[post-rock, prog-rock] (2017) Ghost Against Ghost - Still Love [FLAC,Tracks] {100.XY}

(2017) Ghost Against Ghost - Still Love

Review:
Ghost Against Ghost is composer, writer and producer Christopher Bono who utilizes his classical background to sculpt this expansive and engaging series of compositions, contrasting heavy walls of sound with ambient passages, contemporary classical and experimental electronic influences. Bono collaborated with Thomas Pridgen, whose drumming credits include the likes of The Mars Volta, Trash Talk, Suicidal Tendencies and Memorials. The album’s enveloping sound also contains special contributions by ambient guitarist Anthony Molina, the multi-instrumentalist famous for playing with Mercury Rev, and otherworldly choral sections featuring vocalists Jamie Rae, Stacie Bono and Michele Kennedy.
Their first full-length release, Still Love, is part of a powerful ambient trilogy. In 2014, part one of the musical trilogy, EP Oia, was abruptly interrupted by a personal traumatic event, which steered a heavily inspired and deeply emotional Bono to create Still Love as a cleansing experience. This 65 minute LP weaves themes of love, heartbreak, and betrayal into monolithic synth-driven space-rock, with inspiration as diverse as Nine Inch Nails, Sigur Ros, Vangelis and Pink Floyd.
Bono says: “As a producer, I’m continuously exploring vintage, analogue gear and instruments contrasted with the precise benefits of modern, digital techniques and equipment.
“Simultaneously, as a composer, I see the pros and cons of the analogue-digital domains similarly to the differences found in writing and arranging for acoustic versus electronic instruments.
“In both cases there is a colourful beauty created when the different production styles and sound worlds are blended in unexpected ways.”

Tracklist:
01 Son of Cessiphus.flac
02 still love.flac
03 A Relapse of Remembrance.flac
04 The River of the Intimate, pt. 1.flac
05 The River of the Intimate, pt. 2.flac
06 Resume.flac
07 Your Secret Ocean.flac
08 Unarm.flac
09 Guerison.flac

Summary:
Country: USA
Genre: post-rock, prog-rock


Media Report:
Source : CD
Format : FLAC
Format/Info : Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : ~ 500-968 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits