AVAILABLE NOW ... new Umbriel Rising album 'Wunda'
Click on this link and select Umbriel Rising to download free!

NEW - Live Eclipse REMIX by Elektronz
Please click here!

** free download 192 Kbps mp3 @ Jamendo (coming soon) or 160 or 320 Kbps mp3 AVAILABLE NOW or ogg vorbis Q6 and 9 (coming soon) at www.distinguishedrecordings.com **



track listing
1. Igneous 2. Spacewalk Lite* 3. Live Eclipse* (elektronz remix) 4. Electron Storm 5. Cybersensual 6. Trippy Dub Chill 7. Anasthetic Dream 8. Sadness Of The Sea* total time = 44'12.

*= remastered.

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The Liquid Metamorphosis debut album
SEARCHING FOR ESPERANTO (Distinguished Recordings DR004)

track order is...

01. Shoot The Moon 3’15
02. Feelings Flow Out 2’10
03. Black Clouds Surround You 6’09
04. I Never Saw That Coming 3’33
05. Misplaced Trust 5’11
06. Searching For Esperanto 4’06
07. Another Failure 5’08
08. Sleep Little Child 4’24
09. Save Me From Myself 3’27
10. Intervention 7’08

running time 44'52

DOWNLOAD IT FOR FREE HERE
url

** Latest UMBRIEL RISING News **
The entire catalogue of Umbriel Rising is now available for streaming and FREE download at Jamendo. Courtesy of Distinguished Recordings.
DR001 Galactica Nova EP (Jan '07)
DR002 Mystery Prophet EP (Jun '07)
DR003 Extraterrestres (ALBUM) (CD Jul '07, download Oct '07)
DR005 Live Eclipse EP (May '0
HERE

The LiQuid Metamorphosis CD is still planned for free release on CD, ETA first week of June.
The CD version features a bonus track 'Phoenix From The Flames' not on the download version.

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Want to hear LQM (Liquid Metamorphosis) or Umbriel Rising material during the music blackout we're temporarily experiencing at Dmusic ?

My personal webpage has all my ORIGINAL tracks available for download in medium-high resolution 128 - 192 Kbps MP3 or super high resolution Ogg Vorbis Q9 (approx 350 Kbps)
http://www.distinguishedrecordings.com/

Or you can visit my Myspace pages if you can stand the lower quality audio

LQM - http://www.myspace.com/leedsquietmandemos
Umbriel Rising - http://www.myspace.com/umrising

Also, keep an ear open for Distilled and Shutyatrap Radio, some of my songs have received airplay there.

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*More media recognition* LiQuid Metamorphosis (a.k.a. LQM) was featured on Canada's national radio station CBC Radio 3, on their website radio podcast Best New Artists week December 30th and also played on Sirius Canada Channel 94 satellite radio. Click on the webcam for confirmation that LQM made top 10 best new artists in Canada this week !


I have decided it's a time to rethink my strategy to music and therefore I shall be changing my name here to LQM (user name) and the band name Leedsquietmandemos will be known as LiQuid Metamorphosis. I feel it is a good professional move.

These changes are already in effect on my Myspace page (which still has the leedsquietman name as a suffix after myspace.com because I don't want to have to start it from scratch and lose all my friends)

Take a look at the page and you'll see the update in effect, including the CD cover for the upcoming album *scheduled May 2008* 'Searching For Esperanto'

http://www.myspace.com/leedsquietmandemos



And check out my personal website which Reflects these changes and *COMING SOON* there will be free downloads in 192 Kbps mp3 and for optimal quality Ogg Vorbis Q9 (approx 350 Kbps) single downloads for LiQuid Metamorphosis and Umbriel Rising (the extraterrestres album will also be available as 192 Kbps mp3 and Ogg Vorbis Q9 350 Kbps SOON)

http://www.distinguishedrecordings.com/

Anyone who wishes to have a copy of the Umbriel Rising CD sent to them, I will send it for the cost of SHIPPING only. The CD is FREE.

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I have decided it's a time to rethink my strategy to music and therefore I shall be changing my name here to LQM (user name) and the band name Leedsquietmandemos will be known as LiQuid Metamorphosis. I feel it is a good professional move.

These changes are already in effect on my Myspace page (which still has the leedsquietman name as a suffix after myspace.com because I don't want to have to start it from scratch and lose all my friends)

Take a look at the page and you'll see the update in effect, including the CD cover for the upcoming album *scheduled May 2008* 'Searching For Esperanto'

http://www.myspace.com/leedsquietmandemos



And check out my personal website which Reflects these changes and *COMING SOON* there will be free downloads in 192 Kbps mp3 and for optimal quality Ogg Vorbis Q9 (approx 350 Kbps) single downloads for LiQuid Metamorphosis and Umbriel Rising (the extraterrestres album will also be available as 192 Kbps mp3 and Ogg Vorbis Q9 350 Kbps SOON)

http://www.distinguishedrecordings.com/

Anyone who wishes to have a copy of the Umbriel Rising CD sent to them, I will send it for the cost of SHIPPING only. The CD is FREE.

