28 March 2022

A Crack in Melancholy Time

 

The Legendary Pink Dots are one of my top ten bands. I've seen them twelve times. I have nearly all their myriad releases. I buy everything new as it comes out (LPD or Edward Ka-Spel or the Silverman or Tear Garden...whatever).

That said, the 1990s was a halycon era for the group to my ears. From 1990s The Crushed Velvet Apocalypse onward through the 90s: The Maria Dimension; Shadow Weaver; Malachi (Shadow Weaver pt. II); 9 Lives to Wonder; on & on to 1999s Live at the Metro...everything was perfection. 

 



 

Ryan Moore had not left for Twilight Circus Dub Sound System. Martijn De Kleer & Niels van Hoorn were still on board. If you're looking for a jumping in spot for this incredible band, then this is the era. 

 

The Legendary Pink Dots - Crushed Velvet Apocalypse, Play it Again Sam USA BIUS CD 1039, 1990.
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I Love You in Your Tragic Beauty
Green Gang    
Hellsville    
Hellowe'en    
The Safe Way    
Just a Lifetime    
The Death of Jack the Ripper    
New Tomorrow    
Princess Coldheart    
The Pleasure Palace    
The Collector    
C.V.A.
 
 
 
 
 
The Legendary Pink Dots - The Maria Dimension, Play it Again Sam Records BIAS 184 CD, 1991.

Disturbance    
Pennies for Heaven
Third Secret
The Grain Kings    
The Ocean Cried 'Blue Murder'    
Belladonna    
A Space Between    
Evolution    
Cheraderama    
Lilith    
Fourth Secret    
Expresso Noir    
Home
Crushed Velvet
 
 
 
 
 
The Legendary Pink Dots - 9 Lives to Wonder, Play it Again Sam Records BIAS 280 CD, 1994.

Madame Guillotine    
On Another Shore    
Softly Softly    
Crumbs on the Carpet    
Hotel Z    
Oasis Malade    
A Crack in Melancholy Time    
Siren    
The Angel Trail    
Nine Shades to the Circle    
A Terra Firma Welcome




Soleilmoon Recordings SOL 28 CD, 1995.

Clockwise    
Citadel    
Friend    
A Velvet Resurrection    
Kollusim    
1001 Commandments    
Remember Me This Way    
This One-Eyed Man is King    
Straight on 'til Morning    
Damien    
This Hollowed Ground

Enjoy,

25 March 2022

Existential White Soul or Prog Pop?

 

Sad Lovers & Giants are a rock band from Watford, England who formed in 1980. Their sound blends post-punk, atmospheric keyboards, & psychedelia.

Sad Lovers & Giants are the quintessential on-again, off-again band, having earned a strong following despite having broken up & re-formed multiple times since debuting in the early 80s.

They first called it quits after the release of their second album, Feeding the Flame in 1983.

 



Yet the drive to create new music led to their reuniting in 1986 on their old label Midnight Music, who were glad to have them back. The new line-up has remained steady since reforming: driven by Simon (Garce) Allard's sublime vocals; Tony McGuinness' exquisitely anxiously beautiful guitars; Will Hicks' artful keyboard shading; the synergetic drive of the rhythm section of bassist Ian Gibson & drummer Nigel Pollard. They released four more albums: Total Sound (1986); The Mirror Test (1987); Headland (1990); & Treehouse Poetry (1991). Then Midnight Music went belly up & they were off again.

However, that was not to be the end. Cherry Red had purchased Midnight Music's back catalogue & wanted the band to help with the release of E-Mail from Eternity (The Best of...) in 1996 on Cherry Red's subsidiary Anagram.

When the bandmates reunited for the project, they realized that old drive to create new music was still alive & kicking.

Since then they have released three more albums to date: La Dolce Vita (1999); Melting in the Fullness of Time (2002); & Mission Creep (2018).

In the past I have presented In the Breeze; Epic Garden Music (as well as Feeding the Flame,Seven Kinds of Sin, Headland, & their very first 7“ Clé all in the comments section of this post); & E-mail from Eternity  so you can figure I like this band a lot. This time I'll try to fill in the few remaining holes in their story.

