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Em Burrows presents lots of Ghost Box adjacent stuff as well as global psych sounds and instrumental journeys!
LISTEN
show restream here
HQ Mixcloud edition here
PLAYLIST
0:00:00 Cate Brooks – Capture the Snowfall Forever
Cate Brooks – First Night
2:12:20 Cate Brooks – The Ice Palace
2:18:10 OHMA – Everything and Nothing
ToiToiToi – Golden Green
Batfinks – Crystal Hermitage
Wolf People – Village Strollin’
2:33:17 Tea Plucking and Catching Butterflies – Lily Chao
Lynn Castle and the Last Friday Fire – Lady Barber
Belbury Poly – Now Ends the Beginning
The Pattern Forms – Peel Away the Ivy
2:45:50 Listening Center – Main Reading Room
Air – Le Soleil Est Pres De Moi
2:57:02 Pye Audio Corner and the Advisory Circle – Cloud Control
The Advisory Circle – Activities
3:06:05 Alan Stivell – Suit des Montagnes
The Advisory Circle – Sky Court
Kaleidoscope – Taxim
3:27:25 Alan Stivell – Suite Irlandaise
The Dufay Collective – La Rotta
Mdou Moctar – Ya Habibti
3:40:40 Erasers – Evening Signs
Hiroshi Yoshimura – Feet
Soyuz – Weather Report
Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan – Ariel Views by Helicopter
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 22 dreams, ghost box, in another room ep, paul weller
Jim Jupp (Belbury Poly, Ghost Box)
In Another Room…
Bob Fischer’s “The Haunted Generation” blog is an adjunct to his column of the same name that appears in Fortean Times Magazine. Over at his blog he has just published an excellent interview with Jim Jupp of Ghost Box Records (here) talking about the new Paul Weller EP (out 31st January) and other things coming up on Ghost Box in 2020.
Ghost Box: “In Another Room is a four track 7″ EP by very special guest, Paul Weller. On Ghost Box, he finds the perfect home to explore his interest in experimental tape music and early electronics. The four tracks here though are more than just experiments; tape manipulation, field recordings and instrumental passages are artfully arranged to create a gently uncanny & psychedelic atmosphere”.
Jim Jupp: “I don’t think the EP as a whole is as challenging as you might think, and I wouldn’t want to put people off. It’s certainly out-there and avant-garde, but there are a lot of melodic passages, a lot of instrumentation, and a few session musicians involved. It does create an atmosphere, and I think anyone can appreciate and enjoy it”.
Concrete Islands Review
Stewart Gardiner has a review offering good guidance over at his very readable Concrete Island Blog. Guidance like this: “The most haunted piece on the EP is also the most Wellerian. “Rejoice” is more conventionally musical, yet its essence is so fragile that it cannot maintain substance and instead ends up as a fragment from some half-remembered dream. It becomes the accompaniment to a scene that is impossible to pin down, although consider abandoned seaside town halls transmitting the past via stone tape recordings or the cover of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band stuttering to life, cut-out figures crawling off the sleeve. “Rejoice” is an interlude disguised as a last hurrah and is thus a fitting end to the strange and compelling case of Paul Weller on Ghost Box.
Revisiting 22 Dreams…
I was very excited to hear Paul Weller was doing a release with Ghost Box. Back in 2008 I remember thinking some of the tracks and fragments on ’22 Dreams’ were offering a tantalising glimpse into a new sound direction. Tracks like ‘Song for Alice’ dedicated to Alice Coltrane and ‘111′ with its Mellotron and ‘Night Lights’ with its Moog Harmonium and Piano. The Deluxe Edition with its bonus demos was particularly enjoyable. But then true to form Paul went off and did something completely different for his next LP.
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Dome
Dome feat Angela Conway (A.C Marias)
2019 Ghost Box
Tristan Gibbs brings you early and other electronic music via Chanctonbury Ring.
