tracks

Ashes In The Brittle Air
Across A Thousand Blades
The Touch And The Darkness
Through Sky Blue Rooms
The Scar Of A Poet
You Tangle Within Me
From The Tightrope
Am I So Deceived
Is It Love That Dare Not Be?
I Ran To You
I Wish You Could Smile

notes

Limited edition of 300. 140-gram smoky translucent vinyl. With b&w lyric card.

Hi. Black Tape For A Blue Girl's 1989 third album ASHES IN THE BRITTLE AIR is now available in a deluxe edition remastered from the original 1/4” tapes. The remaster is warm and clear, and the album retains that dreamy, romantic quality you remember from the 80s.

ASHES contains angst and trepidation in the lyrics yet also beauty and hopeful melancholia in the mood and music. It’s an album of existential, ethereal, and gothic musings. ASHES was the release that brought the band out of the fanzine-based underground to listeners of what in the 80s we called “college radio.” “Across a thousand blades” on CMJ's CERTAIN DAMAGE compilation CD went to stations across the country and garnered regular airplay. In fact, many of you have mentioned that ASHES was your first exposure to Black Tape For A Blue Girl.

Alternative Press: “This is hurting, romantic lament. Herrera’s vocals suddenly ram me with image-brimming, griping vacancy of the precariously desperate soul hanging beneath hope by a frayed thread.”

As I wrote in the original album description: “Bursting forth like a lucid dream, this release unearths powerful connections to deeper truths. Sue-Kenny’s folk approach and Oscar’s intense voice... more
credits
released February 28, 2020

Original release date approx: 9/27/1989

All physical sales include the 20 page Memorabilia booklet. It can also be read here: www.blacktapeforabluegirl.com/ashes

credits

Arranged By [Additional Melody Construction] – Loren (7), Sue,
Band – Oscar Herrera, Sam Rosenthal, Sue-Kenny Smith
Clarinet – Richard Watson (tracks: A5, B5)
Electronics – Sam Rosenthal
Engineer – Walter,
Guitar – Loren (7) (tracks: A4), Sue-Kenny Smith (tracks: B4, B5)
Guitar, Vocals – Walter Holland (tracks: A3)
Lyrics By – Sam Rosenthal (tracks: A1, A2, A4 to B3, B5, B6), Rosenthal, (tracks: A3), Holland, (tracks: A3)
Mixed By – Sam,
Music By – Sam Rosenthal (tracks: A1 to B3, B5, B6)
Music By, Lyrics By – Sue-Kenny Smith (tracks: B4)
Percussion – Allan Kraut (tracks: A2, A5)
Photography By, Graphic Design – Sam,
Piano – Stephen Nester (tracks: B3)
Remastered By [2020] – Howard Givens
Violin – Carmela Scalzo (tracks: B3)
Vocals – Bridget Knott (tracks: A2, A3, A5), Loren (7) (tracks: B6), Oscar Herrera (tracks: A2, A4, A5), Sue-Kenny Smith (tracks: A1, A4, B1, B2, B4, B5)
Vocals [Slight] – Sam Rosenthal (tracks: B1, B2, B5)
Voice – Robin Russell (tracks: B6)

companies

Recorded At – Tangerine Studio
Recorded At – Natural Sound Studios, Miami, FL
Recorded At – Samurai (5)
Mixed At – Tangerine Studio
Remastered At – Spotted Peccary Studios
Published By – Seireenien Music
Mastered At – GZ Media – 200272E
Pressed By – Precision Record Pressing

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