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Ghost Love: Review in ROCKAROLLA

PHIL MAGGI - live at Magasin 4, September 2011

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Ghost Love: great description by Jeff Gburek

"Hey Phil, let me start out by saying it's been a pleasure to watch and hear your development over the past few years and also happy to think on times we shared just drinking coffee and chatting at Randaxhe. In any case, this backgrounds what might come off as a strange statement concerning your cd: namely, my impression of the first track was that "something is missing"--i even wondered if my computer loaded one of my own unfinished tracks instead of yours!--but upon further reflection and while listening to the cd it made perfect sense that "something is missing", something must be missing, there must be an essential and noticeable absence in order for the "ghosts" to appear, to summon them, lay down a carpet for their arrival into the work of art. 

Track one provides this essential absence and question for me and so the segueway into track 2 also provides the further sense of invocation to the ghosts by summoning up a brief hymn ala aphex's ambient music, compelling in itself but more like a stepping stone into the temple and afterwards track 3 seems like the first room of this temple, like an episode from a lost silent film shot onto the screen of one's own better and wider collective version of the unconscious--mysterious, soft footsteps and crumbling bird song, invisble fields, waking slowly into a peaceful summer morning slightly sweaty. Track 4 is most reminiscent of Muslimgauze and to my ears much better than all the techno-slick neo-Gauze remixes that have become viral on the internet; your track shows you to be a real lover of the raunchy lo-fi Gauze-celebre. Track 5 contiinuing on in a similar vein, minus the beats, evokes the feeling of being lost in space or on a blind helicopter ride over the desert, the tinkling of cymbals, the shards of the rotar blades in a hypnagogic half-sleep that leads to track 6's seeming transitional wave-swell, a gentle sandstorm of sorts, which goes away and then boomerangs back into another dimension of misty swamps nearing Mordor. I didn't know where I was anymore, there was nothing that I could be sure about next really. So I was suprised by track 7--or what i think of as the 7th "moment"--because, to be quite honest, I didn't look at the track changes, I sat in an arm-chair writing about what I heard--so this 7th track or movement seemed to me like someone in a club who approaching the threshold to the chill-out lounge suddenly decides to turn away and step instead outside for some fresh air. The 8th moment seems to me like the best of Biosphere-style ambience, some half-way house or chamber between a trip into an overgrown forest wherein one spies Diana at her bath and then tries to tiptoe quietly away and the the basement of a Manhattan high-rise's boiler room where some kid is booming a bass drum in a secret private ritual. Track 9 then seems to me then the perfect place for us to meet those alien Africanish children we wish we could have grown up with and thereby rest at home with our eldest earthly ancestors. Track 10 is another Gauze-like drum ritual but this time some drunken urban Portuguese lost in the back alleys of Sao Paolo on a lark spirit juju stumble upon the open rear-exit of a cinema oozing from which we hear a Michael Nyman soundtrack. They keep chanting as the drummers sneak-off the scene for their own arcane reasons and the film credits roll like rain drifting down the glass of broken down train in a dissolving railyard. Track 10 or movement 10: A spectral shimmer as some religious folks intone syllables inside their Godhead and an LP record (the end of linear time) skips within a groove that won't willingly terminate. Slowly a large hovercraft approaches the station, stops and let's on some posse of violinists, the doors close and the hovercraft boots up again on it's journey, then stops again without explaination--as trains often do in Poland--starts moving again and I realize the violinists have been metamorphosed into mosquitos and the hovercraft glides by Armenian campfires surrounded by vagabond yodlers which all comes as a smiling prelude to track 11: the Gypsy James Bond thriller wherein a Bartok quartet seems to play from behind a muffled door in a posh concert hall while you are taking a call on your cell-phone from Tajik-Russian ancestors who insist on singing that song you can't remember telling them you loved . But you must have loved it and said so. And so there it is. Uncle Zmevtin passes the phone around to everyone and you hear each old leathery voice recount the lines of the a story too convoluted to repeat...and then, and then...I don't quite remember what happens next in this dream. I guess it just ends somehow, like dreams do. And you face the day with the ghosts.

and so, there you have my rather immediate reflections on your very fine cd. congratulations!" JG

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GHOST LOVE, a new album by belgian hypnoworld psychedelia guru Phil Maggi will be available on CD. This breathtaking record, that has been mastered by lord Andrew Liles (Current 93, Nurse With Wound), will come wrapped in a beautiful ekopack.

Limited to 300 copies.

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Pre-order includes free shipping worldwide + immediate download of 4 tracks in your choice of MP3 320, FLAC, or other formats. A link to the complete album will be emailed to you the moment it’s released.

!! Phil will perform along with legendary band Tuxedomoon on 10th September at M4, Brussels, the CDs will be available there as well. More infos and dates on his BLOG.