black tape for a blue girl


since 1986, black tape for a blue girl has released stunning deeply introspective albums.

    SAM ROSENTHAL SOLO        
the Passage
[PROJEKT 265 2011] The Passage is a foray into the realms of pure ambient from Black Tape For A Blue Girl founder/songwriter Sam Rosenthal. The two pieces on the hour-long album submerge the listener in a self-sustaining environment of warm electronics and minimal processings of deep, tender swells and an unresolved, yearning string theme courtesy of long-time Blacktape collaborator Vicki Richards. This is music which gently rotates around its own axis in a time-suspended haze.
    Tracks:
    1. The Passage | MP3 Clip
    2. Rae | MP3 Clip
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the rope 25 25th Anniversary 2-CD Edition
[PROJEKT 20 1986] Black Tape For A Blue Girl's darkly mesmerizing debut The Rope appeared on the underground rock scene, kicking off a rich and diverse musical career for Projekt founder / Blacktape songwriter Sam Rosenthal. Now 25 years later, Projekt celebrates this anniversary with The Rope 25, a 2-CD set including The Rope re-mastered and a bonus disc of current Projekt artists' reinterpretations of the material. Eight-page lyrics booklet included while supplies last, (read the full desxription) and order now!.

    Disc One
  1. memory, uncaring friend
  2. hide in yourself
  3. within these walls
  4. the holy terrors
  5. end
  6. seven days till sunrise
  7. the rope
  8. the few remaining threads
  9. the lingering flicker
  10. slow blur
  11. the floor was hard but home
  12. we return
    Disc Two
  1. black tape for a blue girl: memory, uncaring friend (2011)
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  2. All My Faith Lost...: the rope
  3. Mirabilis: the floor was hard but home
  4. Erik Wøllo: within these walls
  5. Forrest Fang: hide in yourself
  6. Dirk Serries: lingering (vintage mix)
  7. Dirk Serries: blurred (lo-fi mix)
  8. Walter Holland: seven days till sunrise
  9. Kho Hat Hasa: the holy terrors
  10. Rajna: end
  11. Attrition: memory, uncaring friend
  12. Lux Interna: we return
<-- Disc 1: The original, remastered.
<-- Disc 2: Various, The Rope 25
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10 Neurotics
[PROJEKT 229 & TRISOL374 2009] The 10th studio album looks at our sexuality, obsessions and fetishes within a rock/dark cabaret setting. All-new band features Brian Viglione of The Dresden Dolls on Drums, guitar & bass, vocalists Athan Maroulis (ex-Spahn Ranch), Laurie Reade (ex-Attrition) & Nicki Jaine. Deluxe digi-pak w/28-page NC-17 booklet.

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Quadranotics [PROMO35 2009] 4 song maxi cd for radio, djs, etc.
Various: More Than Nine Lives 2011 Benefit compilation. Includes an exclusive track from Black Tape For A Blue Girl: "CaughtStranger." This is an instrumental remix of "Caught by a Stranger" off the 10 Neurotics album. Mix by Sam.

the Pleasures Everlasting (ep)
[PROJEKT 223 2008] Digital-only release with Dead Can Dance & Sonic Youth cover songs.

    Tracks:
    1. Fortune Presents Gifts Not According To The Book | MP3 Clip
    2. Shadow of a Doubt | MP3 Clip
    3. Star Power | MP3 Clip
    4. Secret Girls | MP3 Clip
      Total Time ~ 13 minutes
A Retrospective
[SHADOWPLAY RECORDS SPR32 2008] A Russian best of featuring Blacktape's most popular songs, some reworked or remixed.

    Tracks:
    1. Remnants of a deeper purity (2004) | MP3 Clip
    2. Across a thousand blades (2007) | MP3 Clip | Free Ringtone
    3. All my lovers | MP3 Clip | youTube live video
    4. Griffith park
    5. Given (1. the waterfall 2. the illuminating gas)
    6. Memory, uncaring friend | MP3 Clip
    7. For you will burn your wings upon the sun (part 1)
    8. Dagger (stripped mix)
    9. Overwhelmed, beneath me (2000)
    10. Could i stay the honest one? (1998)
    11. The lie which refuses to die
    12. Knock three times (skinny kinda mix) | Free Ringtone
    13. I have no more answers (2008) | MP3 Clip
    SIDE-PROJECT        
Revue Noir: ANTHOLOGY ARCHIVE
[PROJEKT 213 2008] A Dark Cabaret collaboration from Sam and Nicki Jaine.

