Ghostwriter and Michael Paine - Morrow

  by Maarten Schiethart

published: 22 / 2 / 2015

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Morrow’ comes carefully packaged in three different versions. There is a plain white punched card cover for the review copy, an atmospheric photo for the digipack which appears an edition limited to 150 copies, and one limited to 80 copies in a hardback booklet CD. Known as Mark Brend in his native Devon to the tax office, Ghostwriter constructs melodic soundscapes using a variety of instruments - some disused and forgotten - and delicate field recordings. 'Morrow' is a trick of time, of neatly edited lulling and longing, light-hearted but not esoteric and most of all witty. A fine storyteller rather than a master musician and multi-instrumentalist, Ghostwriter’s debut album consisted of tributes to various novelists. Ghostwriter, who has recorded ‘Morrow’ with West Country musician Michael Paine, presents a showcase of excellent variety. The fifteen tracks only occasionally include the human voice and are mildly disorientating in their original coexistence. It is a culmination of musique concrète, field recordings, minimalism with snippets of piano, and folk and lullaby music. There is never a dull moment.

Track Listing:-

1 We Never Do Find Out
2 I Am Based On A True Life Story
3 Cooling Bay
4 Space Left Over
5 Pulled Down
6 Secker Morrow Waltz
7 Secker Morrow Waltz
8 Our Sweet Portion
9 The Death Of Phyllis Paul
10 Bidding Bell
11 Thus The Universe Is Clarified
12 Twice Lost
13 His Countenance Spoke Not Of Despair
14 Illuminated
15 The Hemel Hempstead Mystery
16 We Never Do Find Out (Coda)

Label Links:-

http://www.chaffinchrecords.com/
https://twitter.com/chaffinchrecord
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