Trance to the Sun

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Slave 04:56 Tools
The Thinner the Air 04:56 Tools
homewrecker 00:00 Tools
Spider Like 00:00 Tools
Olive the Slut 00:00 Tools
thistle lurid 00:00 Tools
spider planet 00:00 Tools
A Sun Lingering Disease 00:00 Tools
Execution of the Stars 00:00 Tools
China Girl 00:00 Tools
Winter Furnace Winds 00:00 Tools
August Rain 00:00 Tools
August Rain V.1 00:00 Tools
The Nun V.V. 00:00 Tools
sleeping with the natives 00:00 Tools
You Can Never Cut Your Hair 00:00 Tools
calling all vanished airplanes 00:00 Tools
Mint 00:00 Tools
icicle song 00:00 Tools
Cauldron Street II 00:00 Tools
When Mama Was Moth 00:00 Tools
horse head lake 00:00 Tools
modus opera 00:00 Tools
black sea, black fish 00:00 Tools
map of the lost 00:00 Tools
August Rain V.3 00:00 Tools
set the controls for the heart of the sun 00:00 Tools
Eonite Trip 00:00 Tools
reach for the throat 00:00 Tools
August Rain (volume 3) 00:00 Tools
Clocks 00:00 Tools
terrible parties 00:00 Tools
Vilette 00:00 Tools
Lend Me Your Most Vile 00:00 Tools
heart transplant 00:00 Tools
under the toxic moon 00:00 Tools
virgins with scissors 00:00 Tools
czar chasm 00:00 Tools
the real me 00:00 Tools
Swing Lower 00:00 Tools
Ghost Forest 00:00 Tools
Exhibition III 00:00 Tools
You So You - F 00:00 Tools
Voidswallow 00:00 Tools
Albatross 00:00 Tools
Fish & Knife 00:00 Tools
song of the silent crew 00:00 Tools
Secret Police 00:00 Tools
Clandestiny 00:00 Tools
Mr. Pluto Head 00:00 Tools
Gira Sola 00:00 Tools
Unexpected Snow 00:00 Tools
Malla at Ease 00:00 Tools
vortex airplane itinerary 00:00 Tools
i've got one friend 00:00 Tools
Phases Of The Razor 00:00 Tools
Trans-lucia 00:00 Tools
Fin 00:00 Tools
Ophelianic Mosquito 00:00 Tools
Lost Garden Gnome Hotline 00:00 Tools
Yellow Hair 00:00 Tools
You Have Escaped Me 00:00 Tools
Snowy Corset Nightmare 00:00 Tools
Rex 00:00 Tools
Fade To Grey 00:00 Tools
Her Magnetism 00:00 Tools
Virginia’s Lament 00:00 Tools
I Don't Want To Haunt Your Memory 00:00 Tools
Velvet Fuck 00:00 Tools
Virginia's Lament (Cliff Notes) 00:00 Tools
St. Constantine Naked in the Garden 00:00 Tools
Incunabula 00:00 Tools
Lotus Lantern V.7 00:00 Tools
Nostalgia for a Saturnine Angel 00:00 Tools
Phosphorella 00:00 Tools
Asthenosphere 00:00 Tools
Memoirs of an Underwater Canyon 00:00 Tools
Devil's Club 00:00 Tools
Far Flung Saturnine 00:00 Tools
Lower Civilization 00:00 Tools
Railcar To Tasmania 00:00 Tools
Max Mystic 00:00 Tools
Red Door, Black Four 00:00 Tools
Sleep Divination 00:00 Tools
The City Filled with Sirens 00:00 Tools
Counterintuitive 00:00 Tools
A Force Behind the Wheel 00:00 Tools
Purple Mushroom House 00:00 Tools
Virginia's Lament (Music) 00:00 Tools
Violet Thursday 00:00 Tools
Delirious 00:00 Tools
Eons & Ions 00:00 Tools
When Mama Was Moth (Cocteau Twins cover) 00:00 Tools
Temporary Sanctuary 00:00 Tools
Leaves 00:00 Tools
When Mama Was Moth [Cocteau Twins cover] 00:00 Tools
And Then We Mutated 00:00 Tools
Mammoth Capsule 00:00 Tools
Aviatrix (The Sudden Birds) 00:00 Tools
Loch Ness Square 00:00 Tools
Sympathy For Cruel Causes 00:00 Tools
Love Will Tear Us Apart 00:00 Tools
Fade to Grey (2010 Mix) 00:00 Tools
Ultra Violet Hour 00:00 Tools
Isolation (2010 Mix) 00:00 Tools
Automatic Reversal 00:00 Tools
Where Smoke Blows Across 00:00 Tools
The Chauffeur 00:00 Tools
A Force Behind The Wheel (Flashing Amber Mix) 00:00 Tools
Isolation 00:00 Tools
Mala at Ease 00:00 Tools
Love Will Tear Us Apart (2010 Mix) 00:00 Tools
Summertime 00:00 Tools
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (Extended Version) 00:00 Tools
Execution Of The Stars (Live Bootleg) 00:00 Tools
I’ve Got One Friend 00:00 Tools
