Lost Desert & Spleen Ideal Conversation

Edition of 400 numbered copies. The releases includes a poster with artwork and liner notes. Mastered by Yves Roussel. Lost Desert was founded in 1986 in the suburbs of Paris, near Versailles. The name of the band was suggested by a friend and appreciated for its mysterious meaning. They found inspiration in bands like The Cure, Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, Bauhaus… but also movies and visual art. Initially, the band was founded by two friends and their younger brothers. Feeling they could improve the vocals, they soon hired a female singer and started to play live in the Paris area, using a 4-track device for recording, usually with a drum machine. Spleen Ideal (in reference to a poem by Baudelaire) is a French band founded in 1985 by Marc Collin near Versailles in France. After a first line up that included Nicolas Godin (future member of AIR) as bass player, the band became a duo in 1988 with the arrival of the singer/bass player Xavier Jamaux. After a few concerts and several tracks in different cassette compilations, they finally changed their name to Persona in 1989 and split in 1990. Collin and Jamaux reformed the band a few years after under the name Ollano.