 

 

Sad Lovers & Giants - Treehouse Poetry, Midnight Music CHIME 01 20 CD, 1991.
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Toy Planes in a Southern Sky    
Lizard King    
Still Restless    
Parachute of Love    
Christmas on Easter Island    
Criminally Sane    
Jungle of Lies    
The Sky is a Glove
 
 
 
 
 
Sad Lovers & Giants - La Dolce Vita (Live in Lausanne), Voight-Kampff Records VKR001CD, 1999.

Close to the Sea    
In Flux    
Alaska    
Cowboys    
Like Thieves    
Sleep    
Echoplay
One Man's Hell    
Imagination    
Colourless Dream    
Return to Clocktower Lodge
Clint
 
 
 
 
 
Sad Lovers & Giants - Melting in the Fullness of Time, Voight-Kampff Records VKR003CD, 
2002.

A Daughter
German Cars
Submarine Girl
I'm Not in Love
Learn
Melting in the Fullness of Time
Red Sky
Black Crow

Enjoy,

22 March 2022

The Queen of Punk, High Priestess of Metal, Queen of Shock Rock

 

Those, my friends, are titles of unquestionable royalty. The American Dream Girl gone nightmare.

Never really enjoyed metal in any of its many forms, but that Metal Priestess Wendy Orleans Williams knew how to do punk metal better than any of those hair band boys & if I'm gonna pick someone that can really "front" a band, its WOW.  She & the Plasmatics rubbed America's nose in its own consumerist refuse.

On a steamy Wednesday night on July 26, 1978, the Plasmatics were unveiled at CBGBs in New York City's Bowery. It was like Wendy's coming out party: "She was a natural," Rod Swenson said, "She was pure performer. In that way, it became her vehicle because she exploded into it. She just became alive."

 



The backing musicians were a good foil for Wendy. Richie Stotts, a 6-foot-7 guitarist, was one of the first musicians to sport a Mohawk, taking inspiration from the Travis Bickle character in the movie Taxi Driver. In an effort to keep up with his consistently outrageous lead singer, he'd cross dress in nurse's uniforms, tutus, wedding dresses, or French maid outfits. Richie was a big fan of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, so the theatrics definitely leaned toward gore. Michael David, the group's bass player, remembers: "Half the theatrics came from Rod via 42nd St Times Square or  Russ Meyer movies, the other half came from Captain Sensible & movies like Freaks, or Friday 13th."

1979
. Barely a year since the Plasmatics started, they'd become one of the biggest drawing bands in New York. They secured a gig headlining the 3,300 capacity Palladium, the first band in history to do so at full ticket prices & selling out the show even though the band didn't even have a major label recording contract.

The Palladium show took place on November 16, 1979. The Plasmatics blew up a Cadillac on stage. 

 



The Plasmatics pushed the boundaries of their live shows to became more comedically violent & extreme. Wendy cut an indelible, charismatic figure, screaming insurrectionist lyrics with shredded clothes barely covering her body, chanting openly about sexual needs while demolishing stacks of televisions with sledgehammers. One song, "Butcher Baby", featured a chainsaw sawing through a guitar instead of a guitar solo.

Early 1980s, the Reagan era with its rampant materialism in full force & Wendy was symbolically destroying symbols of American mass culture, consumerism, or conformity. Here was a muscular, mohawked woman, gleefully destroying television sets & automobiles, the beloved symbols of American middle-class complacency, while simultaneously belting out some of the most confrontational songs in the history of rock. This wasn't just entertainment; this was warfare.

Record deal with Stiff

Canceled show at London Hammersmith Odeon because of charges of anarchism. 

New Hope for the Wretched.

To kick off the New Hope tour, Wendy wanted to drive a 1972 Cadillac onto an exploding stage on Pier 62 in New York. The car would be loaded with explosives. She would jump out moments before the car hit the stage, blowing up all the equipment. The required permits were hard to obtain. The permit only allowed for an estimated 5,000 - 6,000 people. The day of the performance, more than 10,000 showed up, jamming the downtown streets & lining the rooftops.

1981. Beyond the Valley of 1984 was released, followed by another tour. The 1984 World Tour bore the slogan, "Down on Your Knees & Pledge Allegiance!"

1982. A major record deal was signed, a worldwide contract with Capitol Records, that would bring Wendy's shrill political shriek to a larger audience. The resulting album, Coup d'Etat, was a breakthrough, blending punk & metal genres for the first time. Wendy's vocals were a powerful tour de force.

