Raw demo from Spring 1990.  Mike VanPortfleet: guitar, vocals. John Fair: bass, drum machine.

Jesus On My Shoulders

Raw demo from Dec 1988 or Jan 1989. Mike VanPortfleet: guitars, vocals. John Fair: bass, drum machine.

Laura's Dead

Raw demo from Dec 1988 or Jan 1989. Mike VanPortfleet: guitar, vocals, synth. John Fair: bass, drum machine.

Decline

Raw original version demo from Jan or Feb 1989. Mike VanPortfleet: guitars, vocals. John Fair: bass, drum machine.

Time (Original Version)

Raw demo from Dec 1988. Mike VanPortfleet: guitars, vocals. John Fair: bass, drum machine.

Restoration

Raw demo from Nov or Dec 1988. Mike VanPortfleet: guitars, vocals. John Fair: bass, drum machine.

Pale

Torment

This Sacred Place

The Beginning Of The End

Dismissal

In The Wake Of Nothing

Raw demo from Nov 1988. Mike VanPortfleet: guitars. John Fair: bass, drum machine.

From Foam (Original Version)

Raw demo from Jan 1989. Mike VanPortfleet: guitars, vocals. John Fair: bass, drum machine.

Dignity

Raw demo from Mar 1989. Mike VanPortfleet: guitars, vocals. John Fair: bass, drum machine.

Desolate

Raw demo from Jan or Feb 1989. Mike VanPortfleet: guitars. John Fair: bass, drum machine. Written as a companion piece to Incinerate. Vocals were written and recorded but that version has been lost.

Fire Breathes

These Four Walls

Raw demo from late 1989/early 1990. Mike VanPortfleet: guitars, synth, vocals. John Fair: synth bass, drum machine.
During the Fall of 1989 Lycia's sound began to expand. In the previous year the band's sound could best be described as smashing Big Black into the Cocteau Twins. Synth styles began creeping into the band's sound in the Summer of 1989. Galatea is more along the line of the Cocteau Twins meets Duty Now For The Future era Devo. Probably not what one would expect of Lycia, but without a doubt the reality of Lycia's past.

Galatea

Raw demo from Aug/Sept 1989. Mike VanPortfleet: guitar, vocals. John Fair: synth, drum machine.
The lyrics and some of the melodic elements were later used on Ionia's The Realization.

Prevail

Raw demo from Aug/Sept 1989. Mike VanPortfleet: guitar, vocals. John Fair: synth, drum machine.

Another Day

Raw demo from May/June 1989. Mike VanPortfleet: guitars, vocals. John Fair: bass, drum machine, synth.

Down And Hard

Raw demo from May/June 1989. Mike VanPortfleet: guitars, vocals. John Fair: bass, synth.

Derailed

Sing Like Sirens (Original Version)

Raw original version demo from Jan or Feb 1989. Mike VanPortfleet: guitars. John Fair: bass, drum machine.

Incinerate (Original Instrumental)

Raw demo from May/June 1989. Mike VanPortfleet: guitar. John Fair: synth, drum machine.
Numerous versions of this song were recorded, including one version planned for the Wake release. Vocals were written and recorded but that version has been lost. Of the salvageable tapes this short instrumental synth oriented version was the best.

Paralyzed (Short Instrumental Version)

Raw demo from Spring 1990. Mike VanPortfleet: guitar, synth, bass.
During the early part of 1990 John Fair spent more and more time working on his solo project Brilliant Abstract Machine, as well as starting a new Industrial project with Will Welch. As a reaction to this Mike worked on a few new Lycia songs alone, this being the first. Perhaps influenced by this song, or perhaps just as a coincidence, the VanPortfleet/Fair collaboration had one last creative burst soon after with Blinding White Fire, Jesus On My Shoulders and Down.
This recording also served as a template for what would later evolve into the Ionia album.

Distant Eastern Glare (Original Instrumental)

Raw demo from Spring 1990. Mike VanPortfleet: guitar, vocals. John Fair: bass, drum machine.
Perhaps the high point of the VanPortfleet/Fair collaborations. This was also one of the last songs worked on prior to John leaving the band. Originally planned, along with Jesus On My Shoulders, to be the Lycia contributions for the Projekt CD compilation From Across This Gray Land No. 2. Issues arose during the re-recording of these songs and plans were abruptly changed, with a quick re-recording of From Foam and the newly recorded Down used instead. A major misstep for sure...

Blinding White Fire

From the Byzantine sessions. Mike VanPortfleet: guitar, vocals. Will Welch: bass, synth and drum programs. Mixed in late 1999/early 2000 for the Projekt compilation Projekt 100, which was released in the Summer of 2000. Also briefly available as a digital download via Lycium Music. Along with Excade Decade Decada, one of two officially released songs from the Byzantine sessions.

Byzantine

Early instrumental version of Desert from the Byzantine sessions. Mike VanPortfleet: guitar, synth. Will Welch: drum programs.

Desert (Instrumental)

Early tribal version of Distant Eastern Glare from the Byzantine sessions. Mike VanPortfleet: guitar, synth. Will Welch: bass, drum programs.

Distant Eastern Glare (Tribal Version)

From the Byzantine sessions. Mike VanPortfleet: guitar, vocals. Will Welch: bass, synth and drum programs. Mixed in late 1999/early 2000 for the Projekt compilation Projekt 100, which was released in the Summer of 2000. Also briefly available as a digital download via Lycium Music. Along with the song Byzantine, one of two officially released songs from the Byzantine sessions.

Excade Decade Decada

Unreleased instrumental from the Byzantine sessions. Mike VanPortfleet: guitar. Will Welch: bass, synth and drum programs.

Neutrality

An official Lycia site.
Early demos and surviving recordings from the never realized Byzantine release.

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