Remnants of a Deeper Purity

Artist: Black Tape for a Blue Girl
Label: Projekt Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 617026006826
EAN: 0617026006826
ASIN: B000000BE3

Release Date: 1997-07-29

Remnants of a Deeper Purity

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Tracks:

redefine pure faith
fin de sie
with my sorrows
for you will burn your wings upon the sun
'wings tattered, fallen'
fitful
remnants of a deeper purity
'again, to drift (for veronika)'
I have no more answers

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For their sixth full-length, Black Tape for a Blue Girl offer up their most atmospheric and orchestral work to date. Picking up where 1993's This Lush Garden Within left off, composer and keyboardist Sam Rosenthal and company execute a dark, moody, and emotion-drenched series of ambient soundscapes brought to life by Oscar Herrera's powerful vocals and the stirring string duo of Vicki Richards (violin) and Mera Roberts (cello). Typical of Black Tape's albums, Remnants' lyrics deal mostly with passionate--indeed, often overwrought--manifestoes about love and honesty, but what lingers in the memory is the stark beauty of the music, nowhere more evident than on the disc's 26-minute opus, "For You Will Burn Your Wings upon the Sun." A textural marvel, it rises on the wings of Richards's haunting violin and swoops down to perch on Rosenthal's gloomy, muted ambiance before taking flight again amid an epic symphony of neoclassical bombast. Worth it for this track alone. --Steve Landau

Customer Reviews:

Underrated.......2004-06-26

I think this is one of the more underrated albums of the 90s. This is because they're pretty unhip to listen to, as most people (rock critics) view them as bombastic, moping goths. I'll have to admit that, yes, they can get pretty maudlin at times (which is why I gave it four-stars). However, the strength of this album is in the arrangements/composition, coming from mastermind Sam Rosenthal. Most detractors of this album focus on the vocals, but they fail to realize that the majority of this 70-plus minute record is instrumental, or near-instrumental. Of course, if you only listen to, say, Pavement, then you'll probably turn Black Tape off, but if you like moody music with good arrangements (you know, violins, keyboards, next-to-no guitar) try it.

Why?.......2003-12-06

I still don't really understand why anyone, except a mansonite, would not like this cd. Rather than being an embarassment, as some said, to the music genre, I feel it adds. Yes, I absolutely love Cocteau twins, but unless your trying too hard to be goth, it's a good change in the sense of ethereal.
This album has a very chamber sound, this is strangely contributed by the keyboards. I guess some of the music on the synths would be a little easy to play, but as one musician commented "Keep it simple, stupid."
With that said, I'm not going to tell people they have to hear it because if they don't they aren't cool enough. Instead, I say it's a really good album, but if you don't like it, then shut up and let those who do, like it...
So if you are thinking about buying it, listen to it on your computer, mabey borrow it from someone. What I'm trying to get across is that, don't buy if your not sure. I recomend it to everyone though. There are mixed reviews about this band. I love them personaly.

Not Pure Goth But Not Absolutely Terrible Either........2002-04-14

Black Tape for a Blue Girl is an acquired taste. Old school Goths don't think much of them which I can understand, it's like Black Tape is playing up to the Goth stereotypes but I don't think that's intentional. The group is okay they just gotta stop Sam Rosenthal from singing cause that guy sounds like my cat after I stepped on it's tail by mistake. It's a sound I never want to hear ever ever again. And though I give Sam his props in whatever else he does with the group "Dude don't do vocals!" Don't do vocals ever ever ever again! Whenever I hear Sam's voice on the other Black Tape cd's I just skip the track. When I want to hear a grown man whine, I'll listen to Earth Wind & Fire. They at least sound good. Other than Sammy boy, this cd is pretty good...well okay. Like the tracks when no one is really singing the most.

Remnants of Dignity in Question.......2002-03-08

I, too have read so many glowing reviews of this band Black Tape For A Blue Girl. I was so very excited to find American Gothic bands supposedly in the vein of 4AD. This band sounds like what Circe Nightshade and Azrael might come up with after a weekend on Ex-Lax and near-beer. Maybe not that exciting. If you like drivel, buy it.

Pure fake.......2002-02-25

Driven by the shipload of 5 stars I bought this CD (actualy I bought 2 taking "advantage" of a combined offer) hoping to get something that could compete with This Mortal Coil, say Cocteau Twins or Dead Can Dance. It doesn't compete at all: it's a pretentious insult to the whole movement!
As one said, pure cliché. On "Mesmerized by the Sirens" some lyrics are in French - I guess because it's a "chique" language - and, living near France, I can assure you that your Spanish is better than this.

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