Hello,
Two classic Ghost Box albums are re-issued today on vinyl. Both remastered especially for this format, heavyweight 180g vinyl packaged in luxurious redesigned artwork by Julian House, with original liner notes on beautiful colour inner sleeves.
Other Channels was the first full length album from The Advisory Circle. It evokes a world of public information films, domestic isolation, tranquilliser addiction and the ever present nuclear threat. Jon Brooks achieves this with a carefully crafted sound palette of analogue synthesisers and fragments of long lost broadcasts.
Beautifully evocative liner notes by writer, broadcaster and journalist Ken Hollings set the music in a context of domestic neuroses and cold war paranoia.
Séance at Hobs Lane by Mount Vernon Arts Lab is a classic of psychogeographical electronics. Hobs Lane is the fictional tube station where the action of Nigel Kneale’s Quatermass and the Pit takes place. The album plunges the listener into a world of abandoned underground stations, eighteenth century secret societies and the footsore reveries of generations of flâneurs from Thomas De Quincey to Iain Sinclair.
The album was conceived and recorded by Drew Mulholland in 2001, and collaborators included Adrian Utley (Portishead), Jhon Balance (Coil), Isobel Campbell (Belle & Sebastian), Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub) and Barry 7 (Add N to X). Sleeve notes by the novelist Lawrence Norfolk.
Both are available now in the Ghost Box shop on vinyl and download. They'll also be at your usual stockists very soon. Vinyl customers in the Ghost Box shop will also qualify for a free download version of these albums. (NOTE: this only applies to Ghost Box shoppers - no DL code is included in the LP).
Last week we issued the latest in our Other Voices series of singles. This time it's by Ghost Box regular, Pye Corner Audio with help on the flipside from Belbury Poly. Its available in the shop now on download or super heavyweight 7" vinyl.
Coming soon to Ghost Box is double album compilation to mark our tenth anniversary, titled In a moment... Ghost Box. It features thirty especially remastered tracks that we think are the highlights of the label's output so far. It'll be out in September on a glorious double gatefold LP or double CD with extensive liner notes by a very special guest.
Also due late summer/autumn this year are the next two Other Voices singles one by the mighty Cavern of Anti-Matter and the other by ToiToiToi (who's first album is still available in the Ghost Box Guest shop).
Thank You for Listening.
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