Ghosts Of Gold - 37CD | Julie Tippetts & Martin Archer

Ghosts Of Gold - 37CD

by Julie Tippetts & Martin Archer

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1.	Moonshine 06:27	buy track
2.	The Bear That Walks At Night 04:42	buy track
3.	Metamorphic Rocking 08:19	buy track
4.	Run Another Road 04:27	buy track
5.	The Winging 06:27	buy track
6.	The Brink 01:45	buy track
7.	Parchment Dust 04:23	buy track
8.	Rainsong 04:32	buy track
9.	Daydreams And Candle-light 04:26	buy track
10.	Tightrope 01:49	buy track
11.	The Summons / Brittle Brimstone 05:51	buy track
12.	The Ghostly Apparition 03:23	buy track

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"This is the record that Tippetts always had in her and if I say it’s every bit as good as her Sunset Glow from 1976, then those that know will understand what praise that truly is." - Duncan Heining, JAZZWISE

A truly beautiful release - 10 of Julie's songs / poems in settings ranging from beats to pure abstraction.

Working with Martin always gives an inspiring kind of freedom within his extraordinary soundscapes. His structures on this album provide perfect settings for this selection of texts, drawn from an anthology of poetry written between 1994 - 2004, opening wide all doors with his particular flavour combinations, and yet indicating to me, almost instantly, the precise choice of poems for each piece. To use track 8 as an example, Martin brought this wonderful ingredient to the pot as an after-thought on our last day of recording. I went straight to the text, and within minutes was in front of the mic, and Rainsong was born. No rehearsal, no prior thought or decisions, and yet it gives the impression of being a structured composition. That's what I love about working in this way. The magic of the unexpected. - Julie Tippetts.

Most of the music for this collection was written and recorded by myself between mid 2007 - mid 2008. Julie matched texts to the music and recorded the vocal parts at my studio in the final part of 2008. I tried to write music for this CD which I believed would have some personal relevance for Julie rather than to write in the abstract and hope for the best. Looking back, I've been aware of Julie's music just as long as I've been aware of creative music. I distinctly remember borrowing a copy (on the original Neon label) of Septober Energy from someone's hip older brother while still at school, not registering that many of the players involved in this incredibly ambitious and joyful work were in reality not a whole lot older than I was. Then before very long I'd also heard the diametrically opposite Blueprint and Ovary Lodge albums, which helped me to learn that there was room for space and melody inside total improvisation, as well as jazz informed "chops" and extended technique playing. It was not until the 1980's that I first met Julie while I was promoting free improv concerts in Sheffield, and not until the 2000s did we make records together - Julie sang on both of my albums with Geraldine Monk, and also on my latest solo release In Stereo Gravity. One memorable aspect of this recording for me is that despite this being the first record of Julie's whose method is based substantially on software processing and editing (her previous Shadow Puppeteer was, amazingly, a virtuoso product of traditional tape editing!), she immediately "got" the possibilities of working in a virtual studio and seconds after completing each take behind the mic was seated next to me in front of the screen enthusiastically directing the editing and processing choices. Julie really is the best and most detailed editor of her own work I've ever worked with. I'm sure there will be more to come. - Martin Archer

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released March 1, 2009

Julie Tippetts - voice, percussion
Martin Archer - laptop, woodwind, keyboards etc

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Discus Music was founded in 1994 by Martin Archer. The label releases leftfield rock music, free jazz, extended songform, electronics, improvised music, and other sounds which defy categorisation.

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