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previous artist: joseph ghosn		there are 11 titles featuring ghost in stock. they are listed below.		next artist: ghosting

$13.41

back in stock as of
january 30th, 2012

first in stock on
august 25th, 2008

threads:
free-improvisation
modern-psych
guitar-themed

drag city (usa) #dc 359 cd

helena espvall / masaki batoh “helena espvall & masaki batoh” compact disc

polska (2:34)
kristallen den fina (4:42)
uti var hage (5:37)
trollmor vaggvisa (0:47)
beneath halo (4:40)
bicinium (1:47)
zeranium (3:14)
jag vet en dejlig rosa (2:39)
neko nemurenai (3:15)
death letter (6:08)
kling klang (4:31)
kyklopes (12:42)

drag city press release...

helena espvall & masaki batoh
self-titled
dc359 cd

helena espvall and masaki batoh are known to open-eared music listeners for their collaborations with other artists — artists with names such as ghost, espers, damon & naomi, fursaxa, tom rapp, lukas ligeti, bert jansch, among many others. by collaborating with each other, they’ve made one of the most beautiful recordings either one of them has yet participated in.

they first met at a festival in the united states in 2006. batoh presented helena with a handmade bamboo instrument; short on spare celli, she gave him a copy of her solo cd. afterwards, they stayed in touch. at some point helena suggested an improvised musical collaboration. batoh wrote back and said: “actually i’m too busy now to think about music... if my idols moondog, henry cowell or toru takemitsu wanted me, i’ll refuse their orders.” several weeks later he had a change of heart. he contacted helena and said that he felt they should record not improvisations only, but songs as well. helena made a demo of some scandinavian folk songs that she remembered in her spirit from growing up in northern sweden, thinking that maybe they’d record one.

the recording session was held in tokyo over four days in december 2007. for instruments fans, this session might be a treasure. so many strings were used: 6- and 12-string guitar, banjo, cello, hurdy-gurdy, harp, contra bass, chappa tibetan bells, kin (buddist metallic bowl), timpani, bass marimba, vibraphone, thunder sheet & on & on. six of the swedish traditional tunes were reconstructed, along with batoh’s arrangement of “death letter,” a classic son house delta blues song. additionally, a european medieval tune was addressed in its own arrangement and expression. “zeranium,” a dreamy folk tune that batoh wrote for damon & naomi (they didn’t use it), was re-arranged for this session as well.

the improvisations were done on the last recording day, with no overdubs. “completely free” was the essential concept. for one of them, they were joined by batoh’s fellow ghosts takuyuki moriya (contra bass), kazuo ogino (piano, celtic harp) and the santur player mayumi nagayoshi. the same morning helena had received notice that her grandmother suddenly had died, and that a dear friend had chosen to end his life. two death letters in one day... there is great emotion reflected in the improvisations. and great depth and beauty throughout the whole helena espvall & masaki batoh album.

$13.41

back in stock as of
december 1st, 2011

first in stock on
august 25th, 2008

threads:
modern-psych
folk
free-improvisation

drag city (usa) #dc 313 cd

ghost “in stormy nights” compact disc

motherly bluster (5:19)
hemicyclic anthelion (28:05)
gareki no toshi (7:51)
water door yellow gate (5:56)
caledonia (5:34)
grisaille (9:43)

january 2007 release ; cd version ...

drag city press release...

ghost
in stormy nights
dc3138 cd

in stormy nights we live and survive, seeing through the darkness, the wind and the rain to another dawn — and a new day?

over the hour’s-worth of music and sound that makes in stormy nights, ghost apply their folk sounds, improvisations and avant-garde constructions to a savage evocation. in the world we live in today, we can only imagine what this means. and we agree.

throughout in stormy nights there are a variety of sounds and songs, ranging from pop-folk numbers to hard rock to outré concepts held together by ghost’s diverse musical personality. the essence of ghost is the epic “hemicyclic anthelion.” nearly thirty minutes of free improvisation from several live shows are strung together into a seamless progression. this piece is a cornerstone of in stormy nights and a representation of the original approach of ghost — pure improvisation. ghost are forever looking for themselves in the music they make. to make ordinary beauty is easy, but ghost are listening beyond that. even the acid-folky songs are based in improvisation.

over the years, ghost have never had the same lineup twice on any of their album sessions — until now. the in stormy nights ghost is the same ghost that recorded hypnotic underworld and the same group that thundered across the us in 2004. they display intense power on these new recordings, incorporating frame drums and tympanis and the "springer" (a device made by batoh that contains metal springs, a resonance box, plasma ball (light) and rotating machine to create a heavy yet theremin-like sound) into their already-diverse orchestra. the center of the album is a series of tympani-driven songs that rock with a fury, mirroring the martial mood of our governments — a mood that musicians and artists may not share in beyond reflecting it. this powerful section concludes with an absolutely blasting cover of cromagnon’s “caledonia” — a favorite band of ghost’s that they are delighted to share with listeners in this fashion.

the cd concludes as it began: “grisaille” and “motherly bluster” form an eternal loop, rising about the chaos at the center. in stormy nights ghost survive and flourish.