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Dmusic Awards 2007 - UMBRIEL RISING nominated for best electronic category with 'Theme From Umbriel' . Thank-you !! Listen here http://u-r.dmusic.com/music/comments/351769



** NEW CD - EXTRATERRESTRES - 12 tracks, 59 minutes of cool music, pro printing and duplication in jewel case, only US$ 9.00 plus shipping AVAILABLE NOW CLICK LINK TO PURCHASE **
http://cdbaby.com/cd/umbrielrising

DIGITAL DOWNLOADS : flexibility of choosing single songs or the whole album for your Ipod, mp3 player, computer or mp3 CD playing device

NAPSTER *available right now* downloads $1.19 CDN per song or $9.95 for the whole album.

I-TUNES - available 99 cents per track or $9.99 album click the link http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playListId=260964336

consumers - BEATS DIGITAL, available in 192 Kbps mp3 *5 pounds*, 320 Kbps mp3 *6 pounds* or CD Quality .wav file *6 pounds 75 pence* NO DRM, free use mp3s. http://www.beatsdigital.com/main.php?album_id=12762


PAYPAL - For only 12 US Dollars (14 US Dollars for Europe, 17 US Dollars Asia, Australia etc) - shipping included, I can send you a personally signed CD and 12x18" Umbriel Rising quality colour poster. Send me a Dnote if you're interested. Limited Quantities. Deduct 2 dollars if you want the CD only

All tracks can be streamed here at Dmusic Try before Buy !!

http://u-r.dmusic.com/music

Tracks - 1. Theme From Umbriel 2. Galactica Nova 3. Umbriel Guitar Jamz 4. Freaky Jupiter (Solar Flux Mix) 5. Ghost Machine 6. Constellation VI 7. Vision Release (Bluenevus ft. Umbriel Rising) 8. Opus R 9. Transvoid 2 10. Umbriel Braikkz 11. Ecosystem XI 12. Mystery Prophet

Please note - this is my first ever album release and I am doing it from a point of personal pride, rather than for profit - so your support is really appreciated

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Thank-you so much for nominating umbriel rising in the electronic category and I know several of you also submitted votes for other umbriel and LQM material for which I am truly grateful.

I am very happy to have made the nomination round for Theme From Umbriel, but I have to tell you, that in my opinion, MonnieB (Lamonda) is the most deserving of winning the electronic award outright, her 'Blue Future' track is aural ecstasy, a digital orgasm for heart and mind.

I will be voting for her in the nomination round. The other contestants in this category such as Chillin', Mojo and Baiko - God Bless you, your music is damned HOT too. We have global representation too. To even be considered in the same group as these guys and Monnie is just AMAZING. Whatever the outcome, I already feel like a winner

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Albums by underrated artists that changed my life

2) Lush - Split (p) 4AD 1994



The beautiful and fascinating Miki Berenyi, playing a Gibson ES335 12 string, her favoured guitar.


Living in parochial Yorkshire in 1990, I was quite unaware of Lush and their reputation as being a crap band made up of art students and a former DSS employee, but whom were seen at all the best parties in London and earned a recording contract more for their trendiness than musical ability, given that I rarely paid attention to the gossip pages of the NME at that time. But in 1991 I went off to University and saw them play at my Uni and was just fascinated by the raw energy and ethereal vocals of Miki Berenyi and Emma Anderson, the mixture of grungy My Bloody Valentine overdriven industrial sounds and the sweetness of the Cocteau Twins chorus and flange laden indie pop with buried vocals. Not to mention that I still have a crush on Miki to this day with her distinctive red hair and kick ass attitude and her beautiful porcelain white Japanese/Hungarian face that just draws you in. *sigh*

By the time I saw them play, they had tightened up their live performances and were now a plausible band on the college scene. However, after some nice EP releases (something 4AD were renowned for) and the mini album Scar, which came to my attention after the gig and got me interested (a compilation of which was later released to the USA market under the title 'Gala') , their first full featured album 'Spooky' (1992) was a bit disappointing, there were stand out cuts such as 'For Love', 'Nothing Natural', 'Laura' and 'Superblast' but much of the rest came off as second rate Cocteau Twins, produced by Robin Guthrie of that group which shared the same label.