Show restream here
Mixcloud edition here
PLAYLIST
BBC Radiophonic Workshop – Bath Time – The Radiophonic Workshop
Holly Herndon – Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt – PROTO
Flying Lotus – Remind U – Flamagra
Dominique Guiot – Une Ballade Pour Une Goelette – L’Univers de la Mer
Bernard Xolotl – Last Wave II – Last Wave
James Ferraro – Xerces Blau – Requiem for Recycled Earth
Suzanne Ciani – Flowers of Evil (Excerpt) – Flowers of Evil
Ruth White – The Cat – Flowers of Evil
Dome feat Angela Conway (aka A.C. Marias) – Cruel When Complete – 1
Matt Berry – Music for Insomniacs (Excerpt) – Music for Insomniacs
Dominique Guiot – Wind Surf Ballad – L’Univers de la Mer
Sharron Kraus – Wanderer (Excerpt) – Chanctonbury Rings
Belbury Poly – Chanctonbury Rings (End Title) – Chanctonbury Rings
David Shire – No More Questions/Phoning the Director – The Conversation OST
Sensations’ Fix – The Next Place of Nobody/Pasty Day Resistance/Leave My Chemistry Alone – Portable Madness
Coil – Ostia (Death of Pasolini) – Horse Rotorvator
Death in June – The Giddy Edge of Light -But What Ends When the Symbols Shatter
Dominique Guiot – Destination Inconnue – L’Univers de la Mer
BBC Radiophonic Workshop – Geraldine – The Radiophonic Workshop
Plone – Marbles – For Beginner Piano
Holly Herndon – SWIM – PROTO
The Ghost Box Study Series is a set of ten 7 inch singles featuring artist collaborations and each with a ‘study’ theme. I am very glad there is someone out there who would take the time to review the Ghost Box Study Series in an appropriate level of detail. Here is an example…
Study Series One
“The first single is a collaboration between Belbury Poly and Moon Wiring Club and comes under the general heading of Youth and Recreation (each single has its own thematic title). Things get off to a fairly funky start with the A side The Young People. Stevie Wonderish clavichord and disjointed beats beats are overlaid with more typically Ghost Boxy synth melodies in warm, sunfilled analogue tones. A haunted middle section has echoing zither shivers (‘terror zings’ as they’re referred to on the Radiophonic Workshop Out of This World effects LP), ratcheting scrapes like sticks dragged along railings and other murmurations. All of which suggests the approach of the young people with the strangely ‘whitewashed faces’ of which the voiceover speaks. It all ends with ominous, booming synth chords: they’re here, they’re at the door. The B-side, Portals and Parallels, has more beats and bass from the Moon Wiring end of the spectrum. The repeated pattern of a spiralling Belbury theme tune creates zooming false coloured photo title graphics in the mind, suggestive of some supernatural action series. Distorted, half-comprehensible voices can be heard leaking through from some other place. The middle-section shifts into an urgent, John Barry-esque style, which you could imagine being hammered out on a cimbalom (the sound of cold war spy thrillers). An odd, bumbling folk melody in the middle could be the signature of a friendly spirit sidekick, manifesting in order to aid our occult detective in his fight against malevolent forces.”
Read the reviews for the other nine records here – AND thank you to Sparks In Electric Jelly – a very well read blog and lots more on Ghost Box, hauntology wyrd etc – we like
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PLAYLIST
The Pink Floyd – Set the Controls For the Heart of the Sun (Recorded Live at MOTHERS, Birmingham and Manchester College of Commerce, June 1969) – Ummagumma
Wolf People – All Returns – Fain
The Soundcarriers – Somewhere To Land – The Other World of the Soundcarriers
The Listening Centre – Titoli – Ghost Box Study Series 09
The Focus Group – The Elektrik Karousel Side 1: Make Way; The Elektrik Karousel; Petroleum Paisley; tigt gruffil; The Flourescent Host; Skipping Spook; Kinky Korner Klub; The Kool Kranium; Bachoo; The Heavy Blessing; Chordfl; Hope Hodgsone; Poppingart
The Listening Centre and Pye Corner Audio – Town Of Tomorrow Today – Ghost Box Study Series 09
Holden – Gone Feral – The Inheritors
Fuck Buttons – The Red Wing – Slow Focus
Jon Hopkins – Form By Firelight – Immunity
Lightning Dust – Moon – Fantasy
Grouper – Cloud In Places – The Man Who Died In His Boat
Lawrence English – Cigarette Burn – Lonely Women’s Club
Young Ideas – Magic Sounds/Mystery Door/A Visitor/Waking Up – scratchy old children’s 45 record I found in an op-shop in Collie, WA
Boards of Canada – Split Your Infinities – Tomorrow’s Harvest
Software of Seagulls – Carve Silence Into Me – Sixes and Twelves (New Weird Australia Compilation)
Broadcast – Burnt at the Stake – Berberian Sound Studio (OST)
Fatti Frances – You’re Dead – Sweaty
Broadcast – The Sacred Marriage – Berberian Sound Studio (OST)
Pierre Schaeffer – Cinq Etudes Des Bruits: #5 Pathetique – High Voltage: Giant Steps and Flashpoints in 20th Century Experimental and Electronic Sound
Jean-Claude Vannier – Je M’Appelle Geraldine – Electro-Rapide
Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot – Bonnie Et Clyde – Comic Strip
Alice – Que Pouvons-Nous Faire Ensemble? – The BYG Deal: Art, Rock, Revolution
The Golden Apples of the Sun 