{"id":23,"date":"2024-01-04T16:32:23","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T16:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondlanguagemusic.com\/new\/?p=23"},"modified":"2024-08-13T09:12:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T09:12:55","slug":"sl04-ghostwriter-the-continuing-adventures-of-the-strange-sound-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondlanguagemusic.com\/new\/2024\/01\/04\/sl04-ghostwriter-the-continuing-adventures-of-the-strange-sound-association\/","title":{"rendered":"SL04\u00a0– Ghostwriter\u00a0– The Continuing Adventures Of The Strange Sound Association"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cWe all create a mythological world of our own out of certain shapeless materials.\u201d<\/strong>
(John Cowper Powys)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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TRACKLISTING :<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n


Music For Men Of Letters<\/strong>
    \u2022    A Man\u2019s Head (Waltz For George Simenon)
    \u2022    The Recidivist (Theme For Imagined Simenon Story)
    \u2022    Man On Wire (Ivor Gurney\u2019s Noise)
    \u2022    (Colin Wilson Says) Like Brandy On A Cold Night
    \u2022    Dream Road Trip With Dustbowl Philosopher (Music For John Steinbeck)
    \u2022    The Life Behind The Life (Fragments for John Cowper Powys)
    \u2022    Spirit Photography (Invoking Arthur Conan Doyle)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


Music For Imagined Technologies<\/strong>
    \u2022    The Anglo-French Music Machine
    \u2022    Avian Battery Machine
    \u2022    Via The Cavity Magnetron
    \u2022    Even Solemnity In The Instruments (Farina\u2019s Automatic Translation Machine)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


Music For Flotsam and Jetsam<\/strong>
    \u2022    Two Tides Meet
    \u2022    Last Strange Voyage (Lament For Donald)
    \u2022    Imagined South Coast Boarding House (in Which Sits David Jones)
    \u2022    Another Favourite Beach


<\/em>Ghostwriter is the fascinating project of Devon-based Mark Brend; musician, author and respected expert on antiquarian sound apparatus (you may well know his book, ‘Strange Sounds: Offbeat Instruments and Sonic Experiments in Pop’ \u2013 the definitive text on the subject). ‘The Continuing Adventures Of The Strange Sound Association,’ is his first long-player under the Ghostwriter moniker. It is an album like no other.

Partially based upon archive voice recordings, fragmentary texts and \u2018imagined works\u2019 by literary figures eminent (Arthur Conan Doyle, John Steibeck), cult (Colin Wilson, John Cowper Powys) and arcane (Arthur Machen, Ivor Gurney), ‘The Continuing Adventures\u2026’ weaves ethereal atmosphere, wistful song and playful soundscape from a battery of instruments and sound sources, including dulcitone, persephone, harpsichord, autoharp, toy piano, modular synthesizer, recorder, banjo, accordion, bass, drums, sampler, miscellaneous voices and something called the brendonium.

Divided into three distinct \u2018Chapters\u2019: ‘Music For Men Of Letters,’ ‘Music For Imagined Technologies’ and ‘Music For Flotsam and Jetsam,’ these mysteriously beguiling compositions run the gamut from frisky, jazz-flavoured vignettes to garden shed electronica and contemplative sound collages via Wicker Man folk and bygone soundtrack esoterica. Beyond easy categorisation, this is music informed as much by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and the British Sound Archive as it is various currents in leftfield pop, electronica, folk and plunderphonics.
   
Brend is assisted in his endeavours by a number of additional musicians and collaborators, including multi-instrumentalists Tim Conway and Matt Gale (Farina), singer Suzy Mangion (Piano Magic, George) and analogue synth collector Darren Hayman (Hefner), among several others. Ghostwriter\u2019s debut album is very much a product of Brend\u2019s own unique imagination and compositional vision, however.

As with all Second Language releases, this album is not only a collectable, intimately hand-crafted limited edition but also comes complete with a range of commodious inserts (Ghostwriter library ticket, miniature book, embossed code envelope with unique typed message, etc).
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