Music: Ghostsoul Albums 2011 — 2023
All those years of looping time . . .
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Label: Ende records
Clutching jaw tightens eyes consists of four tracks of rhythmic soundscapes, downbeat, dub, house and ambience. Each track was written using field recordings taken by Ghostsoul, in and around Melbourne during 2022.
Post Melbourne’s pandemic lockdowns the noise floor of the inner suburbs grew louder as people re-entered work and social environments. The growing loudness resulted in a returning social anxiety. The anomaly of society shutting down had resulted in a peace, or at least a break from the burnout noise that results from making life while trying to not fall over the edge.
Clutching jaw tightens eyes uses field recordings from various locations around Melbourne.
1. Edge of self, features recordings of birds at 6am from a living room window, a tram with people conversing, and a freeway overpass.
2. Dark horizon, features leaves scraping across concrete in the wind, outside a living room window.
3. Behind my eyes, features a recording of the M1 freeway from a fourth story bathroom window at midnight.
4. Waiting rain, features a high gain recording, captured after midnight, from a living room window, as the rain travelled over the city.
Released July 21, 2023
Robot quiet is a collection of ambient-works and soundscapes by Ghostsoul. The album came together over ten years and is comprised of tracks created for several projects. Tracks 1. On this day and 2. Over water were originally written for an earlier album that never found completion. Track 4. Wilful energies was composed as a personal meditation and was never meant for release. And tracks 3. Pouring rain and 5. Dark past were originally created as part of the sound track to the steam-game Hurtworld.
These tracks I kept coming back to because I'm highly anxious and they relax my mind.
Released May 30, 2023
I started this so long ago that to finish it is to free myself of it.
I would call this new music but it's really quite old, well for me anyway. I've had these four ambient tracks - plus quite a few more - sitting on hard drives since 2014; created as off-cuts from a video game sound track. Each year I would bring them up several times, tinker and then forget them again; creating version after version. I've put these four together as an album as they were created from the same session file then became different ideas.
Released November 30, 2021
Clouds Hiding Moon is an album built of the offset times of my life - reminding me that I make music, and have for so long, that I have lived at night for so long.
I have included in the album field recordings to link the songs, they are from moments across my life; places that have become of note to me as they now exist in my memory.
Released April 12, 2021
I wrote this during a strange time in my life
The video clip for Sensing You by Ghostsoul is a colaboration suggested by Pixelwhip using original footage taken during his travels through Japan.
The video clip for Creatures by Ghostsoul is a colaboration suggested by Pixelwhip using original footage taken during his travels through Japan.
Released January 1, 2019
released August 3, 2017
Lost in time is a collection of older tracks that have been included on compilations and media projects. Each peace of music, though written separately and at different times, have stuck with me over the past few years. When played against each other they feel as though they fit as a cohesive part of a single whole.
Released May 20, 2017
The original sound track to the game Hurtworld (Steam Platform) by Bankroll Studios Melbourne.
Released December 23, 2016
The video clip for Dark Rooms by Ghostsoul was created by Leon Williams.
The album is ‘a spiritual transmission’ with ‘every composition part of a different universe, seemingly drifting through leftover remnants of fallen civilisations.’ With his experience creating soundscapes for screen and computer games, it’s no wonder Ghostsoul’s melodies have such a filmic luminosity. Echoes of Bladerunner synths and brooding sci-fi surrealism are coaxed back into real time with stuttering dancefloor drums and the smoky blues of London-born guest vocalist Melody Myla.
An upbeat pace is set with the spliced breaks and samples of opening track ‘Luna to Sol’, leading on to the contrasting shadowy cataclysms that lurk behind the ‘Dark Rooms’ of the second track. Highlights include the brooding bass and sleazy urban squalor of ‘The Opening Dusk’, the haunted vocal melancholia of ‘Burning Lungs’ and the glitchy goodness of Gutter Smash (Funky Orwell Mix).creditsreleased December 12, 2013
Track 2. Remixed from Gutter Smash by WarPa!nt
Track 4. Vocals written and performed by Melody Myla
Track 7. Vocals written and performed by Wyldcard and Bellz
Track 8. Vocals written and performed by Melody Myla
Released December 12, 2013
After a string of self released EPs and compilation releases, Melbourne beatsmith Ghostsoul joins the Hopskotch Records stable with 'Dark City Vibes' furthering his slip into the glitch hop and future beat sound..Mastered by Schallzentrale GmbH Artwork by Jack Dougla
Released October 22, 2012
A sweet mix of dub, hiphop and glitch.
Released February 7, 2011
Live sets original beats and beatless pieces together in ableton live — laptop, pads, triggers & FX
2020: Studio Mix: Cinemtaic Breakbeats, dub step, dub, glitchhop, triphop: recorded in my studio in Reservoir, or the converter granny flat out the back of Mike’s place while the Covid Pandemic lockdowns dropped in Melbourne and the traffic left the streets to rare silence.
2012: Senza Misura: beatless ambient: performed in a living room above a bar in Northcote 2012. Recorded and released on Senzamisura Vol 1. Released 2014 through Ende Records, thanks Noistruct.
2012: Uncomfortable Beats: Cinematic Breakbeats, dub, glitch & triphop: performed at Bar Open, Fitzroy, Victoria April 2012. Recorded on my old Zoom H5 through an older, dusty A&H Mix Wizard.
2011: Glitch, dub, triphop, cinematic breakbeats: This one’s a little bit lost in time — like me — maybe I performed this at Comfy Chair in Brunswick West; maybe in my living room in Northocte. Either way it was several brief life times ago. However my healthy obsessions continue.