Ghost Box

Whiney I know you're partly playing it up for LOLs but this isn't actually going to ruin this stuff for you is it?

― ~farben~ (Jon Lewis), Thursday, January 10, 2013 6:26 PM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Nah, I still love this stuff

reverse is also true, btw - ie there are plenty of uk telly genre-nerds who consume Children of the Stones and The Owl Service for breakfast, know every episode of Kinvig off by heart, but who wldn't touch the Ghost Box stuff w/ a fifty foot maypole

also think Electric Eden by Rob Young was a more important bk, in the UK at least, for popularising this idea of olde weird britain and a wider idea of what constitutes trad/folk music than the Simon Reynolds volume

Woebot's 70s ebook was a lot of fun. Wish it were longer.

reverse is also true, btw - ie there are plenty of uk telly genre-nerds who consume Children of the Stones and The Owl Service for breakfast, know every episode of Kinvig off by heart, but who wldn't touch the Ghost Box stuff w/ a fifty foot maypole

This. I tried a couple and even though they should be right up my street I just couldn't get into them at all. (For reference, they were Seance at Hob's Lane, We Are All Pan's People and The Owl's Map - feel free to point out they're unrepresentative and/or rubbish and I'm missing out.)

I really like the first Belbury Poly album, The Willows. Also check out the Broadcast/Focus Group collab.

so, thoughts on the new focus group lp anyone?

On very first listen this morning I liked it very much. I went straight onto the GB site and bought the vinyl. I like the sound of it a lot; kinda medieval stuff going on. Reminds me a little of Matmos's The Civil War. Intriguing.

https://soundcloud.com/cafekaput/applied-music-vol-1-science

The new Soundcarriers album is out today on Ghost Box. Downloaded it (purchased), but waiting for the vinyl to arrive. Love that band, so I have high hopes.

the "alternative" version of the release on GPS last year sounds tremendous so i'm v much looking forward to hearing this

The Soundcarriers record is awesome.

And this will also be awesome:

http://cafekaput.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/ghost-box-other-voices-01-brooks-ohagan.html

Back in the mists of time (we're talking probably 14 years ago) I 'creatively re-appropriated' a snippet of a High Llamas song into one of my own tunes. Wanting to do the honourable thing, I contacted Sean O'Hagan and played him what I'd done. I remember him being quite pleased about the whole thing and we stayed in touch, often talking about making a record together. Of course, these things always take time.

Fast-forward to now and here we are, kicking off a new series of singles on Ghost Box. It's available to pre-order now, at the Ghost Box shop.

always interested when Sean O'Hagan is involved in a music project

The clip could easily just be a new High Llamas song.

How's the new Advisory Circle?

Very good, more of the usual but a bit more sinister and space-y

i heard several reports to the effect jon brook's 52 is his best so far. hoping this one will make for a spooky christmas.

really liked the pye corner black mill 3-4 from earlier in the year.

Brooks' Shapwick and 52 are both terrific. Great to see the former once again available, now as a digital download on Bandcamp.

Ridiculous question but what would be a good "Ghost Box-y" present that wasn't actually a Ghost Box product?

^try something by Concretism:

https://soundcloud.com/concretism (some tracks streaming here are on his LP, 'Town Planning')

http://concretism.bandcamp.com (older stuff)

Artemiev's score for Solaris might be worth a listen. It was reissued this year. Not a million miles away.

Thanks both.

I was thinking of something non-musical - a book, a picture or something - to go with an already bought Ghost Box CD, as a vaguely themed present.

Blu-Ray of Berbarian Sound?

DVD of Look Around You?

Oh, if a book, then Discovering Scarfolk obv - http://scarfolk.blogspot.co.uk

What about the book "Discovering Scarfolk" by Richard Littler?

How abt dvds of children of the stones or something?

I'd meant to come on here to *wonder* about Scarfolk. How is it regarded in the world of Ghost Box et al? I saw it in a bookshop and my immediate thought was "I didn't know there was a Ghost Box book" and when I realised it wasn't Ghost Box felt a bit weird towards it. The website does amuse me, though.

The humour seems stretched a little thin in the book.

Arthur Machen or MR James?

Iain Sinclair books

Bemused that I have never seen Children of the Stones. Does it stand up to "grown up" watching?

Children Of The Stones is excellent, sort it!

Yes it does stand. And also induces a powerful and sadly unfulfillable urge to own a soundtrack album of that awesome atonal choral music.

Looks perfect http://www.ghostbox.co.uk/products/product_in_a_moment.htm

An expanded version of the Ritual and Education sampler?

copy of ouroborindra just went for $65 / £43 on ebay

it's the only one i don't have. not sure why it's so rare and hasn't been repressed.

my guess is copyright issues with the bbc? there's a quote from "the stone tape" in the liner notes and i don't think that's quite out of copyright yet.

web site just says "out of stock", wonder if it's just accelerationist profiteers

well they have repressed everything else once or twice (i'm talking CD btw) but they have never repressed ouroborindra for some reason

New Belbury Poly out today

Latest Mailout:
https://ghostbox.greedbag.com/mailouts/ghostbox047/ghost-box-news-new-ways-out-other-voices-08-belbury-poly-t

Excited for the Beautify Junkyards 7" as well as the Pye Corner Audio and Pattern Forms LPs.

I like the new Belbury Poly album.

Yep, pleased to see there's a Pattern Forms LP upcoming, I'd assumed the single was a one-off.

Clips from the Pattern Forms LP sounding sensational to these ears:
https://soundcloud.com/ghost-box/sets/peelawaytheivy

Pye Corner Audio album is also v. good.

Agree, the new Pye Corner Audio album is excellent.

New album from The Pattern Forms out now. It feels like Ghost Box has really been cranking it out this year.

The Pattern Forms album is great. The drums sound spectacular, and obviously Jon Brooks hits it out of the park.

Another winner from Ghost Box: The Invisible World of Beautify Junkyards, dreamy psych-pop half sung in English, half in Portuguese (the band are from Lisbon, I think).

New Advisory Circle - Ways of Seeing

Is it good ?