[订购] Black Tape For A Blue Girl ‎– As one aflame laid bare by desire, 3xCD [预付款1|239]

3CD Digipak，限量200。北美暗潮，40周年纪念重制。

L.A. Weekly: “A symphonic mix of poetic vocals and ethereal atmosphere.”

Ethereal, gothic and ambient entwine with poignant and powerful lyrical insight. Released 26 years ago in January of '99, AS ONE AFLAME LAID BARE BY DESIRE is black tape for a blue girl’s 7th album of romantic darkness and literary introspection. As blacktape closes in on their 2026 40th anniversary, founder Sam Rosenthal is restoring and remastering the band’s catalog. AFLAME is available in a striking 2LP edition and very limited 3CD edition.

Rosenthal funded this reissue with the support of the band’s fans via a successful Kickstarter campaign. He says, “I’m thrilled that so many want to see AFLAME available in new formats, sounding better than ever! I remixed two songs to bring the vocals up; going back to the original DAT sources makes the whole album so much warmer and richer. Martin Bowes' remastering enhances Julianna Towns' sultry vocals, Oscar Herrera's passionate voice, Vicki Richards' dramatic violins and cover star Lisa Feuer’s heartfelt flute. And of course my drifting electronics and soul-searching lyrics.

"Interestingly, 4 of the top-10 blacktape tracks at Spotify are from AFLAME. “Dulcinea” is the most played track. 47% of listeners are younger than 27. It's rewarding to have so many new listeners for blacktape's music, especially this album that was released before many were born!"



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Penthouse: Rosenthal’s black tape for a blue girl embraces Brian Eno’s ambient ideas along with sensual and enchanting vocals.

spiderbytes: As one aflame laid bare by desire proves that melancholy waters run deep. Perhaps not as gloomy, and certainly not as maudlin and angry as some previous releases, angst as art is still the source of fuel for Rosenthal and crew's perpetual dark flame. In fact, the art aspect is intensified as Sam laces threads from dadaist Marcel Duchamp's artworks and literature into blacktape’s gauzy fabric. Think modern Gothic chamber music with some ambient/electronic overtones.

Magnet Magazine: A lot of As one aflame is damn near brilliant in its artistic reach and dramatic scope. With otherworldly electronics, lone violin and weeping flute all draped around the solemn (electronic) whispers of Rosenthal (and the evocative voices of Julianna Towns and Oscar Herrera), blacktape provides a most ghostly encounter. At times, blacktape echoes the romantic indulgence of This Mortal Coil, with haunting female vocals and ornate neoclassicism juxtaposed against an ominous, frozen landscape of strings and keyboards; Rosenthal’s art achieves both an eerie sonic calm and an intense degree of emotional extravagance. AS ONE AFLAME can’t be dismissed as a misguided attempt to invigorate the well-preserved corpse of the darkwave. This stuff is quite guided and very much alive.

L.A. Weekly: Clearly, labels like ‘gothic,’ ‘death rock’ and ‘gloom’ are more about the mood, the fashions and the feelings the music provides. Stretching the goth genre even further, black tape for a blue girl incorporate orchestral elegance with a New Age-ish spirituality and literary introspection. Their latest As one aflame laid bare by desire is a symphonic mix of poetic vocals and ethereal atmosphere. Yes, it’s dark, but instead of wallowing spooky pretense, the band — which features a flutist, violinist, acoustic guitar and keyboards — focuses on instrumentation and conceptual themes. Far from depressing, they bring beauty and depth to a genre known more for sorrow and menace.

Los Angeles Times — Orange County Edition: Best Bets Orange County Today. black tape for a blue girl, a trio of flute, viola and keyboards is gothic in the traditional, medieval European sense, making ethereal music that moves like a candle flickering through a dark catacomb. blacktape’s return offers a brand of ambient pop seldom heard locally.

Philadelphia City Paper: Ambient electronic master Sam Rosenthal and his usual consorts, flautist Lisa Feuer, violinist Vicki Richards, vocalists Julianna Towns and Oscar Herrera, create ethereal chamber music. Like Dead Can Dance, black tape for a blue girl dramatically flirts with symphonic decay. The music is brightly lit and subtly melodic; forlorn chords arch and bend, the drama giving way to auburn radiance. Lyrics are brief, flashed snapshots concentrating on desire’s transitive elements. Passages of chamber orchestration are held together by Rosenthal’s ambient drone of electronic instrumentation, tape loops and verbal rumblings. black tape for a blue girl have reached a perfect spot – a record where darkness and light play as one, where ethereal music and personal obsessions meet and mingle with passion and dignity.

San Francisco Chronicle: On blacktape’s seventh release, founding member Sam Rosenthal collaborates with gifted vocalist Julianna Towns to create something of a concept album. Aflame explores psychological aspects of love, lust and passion, from the first blush of infatuation through lovers being stripped bare of their physical and emotional trappings to the inevitable end of the relationship. Through spare orchestration and intriguing storytelling, they create an arresting and thought-provoking storyline. 

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