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Moonlight State

by Ghost Notes

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Oppression takes many forms. Drudgery and alienation seem an ever-present. Sometimes overt, but mostly subtle; we bury ourselves under our daily practices.

Moonlight State is Brisbane instrumentalists Ghost Notes’ upcoming third album. Largely written and recorded during the same period as the band’s previous release, Hidden Horizons, the new album occupies an all together different space to its twin. Where that record wandered through bright and distant open lands, Moonlight State is firmly set amidst the dim claustrophobia of our own backyard, while still reaching for an inherent beauty.

Littered with references to the humid, hazy shadows of their hometown’s recent past - none more deliberate than the title track - Moonlight State is an album for present history; for the return of ‘Pig City’, the soundtrack to the G20 and VLAD and unchecked political power. The single ‘Freedom Scouts’ furthers the theme, taking its name from a local survivalist militia, while ‘Split Solitary’ harkens back to the darkness behind youth spent in idyllic rural areas. Here are the murmurs from sun-beaten sheds looking out through rust spots in corrugated iron.

Moonlight State represents a musical end point for Ghost Notes. Designed from inception to be a long-term project, the band have reached their most dynamic and bombastic with this album. The music demands to explode and destroy, and yet even at its most unhinged Ghost Notes repeatedly turn inward. The band’s signature musical spaciousness remains, but their Morricone-meets-Bitches Brew instrumental rock moves in darker territories on this album, from melancholy folk eulogies to noise-rock freak-outs. Nowhere is this breadth of sound more evident than on the album opening ‘Vanishing Point’, a 13-minute epic that travels through starkness, Steve Reich-esque polyrhythms, Kraut-rock freakouts and Sabbath grooves before finding itself back where it began only with a newfound sense of triumph.

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released November 14, 2014

Ghost Notes are Jamie Curran, Owen Dengate, Luke McCallum, Simon James, Cameron Smith.

Recorded at The Waiting Room and Incremental Records between 2012 and 2014. Recorded and Mixed by Cameron Smith.

Written and performed by Ghost Notes.

Thanks to our families and supporters.

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It was early on a Sunday morning at ATP - A Nightmare Before Christmas 2009. I decided to cook a curry, it was 4 in the morning, we had had a few! We called it Sonic Masala, We decided to actually do something about the music we talked about all the time. So we started a blog about the music we talk about. ... more

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