Artist: Lycia Genre(s):
Metal
Dance
Electronic
Gothic
Discography:
Tripping Back Into The Broken Year: 2002
Tracks: 12
The Burning Circle and Then Dust CD2 Year: 2001
Tracks: 10
The Burning Circle and Then Dust CD1 Year: 2001
Tracks: 16
Estrella Year: 1998
Tracks: 11
Cold Year: 1996
Tracks: 9
The Burning Circle and Then Dust Year: 1995
Tracks: 26
A Day In The Stark Corner Year: 1993
Tracks: 10
Ionia Year: 1991
Tracks: 12
!Other Year:
Tracks: 7
Mike Van Portfleet formed Lycia in early 1988 in his hometown of Phoenix. Inspired by post-punk and the celestial 4AD sound of the '80s, he began experimenting with guitar loops on his four-track fipple flute. He recruited an old friend, bassist John Fair, to join him, and the two recorded
Wake in 1989 for Phoenix's Orphanage Records. Fair left a year by and by to play with Caterwaul, only Van Portfleet continued to track record, sending his demos to the goth-ambient Projekt label. Projekt liked what it heard and signed him to a squeeze.
The first base Lycia release for Projekt,
Ionia, appeared in 1991. After recording
A Day in the Stark Corner in 1993, Lycia became a duet erst again when David Galas appeared on several springy dates in California, documented on 1994's
Springy. Van Portfleet and Galas number one recorded in the studio apartment as Bleak, a side-project which released
Vane in 1995. Tara Van Flower became the one-third appendage of Lycia that year, and her vocals appeared on
The Burning Circle and Then Dust, a double-album released in 1995.
Estrella followed in 1998.