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.