$18.56

back in stock as of
december 1st, 2011

first in stock on
august 25th, 2008

threads:
modern-psych
film-video
concert-recordings

drag city (usa) #dc 279 dvd

ghost “metamorphosis • ghost chronicles 1984-2004” digital versatile disc and compact disc set

agitation at the embassy of the people’s republic of china in tokyo 1984
yaneura, tokyo 1988
mandara, tokyo 1988
seiryu temple, saitama 1992
waseda salvation church 1993
seiryu temple, saitama 1993
seiryu temple, saitama 1994
unknown place, tokyo 1995
lamama, tokyo 1995
star pine’s cafe 2002
terrastock 5 boston 2003
star pine’s cafe 2004
improvisation, studio 1988
improvisation/voices, studio 1989
hakkyou dojin, live 1989
improvisation, live 1987
yonokuninominae, live 1988
improvisation, live 1988
a. on the road
b. in the metro
children of the earth, live 1988
cow’s creen cosmic, outtake 1987
blood red river, outtake 1988

march 2005 release ; a full-length dvd & cd set, with the dvd covering recent live-sets & site-specific freakouts & the cd releasing for the first time a treasure-chest of material from the band’s earliest days (predating their debut album !!!) ...

drag city press release...

ghost
metamorphosis
ghost chronicles 1984-2004
dc279 dvd & cd

from twenty years of performances, many of them hidden from the public eye, ghost give you metamorphosis: ghost chronicles 1984–2004 dvd + cd.

what you will find in the nearly three hours of footage on the dvd: improvisations, one-time-only band lineups, unknown band lineups, unknown places, performances in temples, psychedelic costumes, bonfires, freak-outs and trances, the visual analog of a song from temple stone, footage from terrastock, a variety of light shows and a demonstration for the oppressed people of tibet. over the course of the twelve performances, a total of thirty different songs are played - with a couple of extras thrown in for good measure.

for those of you who missed ghost’s electrifying us tour of late 2004, the set from star pine’s café in tokyo (track 11) will bring it all into your living room — not as life-size and loud, but an impressive spectacle nonetheless.

the metamorphosis package includes a cd of unreleased tracks from the previously undocumented 80s era of ghost. several in-studio improvisations are included, along with several live freak-outs and a pair of outtakes from the first ghost album. along with segments of the dvd, the cd recalls the largely unknown wild side of ghost.

as founding member masaki batoh told us, “ghost had been formed by a lot people. some of them were dead and a few went insane. most of us are still well although. we cannot count how many they are.” this means it’s up to you this time around. ghost have lived through their metamorphosis — now it’s your turn.

$13.41

back in stock as of
december 1st, 2011

first in stock on
october 17th, 2008

threads:
modern-psych
japan
folk

drag city (usa) #dc 249 cd

ghost “hypnotic underworld” compact disc

hypnotic underworld
hazy paradise
kiseichukan nite
piper
ganagmanag
feed
holy high
dominoes - celebration for the gray days

drag city press release...

ghost
hypnotic underworld
dc249 • cd & double lp

for the first time in many moons, the tribes of earth have real call to celebrate — the return of ghost! their new offering, hypnotic underworld, is their best album ever — more colorful than ghost, heavier than temple stone, deeper and wider than lama rabi rabi, more psyched and folked than snuffbox immanence and second time around and with a more mountainous jam than tune in, turn on, free tibet. believe it!

yes, hypnotic underworld is heavy with highlights, ranging the continents in quicksilver fashion, adding 70 minutes of ghost sounds to this world, all streamlined to an ultimate intensity. it’s more than can possibly be related in the course of this page. why should you need further definition, or any at all? listen to this — ghost leader batoh says,

we don’t find any meaning (worth?) to explain our own music. people call us a psychedelic group but we don’t know what we are. the trip should be born inside of listeners as result, it’s not of us. in order to born dancing (buto) stars people had better leave chaos inside of theirselves. lyrics do not mean one thing. those are gathering of fragments of images. there are so many ways to interpret our lyrics. in search of images people find their own trips on listening, construct their own images/thought from it. leave spirits moving away. don’t require the meaning in music. just feel it.

take the title track. “hypnotic underworld part 1” is an improvisation recorded in the studio, a typical heterophony of naked ghost. toru takemitsu says,

heterophony sounds like the spray of a sound river. we must learn it is never a kind of discord. it must be intense/strict sound constructed from very few notes in order to emulate the quietness. firstly, who expresses must take the sound in their own bodies. to express is nothing but living and proving ourselves. the most important thing is getting concrete sound in ourselves.

hai, takemitsu! if you are a listener and a voyager, prepare to embark upon your next trip to the land of ghost—travel up to the hypnotic underworld.

