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Edward Ka-Spel

Edward Ka-Spel

Edward Ka-Spel has been played on NTS over 10 times, featured on 17 episodes and was first played on 7 August 2017.

Edward Ka-Spel (born January 23, 1954 in London, England) is an expatriate English singer, songwriter and musician residing in the Netherlands.

Ka-Spel is probably best known as the lead singer, songwriter and co-founder (with Phil "The Silverman" Knight) of the prolific underground band The Legendary Pink Dots. He has also released numerous solo albums and has worked in various side projects, including The Tear Garden (with cEvin Key of Skinny Puppy), and Mimir (with Phil Knight, Christoph Heemann, Jim O'Rourke and others).

His musical output has combined elements of psychedelia, dark folk, goth, industrial, electronic, found noise, sampling, pop and rock in varying degrees. His lyrics have been described as intensely personal and mystical, incorporating recurrent themes from his own personal mythos, and his songwriting and singing have been compared (usually favourably) to Syd Barrett and early Pink Floyd.

Ka-Spel's singing voice is distinctive, especially for listeners outside of England, as it displays characteristics peculiar to the region of England in which he grew up. In addition to his East London/East Anglian accent, Ka-Spel's dialect has what is sometimes misidentified as a lisp, but is actually a form of rhotacism, in which Rs are pronounced as Ws. This is believed to be a sociolect or a form of "permanent affectation" acquired as a child, rather than a speech disorder as such.

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Edward Ka-Spel

Edward Ka-Spel has been played on NTS over 10 times, featured on 17 episodes and was first played on 7 August 2017.

Edward Ka-Spel (born January 23, 1954 in London, England) is an expatriate English singer, songwriter and musician residing in the Netherlands.

Ka-Spel is probably best known as the lead singer, songwriter and co-founder (with Phil "The Silverman" Knight) of the prolific underground band The Legendary Pink Dots. He has also released numerous solo albums and has worked in various side projects, including The Tear Garden (with cEvin Key of Skinny Puppy), and Mimir (with Phil Knight, Christoph Heemann, Jim O'Rourke and others).

His musical output has combined elements of psychedelia, dark folk, goth, industrial, electronic, found noise, sampling, pop and rock in varying degrees. His lyrics have been described as intensely personal and mystical, incorporating recurrent themes from his own personal mythos, and his songwriting and singing have been compared (usually favourably) to Syd Barrett and early Pink Floyd.

Ka-Spel's singing voice is distinctive, especially for listeners outside of England, as it displays characteristics peculiar to the region of England in which he grew up. In addition to his East London/East Anglian accent, Ka-Spel's dialect has what is sometimes misidentified as a lisp, but is actually a form of rhotacism, in which Rs are pronounced as Ws. This is believed to be a sociolect or a form of "permanent affectation" acquired as a child, rather than a speech disorder as such.

Original source Last.fm

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Edward Ka-Spel
Not On Label (Edward Ka-Spel Self-released)2022
Lines
Edward Ka-Spel
Torso1985
Ghost Logik Part 2
Edward Ka-Spel
Not On Label (The Legendary Pink Dots Self-released)2014
Lilith's Daughter
Edward Ka-Spel
In Phaze Records1984
And The Stars
Edward Ka-Spel
Beta-lactam Ring Records2007
Moments
Edward Ka-Spel
Terminal Kaleidoscope2001
The Glory, The Glory
Edward Ka-Spel
Torso1985
Lisa's Resurrection
Edward Ka-Spel
Torso1985
Klazh, Tristürr
Edward Ka-Spel
Torso1985
Requiem
Edward Ka-Spel
In Phaze Records1984