Ghostigital

Location:
Reykjavík, Ic
Type:
Artist / Band / Musician
Genre:
Experimental / Hip Hop / Electronica
Site(s):
Label:
Honest Jon's, Ipecac, Smekkleysa (Bad Taste Ltd.)
Type:
Indie
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while you read, listen to the album!
this is the tracklisting.



Einar Örn Vocals Curver Electronics, Tape Delays, Gadgets



It seems that when Einar Örn (former SUGARCUBES and K.U.K.L. front man)
enlists another artist to work with him, it's like collaborating with
the Cubists, or the Dadaists in musical form. His partner in this case, with
the movement named Ghostigital, is Curver. An Icelandic multi-instrumentalist,
Curver's background is as eclectic as the music he dabbles in: a producer,
artist, a remixer (Sigur Ros) , a music teacher. Ghostigital's Les Demoiselles
de Avignon is named In Cod We Trust.
Welcome! You're really in for a fantastic
treat.



For those new to the sonic world of Ghostigital, you should know that there
doesn't seem to be any floor plan to the music, even though there is architecture.
It';s best you just relax, release preconception, don't think or analyze
too much. Here's an idea: let us do the analyzing so the thoughts don't
get in the way of your listening experience. Know the music will come to you
the way it wants to; you are not in control.



Often it seems that neither is Einar. His vocal tone evokes the everyday
man hung on an everyday line and pushed to extremes, but extremes
that for the
moment are livable and sometimes amusing. His rap does not spew harsh violence
but the cool cosmically comic fright-journalism of breakfast in workaday
hell.



Unmistakably Icelandic, their subjects could have multiple national
origins & exchange codfish for. well, anything and you get the meaning. In 1940s America, fish was
slang for the dollar and there, the joke of the album is easily apparent.
Whether Einar is commenting on what he sees while standing in line at the
grocery store,
men who are fixated on fish or seeing the Northern Lights through a headache,
his songs are still stories of relationships with average living, a lifestyle
that merges the mundane with the sublime.



While the genre-mashing In Cod We Trust pulls the aesthetic
rug out from under a listener's expectations, one should not fear that they are lost in a
pop music sea. Ghostigital fashions an aural forest of industrial, Bel Canto,
Jazz, Rap, 80's New Wave, and Electronic music & just not
necessarily in that order or only at one time.



For this album they recruited: Ipecac Recordings label mates Mugison and Dalek in
the USA, as well as Mark
E. Smith, Sensational, KatieJane Garside, Steve
Beresford, Asa
Jnusdttir and Hrafn Asgeirsson including
Einar's
own son Kaktus playing trumpet.
This is
the player and tracklisting.
The record
is released my
Honest Jons in the UK.
Ipecac in USA and Europe. Smekkleysa in Iceland.



Release date: March 7, 2006



There are some great rarities now available via the new Smekkleysa shop. Bands like Purrkur Pillinikk, the incredible Frostbite, Curver and many more which are interesting. Have a lookie lookie.
Ghostigital - Northern Lights



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