NEW GHOST

Crossover Prog • United Kingdom

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New Ghost are a Sheffield-based collective founded in late 2017 by main songwriter Chris Anderson (previously of the alternative rock band 'Firesuite'), which makes expansive music that takes influences from bands and artists such as Mogwai, St. Vincent, Mitski, Mew, Boards of Canada, and Broadcast, and encompasses elements of post-rock, progressive pop and shoegaze to create a sound that is all their own.

Chris Anderson sent guitarist/vocalist Arian Malekpour (of local post-hardcore band Hidden Mothers and instrumental post-rock/metal band Fly on By) some demos that he had been working on in the middle of the night while he was chipping away at an ongoing project that he thought he would never finish. At about the same time, he let sound engineer/producer/musician John Sephton of Old Pig Farm Studios hear some music he had been working on, which John was immediately impressed with. Ari took the demos along to try them out with a few of his fellow musician friends, and that was really where the New Ghost collaboration began.

The original intention was to have a musical collective similar to the 'Desert Sessions' series which began in Palm Desert, California in 1997, with musicians from a variety of bands and backgrounds participating in the development of the material, but in the end all of the people contributing to the project had previously either shared a stage with Chris, or had been admired from afar by him for years.

Whilst mainly used as a keyboard player and vocalist in the band, Nic Bowden, also of the 5-piece Sheffield jazz/folk/roots band 'Charm', is a multi-instrumentalist who also plays sax and flute. Contributing guitar and vocals to the project is Caroline Cawley of the Nottingham-based post-metal/doom-gaze band Dystopian Future Movies, and she is also a vocalist with Nottingham-based progressive rock band 'Church of the Cosmic Skull'. New Ghost's Drummer Taz Ali is also involved in a number of other projects, such as the Sheffield psych/stoner/grunge/space rock band 'Awooga' and the minimalist rock duo 'Tekrar Eden'.

Singer Ellie Richards had always been a passionate music fan, but the opportunity to sing with New Ghost at Tramlines in 2019 had been totally unexpected. Before her work with the band began, all she'd previously done was some guest performances alongside the local instrumental post-rock band 'Gilmore Trail', and the recording of some King Crimson covers and pop tunes.

One of the bassists in...New Ghost are a Sheffield-based collective founded in late 2017 by main songwriter Chris Anderson (previously of the alternative rock band 'Firesuite'), which makes expansive music that takes influences from bands and artists such as Mogwai, St. Vincent, Mitski, Mew, Boards of Canada, and Broadcast, and encompasses elements of post-rock, progressive pop and shoegaze to create a sound that is all their own.

Chris Anderson sent guitarist/vocalist Arian Malekpour (of local post-hardcore band Hidden Mothers and instrumental post-rock/metal band Fly on By) some demos that he had been working on in the middle of the night while he was chipping away at an ongoing project that he thought he would never finish. At about the same time, he let sound engineer/producer/musician John Sephton of Old Pig Farm Studios hear some music he had been working on, which John was immediately impressed with. Ari took the demos along to try them out with a few of his fellow musician friends, and that was really where the New Ghost collaboration began.

The original intention was to have a musical collective similar to the 'Desert Sessions' series which began in Palm Desert, California in 1997, with musicians from a variety of bands and backgrounds participating in the development of the material, but in the end all of the people contributing to the project had previously either shared a stage with Chris, or had been admired from afar by him for years.

Whilst mainly used as a keyboard player and vocalist in the band, Nic Bowden, also of the 5-piece Sheffield jazz/folk/roots band 'Charm', is a multi-instrumentalist who also plays sax and flute. Contributing guitar and vocals to the project is Caroline Cawley of the Nottingham-based post-metal/doom-gaze band Dystopian Future Movies, and she is also a vocalist with Nottingham-based progressive rock band 'Church of the Cosmic Skull'. New Ghost's Drummer Taz Ali is also involved in a number of other projects, such as the Sheffield psych/stoner/grunge/space rock band 'Awooga' and the minimalist rock duo 'Tekrar Eden'.

Singer Ellie Richards had always been a passionate music fan, but the opportunity to sing with New Ghost at Tramlines in 2019 had been totally unexpected. Before her work with the band began, all she'd previously done was some guest performances alongside the local instrumental post-rock band 'Gilmore Trail', and the recording of some King Crimson covers and pop tunes.

One of the bassists in the band is Joe Richards, a lifelong Cardiacs fan who also plays in Gilmore Trail and Tekrar Eden. The other bassist who contributes to the project is Gareth Hughes, who also plays guitar and bass with the post progressive band 'inFictions' and the sludge band 'Flatlands', and was previously part of the instrumental post-rock/math rock band '65daysofstatic'.

New Ghost's debut album, 'New Ghost Orchestra' was a collaboration between Chris Anderson, Arian Malekpour, Gareth Hughes, Caroline Cawley, John Sephton and Nic Bowden - with additional vocals from Craig B (of the acoustic/ambient Sheffield band 'A Mote Of Dust' and formerly the Scottish alternative rock bands 'Aereogramme' & 'The Unwinding Hours'). The album was assembled at John Sephton's Old Pig Farm Studios in Sheffield, and is a largely a mixture of alternative pop and early shoegaze, with the band's trademark 'huge choruses' being a prominent feature of the music. The album was released in July 2019.

Their next release was the EP 'Future is Dead', released in July 2020, which was very well received and earned the band a lot of new exposure. It received airplay on both the BBC in the UK and the DKFM shoegaze/dreampop station in the US. The intention had been to take the new music out on the road, but the Covid-19 pandemic prevented any band from playing in front of an audience. The band then released 'Mono No Aware' in April 2021, which was a collection of songs they recorded during the various stages of lockdown.

They normally perform live as a six-piece band, using various configurations of their available musicians.read more

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A Dagger In Every Tide
2024

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