BIC BLOG 7/20/24

With Wednesday’s being the official release of ‘Dancing With Angels’ fast approaching (T-Minus 96 hours and counting!), it’s honestly an internal battle of climatic vs. anti-climatic! After what has been conservatively 1000 hours of work, it is a blessing to see this completed and ready to share with our BIC Family. It is honestly a bit surreal to think that, for a fleeting moment this was going to be ‘my solo record’ , and this is what has blossomed over the past 6 years. If my math is correct, we have expanded to twenty-five (25) singers over four (4) studio albums….. not including the special guests and remixers on the to-date, our three ‘re-envision’ releases. (and yes, we are in the process of yet another one that we hope to release by the end of this year). Well that’s enough of my reminiscing…

So along with this week’s release of our “Holy Ground” video, the official line-up of Dancing With Angels was revealed. It was my intention to bring back some alumni from our first 2 releases. Ashton Nyte, Kat Leon along with Wayne and Cinthya Hussey graciously returned. I really find joy in expanding our BIC Family by bringing in new singer/lyricists to our family. Fame be damned, as being ‘less famous’ sure as hell doesn't mean less talented. For ‘Dancing With Angels’ we welcome William and Sarah Rose Faith (The Bellwether Syndicate), Cynthia Isabella (Silence In the Snow, Lost Gems), Leo Luganiskiy, Julian Shah-Tayler, and the founder of one of Los Angeles’ most influential dark-wave groups Kommunity FK; Patrik Mata. As always, Michael Rozon and I ask that you please take a dive into each of these amazing artists’ music. You can get each one of these artist’s insight, lyrics and more HERE.

So, as with all of our BIC releases, Vinyl and CD versions are available. Due to the much longer production time of vinyl, unfortunately we won’t have the beautiful multi-colored ‘Dancing With Angel’ 12” until late August. While we hate the idea of Pre-Order, the first 100 copies will include two (2) signed posters by the album’s featured artists, BIC’s Michael Rozon and myself, along with Maren Platzhoff, the artist who hand-painted both the front and back covers! You can secure your 12” vinyl copy HERE. Please note the end of August ship date, and that we will have 50 of the signed sets available to ship thru-out Europe from the UK, saving on what we know are astronomical postage costs. Orders for European addresses will be fulfilled from the UK. All vinyl and CD orders will receive a digital download code on the morning of July 24th with the full deluxe version… which includes the 8 songs and the HALO musical interludes, along with 2 bonus tracks. I don’t think I can explain the concept and what the HALOs are any better than Steve Dishon from the fabulous Wanderings and Woolgathering podcast. Please check out his review HERE…. which honestly captures the spirt of ‘Dancing With Angels’ perfectly.

I think we can use some ‘visual aids’ to help complete this blog!

Pre-Order the 12” Multi Color Vinyl HERE! Please note late August shipping. European orders will be sent from the UK! Two (2) signed posters (see below) included with first 100 copies! Full Deluxe digital download code will be sent on July 24th!

Two 8”x10” full color singed posters to be included with first 100 Vinyl copies! Please note, above photos taken before all of the artists have signed.

Back cover of the CD version! Please note the track order is 1,3,5, etc, as the HALO musical interludes are not listed but are tracks 2,4,6…. Hopefully this makes sense! CDs will ship in July and include a full 12-page color booklet with lyrics, credits, etc. A full digital download code will be sent on the July 24th release date. European orders will be fulfilled from the UK. ORDER YOUR COPY HERE!

Meet the amazing artists that made ‘Dancing With Angels’ possible! Please read their thoughts and lyrics HERE!

Maren Platzhoff’s original oil paintings framed and displayed outside my SAINT2 home studio, where many of the songs on this album started.

Many thanks for reading all of my babble here and for your belief and support of Beauty In Chaos!

We made this album with Love, Family, Faith and….. Angels.

MC X

Michael Ciravolo