RADIO BELBURY 13

MUSIC FOR A GOOD HOME 3

Out now is a new digital compilation album called Music for a Good Home 3. All in a great cause, its a mammoth 31 especially commissioned tracks, not available elsewhere and including contributions from The Belbury Poly and Pye Corner Audio .

It costs a mere £7 (or more if you wish) and every penny goes to the UK's national homelessness charity, Shelter.

HUNTER COMPLEX IN THE GUEST SHOP

There's a very exciting addition to the Ghost Box Guest shop this week in the form of Heat, an LP from Holland’s Hunter Complex, it’s a simultaneously glitzy and unsettling excursion into a sparkling early midi world of late Tangerine Dream soundtracks and Michael Mann movies. The man behind the music, Lars Meijer explores a fascinating soundworld and nails the pivotal point in cultural history where analogue handed over to digital. Driving sequencers, sparkling DX7s, power leads and smokey vocals stride into a bold over saturated VHS future world. Cool as flip.

We were lucky enough to track down the very last consignment of this super limited vinyl pressing and you can grab it here, right now. 

TRUNK TV "TITLE SEQUENCES"

A BAG FOR LIFE AND BEYOND

New in the Ghost Box shop today there's a high quality, extra heavy duty 12oz canvas tote bag. Its 38cm x 43cm with a depth of 10cm and very tough seems. Far more substantial than a standard cotton tote; you can DJ, shop or simply step out with confidence and spectral style. Truly a bag for life and beyond.

SOUNDCARRIERS INTERVIEW IN SHINDIG

 

There's a feature on The Soundcarriers and review of Entropicalia in the new edition of Shindig magazine (no.39.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

JUSTIN HOPPER - LEY LINE

Now available on Bandcamp for only £1 (or more if you like). Ley Line, is a poetry and music walk through Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  It was written and performed by Justin Hopper with very special guest reader Shirley Collins.

Conceived as a psycho-geographical tour of the outlying regions of the old town.  It lends from English / Appalachian folk song, conjuring up ghosts from Pittsburgh's' culturally varied history and making connections back to their old world origins.

With music by Belbury Poly, David Bernabo and Host Skull.  Sound design was by Jim Jupp and Justin Hopper and it was produced in England in Belbury Studios.



 

NEW IN THE GHOST BOX GUEST SHOP

Two new items in the Ghost Box Guest Shop today...

Further Navigations, a limited edition 10" EP by The Memory Band with Belbury Poly and Grantby, mentioned here on record store day last week.



Also there's the mind blowing debut CD album from Raagnagrok, Man Woman Birth Death Infinity. Mark Pilkington of Strange Attractor Press on modular synth and electronics and Zali Krishna on electric sitar create a meditative kosmiche mindstorm.



PRE-ORDER THE NEW SOUNDCARRIERS LP

You can pre-order Entropicalia at the Ghost Box shop right now on CD, LP or download

And to mark the launch of the album here are two free, printable, hi-res, A4, Julian House posters. 

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.

THE MEMORY BAND WITH BELBURY POLY, RECORD STORE DAY SPECIAL

If you're heading out to support your local record shop today, keep a look out for this Record Store Day limited edition 10" EP on Static Caravan by The Memory Band with remixes by The Belbury Poly and Grantby.



It's called Further Navigations and is a kind of extension to last year's brilliant Memory Band LP, On the Chalk. Its a super limited RSD edition but if you can't find it today we hope to have a few copies in the Ghost Box Guest shop later next week.

SHOREDITCH: EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC SCHOOL 1969

ROJ AMATEUR'S ATTIC 7" IN THE GUEST SHOP NOW

We have a few copies of  The Amateur's Attic in the Ghost Box Guest Shop now.

These pre-Ghost Box pieces for tape and electronics were rescued from Roj's studio floor by Peter Strickland,  (Sonic Catering Band and director of Berberian Sound Studio). Released in 2013 on his Peripheral Conserve label, this insanely rare curio, features two beautifully delicate and melodic pieces, which gradually drown in saturation and gently dissolve before the listener's ear. 

CAFE KAPUT WINTER MIX

A  warming, high calorie winter mix from Jon Brooks' Café Kaput label.

RADIO BELBURY PROGRAMME 12

 

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.

 

PYE CORNER AUDIO MATERIALISE IN YORKSHIRE

You can see Pye Corner Audio live at the Golden Cabinet in Shipley, W. Yorkshire next week on Saturday, 7th December . Tickets are available now from here.



 

SPACEDOG AND MORE AT THE BFI

As part of their GOTHIC season of classic horror cinema, the BFI in London will be hosting an evening called Vault: Music for Silent Gothic Treasures on Saturday, December 14th. Its a selection of silent films with live and newly commissioned soundtracks and its curated by Spacedog's Sarah Angliss.

Heading the bill will be Spacedog with a performance of a new soundtrack to the 1928 film of The Fall of the House of Usher. As well as the full live band the Spacedog crew will be accompanied by the usual group of rag tag robots and automata. Also of note to members of our parish will be a newly commissioned recorded soundtrack to the 1928 film, The Black Pearl from our very own Advisory Circle .

There'll also be new work from Exotic Pylon’s Time Attendant  on tabletop electronics and extemporisations from Bela Emerson, a soloist who works with cello and electronics.

 

Its selling quickly and tickets are available here.

 

THE GHOST BOX GUEST SHOP

There's a new department in the Ghost Box shop, where you can buy LPs and CDs by artists who have similar areas of interest to Ghost Box or who have at one time or another have released there own material there. The guest shop opens today with limited quantities of the following records:

Down to the Silver Sea LP - Various Artists (Gecophonic)

Video Trailer

An Electric Mind LP - Georges Verts (Melodic)

 

Riddles of The Sphinx LP - Mike Ratledge (Mordant Music)

Original film extract

 
The Lighter Side of Concrete CD - Jez Butler (Disques Boum)

 

Juice for the Baby CD - Spacedog

You'll find  more information on each release here.