Rod Swenson directed a video for one of the album's songs, "The Damned" which featured Wendy driving a school bus through a wall of TVs, climbing onto the roof of the bus which had been loaded with explosives to sing, then jumping off a few moments before the bus goes through a second wall of TVs. The bus is then blown sky high.

But shortly after the Plasmatics record was released, Capitol had second thoughts: pretty boy new wave groups were appearing, their names giving away their intent. Did anyone believe that A Flock of Seagulls were ruthlessly trying to change the world? These newcomers could be relied on to sell records with none of the political liability or fallout.

Within weeks, Capitol Records dropped the Plasmatics.



There was no shortage of true believers to the Plasmatics cause. John Candy had the Plasmatics as guests at Gil Fisher's The Fishin' Musician's old fishing lodge. 

 

Lemmy of Motörhead recorded a duet of the country classic "Stand by Your Man" with Wendy. 

 



However, the image & message of the Plasmatics was their own undoing. Authorities everywhere came down hard & the rebellion was quelled. This band of misfits must end. There was no place in 1980s America for womyn like Wendy O. Williams. But who was Wendy? 

 

 



The real Wendy: she spent much of her free time devoted to personal causes focusing on animal-protection, health, & environmental issues. She was a vegetarian who refused to wear makeup manufactured by companies that use animals for laboratory experimentation. She gave up drinking alcohol, quit smoking, & swore off all drugs, even aspirin. She turned to exercising: jogging, swimming regularly, & lifting weights.

 



The same month that she was on the cover of Kerrang! she was also on the cover of Vegetarian Times. 

 



On Monday, April 6, 1998, she walked out of the back of her home in Storrs,Connecticut into the woods & shot herself in the head with a handgun. She was 48 years old. On a nearby rock, were broken nutshells. She fed the squirrels before turning the gun on herself.

No one could make this stuff up.

All I can say is W.O.W... 

 

The Plasmatics - New Hope for the Wicked, Stiff America – USE 9, 1980.
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Side 1 - 

Tight Black Pants    
Monkey Suit    
Living Dead    
Test Tube Babies    
Won't You    
Concrete Shoes    
Squirm (live)
    
Side 2 -

Want You Baby    
Dreamlover    
Sometimes I    
Corruption    
Butcher Baby
 
 
 
 
The Plasmatics - Beyond the Valley of 1984, Stiff America WOW II, 1981.

Side 1 -

Incantation
Masterplan
Headbanger
Summer Nite
Nothing
Fast Food Service

Side 2 -

Hit Man (live Milan)
Living Dead
Sex Junkie
Plasma Jam (live Milan)
Pig is a Pig
 
 
 
 
 
The Plasmatics - Metal Priestess EP, Stiff America WOW 666, 1981.

SIDE ONE -

Lunacy    
Doom Song    
Sex Junkie

SIDE TWO -

Black Leather Monster    
12 Noon    
Masterplan
 
 
 
 
 
Wendy & Lemmy - Stand by Your Man 7", Bronze 104 782, 1982.

Side A -
Stand by Your Man

Side B -
No Class
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Plasmatics - Coup d'Etat, Capitol Records ST-12237, 1982.

Side 1 -

Put Your Love in Me    
Stop    
Rock N Roll    
Lightning Breaks    
No Class

Side 2 -

Mistress of Taboo    
Country Fairs    
Path of Glory
Just Like on TV    
The Damned

Enjoy,

19 March 2022

Talking Trash About the Clash

 

There's been some debate around parts of the interweb where I slum as to the greatness or lack thereof of  "the only band that matters".

First off, if you think that remark by guitarist Gary Lucas (Captain Beefheart, Gods & Monsters) was made in anything less than total facetiousness, you're a fool. But if you don't believe its total veracity, well...same goes, I guess.

Then there are those who dismiss Paul Simonon as just a cover-boy (London Calling). I've got news for you. He may have been the least musically inclined but he was no Sid Vicious. He played one hella bass. I've included This is Dub Clash & if you haven't figured this one out before the final notes of the first tune "The Magnificent Dance" then I guess you're deaf.

Joe Strummer was a rocker. Mick Jones loved NYC sound system. Topper Headon was the jazziest. Paul Simonon was the Dub master bassist. Put them all together & they became so much more than even the sum of those parts. They are the Clash.

Here's some thing a bit off the well-worn path... 