The band went on the road in the USA in 92 at Lollapolooza to some success and went back into the studio in 1993 to record their sophomore album 'Split'. Working with Mike Hedges, their was a change in emphasis and the songs were much more emotional and honest and less cryptic than those on Spooky and the production sound was less emphasis on effects and more on the raw music - not to say it was a raw sounding record, Split had a polished feel but was not buried completely under swooshing fx like it's predecessor. The album started strongly with the amazing 'Light From A Dead Star' with it's angelic and more prominently audible twin voices of Miki and Emma, 'Kiss Chase' was a strong second track which deals with child abuse and the album then contains many classic tracks, with Miki mostly providing the harder edged songs such as 'Hypocrite' and 'Undertow' and Emma the more whistful and chimier sounds of 'Desire Lines', 'Never Never' and 'Lit Up'.

For some reason, the music press, who had devoted plenty of space to how bad they were in the early days and gossip on their partying, seemed to almost universally pan this album because it was a well produced and sophisticated album with great musical performances by Miki, Emma Anderson, drummer Chris Acland and bassist Phil King, saying they preferred 'Spooky' (which got mixed reviews but sold well for a debut album). The singles from Split (Hypocrite and Desire Lines) initially sold quite well but strange marketing ploys by 4AD (releasing both singles at the same time, which just confused and divided the sales) led to it petering out quite soon and then the music press were unjustifiably harsh on the album reviews.

A real pity because this album was in my opinion, by far the best of the 3 'proper' albums Lush put out and remains a favourite to this day. It had extra special meaning to me in Uni because a female friend of mine, for whom I had a unrequited love, loved it so much that she took over my copy and we had a good 18 months together as partners thanks to this album !!!!

Lush went on to produce a 3rd album, 'Lovelife', in 1996, an album that saw them modify their sound massively to fit in with the Britpop culture of Oasis and Blur. An album that did better than Split saleswise (but not as well as debut Spooky) and 3 singles that had moderate success on the charts in the UK - single girl, ladykillers and 500 (shake baby shake) all of which made the top 40 without breaking the top 20. This album had some nice cuts but lacked the emotion and depth of 'Split' and ultimately still failed to deliver any tangible success outside the UK. Drummer Chris Acland committed suicide in 1997, allegedly with major depression over the fact that Lush had not received the accolades and success he felt the band deserved and former bassist Steve Rippon said the band, in spite of 3 albums and international tours were barely living above the poverty line. The remaining band members followed their album title and 'Split' as a result of Chris Acland's death. Rumour has it that Emma was already planning an exit but this has never been confirmed.

Surprising, singer/songwriter Miki Berenyi (save a couple of guest appearances) dropped out of the music biz. Guitarist/songwriter/backup singer Emma Anderson has released 2 albums as part of the duo Sing-Sing to critical appraise but on a minor, independent level with little commercial impact.

Now watch these amazing YouTube videos...
1) 'Superblast' - one of my favourite Lush tracks, this video captures the raw sound and energy of the first time I saw Lush live, from the 1992 album 'Spooky'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19O6ZaZWTTI

2) 'Nothing Natural' - Emma's classic song, a real fan favourite also from the 'Spooky' album which has more of the 'Guthrie' production sound but is excellent anyway ! Pity this is the edited version that cuts out some solos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt6Ubq0gL_w&mode=related&search=%3C/b%3E

3) 'Kiss Chase' - one of Miki's standout tracks from the 'Split' album performed Live. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIJQdgvXU_g&mode=related&search=

4) 'Hypocrite' - a biting Miki punkish single from the Split album, with Miki looking SUPER HOT ! (swoon)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buz5D8OWmRc&mode=related&search=

5) 'Lit Up' - a fairly poor live video/audio quality representation of the breezy major chords of 'Lit Up', one of my favourite tracks on Split, following the brilliant but slowly paced 'Never, Never' the summer breeze that it is 'Lit Up' was genius! Emma composed this baby.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89HuXh8-cKM

6) 500 - Shake Baby Shake A song from 1996's 'Lovelife' album, you can see how the commercial pretentions became prominent from both the music and video. And Emma was probably a bit pissed off, seeing as this is her song, that Miki gets all the attention in the video ! A cutesy song with it's own charm but not up to the standards of any track on Split, IMHO.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ7IKcCdVWQ

7) 'For Love' live on Dennis Miller had to leave a classic Lush track (not 500 !!), on the For Love EP and later, Spooky, from 1992. Love Emma's backing vox on this one. A Miki song that sounds like Emma wrote it !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV9ifjG8v10&mode=related&search=

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Albums by underrated artists that helped to shape my life.

