Brighton, UK
On Small Pond / Art as Catharsis
Honolulu, Hawaii
On New Focus
Vancouver, British Columbia
Portugal
On Clean Feed
Brisbane, Australia
On Futurfonic
Acquanetta is a short hour-long opera written by composer Michael Gordon. This piece takes its inspiration from horror movies of the forties, telling the tale of an actress that rose to fame before vanishing from the scene. The composition is far from traditional, for an operatic work. Instead, Michael’s score feels at the same time very contemporary and much like a movie soundtrack. Needless to say, this studio-recorded version of the piece is of the highest calibre, thanks to the Bang on a Can Opera Ensemble and the invaluable vocal … Read more
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Ontario
On eOne Heavy
Poland
On Metal Blade
Hamburg, Germany
On Thrill Jockey
Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Upon first listening, Airships Are Organisms immediately made me reminisce Canadian prog act Glaswegians and the timeless Tubular Bells. This was perhaps only a temporary passage, but it was nonetheless present strongly in the opening piece, “Deconstructing Hymns”. In fact, the entirety of John Ghost‘s opus is highly diversified and masterfully crafted. As they put it, the album is “an exploratory symbiosis drawing on electronics, post-classical, cinematic atmospherics + jazz”, and I’ll have to agree with them. Airships Are Organisms draws as much from contemporary classical and jazz as it … Read more
Berlin, Germany
On Float
Switzerland
On Iron Bonehead
Provo, Utah
New Yorke
Atlanta, Georgia
https://detlefband.bandcamp.com/album/wheres-the-luau-dang… Read more