Ashes in the Brittle Air

by Black Tape for a Blue Girl

Ashes in the Brittle Air cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 9 August 1989
  • Label: Projekt
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:56:09
  • Community rating: 3.15/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Walter Holland, Sue-Kenny Smith, Stephen Nester, Loren, Richard Watson, Robin Russell, Sam Rosenthal, Bridget Knott, Oscar Herrera, Allan Kraut, Carmela Scalzo

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Operating as a cornerstone of the burgeoning American darkwave movement, Sam Rosenthal's project curates a profoundly somber, neo-classical soundscape. 'Ashes in the Brittle Air' intricately layers weeping electronics, acoustic instrumentation, and ethereal vocal performances into a dense, melancholic meditation.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric

Tracklist

  1. Ashes in the Brittle Air (4:04)
  2. Across a Thousand Blades (3:41)
  3. The Touch and the Darkness (2:57)
  4. Through Sky Blue Rooms (1:36)
  5. The Scar of a Poet (7:30)
  6. You Tangle Within Me (4:27)
  7. From the Tightrope (4:48)
  8. Am I So Deceived (5:12)
  9. Is It Love That Dare Not Be? (2:18)
  10. I Ran to You (3:29)
  11. I Wish You Could Smile (3:01)
  12. Let the Rain Fall (7:58)
  13. Milan (3:05)
  14. The Sound of Waves (4:00)
  15. I鈥檓 Spinning (3:27)
  16. Griffith Park (3:18)
  17. Ashes In The Brittle Air - Acapella (1:29)
  18. I鈥檓 Spinning - Demo (3:28)
  19. The Amber Girl - Through Sky Blue Rooms Version (3:34)
  20. Through Sky Blue Rooms - In Between Mix (1:46)
  21. Through Sky Blue Rooms - Alternate Version (1:49)
  22. Ashes In The Brittle Air - Demo (1:59)
  23. We Return (3:05)
  24. I鈥檓 Spinning - Acapella (2:53)
  25. The Scar of a Poet - Demo (2:41)
  26. From the Tightrope - Demo (4:23)
  27. Our Flesh As One - Demo (3:34)
  28. Am I So Deceived - Demo (5:25)
  29. Across a Thousand Blades - 1987 Demo (4:43)
  30. Across a Thousand Blades - 1988 demo (3:53)
  31. Across a Thousand Blades - Acapella (2:30)
  32. Across a Thousand Blades (3:51)

Credits

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