DESCRIPTION:
First there is living in the high desert. Lancaster. Quartz Hill. Littlerock. Pearblossom. A far flung corner of the county of Los Angeles. A place for the forgotten and for those the rest of the city wishes to forget. Land of the Joshua Trees. Land of the Rattlesnakes. The Mojave Green. An Outpost. The Devil's Punchbowl. An inhospitable place that men have forced themselves upon in an uneasy truce between cheap land and great ambition. This land still has teeth and venom. The Border. Heading east, the next stop is Mojave, Death Valley or the Eastern Sierra Mountains where towns have names like Lone Pine and Independence. And the road negotiates with places like Convict Creek and Mono Lake. A road less travelled.

And then there is Bodie - a ghost town high in the Sierras. Closed and abandoned to time and elements, this once thriving mining town is now frozen as it stood when the gates were locked and the town was returned to the ground it rose from. It is the subject of a hallucinatory group of collaborative poems written by a loose confederation of poets for a book conceived and organized by the California based poet and artist Nicelle Davis. Robert Fisher was asked by Davis to add a character to the book. The words begin to flow and they begin to sound like music. This, in turn, results Ghost Republic, the album.

Ghost Republic the film was made by Joy Camp's Kevin Kostelnik, with photos by Jason Hughes, text by Robert Fisher and music by Willard Grant Conspiracy.

Ghost Republic the album is out now on Loose Records.

Buy it here: http://looserecords.bigcartel.com/product/willard-grant-conspiracy-ghost-republic-cd

Above The Treeline
Perry Wallis
Parsons Gate Reunion
The Only Child
Ghost Republic
Rattle And Hiss
Take No Place
Good Morning Wadlow
Piece Of Pie
The Early Hour
Incident At Mono Lake
New Year's Eve
Oh We Wait