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PASTORAL NOIR - WOOD ST. GALLERIES PITTSBURGH

An exhibition opens today in  Wood St. Galleries, Pittsburgh, entitled Pastoral Noir. It features work from Ghost Box Records, Tessa Farmer, Jem Finer, Tony Heywood & Alison Condie, Autumn Richardson & Richard Skelton and Semiconductor it examines both real and imagined British landscapes and folklore.

A space devoted to Julian House's work for Ghost Box will be screening a continuously rolling film retrospective as well as a smaller video installation, print work and a display of artefacts from Ghost Box's parallel world.

The exhibition runs January 22nd to April 3rd, more information here.
Here's how Wood St. describe the show...

Guest curated by Justin Hopper. Artists: Tessa Farmer, Jem Finer, Ghost Box Records, Tony Heywood & Alison Condie, Autumn Richardson & Richard Skelton and Semiconductor

Through their visual, sonic and sculptural investigations into the English landscape, the artists in Pastoral Noir have discovered a dark and eerie place. Using science and language, memory and myth, these works immerse the viewer in uncanny landscapes both real and imagined.

BY OURSELVES

The Parish Council very much enjoyed  a screening of Andrew Kötting's By Ourselves in the Belbury New Spirit Hall yesterday. A psycho-documentary-drama about the poet John Clare's 80 mile asylum escape from Essex to Northamptonshire in 1841.

Our parishioners should be persuaded by the involvement of the following remarkable people:
Iain Sinclair, Freddie Jones, Toby Jones, Alan Moore, Jem Finer, Macgillivray, Stewart Lee and a straw bear.

The film can be seen in selected cinemas and online here now.

GHOST BOX AT GREENMAN

Ghost Box will be providing a little parallel world afternoon ambience in The Talking Shop tent at the Greenman Festival  next week in the Brecon Beacons.

Label owners House and Jupp  (aka Focus Group and Belbury Poly), will be playing a selection of library music, soundtracks, weird folk, ancient electronics, kooky psych  and even some Ghost Box tunes and sound effects. Accompanied this year by a selection of archival and in house film clips.

Timings are fluid at the moment but you can expect to catch them on Friday from 2:00 to 2:30pm and on Saturday at 2:30 to 3:00pm (ish).

THE KIDS' JAM SESSION

OTHER VOICES 03 AND 04, COMING IN FEBRUARY

The next two singles in our Other Voices series both feature very special guests.

Other Voices 03 introduces an exciting new ensemble, The Pattern Forms. Made up of Jon Brooks (The Advisory Circle) with Ed Gibson and Ed MacFarlane (both of Friendly Fires). Expertly crafted, dreamy, electronic pop with light, airborne vocals and just a hint of dark magick.


The next in the series is by Steve Moore, well known for his retro futuristic work both as a solo artist and as bass and keyboard player with Zombi. This single for Other Voices, captures an elegant and minimalistic performance from Moore on analogue synth, Hammond organ and vintage string machine. Two perfectly balanced and paired down science fiction landscape miniatures.


Here's a beautiful trailer video for the B side of Other Voices 03, The Sacrifice, made by Ed MacFarlane:

Both available from 27th February on super heavyweight 7" vinyl or download. Pre-order here now.

UNEARTHING FORGOTTEN HORRORS

 

Next Saturday, 15h Novemeber, The Star and Shadow Cinema in Newcastle will host Unearthing Forgotten Horrors. Its an annual mini-fest of folk horror cinema, short film, and spooked live music.

 

Headlining this year are Aderlating and Kemper Norton and there'll be rare screenings of Mumsy Nanny Sonny and Girly and Shockwaves. Throughout the event selections from The Ghost Box Film Retrospective will be showing.

12:00am to 12:00pm, tickets £10 here

GHOST BOX IN ROME. 25 SETTEMBRE

Next Thursday 25th September, Julian House and Jim Jupp of Ghost Box will be DJing and showing a special selection of Ghost Box films and imagery as part of a series of events in Rome's Swiss Institute called Popular Helvetica.

The evening is called "Folk & Pop Sounds from the World", and explores how a selection of contemporary record labels are repurposing and re-imagining folk and "world" music traditions in their own unique ways. As well as Ghost Box there'll be a set from Switzerland's Cyrill Schläpfer of CSR, and heading the bill is Alan Bishop of Sublime Frequencies. The evening will open with a live acoustic set  from an ensemble on traditional Swiss instruments lead by Cyrill Schläpfer.

Doors 17:30 and the ingresso is libero !
Tutti i dettagli in Italiano.

GHOST BOX HAUNT THE GREENMAN AGAIN

Ghost Box will be putting in an appearance at this year's Greenman Festival in South Wales. On the afternoon of Friday 15th. Jim Jupp and Julian House will be Disk Jockeying between talks in the Talking Shop tent. The set will precede a rare and exciting  interview with Shirley Collins. So the serenely summery mix of electronics, psychedelia and soundtrack will have distinctly folky flavour. (Folk Militants please note: Its not quite what's billed on the GM website !).