1) PALE SAINTS - "In Ribbons" (p) 4AD records 1992


Pale Saints were formed in Leeds in 1987 by singer/bassist Ian Masters, guitarist Graeme Naysmith and drummer Chris Cooper. The trio's debut album, The Comforts Of Madness(1990), was 4AD's first of the decade. Later in the year, the band returned with the Half-Life EP, which saw them expand to a quartet with the addition of Australian born singer/guitarist Meriel Barham. In 1991, the group toured with fellow 4AD band The Pixies and cut a new EP, Flesh Balloon. Produced by Hugh Jones, it featured a dreamy version of Nancy Sinatra's "Kinky Love". This song was especially well received and got some chart exposure and airplay on the UK charts and in Europe especially.

Pale Saints' second album,In Ribbons, also produced by Jones, came out the following year. This album in my eyes, is one of the finest alternative albums ever released. It has the twin threat of Masters and Barham's beautiful singing voices (the only album of the 3 to feature both) and has such a beautiful ethereal quality to it. The musicianship paints a whole collage of sound. For me, this is the ultimate 'shoegazing' CD. I was also away at University just about to commence on my 2nd year studies and this CD was a precious and inspiring album to me. In Ribbonshowever, did not quite manage to ride the coat-tails of The Flesh balloon EP (featuring Kinky Love) and sales were less than they should have been, in spite of a wealth of amazing tracks. 4AD's insistence on EP releases and minimal marketing certainly affected Pale Saints, while lesser bands such as Lush and Slowdive were picking up the reputations and sales. The album's title hinted at internal tensions and co-frontman Masters decided to quit the band. Pale Saints added bassist/vocalist Colleen Browne to the line-up and released their final album, Slow Buildings, in 1994. Although 'Fine Friend' was a modestly successful single, the album did not sell well and the band eventually split in 1996.

Now watch these fine Youtube videos and realize how talented and underrated this fine group actually were !

1) The Sight Of You 1990 (from the Comforts Of Madness album) - a little background on the band when they were still a trio with Ian Masters as the sole vocalist. There are some commentators who regard 'Comforts...' as Pale Saints best work, but although I like it, I give that award to 'In Ribbons'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdxFBl_7SSU&mode=related&search

2) Kinky Love (Flesh Balloon EP) 1991 - Meriel Barham's voice just takes me away to serenity on this cover of the Nancy Sinatra song (done shoegazing stylee) - another mistake - this song was successful but was not included on 'In Ribbons' which was a dumb mistake from 4AD.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZBilrMCrPU

3) Throwing Back The Apple 1992- later released as a single, a beautiful track which features Ian Masters on vocal but with blended background harmonies by Meriel and some sweet guitar playing, the opening track on 'In Ribbons'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L4s00Fa2Hg&mode=related&search=

4) Blue Flower 1992 - A cover of Mazzy Star's hit song from 1990 also featured on 'In Ribbons' (USA version and rereleases only) sang by Meriel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K583GJMbm8

5) A Thousand Stars Burst Open 1992- *incorrectly titled as 'Featherframe on the credit* A lasting tribute to Ian Masters vocal and poetry skills, the last track on 'In Ribbons' is a real shoegazing masterpiece with the 'wall of sound'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef-vBb_sitI

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** NEW CD - EXTRATERRESTRES - 12 tracks, 59 minutes of cool music, pro printing and duplication in jewel case, only US$ 9.00 plus shipping AVAILABLE NOW CLICK LINK TO PURCHASE **
http://cdbaby.com/cd/umbrielrising

DIGITAL DOWNLOADS : flexibility of choosing single songs or the whole album for your Ipod, mp3 player, computer or mp3 CD playing device

NAPSTER *available right now* downloads $1.19 CDN per song or $9.95 for the whole album.

I-TUNES - available 99 cents per track or $9.99 album click the link http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playListId=260964336

consumers - BEATS DIGITAL, available in 192 Kbps mp3 *5 pounds*, 320 Kbps mp3 *6 pounds* or CD Quality .wav file *6 pounds 75 pence* NO DRM, free use mp3s. http://www.beatsdigital.com/main.php?album_id=12762


PAYPAL - For only 12 US Dollars (14 US Dollars for Europe, 17 US Dollars Asia, Australia etc) - shipping included, I can send you a personally signed CD and 12x18" Umbriel Rising quality colour poster. Send me a Dnote if you're interested. Limited Quantities. Deduct 2 dollars if you want the CD only

All tracks can be streamed here at Dmusic Try before Buy !!

http://u-r.dmusic.com/music

Tracks - 1. Theme From Umbriel 2. Galactica Nova 3. Umbriel Guitar Jamz 4. Freaky Jupiter (Solar Flux Mix) 5. Ghost Machine 6. Constellation VI 7. Vision Release (Bluenevus ft. Umbriel Rising) 8. Opus R 9. Transvoid 2 10. Umbriel Braikkz 11. Ecosystem XI 12. Mystery Prophet

Please note - this is my first ever album release and I am doing it from a point of personal pride, rather than for profit - so your support is really appreciated

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