Ghost - In Stormy Nights

So far, quite great; no surprises but no complaints.

I got this over the weekend and my first impression is also that of masterpiece. Honestly I've been bypassing the improv track (doesn't fit into the commute time) and taking the five 'songs' as a piece. I love starting and closing with the folksier tunes, and I love how 3-5 are almost completely unvaried within themselves, but build up when related to each other, to the completely insane rendition of Caledonia. For an album with few dicipherable lyrics, I find the whole thing oddly emotional, like they've hit every mood and dynamic change perfectly. It's so dark and disturbing, yet with plenty of calmer passages that are still somewhat disconcerting. Seems from their website that they were taking a political angle and it completely works, the martial drumming and etc. Pretty fucking triumphant.

Has anyone else picked up and/or heard Overture: Live in Nippon Yusen Soko 2006, the Ghost live cd/dvd that came out last year? I just grabbed it last night and gave the cd a couple spins - and I'm not sure what to think. It's an improvisational live album, one hour long, one single track, with the 6 band members distanced from each other, not able to see or communicate with each other for the duration of the performance. Interesting?

It's just not very...engaging, so far.

I'd like to see it

going to see ghost tonight!!!!

lucky you!

sweeeeet ... hope to be seeing them in Denver in two weeks! Ghooooooooost!

dudes KILLED it in Portland a few nights ago.. heavy

Nice, I have tickets for the Austin show in a couple weeks. Let me know how the show goes!!

does anyone know anything about "Baby Dee", some art NYC person that's opening?

Allmusic sez:

Performance artist, songwriter, classically trained harpist, circus sideshow veteran, and transgender street legend Baby Dee was born in 1953 in Cleveland, OH. She spent ten years as music director and organist for a Catholic church in the Bronx before joining the circus as the bilateral hermaphrodite at Coney Island. This landed her a gig as the bandleader for performance art group the Bindlestiff Family Circus and a tour with the Kamikaze Freak Show in Europe. After moving back to New York City, she became a fixture in lower Manhattan with a street act on a high-rise tricycle with a concert harp. She recorded her first record, Little Window, on the Durtro label in 2000, a four-track EP in 2001, and her second full-length, the double-disc Love's Small Song, in 2002. Dee returned to Ohio during the latter record's recording, taking vows as a novitiate of the Little Sisters of Crabby Doom (a Cleveland-based order dedicated to the care of smelly old men), vows that she has since forsaken. For her third full-length recording, Dee recruited a typically eclectic army of fellow musicians, including Will Oldham, Andrew W.K., Robbie Lee, Max Moston (Antony and the Johnsons), Bill Breeze (Psychic TV), John Contreras (Current 93), James Lo (Chavez), and Lia Kessel. The resulting Safe Inside the Day arrived in January 2008 on Drag City Records.

otm, great great musician

listened to lama rabi rabi yesterday. fuckin love that record.

I was really really bummed about the Damon & Naomi/Boris tour - Kurihara was all quiet and gentle for the D&N set, and then when it came time to up the volume for Boris, the lead Boris guy's guitar rig went on the fritz and basically ended the set halfway through the first song.

going tonight, excited, glad to hear Kurihara is touring with them

bummer about the Damon & Naomi/Boris show you saw -- was upset that they didn't come through my neck of the woods on that one. The Kurihara/D&N records are pretty sweet actually. Though obviously not very heavy.

his solo album is really nice, too

aww that sucks shakey, that was an awesome awesome tour.

i love the D&N&K 7" with their version of Baby Blue.

Is this show worth a two hour drive? I made the same drive for Acid Mothers Temple a couple weeks ago and was pretty disappointed..

Kurihara fans should check the Boris/Michio Cloud Chamber release too. Drone-y goodness.

I have never heard anything from Kurihara that I didn't like

you know what is really great that I have never really seen a proper copy of (mine is a tape dubbed copy lolz) is the Batoh/Kurihara side project Cosmic Invention's 'Help Your Satori Mind'

some dude sent me a comp he made of all kinds of Kurihara stuff I'd never even heard of, there might be some of that Cosmic Invention thing on there ... Ha-Za-Ma, too? That stuff was great. Kinda Floyd-y psych rock.

someone else mentioned it upthread, but this is really nice too. highly varied, kinda proggy

Got my ticket for the LA show today. We're getting Lichens, who I like, and Grassler, who I know nothing about, for openers.

Like-chens.

I'm seeing Ghost + Lichens in Austin ummmm... next Saturday!

i get magik markers solo and lichens opening for bonnie "prince" billy, so both opening acts. but no ghost. :(

they were amazing on Tuesday. and they did their Earth & Fire cover! i luv Earth and Fire.

