Study Series 3 and 4 and Farmer's Angle (Rev. Ed) - Pre-ordering now

This September is a big month for Ghost Box with the release of the next two singles in our Study Series. Study Series 03 "Welcome to Godalming" is a split single with Belbury Poly and Mordant Music who come together with two very different musical portraits of a small English town. Study Series 04 "Familiar Shapes and Noises" sees Broadcast and The Focus Group continuing the magickal collaboration begun on Warp's Witch Cults of the Radio Age.

Also due at the same time is Belbury Poly's Farmers Angles (Revised Edition) EP. This is an updated version of the first ever Ghost Box release. Back by popular demand, it'll be available on 10", CD and download. It features three new tracks, one a re-imagining of one of the originals by The Advisory Circle.

All three titles will be available on 10th September, but you can pre-order right now at the Ghost Box shop.

Markets of Britain

(with thanks to Dan Lewsley)

Get the new look for Autumn now.

Available from the Ghost Box shop now.

Also coming to Ghost Box in September:

Study Series 3 & 4:  Mordant Music, Belbury Poly, Broadcast and The Focus Group.

Ether

Love this little film by Dolly Dolly:

Cafe Kaput Music

Jon Brooks "off of" The Advisory Circle, has just launched his own digital only record label Cafe Kaput. The first title out of the bag is the marvellous Music in the Classroom by D.D. Denham.

It will be available 6th September through itunes, amazon and the gang. You can read the full story here and hear some clips here. I wonder if one of D.D. Denham's synthesizing machines would improve attendance at Sunday school ?

The Outer Church with Position Normal, Brighton, 11th August

10th September 10", CD & Download

Nuclear Weapon Effects Computer

This was given to me by a friend who found a box full of them while filming in a disused MOD base on Portsdown hill overlooking Portsmouth. Its made from two white cardboard discs with a clear plastic indicator and held together with a brass hinge.

 So dialling the arrow at the bottom to a modest 5 Megaton bomb, and moving my indicator to my bunker's location at 4 miles from the centre of the blast, I see there is heavy to light damage to houses. Surprisingly, no one is dead but 10% are trapped in rubble. Of those not trapped 6% are seriously injured. I am further inconvenienced by "severe vehicle displacement".

Official advice therefore, as it tells us on teatowels and mugs up and down the country is to "Keep Calm and Carry On".

Severe Vehicle Displacement

You can find this and many other interesting objects donated by the curators, at Mark Fisher's Found Objects blog.

Position Normal

Always nice to see new faces in church.

Here's an excellent documentary all about the marvellous Position Normal by Anthony Collins of The Eel

It features Position Normal, K-Punk, Woebot, David Moynihan, Blue Firth and some music by The Focus Group and (I think) The Caretaker .

and if that wasn't enough there's an interview here too.

Super Impose - Kinsale

Running all this week and ending Sunday 18th, at the KAW Gallery 2 in Kinsale, Ireland is a screenprint exhibtion called Super Impose.

It features work by Hannah Galvin-Horne, Marianne Keating, Ghost Box's Julian House and Mat Cook (House's colleague at the Intro Design Partnerhip ).

House

 

 Cook (from a series titles Music, Paranoia & Booze)

 

 

More information here and here .

 

Cafe Kaput glimpses Study Series

Mr. Brooks tries to gets his grubby paws on the first Ghost Box Study Series singles here.

Moon Wiring Club Elementary Ice Cream Sunstroke Mix

Here's a marvellous podcast mix by Moon Wiring Club. Its ideal for a long hot Friday afternoon  so take the phone off the hook, send the young intern out for 99s and take all your clothes off.

Features Coil, Position Normal, The Radiophonic Workshop, John Carpenter and of course Basil Rathbone.

The Belbury Village Shop

The Belbury Village shop is now open for business. The first items in our shop are these Belbury Poly T shirts, screen printed on high quality heavy weight cotton and available in a wide variety of sizes in Ladies' or Mens' styles. These are entirley exclusive to the village shop.  

If your reading this on The Belbury Parish Magazine blog you can visit the shop over on the right hand side of this page. If not click here to come inside.

Customers outside the UK please note that the shop can not yet take your orders, but if you'd like to order write to us here to arrange payment by Paypal.

Séance at Notting Hill Gate

 

A couple of weeks ago workmen re-opened a tunnel in London's Notting Hill Gate tube station sealed since 1959 when escalators were installed to replace the lifts. This revealed a hoard of untouched posters which are soon to be removed and archived by The Museum of London. The pictures were taken by Mikey Ashworth for London Underground and the full set can be seen here.

Daytrip to Hollingsville

Music critic and author Ken Hollings dropped a note through the vicarage door to let us know that a recent episode of his Resonance FM show, Hollingsville entitled "Dreams: While the City Sleeps", features Julian House talking about dreams, cutups and sixties spectral transmissions  and is available as a podcast from this link.