 

 

 

The Clash - This is Radio Clash, Epic 49-02662,1981.
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Side 1 -
This is Radio Clash
Radio Clash

Side 2 -
Outside Broadcast
Radio Five

 

 

These next songs are remixes of other Clash tunes (except ''Radio One'' which is a reworking of a Mikey Dread tune from Rocker Station). Bootleg. 

 

The Clash - This is Dub Clash, Pirate Radio Numero Uno PR#1 DUBCLASH 1, 2000.

The Magnificent Dance
Justice Tonight / Kick it Over
Robber Dub
Living in Fame
Who Holds the Key
Silicone on Sapphire
The Cool Out
One More Dub
The Escapades of Futura Dub
Version Pardner
Outside Broadcast / Radio 5
Mustapha Dance
Mensforth Dub
Return to Brixton (SW2 Dub)
Radio One (Reprise)
 
 
 
 


This slab was recorded live at the Roundhouse 1976 featuring Keith Levine. Bootleg.
 
The Clash  - Going to the Disco, Brigade Rosse Records, 2001.

Side A -

Deny
1-2 Crush on You
I Know What You Do
I Don't Want Your Money
I Can't Understand the Flys
Protex Blue
Janie Jones

Side B -

Made Me Absent
Going to the Disco
48 Hours
I'm So Bored With You
Work
London's Burning
What's My Name
1977
 
 
 
 

These tracks are taken from The Clash - Sound System box set CD 10, Sound System Extras 2 (odd tracks 1-13 & 14)  & Lost Treasures (even tracks 2-12). 
 

First Night Back in London
Like a Tiger (Kris Needs vocal)
Idle in Kangaroo Court
Fingerpoppin' (AOR remix)
Stop the World
House of the Ju-Ju Queen (Janie Jones vocals)
Sean Flynn (extended Marcus Music version)
Sex Machine (Janie Jones vocal)
Long Time Jerk
Sex Mad Roar (Flipside Twelve)
The Beautiful People are Ugly Too (outtake)
Danger Love (Kris Needs vocal)
Cool Confusion
Midnight at Stevens (outtake)

Enjoy,

16 March 2022

Trouble in the Middle East

 

I know there is a great deal of controversy surrounding Bryn Jones & his Muslimgauze project. There have been denunciations of his work as anti-semitic but I must point out that it is not anti-semitic. It could more correctly be classified as anti-Zionist. 

 



I call bullshit on the religious theory propogated by Judeo-Christian zealots that Adolph Hitler leveled the Jewish karma for killing the Christian Messiah & that the atrocities enacted on the Jewish people by the Nazis somehow justified the creation of Israel. We have seen how things go for a native culture when Colonialist powers seize land already inhabited (as Anglo-America vs the Indigenous Peoples). Well, there were already people living in Palestine at the time of the creation of the Zionist State of Israel. It was obviously not going to go well, & indeed, the problems in the Middle East have only escalated since the days of Muslimgauze.

I found Muslimgauze because I, too, believed that a great injustice had been carried out in the knee-jerk reaction by the world's populace in general to the horrors of the Holocaust. Creating Israel out of Palestine was not the way to go about things. Two wrongs don't make a right. 

 



I started buying all the Staalplaat & Soleilmoon releases of Muslimgauze as they became available. Vinyl-On-Demand recently released Chasing the Shadow of Bryn Jones 1983-1988, an 11 CD box set covering (obviously) the years 1983 - 1988. I would like to concentrate on a different time period. The mid 90s were the highlights for my personal likes. I would like to share these particular five.

First up, we have a CD recorded at Abraham Mosque, Manchester March 5, 1994, written in response to the Februry 25, 1994 tragedy in Hebron, West Bank, Palestine. Baruch Goldstein, an Israeli radical, opened fire on a large number of Palestinian Muslims who had gathered to pray inside the Ibrahimi Mosque at the Cave of the Patriarchs. The attack left 29 people dead, several as young as twelve, & 125 wounded. 

 

Muslimgauze - Hebron Massacre, Soleilmoon Recordings SOL 24 CD, 1994.
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Hebron Massacre 

 

 

 

 

Muslimgauze - Arab Quarter 2xCD, Soleilmoon Recordings SOL 44CD, 1996.
  
