is still fragile and really weak weighing in at maybe 8 stone but love and happiness on his side. Weirdly he is still Jason though."

"No thoughts about how lucky he is just mentioned how mad it is that his record is written almost like he was ill before."

"Not that he's into esp and stuff just in the most beautiful way."

"Love to all and everyone who sent him get well wishes cos he needed it and must have heard it and thankfully he's here and back and coming home."

From Spiritualized.com:

21.07.05 | Jason's illness

As rumoured on the forums both here and at NME.com, J.Spaceman was recently taken critically ill but has been allowed home after a prolonged stay in intensive care and critical care.

Jason contracted advanced periorbital cellulitis with bilateral pnuemonia with rapid deterioration requiring intensive care and c-pap for type 1 respiratory failure.

A truly massive "Thank You" to all the Medical Staff and Nurses at The Royal London Hospital A&E, Cambridge Ward, Intensive Care and Critical Care / Cotton Ward whom all worked so amazingly hard on his treatment and recovery.

"Thank You" also to Intensive Care Dept at St Barts for his 2 day transfer there.

And thanks to all you for your good wishes and thoughts.

J Spaceman Guitar Loops

Recorded in one continuous take in June ’05 for John Coxon and Ashley Wales’ series of improvised music for their Treader label. Limited to 500 copies in gold embossed sleeve. Signed and numbered by Spaceman.

Orders open at 9pm 30.01.06. Limited to 2 CDs per person.
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Pierce then fired Linkous, Fair and Johnston.

Typical smackhead BS - unfinished, unedited, half-assed nonsense

No doubt we can look forward to live albums by-the-dozen cf Thunders/Nico.

And truth be told, it's not even worth the $18. I'm a huge Spacemen 3/Spiritualized/Spectrum fan, to the point where I even listen to and enjoy the Pure Phase Tones for DJs record, and this is the worst thing Jason has ever done.

Go buy the new Sunroof! record instead....

The last E.A.R. release was actually pretty good, though.

And at least these guys have the whole drugs excuse, so I've never had the same crushed expectations with them that I've had every time I hear the name Kevin Shields....

Hahahaha! fuckin' brilliant. please please let me steal this line from you.

Can someone tell me how to YSI post on ILM? I don't know the html code for links....

PS. To post a YSI link, you need to enter an email address of your own on the YSI form to receive the YSI link. Then cut and paste into a message here.

Will Carruthers here .
There is a little spiritualized news at the end of this message .

We have made a new lp . It's called "Home improvement for condemned buildings "
Mark Refoy and Kevin Cowen played guitar on it and Jonny Mattock played the drums.

It was recorded during the summer of 2005 in a soon to be demolished old office block in Leicester .
It's got ten songs on it and if you want to hear some of them please try out our new website
at www.willcarruthers.com .You will need flash installed to view it .
You will find some free mp3 downloads and some audio streams .
The album is available to buy through the website at this address .

http://freelove.moonfruit.com/goshopping

The first five hundred are numbered , signed and painted and decorated by my own fair hands.

We also have the psi love you album,(that I played bass on), and some rather nice handmade posters for sale .

If you go to this address

http://www.apolloaudio.com/26

You will find an online stream of four tracks from the album , plus a new version of van fever incident ...(now with added Mark Refoy)
This ep is available as a paid download for the price of four dollars .

thanks

ps ...also, possibly of interest to fans of Lazer guided melodies . Somebody kindly sent me fifty copies of a spiritualized bootleg , containing unreleased versions of songs ,, outtakes , rehearsals and a peel session from the Lazer guided melodies lineup.
There is some great stuff on here you won't have heard before .
If you would like more details please send an e-mail to frndly_fr@yahoo.co.uk.

This bootleg is called Friendly fire .
It features outtakes , rehearsals and the peel session from the Lazer guided melodies lineup.

The full tracklisting is :

OUTTAKES

I want you ////instrumental version , unreleased variant of glides and chimes .

shine a light ///very different from the album version ,diff vocals , diff ,mix ..unreleased

smile ///radically different , longer version ..unreleased

I want you ////twelve inch, unreleased instrumental version

REHEARSALS

these are from a good quality cassette recording of a Spiritualized rehearsal at Jason's flat in Rugby.They have been cleaned up and mastered and the sound is powerful if not totally hi-fi.

why don't you smile
you know it's true
amen
angel sigh
If I were with her now
run

PEEL SESSIONS:
Already released,but a nice little bonus .