China Girl (2011 Remix) 00:00 Tools
Clown Small & Even 00:00 Tools
Automatic Reversal/I'm Upside Down 00:00 Tools
Mint / Cauldron Street V.1 00:00 Tools
A Force Behind The Wheel [Flashing Amber Mix] 00:00 Tools
Translucia (edit) 00:00 Tools
Eyes Through Glass 00:00 Tools
Automatic Reversal / I'm Upside Down 00:00 Tools
The Thinner the Air (Cocteau Twins) 00:00 Tools
Virginia's Lament [Music & Narration] 00:00 Tools
The Thinner The Air (Cocteau Twins Cover) 00:00 Tools
Olive the Sl*t 00:00 Tools
swing lowe 00:00 Tools
Clocks V.1 (Bonus) 00:00 Tools
Voidswallow II 00:00 Tools
The Texture Of Space (bonus) 00:00 Tools
Antarctic Twilight (bonus) 00:00 Tools
Narcomedusa 00:00 Tools
Automatic Reversal - I'm Upside Down 00:00 Tools
Thistle Lurid (2013 Remix) 00:00 Tools
The Solid Dimension 00:00 Tools
Virginia’s Lament 00:00 Tools
Execution Of The Stars (2013 Remix) 00:00 Tools
Horse Head Lake (V.2013) 00:00 Tools
When Mama Was Moth (Cocteau Twins) 00:00 Tools
St. Constantine Naked In The Garden (V.2013) 00:00 Tools
Sliced Dontiziana 00:00 Tools
A Different Ghost Forest 00:00 Tools
Homewrecker (V.2013) 00:00 Tools
Sliced Domiziana 00:00 Tools
August Rain V.3 2007 00:00 Tools
Memory Blvd. 00:00 Tools
You So You (live) 00:00 Tools
Love Will tears apart 00:00 Tools
You Can Never Cut Your Hair [Live] 00:00 Tools
The Thinner The Air ► 00:00 Tools
Black Sea, Black Fish [Live] 00:00 Tools
Narcomedusa (Section II) 00:00 Tools
Crystallize and Slant 00:00 Tools
Envisage 00:00 Tools
Memory Influx 00:00 Tools
China Girl (2011 Mix) 00:00 Tools
Czar Chasm [Live] 00:00 Tools
You Can Never Cut 00:00 Tools
Malla At Ease [Live] 00:00 Tools
Automatic Reversal [Live] 00:00 Tools
Heart Transplant [Live] 00:00 Tools
Calling All Vanished Airplanes [Live] 00:00 Tools
Fade To Grey - 2010 Mix 00:00 Tools
Under The Toxin Moon 00:00 Tools
when mama 00:00 Tools
China Girl (David Bowie cover) 00:00 Tools
Virginia‚s Lament 00:00 Tools
Eons Ions 00:00 Tools
Fade to Grey (Visage cover) 00:00 Tools
Crystalize & Slant 00:00 Tools
Love Will Tear Us Apart - 2010 Mix 00:00 Tools
Black Sea, Black Fish (Long Version) 00:00 Tools
You Can Never Cut Your Hair (Live) 00:00 Tools
St. Constantine Naked In The 00:00 Tools
Trance To The Sun / Isolation 00:00 Tools
Isolation (1995) 00:00 Tools
Appendix: Memory Blvd 00:00 Tools
Trance To The Sun / Love Will Tear Us Apart 00:00 Tools
Antarctic Twilight 00:00 Tools
Icicle Song (big black cadilla 00:00 Tools
Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun - Extended Version 00:00 Tools
Isolation - 2010 Mix 00:00 Tools
'Virginia's Lament' 00:00 Tools
Salve 00:00 Tools
Sumpathy For Cruel Causes 00:00 Tools
Czar Chasm (version X) 00:00 Tools
Homewercker 00:00 Tools
A Force Behind the Wheel (Mix) 00:00 Tools
Red Door Black Four 00:00 Tools
China Girl - 2011 Remix 00:00 Tools
Black Sea Black Fish 00:00 Tools
Virginia's Lament (Music And Narration) 00:00 Tools
Velvet Fuck - Trance To The Sun 00:00 Tools
Automatic Reversal / I'm Upsid 00:00 Tools
Set the controls for the heart of the sun (Pink Floyd cover) 00:00 Tools
Spider Like 2007 00:00 Tools
Heart Transplant (Live) 00:00 Tools
Gira Solo 00:00 Tools
Voidswallow V.2 00:00 Tools
St. Constantine Naked 00:00 Tools
Set the Controls 00:00 Tools
Underwater Canyon 00:00 Tools
Homewrecker (PROJEKT) 00:00 Tools
