Trillian Blonde

[cos]

I found an old cardboard box of CDs that I hadn't gone through since several moves ago, that contained mostly CD-R's, demos, show recordings, pre-release albums from friends' bands, and the like, from the mid/late 90s. Unfortunately some of them were damaged - I think this box was in my trunk on a road trip a long time ago and soaked up some automotive liquid (antifreeze? wiper fluid?) from a leaky container. I've been able to restore some of them by washing them, though even most of those have some damaged tracks.

One that seems to have survived completely* (after washing) is "Bad Release: The Dead Opossum Sessions" by Oxytocin High. Which was their performance at WBRS that I recorded, and they possibly re-mixed then burned onto CD with track names and titles, and a nice printed label. Someone even entered all the track info into CDDB.

So I'm sitting here listening to lyonesse and ceelove singing songs they wrote, with instrumental accompaniment by coraline, nacht_musik, and a few of their friends. I can hear chaiya in the audience, and I know iabervon and veek are there.

I haven't listened to this in probably nearly a decade. But I used to sit in on some of their living room practices, and it's surprising how completely familiar every single song is. I didn't think I remembered their songs, and if you'd asked me yesterday I probably wouldn't have been able to recall any of them except maybe a title or two.

^* One small skip in track 4, Ashes and Sighs.

[ Some of the other finds in this box: An early 4-track demo from January, and an early 4-track demo from Fluttr (before they became Fluttr Effect) which has some damage causing pops and hiss in the first ~10 seconds of each track ]

Comments

[coraline]

actually, i'm fairly sure i wasn't in that version of the band, and was not in BRS that day.
(i was there for the CD-tracks we recorded at the WBRS studio later, but the dead possum sessions were on a weekday afternoon and i remember being miffed i couldn't get the live streaming to work from my office...)

[ceelove.livejournal.com]

*ahem!* Nobody ever gave me one of those! Nor do I remember anything about opossums, dead or otherwise...

[cos]

Huh, I thought I got it from you.

It says it came from Mythical Music, College Park, MD, and that the mastering was done there.

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

that's the clockwork elf, my very long-time collaborator. your cd probably includes both the actual dead opossum session (thus called b/c i had a head-cold that felt like an opossum had died in my sinuses) and some later takes we recorded in the same room a few days later with coraline.

i guess we were, umm, catchy :)

[cos]

Alas, no, it is only the dead opossum session. It's just under 45 minutes long, total, begins with the radio intro, and ends with you saying goodbye to the audience. Do you have a copy of this too? Maybe I got it from you.

I'd love to hear the one from a few days later. Maybe I even have it somewhere, but if I do I've forgotten it existed and it's not on my computer.

[chaiya.livejournal.com]

My copy of Ashes & Sighs also has a skip. Which makes me really sad, since it's about my Gram.

[cos]

Ahh, that means this CD did manage to evade all damage, and the skip was there to begin with.

[coraline]

i have the MP3s if you want 'em :)

[cos]

Yes!

[gravitrue.livejournal.com]

During the broadcast, you accidentally momentarily cut the sound. I don't remember for sure that it was that song, but seems likely.

[gravitrue.livejournal.com]

Ditto!

[ceo]

I hope that's a general "you". :-)

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

yup, i think i do have a copy; the producer would have sent me whatever he had. i have a bunch of later recordings (some on cd, some mp's) as well, some with the same lineup, some not at yr studio, &c. what's yr interest?

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

oh, and it's "trillian" -- a reference to the band trillian green.

[ceelove.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing that would be Aslan.

[ceelove.livejournal.com]

Yes, please.

[ceelove.livejournal.com]

Do you have a copy of the recording (not broadcast)? I can get you one, if not.

And on a completely unrelated note...

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

::dons a festive hat and dances around you::

Have a wonderful, wonderful day, hon!!!