Angel sigh
feel so sad
smile

there is a secret track at the end of smile ...which seems to be someone messing about with a sampler while somebody sings the bare necessities from the Jungle book in the background .
Not essential Spiritualized , but quite entertaining .

The cd's are professionally made, with nice artwork and quality printing .
We have very few of these .
We are putting together a list of people who want one. If you definitely want to buy this, reply to this e-mail address (frndly_fr@yahoo.co.uk.) stating how many you want .
When they are ready to be sent out ,(about three weeks)
you will be notified by e-mail and told how to pay for them .

They will be 12 pounds each including postage and packing.
You will need some sort of debit /credit card .
Included is an attachment showing some of the artwork .
thanks

I think payment is via paypal.
Ordered mine. No doubt they will go quick.

Someone tell Kate!!

though hey never mind Fat Possum have a restock of the white vinyl (though bafflingly not the regular ol' black) up for preorder:

https://store.fatpossum.com/products/lazer-guided-melodies?variant=32321767538801¤cy=USD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&gclid=Cj0KCQjwsqmEBhDiARIsANV8H3afUq9aMlnSkVz5tdabVj-au4AAExB3i3IjiwBC8HxzWjKfJ6btbqQaAksnEALw_wcB

fat possum vinyl is not good ime but maybe they’re better now

Hm. I went to the Steve Hoffman forums and the response is...mostly good? There have been a couple of people who received moderately warped discs but Fat Possum are apparently very responsive about replacing them.

I just ordered, since I've never owned these albums in any physical format; if anyone else is considering, the code FATPOSSUM20OFF works and got me $12 off when buying both.

My copy of the black vinyl ‘LGM’ has the worst warp I’ve had in ages on the first disk (looks like a rollercoaster) bit it plays through fine. Overall sound is fine, not amazing. Have ‘Pure Phase’ on order.

ah good to know, TT... it always felt perfect on CD to me, the clean shimmering crystaline-ness matching the physical medium... in fact I grew up with the cd that had the glitch on “angel sigh” so when I listen to the cd I have now I still get a little tripped up when it doesn’t start over again 1:00 in lol

Spiritualized opening up for Neil Young somewhere in the USA 1996.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oSeSbU984o

Ladies & Gents being reissued on Fat Possum. They really screwed the pooch on the artwork.

https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2021/09/08/spiritualized-the-aquarium-drunkard-interview/

Good interview but just in case folks don't finish to the end:

Jason Pierce: Not much. I just finished a record. I’m kind of kicking my heels at the moment.

AD: When is it coming out?

Jason Pierce: Early next year.

AD: Will it be Spiritualized?

Jason Pierce: It’s a Spiritualized record as well. That seems like a weird kind of accomplishment.

*** Spaceman Reissue Program ***

Let It Come Down - the band’s epic fourth album - reissued with new artwork on limited double 180-gram ivory vinyl as well as standard black.

Out Oct 22. Available to pre-order now via https://t.co/bux8oadRqd pic.twitter.com/SYPV5wPGvl

— Spiritualized® (@officialSpzd) September 14, 2021

Possibly teasing a new album? "Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt" is quote from Slaughterhouse 5

エヴリシング・ワズ・ビューティフル™
Tout Était Magnifique™
Alles War Wunderschön™
Todo era bello™ pic.twitter.com/J6al54Ig94

— Spiritualized® (@officialSpzd) November 1, 2021

I wonder if that is supposed to be a cool symbol because all I see is a carton dieline.

Their previous tweet was that "symbol" against a plain background so wondering whether it's a slow album cover reveal

We need to be quick if we want to do a photoshop/MS Paint competition with it before the actual cover is revealed.

"Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt" is quote from Slaughterhouse 5

also one of the most cliched literary references in the history of underground music

discogs alone shows like 160 entries when you search that exact phrase (with some repeats, sure, but still)

Hope that isn't the title

Jason Spaceman using a cliche??????

ha ha ha, touche

Uh, you guys remember that "And Nothing Hurt" was the name of the most recent Spiritualized record from 2018.... right?

Yeah, thought that was obvious sorry. As in last album was And Nothing Hurt and the translation of their tweet is the first part of the quote.

