Ionia is the third studio album by the American Dark Wave band Lycia

Lycia (band)

Lycia is a darkwave/gothic rock band that was formed in 1988, Tempe, Arizona, United States. The main personnel of the band are Mike VanPortfleet, Tara Vanflower, David Galas and . Although only achieving minor cult success, the band is notable for being one of the ground breaking groups in...

, released on 1991 through Projekt Records

Projekt Records

This is the article for the record label. You might be looking for Pro-jekt, ProjeKct, Project Pitchfork, or Projekt RevolutionProjekt is a Brooklyn, New York-based independent record label specializing in gothic rock, ambient, ethereal, darkwave, shoegaze, dream-pop, and dark cabaret created by...

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Reception

Ned Raggett of allmusic gave it 3 out of 5 stars, saying "it's excellent mood music, if you like that kind of mood." Piero Scaruffi

Piero Scaruffi

Piero Scaruffi received a degree in Mathematics in 1982 from University of Turin, where he did work on the General Theory of Relativity. For a number of years he was the head of the Artificial Intelligence Center at Olivetti, based in Cupertino, California. He has been a visiting scholar at...

 gave it an 7 out of 10, calling it a "soundscape of electronically processed guitar tones and glacial orchestral counterpoints." It would be placed at #34 on his "Best Rock Albums of 1991" list.

Track listing

All songs composed by Lycia

Lycia (band)

Lycia is a darkwave/gothic rock band that was formed in 1988, Tempe, Arizona, United States. The main personnel of the band are Mike VanPortfleet, Tara Vanflower, David Galas and . Although only achieving minor cult success, the band is notable for being one of the ground breaking groups in...

 except "Renewal" by Mark Gill & Will Welch.

Personnel

Lycia

• Mike VanPortfleet – Instruments, mixing
  Audio mixing (recorded music)
  In audio recording, audio mixing is the process by which multiple recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics, and panoramic position are manipulated and effects such as reverb may...
  
  

Additional musicians and production

• Sam Rosenthal
  Sam Rosenthal
  Sam Rosenthal is the founder and leader of Black Tape For a Blue Girl and Projekt Records.-Projekt Records:Begun by Sam Rosenthal in 1983 as a way to release his own solo electronic music, Projekt Records spent its early life as a cassette-only label with a series of titles that are now long...
  
   – mixing
  Audio mixing (recorded music)
  In audio recording, audio mixing is the process by which multiple recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics, and panoramic position are manipulated and effects such as reverb may...
  
  
• Will Welch – sampler
  Sampler (musical instrument)
  A sampler is an electronic musical instrument similar in some respects to a synthesizer but, instead of generating sounds, it uses recordings of sounds that are loaded or recorded into it by the user and then played back by means of a keyboard, sequencer or other triggering device to perform or...
  
  (Track 8)