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 3:
01 Magellan
02 Djihad
03 Saint Jean Baptiste et Torquemada
04 Shoah
05 D'une muse et d'une rose noire
06 Mauve, ocre et rubis
07 Le rêve
08 De l'ivresse au venin
09 Les fils du feu
10 Pater, Mater et Filius
11 Messaline (Instrumental)*
12 Icare (Early English live version)*+
13 La dernière ordalie
14 Salamandres et mandragores
15 L'ost du silence
16 L'âme de Perperthus
17 Clara
01-10 ‘Nihil ex Nihilo’ CD (1995) 13-17 ‘Nec Pluribus Impar’ MCD (1992)
* = for the first time on CD + = previously unreleased, exclusive track
Tracks CD2/Liber 4:
01 Venimus, Vidimus, Deus Vicit
02 La chrysalide de l'ange
03 Cassandra 04 Vox Dei
05 Le premier pas
06 Un tsarevitch au coeur des limbes*+
07 Vers l'azur*+
08 Lune d'absinthe*+
09 Le repentir du matador*+
10 Machiavel
11 Daddy made me love*+
12 Lecture de l'échographie d'Eva B. *+
13 Les larmes de l'oubli*
14 Phil's story*
15 The fatal message*
16 Sol Lucet Omnibus
17 No time to doubt
01-05 ‘La Loi d’avril’ MCD (1993) 06-10 Tracks from the band’s 5th MCD (never released)
* = for the first time on CD + = previously unreleased, exclusive track
English