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Trance To The Sun features the dreamy and compelling sounds of musical landscaper extraordinaire Ashkelon Sain, with a guided tour by sublime vocalist Zoe Alexandra Wakefield. Their extensive, at times bizarre songs cover tremendous ground while retaining a unique darkness and a mysterious ambiance. Trance To The Sun began in 1989 as Ashkelon's instrumental recording project, yielding in 1990 the self-produced "Volcano", an album far ahead of its time. 1994 saw the signing of the band to TESS RECORDS. With the worldwide release of "Ghost Forest" came the recognition of Zoe Wakefield as a profoundly inspiring new voice in the ambient music realm, being hailed even as the "New Queen of the Twilight" by the Italian music press. Fresh from the recording studio with a wealth of new material, Trance To The Sun toured the U.S. in support of their second CD entitled "Bloom Flowers, Bloom!" The ten new album tracks and a handful of compilation outtakes that year demonstrated a major leap in the group's ability to chillingly and understatedly convey their haunting aesthetic. "Bloom" was followed quickly by the landmark "Venomous Eve" album the same year on A.Sain's new homespun label Ambulancia. "Venomous" featured the contributions of two then-new members, Lucian S. Donato on synthesizers and Anna Schott on violin, and drew critical acclaim across the board for it's "Knight-like stealth and elegance"(alternative press). All in all, it was a remarkable output of music and performance for just two short years. The rapid fire pace began to exact it's toll however, and after a grueling U.S. tour in 1996 as openers for Scotland's legendary punk band Cindytalk, Zoe Wakefield departed suddenly from Trance to the Sun and from music making altogether. Ashkelon carried on in spite of this (perhaps he'd begun to lose it himself) by recording the mini-album "Delirious" which features the frenetic vocals of Dawn Wagner (scarlet slipping). With "Delirious" the music took a sharp left turn, exploring heavier territories and faster paced songs. A short tour and a new live lineup featuring Ashe Ruppe on bass and Mark Blewett on drums showed promise, but just seven months later A.Sain was forced to find yet another new vocalist. Fortuitously, this time he chose Ingrid Blue. Ingrid was introduced to a somewhat skeptical fanbase with the stunning compilation CD "Azalean Sea" which featured five new tracks, and eight other unreleased gems recorded over the previous three years. "Azalean Sea" was also released on the Ambulancia label, and it was at this point that longtime promoter and band advocate Patrick Ogl (Thanatos) invited Trance to the Sun to join the roster of his newly founded Precipice Recordings. But prior to finishing an album for their new label, the band undertook their most ambitious tour of U.S. to date, covering 28 cities and performing to packed halls with co-headliners Faith & Disease. Then, in 1999, Precipice released for Trance To The Sun what has been seen by some as being their masterpiece album, "Urchin Tear Soda". Sonically and musically, the album reached beyond anything A.Sain had done prior to that point, with immensely sophisticated textures and arrangements laying the foundation for Ingrid's sublime vocals and highly detailed, crystal clear lyrics. Another short tour of the U.S. followed in the summer of 2000, this time seeing the band headline the Convergence VI festival in Seattle. But the year was spent primarily in the studio with A.Sain and I.Blue writing and recording what was ultimately to become the band's swan song: "Atrocious Virgin". The beautifully packaged "Virgin" was released on Precipice Recordings in 2001. The chilling melodies, exquisite lyrics and tremendous orchestration found therein form an epic conclusion to the archives and annals of this storied American music group. Ashkelon is now back with his old Blade Fetish bandmate mlinder(Mark Linder), in the band Submarine Fleet in Portland, OR. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.