Jonny Trunk to re-air the Broadcast OST show on Resonance today

Jonny Trunk will be airing a repeat of his OST show recorded December 2007, with Trish & James of Broadcast. Its on at 4:30 pm tonight on 104.4FM in London or via the stream at www.resonancefm.com or via the widget at the bottom right of this blog.

Update:
Since I posted this Resonance FM have now made this show permanantley available to download here.

Bless you Trish Keenan



Earlier today we received the tragic news that Trish Keenan of Broadcast passed away in hospital following a long battle with pneumonia. On behalf of all the artists at Ghost Box I would like to express our deepest sympathies to Trish's family and to James.

Broadcast are our central and primary influence and Trish's passing leaves an immense gap in our world, we owe more than we can say to her friendship and support over the years.

An enormously talented, generous and beautiful visionary has gone on ahead to see the Summerland.

Warp Records have made a statement accompanied by what has now become such a poignant song.

We would also like to reiterate Warp's request for the proper respect of  the privacy of Trish's family and friends.

Radio Belbury: Programme No.1



Welcome to the first in an occasional series of radio shows in which I'll be playing a few of my favourite tunes, giving you a sneak preview of forthcoming Ghost Box material and leading you all in devotional song. You can listen to it right here in this funny little Mixcloud box...

Once you've listened to that (and only then) head to Cafe Kaput for Jon Brooks' Soft Sounds for Winter mix. While you're listening to these why not sit back, have a nice cuppa and do your Christmas shopping with the 1976 Argos catalogue. (Thanks Keith!).

Happy holidays and thank you for listening.

A Spare Tabby at the Cat's Wedding

Over at the Ghost Box shop we've teamed up with Gecophonic records to bring you the new album from Moon Wiring Club, A Spare Tabby at the Cat's Wedding.

A kaleidoscopic selection of Edwardian parlour hip hop confectionery, from our friends in Clinkskell . Its available on vinyl and CD, both of wich are lavishly illustrated and packaged. Its the Moon Wiring Club's best and most enigmatic release to date.

However, this being the eccentric world of MWC, the two versions of the album are very different - in fact the similarities are carefully hidden and artfully woven into each format. For this reason  there's a special offer on the  vinyl and CD bundled together. You can watch a video for the CD track, Slumberwick Dreams here.


Rust Bucket: MWC's Ian Hodgson

For more clues to the baffling conundrum that is Moon Wrirng Club visit the Blank Workshop.

New Transmission from Clinkskell Leaks Through.

...and we're also channeling rumours of a beautifully packaged Moon Wiring Club vinyl album to be available soonish.

Imperfect Recall - Exhibition 25th September to 20th November

London artist Paul Smith will be curating an exhibition titled Imperfect Recall, at The Architects Gallery, Teddington, South West London. Open to the public this Saturday, 25th September and running until 20th November, the exhibition features a variety of artists exploring false memories and the gaps between past and present, hostorical fact and recall. The work of Ghost Box's Julian House will be heavily featured in print video and artefacts.

One of Julian House's collection of parallel world paperbacks

The exhibition includes work by Adam Bainbridge, Ronald Ceuppens, Oona Culley, Simon Reid, Hugh Russell, Alexander Sirbu, Paul Smith, Ruth Uglow and Daniela White are also on display. This is a commercial exhibition with  avariety of prints and paintings on sale so don't forget your credit cards and cheque books.

Download the official exhibition guide here and  please direct any enquiries here, and not to Ghost Box or The Parish Mag.

Here's a selection of just some of the works:

Adam Bainbridge - Visionary Landscape

 

Paul Smith - The Girl in the Glade

    

Julian House - Medium



Alexander Sirbu - Semne De Constructii

       

Julian House: See They Await Us

 

Ruth Uglow - Athena

Ronald Ceuppens - Jongen met Confituurvinger

Simon Reid - Walpurgis Eve, Mistley

Jon Brooks and D.D.Denham on The Freakzone

Last Sunday Jon Brooks was a guest on Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone on BBC6, talking about Cafe Kaput, D.D. Denham and The Advisory Circle. You can listen again for the rest of this week here.

Study Series 3 & 4 and Farmer's Angle available now

All three new titles are available in the Ghost Box shop right now. The Broadcast and Focus Group single is almost sold out, so when there's no more in our shop be sure to check with the usual stockists.

Electric Eden on The Freak Zone

There was an excellent interview with Rob Young all about his book Electric Eden on Sunday's Freak Zone on BBC6.  Its available here for the rest of the week.

...and I've just been handed a grubby scrap of paper telling me to remind you all that D.D. Denham's Electronic Music in the Classroom is now available for download.

Cafe Kaput Podcast No.6 is here at last

At long last Jon Brooks has posted No. 6 in the fantastic Cafe Kaput podcast series. Where else would you find Spacemen 3, D. D. Denham, Mort Garson, and Bruce Forsythe all in one show.

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 .