Also in the cinedrome tent (screening time TBA) you can see The Ghost Box Retrospective film, commissioned by the London Short Film festival earlier this year for the ICA.

Finally Ghost Box will be playing a show on Greenman Radio ( 87.7FM ) at 1pm on Sunday. 

Don't forget your transistor radio.

UPDATE 13/08/14: There'll be an extra slot for the Ghost Box DJs at 3-ish on Sunday afternoon in the Talking Shop to open for the mighty Gruff Rhys.
And the Ghost Box film retrospective will be screened at some point on Friday night (we think).

TRUNK TV "TITLE SEQUENCES"

ENTROPICALIA AVAILABLE NOW

Available on LP, CD and download now, in the Ghost Box shop, your usual online retailers and finer record shops around the world. The LP version is on heavyweight 180g vinyl and comes with a free download code. The CD includes a bonus track and comes packed in a beautifully designed and textured 8 panel digi pack. Artwork by Julian House and sleeve notes by Ben Graves of Toys and Techniques.

THE SOUNDCARRIERS - ENTROPICALIA

Entropicalia is the new album from The Soundcarriers, a band new to the world of Ghost Box records. Its due out on 20th May and to launch its release here's a video by Julian House for the track Boling Point.

 

The Soundcarriers switched on sounds are filmic, fantastic and authentically psychedelic. The rock solid rhythm and bass of songwriters, Adam Cann and Paul Isherwood provide a jazz inflected, motorik groove for Dorian Conway’s guitar and the whirling keys and sunshine voice of Leonore Wheatley.

Jesse Chandler of Midlake guests on Hammond and flute on two tracks. Also guesting, is movie actor Elijah Wood to talk the listener through a mathematically guided trip on the extended wig-out This is Normal.
 

 

Sumptuous packaging for both CD and Vinyl is designed by Julian House with liner notes by Ben Graves (of  Toys and Techniques).

 

Released 20th May on LP, CD and Download. Pre-order here from Friday 25th April.

SHOREDITCH: EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC SCHOOL 1969

GHOST BOX AT THE ICA

As part of the London Short Film Festival in January, London's ICA will be screening a selection of Julian House's films for Ghost Box Records. Its a compilation of various short films, animations idents and promos made over the last ten years for various gallery events and Ghost Box's occasional live event, The Belbury Youth Club

After the screening there'll be a Q&A with Julian House lead by Bob Stanley (member of Saint Etienne and author of Yeah, Yeah, Yeah). This will be followed by DJ-ing in the ICA bar by Ghost Box and Mr. Stanley, accompanied by more projections and slides until late in the evening.

The screening is at 18:30 in ICA Cinema 1 on Saturday 18th January
Tickets £10.00 (£8.00 concs.) available here .

Here's what the festival say:

Julian House’s video for the label is a peculiar mélange of children’s television, 1960s underground animation and evolving op-art mandalas. Using a combination of new digital and old analogue techniques they conjure a world where TV station indents become occult messages and films for schools are exercises in mind control and collective hallucination.

Ghost Box will be screening two film pieces with music and sound by various Ghost Box artists in collaboration with the group Broadcast, these are bookended by a collection short idents, animations and music promos.

 

A FIELD IN ENGLAND

Julian House's trailer for Ben Wheatley's A Field In England

THE ADVISORY CIRCLE MIX FOR FANGORIA

To coincide with a piece on The Finishing Line, probably the most upsetting Public Information Film ever made, Fangoria magazine asked Jon Brooks of The Advisory Circle to put together this PIF inspired mix...

 

 

FULL CIRCLE

Our thanks to Ross Macfarlane at the Wellcome Trust Library for this dire warning about the importance of "planned parenting". ( more info )

BUILDING A HUMAN

The Twilight Language of Nigel Kneale

Last November in New York, author and journalist, Sukhdev Sandhu curated an event on science fiction screen-writer and author of Quatermass, Nigel Kneale. The Twilight Language of Nigel Kneale is a limited edition book to commemorate the event.

 

Its beautifully designed by Rob Carmichael and the first batch come with a music compilation on cassette titled, Restligeists.

The book and cassette feature some of our own parishioners many names that will be familiar to regular readers of the Parish Magazine...

 

contributions by a wide range of musicians, artists, curators and cultural theorists including Sophia Al-Maria, Bilge Ebiri, Mark Fisher, Will Fowler, Ken Hollings, Paolo Javier, Roger Luckhurst, China Mieville, Drew Mulholland, David Pike, Mark Pilkington, Joanna Ruocco, Dave Tompkins, Michael Vazquez, and Evan Calder Williams. Initial copies will come with RESTLIGEISTS, a tape of specially-recorded Knealiana by The Asterism & Xylitol, Emma Hammond & Robin The Fog, Hong Kong In The 60s, Listening Center, Mordant Music, and The Real Tuesday Weld.

 

 

It really is a beautiful and fascinating piece of work  and its available in the UK from our friends at Strange Attractor. For sales in the rest of the world please write to ss162@nyu.edu

Jan W. Gruber