So new album/companion piece I assumed (as can't imagine they're reissuing their last album)

Everything Was Beautiful
Out Feb 25th 2022
Available to pre-order now.
Limited edition boxset only available throughhttps://t.co/D98xVU4reL pic.twitter.com/R7mkkALlGC

— Spiritualized® (@officialSpzd) November 2, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME0ji3o05UQ

This is a remake of "Always Forgetting with You," a track off of The Space Project compilation.

Sounds like Spiritualized. Which I love, but I guess I've given up on the notion of being surprised by Jason.

one of the other tracks on this, "Best Thing You Never Had (The D Song)" has also been around since at least 2013.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnGNc8bA_bo

not completely unfamiliar to this group, but i bought 'let it come down' cd off the back of low covering 'lord, can you hear me'. i got five songs in tonight and had to turn it off... it sounded so cluttered, orchestrally overblown, no dynamics... i don't really think i get it? i tried to crack spacemen 3 when i was younger, but they were lost on me then, too. i wanna like them, though. what to listen to from here?

Lazer Guided Melodies. Less bombastic than LICD but more melodic than S3.

the S3 version is probably better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLVjB7SI9KA

I’d say Lazer Guided Melodies as well, maybe try this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLwjblRFXxs

Finding 'Always Together With You' to be oddly affecting

yeah it's a good thing I discovered this after voting closed on the 2021 tracks poll haha

it's SO GOOD what am i

Album is out today and sounds excellent on first listen

Yep, excellent as usual. Mr. Spaceman is the most reliable purveyor of aural comfort food I know of

it's very nice, altho the opening track is the clear highlight

Oh cool thanks for the heads up.

so I loved their first bunch of albums and have seen them in concert several times and it was always great, but I pretty much gave up on them around Songs in A&E. Should I check this out or will it be more disappointment?

Let It Come Down is still my favorite Spiritualized album, and I feel like this new album and the last one tap into the soulful, hungover widescreen orchestral vibe of that one better than anything he's done since

that seems promising, I like Let It Come Down, but it definitely isn't my favorite. I really disliked when he went for more of a raw rock sound, it just didn't work for me, so maybe this is a step in the right direction.

This one also has a bit of a lo-fi LAGWAFIS feel about it too. You should definitely check it out

glad to see his knack for vague meaningless keep-it-positive titles hasn't waned

#goodvibesonly

Yep, excellent as usual. Mr. Spaceman is the most reliable purveyor of aural comfort food I know of

My thought listening to this album last night was, man this guy is consistent. I like the new one, he is good at doing what he does.

The first track is so choice, I keep playing it

Love the little country elements here and there.

oh this is really good, his best in a long time, and i thought that about the last one too

The first track is great, as mentioned above. The last one is joyous too.

Mark Refoy with a story he posted just now on FB:

Spiritualized fun fact
It’s time for a lazer guided fun fact folks. Back in 1991 Spiritualized were in the process of recording their debut album in various different studios. A studio we spent a lot of time in was Bath Moles. During the recording of 200 Bars it was decided that some accordion was needed. A call was made and an accordion player turned up to add the necessary vibe.
Or so we thought.
She was a very polite and well spoken lady, not the folkie type we’d been expecting. We played the song and when it came to the part when Kate intoned “One Hundred” Jason said…“we want you to play over the chords B and F# like this - da dada da da da da dada, da dada da da dada dada - yeah? Okay?” There was a moment of silence and she replied…”well I can’t possibly do that.” We were a bit taken aback - ”er, why not? You can play the accordion can’t you?” Somewhat smarted she replied…“yes I can play the accordion but that’s syncopation, it can’t be done on an accordion.” I picked up a guitar and played what we wanted her to play. She said…“that’s all very well and good but an accordion can’t do that.”
We begged to differ so a plan was formulated - while she squeezed the accordion, myself and Jason pushed the buttons and played the keys. After a fashion, job done.
So the lesson learnt was, three people using all their hands can play a two chord syncopated rhythm on one accordion.

Wow!

*** Spaceman Reissue Program, Vol. 2 ***

Songs In A&E remastered for vinyl and with new cover artwork, available in standard black or limited edition green.

Out June 21 2024. Available to pre-order now.https://t.co/bux8oadRqd pic.twitter.com/Kv6q5wZ9k7

— Spiritualized® (@officialSpzd) April 16, 2024

Fat Possum vinyl is inconsistent, but the new cover is a huge improvement.