Also the June issue of INTO, the sound and music online publication, has just put up a shortened version of  Ken's essay 'Spaceship UK' . This was commissioned for The Sonar festival and presents a history of British electronic music including Tristram Carey, Joe Meek, The Radiophonic Workshop, and Ghost Box in a context of British science fiction and bygone visions of the future.

You can catch more hot air from the Ghost Box curators here, in a recording of Saturday's event at the Roundhouse in Camden, "Moving Through Old Daylight". Archived courtesy of  Mark Pilkington.

Redesigned Ghost Box Website

The Ghost Box website has been redesigned. The site is now easier to navigate and you'll find new artwork, audio clips and other content on the Look and Listen page. Explore and enjoy.

By the way you can now subcribe to The Belbury Parish Magazine by following GhostBoxRecords on Twitter.

The Outer Church featuring Moon Wiring Club

If you're in Brighton on Wednesday June 9th I'd recommend getting along to Joe Stannard's Outer Church, an occasional night of  Prog, Psych, Krautrock & Electronics. This time the guest of honour will be Moon Wiring Club. Its at The Penthouse @ The Freebutt in Brighton, and admission is free.

While you're in Brighton why not drop into Resident Music in North Laine, a rather excellent record shop and Ghost Box stockist. Tell them the vicar sent you.

Parallel Lives

A Film by Alex Proyas
Music by John Foxx & Steve D’Agostino

Ghost Box Study Series Singles

Ghost Box is about to release the first two parts of a regular series of seven inch and download singles.

The first two singles will be available from the Ghost Box shop from the 2nd July. Study Series 01, titled "Youth and Recreation" is the result of  collaboration between Belbury Poly and Moon Wiring Club.

Study Series 02, "Cycles and Seasons" by The Advisory Circle, features a special vocal version of the Advisory Circle track Seasons, called Seasons Change by Hong Kong in the 60s.

The series will feature new work from the Ghost Box artists and feature new music, collaborations and remixes by a variety of guests including Mordant Music, Moon Wiring Club, Jonny Trunk, Hong Kong in the 60s, Xylitol, and James Cargill & Trish Keenan (of Broadcast).

Sharp eyed collectors will have noticed that the Study Series name and design is an homage to the series of BBC schools albums of the 1970s.

Moving Through Old Daylight

As part of John Foxx's Analogue event at the Roundhouse in Camden,  Ghost Box have been invited to take part in discussion panel, along with author Iain Sinclair and John Foxx himself.

The discussion will be chaired by Mark (k-Punk) Fisher and illustrated with film and sets out to explore the overlap between the panel members' work. How are places saturated with the traces of past events? How do technologies affect memory, and what role does fiction play in allowing us to map the haunted spaces of the city? The event entitled "Moving Through Old Daylight", will be held at the Roundhouse's Studio Theatre, 5th June 4:30 pm.

John Foxx and Benge at work in Play Studios

Julian and I were thrilled to be invited along to Benge's Play Studios to hear some tracks from the forthcoming album that the duo will be releasing under the name of John Foxx and the Maths late summer / autumn 2010.  The tracks we were privileged to hear were incredible, Benge's synth museum providing an authentic and rich back bone to lyrics elegantly poised between the Romantic and the Ballardian.

Admittedly as a long time fan , I'm a little star struck and possibly prone to hyperbole, but this is my most eagerly awaited album release of the year. From what we heard this record will encapsulate the stark, newness of Metamatic, the soaring Romance of Foxx's epic 80s albums, the lush choral cloudscapes of Catherdral Oceans and Mirroball and the laser guided synth pop of Shifitng City. Whats more its sounds thoroughly contemporary and I think will be adored by the current generation of artists influenced, unconsciously or not, by Mr. Foxx's oeuvre.

Here's a sneak preview of an uncut promo...

The main event at the Roundhouse on 5th June of course is the live show, which will be performed on a an impressive array of analogue gear. As well as Benge, John Foxx will be joined on stage by former Ultravox guitarist, Robin Simon.

And finally its anoraks on for the live kit list...

Synthesizers and Sequencers:

ARP Odyssey x 2

ARP Sequencers x 2

Crumar Multiman

EDP Wasp

Korg MonoPoly
Korg 700

Logan String Machine

Moog Mini x 2
Moog Modular plus Sequencers
Moog Opus 3
Roland Modular System 100m x 10 Modules
Roland SH2
Roland SH-101
Roland Juno 60
Sequential Circuits Multitrack

Drum Machines:
Amdek Percussion Synthesizer
Boss Dr Rhythm
Linn Drum
Klone Drum

Roland CR78

Roland TR808

Effects and  Processors:

Boss Chorus

Boss Flanger
Boss Phaser

Electro Harmonix Electric Mistress Flanger

Furman Spring Reverb
Ibanez AD80 Analog Delay

Maestro PS-1 Phase Shifter

Mu-tron Phasor
MXR Phase 100

Roland Space Echo RE-201

Other Equipment:

Tascam & Revox Analogue Reel to Reel Tape Machines