Ghostape
Tue 16 Jun 2009
Hope For A New Day
Just the thing to lull you out of your mid Winter sick slumber, bedridden and coughing. Many of us have been dragged down by colds and flues of some sort or other, and to begin work again after sustained periods of inactivity is hard. Enter: Ghostape, engimatic and inspiring experimental electronic artist Ghebrezghi Gabriel from Switzerland. Using recorded sounds like soft vocal coos and harder yelps with clattery percussion, chiming glockenspiels and accordion, Ghostape creates vivid soundscapes merging into abstract pop artefacts, with often one or two words uttered repeatedly throughout the entire song. The beautiful ‘I Feel Your Soul’ has “explosion” whispered enticingly where ‘Sometimes’ has a beautiful layered singing over erratic click tracks gone mad. The heartbreaking ‘My Country’ has “where is my country?” asked emotively again and again over fragmented music. Ghostape is a captivating and liberating listen, one that goes nicely with a re-entrance to the world after being cocooned in blankets for too long. Check also the Baz-Barringtone remix of ‘Beautiful’ on Ghostape’s myspace, the eerie soundscape in it breathes of Miranda July’s abstract art recordings in the more heady, introspective moments of her film You And Me And Everyone We Know. Having released an EP through People In The Sky (titled Many Stars) and producing such intriguing and captivating music, there is much promise and longevity held here that makes me impatient for future recordings from Ghostape.
Ghostape- I Feel Your Soul: MP3
Posted by Sarah Gooding under Switzerland