    Tracks:
      The Released tracks
    1. The Gravediggers | MP3 Clip
    2. Amsterdam | MP3 Clip
    3. A Girl, A Smoke | MP3 Clip | Full-length MP3 of the 2005 single mix
    4. Rock 'N' Roll Suicide
    5. Sometimes, Sunshine | MP3 Clip
      The Archive
    6. I have no more answers | MP3 Clip
    7. A Girl, A Smoke [ REHEARSAL ] | early mix MP3
    8. All Tomorrow's Parties [ LIVE ] | MP3 Clip
    9. Alabama Song [ LIVE ]
    10. Halo Star [ LIVE ] | MP3 Clip
    11. Strange Little Show
    12. Sunshine IV
    13. She is the Madman | MP3 Clip
    SAM ROSENTHAL SOLO        
As Lonely As Dave Bowman: Pod
[PROJEKT 195 2007] Electronic solo album by Sam.

    Tracks:
    1. POD One | MP3 Clip
    2. POD Two | MP3 Clip
    3. POD Three | MP3 Clip
    4. POD Four | MP3 Clip
    5. POD Five | MP3 Clip
Halo Star
[PROJEKT 158 2004] Their 9th studio album, includes "Knock Three Times."
halostar.us Electronic press-kit for this release.

    Tracks:
    1. Glow
    2. Tarnished | 45 Second MP3
    3. the Gravediggers
    4. Your love is sweeter than wine
    5. Indefinable, yet | 45 second MP3 |
    6. Knock three times | 45 second MP3 |
    7. Scarecrow | 45 second MP3 |
    8. Damn swan! | 45 Second MP3
    9. Already forgotten
    10. the Fourth footstep
    11. Dagger
    12. Halo star | 45 second MP3 |

   The Scarecrow Single [PROJEKT 161 2004]
   Tarnished Single [PROJEKT 155 2004]
With a million tear-stained memories (2-CD)
[PROJEKT 145 2003] Limited edition retrospective released in Germany on Trisol Records and in the U.S. on Projekt. One cd of vocal songs / once cd of instrumentals.
The scavenger bride
[PROJEKT 130 2002] Read thescavengerbride.com electronic press-kit for this release.
    Tracks:
    1. the scavenger bride
    2. kinski
    3. all my lovers | MP3 Clip | youTube live video
    4. shadow of a doubt
    5. the doorkeeper
    6. floats in the updrafts | youTube video
    7. a livery of bachelors
    8. das liselottenbett
    9. the lie which refuses to die
    10. the scavenger's daughter
    11. like a dog/letter to brod
    12. the whipper
    13. bastille day, 1961

   black tape for a blue girl [PROMO16 2002] sampler cd

As one aflame laid bare by desire
[PROJEKT 86 1999] Read aflame An in-depth interview about this release by Dave Aftandilian.

   As One Aflame Single [PROJEKT 84 1999]

remnants of a deeper purity
[PROJEKT 68 1996] re-issued in 2006 with a 2nd CD of bonus material, including With my sorrowsEP. Read remnants A 1996 feature written by Bryan Reesman.

Disc One

  1. redefine pure faith
  2. fin de siécle
  3. with my sorrows
  4. for you will burn your wings upon the sun | MP3 excerpt - part 1 | MP3 excerpt - part 4
  5. wings tattered, fallen
  6. fitful
  7. remnants of a deeper purity | MP3 excerpt
  8. again, to drift (for veronika)
  9. i have no more answers | MP3 excerpt
Disc Two
  1. en la mar ay una torre
  2. with my sorrows (part 2) | MP3 excerpt
  3. with my sorrows (part 3)
  4. i have no more answers (radio edit)
  5. redefine pure faith (live)
  6. through sky blue rooms (live) | MP3 excerpt
  7. remnants of a deeper purity (live)
  8. across a thousand blades ?96

    across a thousand blades
    [PROMO03 1997] Full-length promotional retrospective CD.
    with my sorrows
    [AMPLEXUS 10 1997] Limited edition 3" cd and 10" vinyl on Italy's Amplexus label.
   Remnants of a deeper purity Single
    [PROJEKT 84 1999]

this lush garden within [PROJEKT 38 1993]

    the first pain to linger
    [PROJEKT 63 1996] A 96 page book with maxi-cd.

    SIDE-PROJECT        
terrace of memories [PROJEKT 34 1992]
Sam Rosenthal ambient collaboration with Vidna Obmana
a chaos of desire
[PROJEKT 30 1991]
ashes in the brittle air
[PROJEKT 26 1989]
mesmerized by the sirens
[PROJEKT 25 1987] Originally released on vinyl, then on cassette, then on CD.
    SAM ROSENTHAL SOLO        
before the buildings fell
[PROJEKT 24 1986] Electronic solo album by Sam
the rope
[PROJEKT 20 1986] Originally released on vinyl, then on cassette, then on CD. The 25th Anniversary 2-CD edition - The Rope 25 is released November 2011.


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