Anti Arab Media Censor Part 1    
Anti Arab Media Censor Part 2    
Yassin Ayyash Part 1    
Yassin Ayyash Part 2    
Arab Jerusalem    
Extract 1    
Extract 2    
Extract 3    
Extract 4    
Palestine is Our Izlamic Land Part 1    
Palestine is Our Izlamic Land Part 2    

CD2:Eleven Minarets -

Eleven Minarets Part 1    
Eleven Minarets Part 2    
Eleven Minarets Part 3    
Eleven Minarets Part 4    
Eleven Minarets Part 5    
Eleven Minarets Part 6    
Eleven Minarets Part 7    
Eleven Minarets Part 8
Eleven Minarets Part 9    
Eleven Minarets Part 10    
Eleven Minarets Part 11
 
 
 
 
 
 
Muslimgauze - Return of Black September, Staalplaat Muslimlim 004, 1996.

Return of Black September    
Libya    
Thugghee    
Remix of Thugghee (actually a remix of Return of Black September)
Remix of Opiate & Mullah
 
 
 
 
 
 
Muslimgauze - Azzazin, Staalplaat MUSLIMLIM 003, 1996.

Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
 
 
 
 
 
Muslimgauze - Sandtrafikar, Staalplaat Muslimlim 011, 1997.

Sandtrafikar 1    
Sandtrafikar 2    
God & I    
Baku Oil Field     1
Baku Oil Field     2
Uskudar
Re-mix by The Rootsman

Enjoy,

13 March 2022

All the Leisure Beings

I was walking in the snowy countryside the other day. I had my ClipSport on shuffle & the song "Good" by Supreme Beings of Leisure came up. It was really "Good". It made me think.

I know we all do it, have some music, some band that we love at some time in some space, then the mood, the moment, the meaning changes...we move on & then we forget. That was definitely Supreme Beings of Leisure. I used to listen to them regularly but then I moved on to other tastes & they slipped away. 

 



Having just done a month of female artists, my ears were still keen to that particular XX sound. Geri Soriano-Lightwood, the singer for SBoL, definitely has it in spades. But the band only released three albums between 2000 & 2008. Then disappeared off the grid.

The light bulb flashed on above my cranium & I realized this is perfect mega-post material. Let's dig in.

We start out with guitarist Rick Torres, bassist Kiran Shahani, & multi-instrumentalist - programmer Ramin Sakurai. They had formed the band Oversoul 7 in the mid 90s. They recorded a 6-song demo EP Angelhead in 1996. While they were recording the demos, the trio asked their friend singer/songwriter Geri Soriano-Lightwood to collaborate with them. Two tracks from this collaboration, "Strangelove Addiction" & "Nothing like Tomorrow" appeared on compilations from Moonshine Records label. They would be resurrected on the newly christened quartet's Supreme Beings of Leisure 2000 self-titled release. 

 

 


Intro
Down
Torn
What
Vision Style
Cleansing
bonus tracks -
Strangelove Addiction
Nothing like Tomorrow

 

 

 

Supreme Beings of Leisure - Supreme Beings of Leisure, Palm Pictures PALMCD 2006-2, 2000.

Never the Same
Golddigger
Last Girl on Earth
Strangelove Addiction
Ain´t Got Nothin'
Truth from Fiction
You´re Always the Sun
Sublime
Nothin' like Tomorrow
What´s the Deal
Under the Gun 
 
 
 

According to Torres & Shahani, SBoL imploded after the release of that first album. The duo of Geri & Ramin would then go on as Supreme Beings of Leisure.

After leaving Supreme Beings, Rick & Shahani released several tracks on compilations under the name Bonglab.
 
 
Into Soho
Games Without Frontiers
 
 

Supreme Beings of Leisure's next release was 2002s Divine Operating System.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Supreme Beings of Leisure - Divine Operating System, Palm Pictures PALMCD 2095-2, 2002.

Give Up
Ghetto
Catch Me
Get Away
Rock & a Hard Place
Calamity Jane
Divine
Touch Me
So Much More
Freezer
Perfect
 
 
 
 

Fleshed out into a full band, Geri & Ramin were joined by Geoff Brandin - guitar, Sheldon Strickland - bass & Jason Graham - drums. They embarked on a worldwide tour for the next several years but went into hiatus when the tour ended.

While taking a break from SBoL, Ramin joined Sharif to release...
 
 
Shiraz, 2004.

 
 
In 2005, the other half of the original crew Torres & Shahani teamed up with new vocalist Jailyn Matthews-White to form Lazy & released Incorporated.
 
 
 
 
Lazy - Incorporated, Water Music Records 302 060 543 2, 2005.