Cool! They were incredible in 2002 at the Boston Terrastock . They played "Forthcoming from the Inside" from the album Second Time Around, totally took my head off. I don't think that track is included in the portion of the show that is on the Metamorphosis DVD.

Looks like I'm gonna miss the show tonight; I remembered I have to get a train CT bound in the morning to meet the family, and should probably not stay out too late. BUT, Ghost have been incredible the two times I've seen them, and anyone on the fence about going should absolutely go. I'd also like to see how Magic Markers are sounding now, as I still haven't heard the new record (really loved Boss) and haven't seen them live for a while.

Baby Dee is a tranny who rides a giant tricycle and sings in a old timey style.

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amn't seeing ghost anytime soon though thought they were o k a couple of years back. listening to sunset notes though - the cutoff in a boat of courage is killing me.

Great article in the Austin Chronicle today:

http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:781933

Can't wait to see them tomorrow night!

My girlfriend is coming to see Ghost with me tonight. She's into Brad Mehldau, Pink Martini, Aqualung and a whole lot of jazz and world music. How's the Ghost live show these days? And... good idea or bad for her to come along? :D

Ghost is always a good idea for everyone.

I'm going to be at the LA show! Fancy a pint, Ned?

Our bunch is having dinner down in OC and I'm not sure when we'll be on the road so let's have a drink at the venue!

VERY glad i gathered the energy to make it down to Denver last night for the Ghost show. Perfect set for the most part -- nice mixture of heavy rockers, improv and pastoral stuff. Didn't know the cellist from Espers was playing with them these days (that record she did with Batoh last year is great). Everyone was great, but Kurihara was incredible. And he was literally hiding behind the PA.

Didn't know the cellist from Espers was playing with them these days (that record she did with Batoh last year is great).

Hmm, that's funny. No cellist at the Austin show (which was fantastic regardless).

Kurihara tore it up in Austin. The show was moved indoors to the tiny stage due to rain, maybe 150 people were there. Six people onstage, Kurihara was stuck in the back right corner with maybe 4 square feed of stage room + pedal boards. His playing was just unreal, so so good.

Also, TV on the Radio played the same night. Sat on the upstairs patio of the Ghost venue and listened to the TV on the Radio show from a block away. Not a bad way to start the night! The new songs sounded pretty good live, glad I was at Ghost instead though.

listening to sunset notes though - the cutoff in a boat of courage is killing me.

― corps of discovery (schlump), Sunday, 10 May 2009 04:31 (4 weeks ago)

myself four weeks ago OTM
this is like the new here come the warm jets or something
and cuts off because otherwise anyone listening to it while driving would vanishing point their car into a tree just after the six minute mark

been listening to the kurihara solo a bunch too. man, the last two songs are amaaaaaaazing.

and the cutoff kills me too. same thing w/"holy high" off of hypnotic underworld!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhsCV7p6AE0&list=UUOxV9BCCIQU6HLev3oLH1Tg&index=1&feature=plcp

not a new ghost album, but...
Years of research into the bio-electric output of the human brain have now been harnessed with the creation of a device that allows man to monitor and interface with another's brain using a box that appears to be no more complicated than a guitar effects pedal! Batoh's experiements with this machine (ON SALE SOON RIGHT HERE!) are only part of the album; the other tracks utilize traditional Japanese ritual melodies and instrumentation to form a prayer/requiem for the victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake. A deep and soothing album that intends to bring the potential for inner peace to all who listen to their brain.

It's good stuff.

nice!

drag city also just re-ished the quite good damon/naomi/ghost record. still, where is the new ghost recorddddddd

EXCITED

tyler which one was reissued, the most recent one...?

isn't there only one damon/naomi/ghost record? this is the one called "with ghost", w/ the big star cover.

oh I have that.

Kurihara (and I think a couple other Ghost guys...?) are on like the last 3 Damon & Naomi records

maybe? thought it was just kurihara, but i might be wrong.

do any of y'all know the name of the stocky bearded dude who played on the '96 tour? I remember him playing a big drum and the hurdy gurdy but it was a long time ago. He was awesome.

It's a crazy dream, but I'd love to hear Ghost collaborate with Ghost.

Not as crazy as if Ghost played with Randy California.

does anyone happen to have a copy of Cosmic Invention's "Help Your Satori Mind"...? help a brutha out here

my cassette copy long gone...

You after a download? Not sure about the rules these days so just Google the album title with the time frame 'Past Year' & the top result is a Froth-y blog in Wyoming with a link that went up in April & seems to be still valid (am at work so can't download to check).

If you want the CD, well Discogs has a few, but a bit pricey, especially as I've seen it in a few bargain bins over the years. Cheaper than Amazon/eBay though.

awesome! many thanx

man I miss these guys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYYwfReMIWQ