The Arms Of Something New


Area - White Canvas New Hope
Originally self-released on a cassette album on Office Records in 1986, ripped here from a CDR donated by a blog follower in lossless flac. Out of Champaign, Illinois came the subtle and well crafted dreamy pop of Area. I'll cover their later work in an upcoming Third Mind sequence, but for now please take time to enjoy this splendid  archive of their early work.
1 Disappear Here
2 The Blue Spark
3 Crystal
4 Michael Writes His Parents
5 Copper
6 A Fine And Still Line
7 All About Money
8 Parachute
9 Sincerely Charlotte
10 White Canvas New Hope
11 Higher Than Heaven
12 The And The
13 Father's Day
14 Sweet Revenge
15 This One
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19 comments:

  1. Anonymous23 April 2015 at 07:00

    This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.

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  2. Paulus23 April 2015 at 15:10

    Hi,
    I want this more and more the more and more the link refuses to work. These mediafire pages look full of traps -- all completing the Captcha does is open an ad -- and it never stops 'preparing to download'.

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    1. Blogmeister23 April 2015 at 18:48

      Mediafire works fine!

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    2. Paulus23 April 2015 at 20:02

      Hmm, works in Firefox, not Chrome . . . Thanks!

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    3. Anonymous24 April 2015 at 06:14

      you're right chrome is the problem

      hueskiebueskie

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    4. Anonymous26 April 2015 at 17:03

      Chrome has become a big problem of late as Google basically declared war on third party plug-ins, especially anything to do with JAVA (Oracle). They disabled the NPAPI standard for browsers as of April 2015. Didn't tell anyone, mind you.

      This *may* help but don't hold your breath:-
      http://java.com/en/download/faq/chrome.xml

      penguinflight

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  3. RC23 April 2015 at 20:59

    Good stuff. I bonded with The Perfect Dream album one night on mushrooms during a thunderstorm. Beautiful stuff.

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  4. Steve 1/3 Area24 April 2015 at 18:51

    Also available on Bandcamp along with other Area albums: https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/white-canvas-new-hope

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  5. Steve 1/3 Area24 April 2015 at 18:52

    Also available on Bandcamp along with other Area albums: https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/white-canvas-new-hope

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  6. thehappyone25 April 2015 at 14:43

    Let's hope the link expires before Mr. Rosenthal notices. He's notoriously dogged about pursuing perceived slights.

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  7. Steve 1/3 Area25 April 2015 at 15:03

    I can't begin to explain how conflicted I am.

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  8. Blogmeister25 April 2015 at 15:06

    Steve. The link has been voluntarily pulled to avoid any conflict for all. I have ripped the two later vinyl albums in high resolution flac as part of an upcoming Third Mind Records/C'est La Mort feature. If anybody raises any issues, they won't appear either.

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  9. Steve 1/3 Area25 April 2015 at 15:11

    You needn't do that on my account. I'm just expressing my long-running internal conflict, between being able to share the music, appreciate that people listen to it, desire to continue to provide the means necessary to make it available, be distributed and be created. It's fortunate that people like it and want to listen to it, I'm grateful, and I'm hopeful others will cotton to it. But I can be more generous than others since I don't rely on revenue from it to make ends meet. So... conflicted.

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  10. Anonymous26 April 2015 at 12:39

    Considering it comes from a CDR, the quality might have been as low as the Linear Movement one, so maybe not a bad decision to pull it...

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    1. Anonymous26 April 2015 at 16:20

      These were lossless I can promise you that!

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    2. RC26 April 2015 at 18:54

      Actually, Audiochecker spits back CDDA 100% on all but one track. 99% for that one.

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  11. Steve 1/3 Area26 April 2015 at 23:59

    That lacking 1% is probably due to my playing.

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    1. Anonymous27 April 2015 at 09:31

      Thank you for The Perfect Dream, Steve. One of the most important albums in my life.It is amazing how many bands reflect on Area these days, but none of them ever come close.

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  12. Steve 1/3 Area27 April 2015 at 15:39

    The more time goes by the more meaningful comments like yours are to me. Thank you, very much. It'll sound trite, but that's really what it's about to me, so to hear it really means a lot.

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