Daylight
Way Out
Love Robbery
Runaway
Same Old Alibi
In This Life
It's Over
Valley of the Wasteland
Under My Skin
Darkest Hour
You Are the One
Way Out (Mike Hiratzka club mix)
Way Out (Q-Burns Abstract Message remix)
 
 
 
 
 

After Incorporated was recorded, Shahani teamed up with Shana Halligan to form Bitter:Sweet. They released The Mating Game in 2006.
 
 
 
 
Bitter:Sweet - The Mating Game, Quango Records QMG 1006-2, 2006.

Don't Forget to Breathe    
The Mating Game    
Overdue    
Heaven    
Bittersweet Faith    
Moving Forward    
Moody    
Dirty Laundry    
Our Remains    
Salty Air    
Take 2 Blue
 
 
 

This was followed by The Remix Game the following year.
 
 
 
Bitter:Sweet - The Remix Game, Quango Records QMG 1026-2, 2007.

Heaven (Nicola Conte "West Coast Vibes" remix)
Bittersweet Faith (Thievery Corporation remix)
Overdue (Blackbeard remix)
Our Remains (JAB featuring Menez One remix)
Take 2 Blue (Roy Dubb remix)
The Mating Game (Yes King remix)
Salty Air (Fort Knox Five remix)
Dirty Laundry (Skeewiff remix)
Moving Forward (Atjazz remix)
Moody (Marsmobil remix)
Don't Forget to Breathe (Solid Doctor "Don't Forget The Beat" remix)
 
 
 

By this time Supreme Beings of Leisure had returned to the recording studio. This time the band was Geri & Ramin with their touring band of Brandin, Strickland, & Graham. In 2008, they relesased the third & final SBoL album, 11i (although in a 2020 interview, Rick Torres alluded to a new SBoL release).
 
 
 
 
Supreme Beings of Leisure - 11i, Rykodisc RCD 10939, 2008.

The Light
This World
Mirror
Swallow
Good
Pieces
Angelhead
Ride
Oneness
Everywhere
Lay Me Down
 
 
 
 
 

That same year, Bitter:Sweet released their final album, Drama.
 
 
 
 
Bitter:Sweet - Drama, Quango Records VVR985162, 2008.

Intro Dramatico    
Get What I Want    
Come Along With Me    
The Bomb    
Drama    
Waking Up    
A Moment    
Sugar Mama    
Trouble    
Love Revolution    
Neurosis    
Drink You Sober    
Everything
 

After 2008...


Ramin wrote a few numbers but mostly concentrated musically on remixes.
 
 
 
To the Stars
Massage My Mind
Musica de la Noche
Daylight as Sunset
Maroments in Love
Strangers in the Night
Brace Yourself
Shadows
 
 
 

Geri was sought out for numerous vocal outings.
 
 
Ether (The Baldwin Brothers)
Ghost Requiem (Delerium)
Ojala (Gabriel Diggs)
 
 


Torres & Shahani wrote two tracks with Dave Wakeling for The English Beat.
 
 
 
Every Time You Told Me
Redemption Time
 
 

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 
Footnotes to a Mega-post...

footnote 1 -
 
I said that Drama was Bitter:Sweet's last album. They did release a four song EP in 2010, The Break Up, just to make it official.
 
 
 
Bitter:Sweet - The Break Up, Quango Records, 2010.

This Game    
Lovely Day    
My Day    
Being Bad
 
 
 
 

footnote 2 -
 
Ramin did Sonomad with 11i-era Supreme Beings of Leisure guitarist Geoffrey Brandin.
 
 
 
Sonomad - Sonomad I, Prismtone Records PTR002, 2014.

Road to Somewhere (featuring Shana Halligan, x-Bitter:Sweet [ironic])    
An Escape
I am Love    
Sahana Vavathu     
Be Good Brotha    
Beautiful People
Come On!     
This is Just a Dream    
The Monster    
More Than You Are    
This is Real Life
 
 
 

footnote 3 -
 
Geoff Brandin in the Vanduras 2002 prior to SBoL.
 
 
 
The Vanduras - In the Dark, Pascal Records 88005-2, 2002.

In the Dark
La Planche
The Big Hurt
El Monte
Cybele's Reverie
Lost Beach
Dinner with Robert
Charlotte
Sarajevo Rose
Rope'n Pinneaples
Theme for Troubled Teens
Atomic
Levitare'

Enjoy,