Blue Lily Commission - Eve Songs
Blue Lily Commission is the solo project of Steve Palmer, a.k.a. the man 
behind Mooch. Blue Lily Commission was set up by Steve in 2000 to create 
ethnic-influenced music (echoing in particular the music of the Middle East 
and India) with modern beats and synth sounds: “future trance from an ancient 
world,” as he put it. The early releases were CD-R only or distributed by the 
then novel format of MP3 download, but in 2004 Rubbish Records released 
the esteemed “Eastern Evening” album. Since then, these first four albums 
have been made available by Pondlife Studios in Glastonbury.

After a four year hiatus for Mooch and science fiction writing, Steve has 
recorded a new album, “Eve Songs”, released on the summer solstice 2008. 
This album features two Middle Eastern-styled tracks and two lengthy dub 
tracks, both of an Indian persuasion. Steve plays various ethnic guitars on 
this album, including the saz and oud.

Prepare to meet the offspring of The Orb and the Indian subcontinent…

‘A powerful set of deep space music…’ Aural Innovations on “Eastern Evening”


Tracks ...

1. Amman               13:56
2. Bangalore Dub     10:10
3. Crescent             16:22
4. Dharamsala Dub  18:48


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Reviews ...


I had high expectations for the album, because Eastern Evening had
been my favorite of all the Rubbish Record releases. Eastern Evening
had 8 tracks, compared to just 4 here, but I've always been a fan of
extended pieces of music.

Eastern Evening was something of a grower on me, I always felt there
was some type of synergy between the elements of each track, where the
whole sounded more complex than the sum of it's parts.

I hear this again in Eve Songs, especially in the two middle eastern
style tracks. I also think the sound is more complex than before.
There are an incalculable number of sounds and instruments on each
track, interacting with each other and maintaining a great deal of
interest.

The dub tracks are great, but I've been much more excited by the
middle eastern style tunes which I cannot recommend too highly. Both
of these tracks take a melody and build and build, before breaking
down, to build again with different instrumentation. There is a huge
mixture of acoustic and electronic sounds in every track, but if
anything, I would say there has been a swing towards the acoustic type
sounds since Eastern Evening.

If anybody on the list hasn't bought a copy yet, what are you waiting
for? I cannot think of anybody more acomplished in this type of music
than Steve now, at times this album absolutely blows me away!

Matt Smith