After twelve years of complete silence and unavailability of all of their releases, in year 2008 legendary LUCIE CRIES returned, not with new material but with a MEGA double-collection of their complete works!
Gathered on two volumes, the too long unavailable material by one of France’s most respected, best remembered and most missed Gothrock acts is finally been made available again to all of their old and new fans! This massive collection not only contains their four mythical maxi-hitsingles, but also all of their three albums, their fifth maxi (recorded in 1996 but never released due to the collapse of their distribution), lots of rare compilation tracks and above all several completely unreleased songs from various periods of time in the existence of this seminal act!
The two volumes offer all in all 70 tracks, of which 16 have never been available on CD before! From their first ever released song ‘The Muse’s Calling’ (from legendary Alea Iacta Est-sampler ‘L’Appel de la muse’, 1989) up to their last ever recorded songs from 1996, this is THEEE essential release not only for Lucie Cries-Fans, but all connoisseurs of the French Gothrock and New Wave scene. An in depth Biography (both in English and French) written by Lucie Cries frontman Olivier Paccaud further completes this unmissable, must-have collection!
Released September 2024 on Infrastition.
Track Listing CD1/Liber 1:
01 Reconquista
02 Peste de cristal
03 Sophia
04 Les fils de Caïn
05 Croisade arctique
06 Panem et Circenses
07 Tocsins et testament
08 Le jugement d'Osiris
09 Le talisman de la muse
10 Hydromel et délices
11 Les amants de Lucie
12 La longue marche
13 Le manège
14 Timisoara
15 Les anges de Manille*
16 Les amants de Neptune*+
17 The Muse's calling* 18 Morituri Te Salutant+*
01-10 ‘Red non Verba’ CD (1993) 11-14 ‘Les Saisons de doute’ MCD (1990)
* = for the first time on CD + = previously unreleased, exclusive track
Tracks CD2/Liber 2:
01 La grâce et le glaive
02 Les fous de Messidor
03 L'acropole d'or
04 Vers les mines du Golgotha
05 Alcôves, sérénades et lumière
06 Le madrigal de l'elfe
07 Carthago Delenda Est
08 Les soleils félons
09 Abyssus Abyssum Invocat
10 La Sagrada Familia
11 Le crépuscule du dogme*
12 L'oeil de Chronos
13 Alea Jacta Est
14 Soeur de sang
15 Ultima Verba
16 Icare
17 Vestale
18 Messaline
01-10 ‘Semper ad Alta’ CD (1994) 13-18 ‘Mythes et lumière’ MCD (1991)
* = for the first time on CD + = previously unreleased, exclusive track
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