$13.41

back in stock as of
december 1st, 2011

first in stock on
august 25th, 2008

threads:
modern-psych
japan

drag city (usa) #dc 181 cd

sweet & honey “live at your cosmic mind” compact disc

badstone (16:14)
white lightning boogie (7:17)
last cosmic people still dreaming (7:32)

drag city press release...

sweet & honey was active from 1989 to 1993 in tokyo. in the beginning, they were formed as a trio by junichi yamamoto. in 1991, their guitarist left the group. and later on koji hagiwara and masaki batoh joined together. then they started to explore their own deep cosmic sound.

ten years later, live at your cosmic mind is the sonic fossil left behind in their tracks. cast your satori mind back through the many dawns of time -- a time when even ghost was in their dawning days. in this time, ghost's leader masaki batoh was many things. one of those things was a guitarist in sweet & honey.

channeling the great les rallizes denudes and running in stride with contemporaries like fushitusha and high rise, live at your cosmic mind is the blissed-out japanese answer to hawkwind's monstrous 'space ritual'.

$13.41

back in stock as of
december 1st, 2011

first in stock on
august 25th, 2008

threads:
modern-psych
minimalism-drones
field-recordings
japan
folk

drag city (usa) #dc 180 cd

masaki batoh “collected works 95-96” compact disc

yoo doo right (3:23)
world of pain (4:14)
sham no umi (2:41)
spooky (4:28)
ebb (0:48)
benthos (14:10)
kikaokubeshi (2:17)
magakami (9:01)
death star (5:29)
tuchigumo (4:00)
a ghost from the darkened sea (4:56)

2004 release ; compilation of both pre-ghost masaki batoh solo albums (“kikaokubeshi” and “a ghost from the darkened sea” - both released in 1995/96 on the now sound & initially compiled by the label in 1997) ...

drag city press release...

the works that collected works collects are a ghost from the darkened sea and kikaokubeshi, two albums recorded and released in 1995 and 1996, during the final period of conceptualization for ghost's lama rabi rabi album. these two solo records allowed batoh to explore musics and textures in an entirely free space from the already quite free (and rapidly morphing) ghost.

this is a solo record in a very complete sense: acoustic guitar, marimba, harmonium, voodoo drum, bells, hurdy gurdy, organ, drums, horns, duff, moog synthesizer and the mysterious 'giri giri pee' are all played by batoh. in addition, field recordings done by batoh are in the mix -- birds, seashore, winds on a bluff, industrial noise, metro, mountains, etc. the two works are fundamentally different: a ghost from the darkened sea being an earthy collection of folk-songs; kikaokubeshi composed almost entirely of a dreamy ambience.

$13.41

back in stock as of
december 1st, 2011

first in stock on
august 25th, 2008

threads:
modern-psych

drag city (usa) #dc 165 cd

ghost “tune in, turn on, free tibet” compact disc

we insist (2:33)
comin' home (4:11)
way to shelkar (5:16)
images of april (3:09)
lhasa lhasa (3:28)
remember (2:55)
change the world (4:41)
tune in, turn on, free tibet (33:54)

1999 release ; sister album to “snuffbox immanence,” recorded during the same studio-stretch ...

drag city press release...

it seemed as if ghost had been in the studio for a million years. it turned out to be only six months in our time. but with the flood of material recorded in their recent extended studio sessions, it was possible to think in terms of releasing not one, but two ghost lps, all at once. with snuffbox immanence set as the next official release, tune in... was hastily added to the schedule.

included in the liner notes is a message from the liason office of his holiness the dalai lama, detailing the struggles of the nation of tibet in their ongoing bid for independence from china. ghost add to this protest a series of dense, somber, acoustic compositions. each of these songs turns a new page in the eternal book of ghost. an atmosphere of morning pervades, as ghost gives their undying respect to the nonviolent resistance of the people of tibet.

