Quite a bit different than the other tracks shared on this page so far. "Forgiven" was the final track on the self-titled "Forever And A Day" album, originally recorded in 1988. FAAD was a moody philosophical project I started made up of sparse instrumentation and vocals which at times was semi-liturgical or classical in nature with rock-oriented songs. There was one attempt to turn it into a band, but it was short-lived due to various circumstances prevented it from continuing. FAAD only had the first full-length album and an EP (both on cassette). The photos were promo shots taken during the time of the album.

Lyrics:

When the blood is rust
and the deeds are shamed,
who will soon oppress,
who will soon be blamed?

A race set in stone,
in armature design,
blind of this blindness,
and it still wonders why.

In a moments time,
in a world that's yours and mine,
comes a warm embrace
all the way from the other side.

There are no words.
There are no words, but signs.
There are no words.
There are no words, but signs.
If you open your heart,
If you open your mind,
you'll see it...

***It should be noted that while I cite the shared FAAD tracks as being from a release, I'm honestly not sure if the recordings I found are test mix tapes or final mix tapes... Hopefully they're test mixes since they can sound a bit weathered at times.

Forever And A Day - Forgiven

From 1990, a Forever And A Day track from a cassette EP titled "Solace". FYI, the occasional little "trip" or "stumble" fill on the drums throughout the track was intentional and symbolic. ;-) 

***It also should be noted that while I cite the shared FAAD tracks as being from releases, I'm honestly not sure if the recordings I found are test mix tapes or final mix tapes... Hopefully they're test mixes since they can sound a bit weathered at times.

Forever And A Day - The Damned Yet Dignified

This is a track from My Diva's album-length cassette called "Come Full Circle" (1990).

My Diva was:
Claudia Groom: voice and guitar
Christine Roskam: voice and bass
Dale Lloyd: drums and guitar

***It should be noted that while I cite the shared My Diva tracks as being from a release, I'm honestly not sure if the recordings I found are test mix tapes or final mix tapes... Hopefully they're test mixes since they can sound a bit weathered at times.

My Diva - Catalyst

This instrumental is the closing title track to the "Come Full Circle" album (1990). 

My Diva was:
Claudia Groom: voice and guitar
Christine Roskam: voice and bass
Dale Lloyd: drums and guitar

***It should be noted that while I cite the shared My Diva tracks as being from a release, I'm honestly not sure if the recordings I found are test mix tapes or final mix tapes... Hopefully they're test mixes since they can sound a bit weathered at times.

My Diva - Come Full Circle

An incantation to the demon all HotHead Paisan-like walking with me through the storm. This track will repeatedly be switched out with new ones -

Demon LuLa Overpressure

the studio version of our latest concert in Pontassieve (FI)

music by 

Marco Lucchi : mellotron, piano and synthesizers
Marco Billi aka Jarguna : modular synthesizer and electronic percussions
Henrik Meierkord : cello, zither, synthesizer and fx
Dario Derek Lucchi : french horn
Wilfried Hanrath : bass, electric guitar and drums
Ilaria Boffa : vox
Massimo Amato : synthesizers

Lucchi, Billi, Meierkord, Lucchi, Hanrath, Boffa & Amato - La Musica è Sacra

Broken, de-tuned Yamaha electric violin; bow with almost no hair on it; PreSonus stereo card; Audacity (recording, normalizing, Au Reverb); Reaper (Pitch shift; ReaEQ; Tal Reverb; IEM OmniCompressor); Karlsberg Station trains; Wasakyrkan Childrens' Fountain

Etude: Leavetaking

A set of more (fairly recent) experiments. These were compiled  in August of 23.

noizvendr.labresearchtapes.2023.08.14.firstmix

From Keys to the Fields 17: øjeRum "Under Gange"

øjeRum _ Above Dreams Hands Now Flee III

A unreleased Lucid sketch from the 1994/95 time period inspired by 1960s Czech puppet animation (i.e. Jiri Trnka, Karel Zeman and others. For those who don't know, Lucid was a recording project and group I started in 1993.

https://www.and-oar.org/lucid1.html

Lucid - You Too Can Be A Star

Archival recordings of Dale Lloyd. Lloyd is a sound artist and founder of and/OAR, a recording label dedicated to environmental recordings, avant-garde and electronic music.

Forever And A Day - Forgiven

Four And Twelve