$13.41

back in stock as of
december 1st, 2011

first in stock on
august 25th, 2008

threads:
modern-psych
japan

drag city (usa) #dc 148 cd

ghost “snuffbox immanence” compact disc

regenesis
live with me
soma
daggma
snuffbox immanence
obiit 1961
tempera tune
fukeiga
sad shakers
hanmiyau

march 1999 release ; sister album to “tune in, tune on, free tibet”, released concurrently w/ said ...

drag city press release...

following up the widely lauded lama rabi rabi was quite a task for masaki batoh and ghost. ultimately, the follow-up takes the form of not one release, but two -- the other of which is the simultaneously released tune in, turn on, free tibet (dc 165).

snuffbox -- featuring trumpet, trombone, marimba, vibes, glockenspiel, celtic harp, lute, recorded, a variety of keyboard sounds (including the irresistible sounds of a harpischord), banjo and tubular bells is a dreamy, colorful lp, heavy with the sound of a moody ghost. snuffbox immanence is acoustic folk subverted by electronic psychedelic blurs and sound effects -- an existent shimmer and flowering of eternal beauty, over and over again.

once again, ghost come from beyond, preaching a life other than this day.

$12.81

back in stock as of
december 1st, 2011

first in stock on
august 25th, 2008

threads:
modern-psych
japan

drag city (usa) #dc 113 cd

ghost “lama rabi rabi” compact disc

masttillah (8:03)
rabirabi (7:32)
into the alley (4:37)
marrakech (5:18)
who found a lost rose in the warship? (3:11)
mex square blue (4:14)
my hump is a shell (1:44)
bad bone (4:16)
abyssinia (3:36)
agate scape (10:49)
summer's ashen fable (6:04)

december 1996 release ; the first domestic album (i.e. the first that wasn’t released prior on p.s.f.) by batoh & kurihara’s ghost ...

drag city press release...

ghost was born in 1984 by some tokyo japan youth. at the beginning they were playing completely experimental improvisation but doing so naturally, as a form of worship. through the production of the 1st album ghost, and their second, second time around, their sound has slowly changed to the expression of songwriting. along the way, they have attracted attention for their fascination with traditional japanese religious music, and a fascination with trance-rock jamming, as well.

last year, the third ghost album, temple stone appeared, containing ten tunes recorded live at an old buddhist temple and a church. their live activities are usually held in magical patterns. they used to play anywhere (temple, church, field, woods, ruins, etc.) with an ideal of conception and creation free from constraint.

their purpose is real spiritual music when and wheresoever they play it.

$16.61

new to stock as of
august 1st, 2007

threads:
folk
modern-psych
film-video

sub pop (usa) #sp 592 cd

damon & naomi “song to the siren: live cd & dvd tour diary” digital versatile disc and compact disc set

judah and the macabees (4:54)
the new world (3:59)
eye of the storm (4:55)
song to the siren (4:20)
the navigator (5:26)
the great wall (6:51)
i dreamed of the caucasus (4:09)
new york city (4:39)
tanka (6:01)
turn of the century (5:37)
love (3:59)
dvd : song to the siren (54:24)

sub pop press release...

damon and naomi
song to the siren: live cd & dvd tour diary

after the damon & naomi with ghost record came out in the fall of 2000, damon & naomi toured extensively with ghost guitarist kurihara. this live cd captures a memorable performance in san sebastian, spain. and, packaged with the cd is a 54-minute dvd tour diary made by damon & naomi, chronicling their european tour.

the dvd will include such fancy dvd-type features as: optional japanese subtitles, an optional commentary by the band, a complete discography for both damon & naomi and kurihara.

$13.22

new to stock as of
august 1st, 2007

threads:
folk
modern-psych

sub pop (usa) #sp 501 cd

damon & naomi / ghost “damon & naomi with ghost” compact disc

the mirror phase (4:39)
the new world (4:33)
judah and the maccabees (4:48)
blue moon (2:46)
the great wall (8:22)
i dreamed of the caucasus (4:10)
don't forget (5:52)
tanka (8:25)
eulogy to lenny bruce (4:38)

sub pop press release...

“ ... their third album playback singers in 1998 was recorded at their home studio (kali studios) in cambridge, ma and was their first album recorded without the assistance of kramer. the album included the song “awake in a muddle” written by masaki batoh of the psychedlic rock band ghost, which marked the beginning of the ongoing relationship between the duo and the japanese band.

in 2000 they cemented the relationship with ghost by releasing the collaborative album with ghost recorded once again at the duo’s kali studios. the tour in support of the album featured ghost guitarist michio kurihara. in 2002 the live in san sebastian album, which had been recorded in may 2001 with kurihara, was released with an additional dvd featuring a video tour diary by naomi.”

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