AIRSHIPS ARE ORGANISMS

TRACKLISTING


A1. John Ghost - Deconstructing Hymns
A2. John Ghost - Airships Are Organisms
A3. John Ghost - Disfunctional Rabbit s: The Disfunction
B1. John Ghost - Disfunctional Rabbits: The Rabbits
B2. John Ghost - The Fallen Colony
B3. John Ghost - Time//Traveler
B4. John G host - Drones For a Sunken Mothership





INFO


John Ghost is ingenious and exploratory, often described as a symbiosis betw een the sounds of Steve Reich, John Hollenbeck, Nils Frahm and Jaga Jazzist.

Created around the Ghent guitarist and composer Jo De Geest, the Belgian sextet draw on influences from jazz, rock and post-classical music, where minim alism, electronics and a cinematic atmosphere characterize their instrumental mu sic.

New album 'Airships Are Organisms', released 27th September via Sdban Ultra, was produced by Jorgen Traeen (Jaga Jazzist, Kaizers Orchestra, Hu bro, Sondre Lerche).

When it came to recording the album, John Ghost searched for a balance between the venturous, accessible and playful character o f jazz music, in which John Ghost has its origins, and a carefully thought out s election process with the production, with a sharp eye and ear for detail. Seemi ngly simple earwigs are underpinned by driving undertones that inspire harmonic twists and a rhythmic and melodic stratification, that often results in a very d anceable soundtrack.

Tracks like 13-minute album opener 'Deconstructi ng Hymns', keep a fine balance between moments of abstraction and repetition whi le recent single 'Disfunctional Rabbits: The Disfunction' is an intoxicating, dr eamy soundscape that alternates between balanced jazz fluctuations and space-lik e grooves.

Elsewhere, the idiosyncratic 'The Fallen Colony', spirals into a progressive narrative of experimentation and improvisation, a common thre ad throughout large parts of John Ghost's music, before the haunting 'Drones For a Sunken Mothership', combines soaring bowed melodies and broken beats that is not only mesmeric but filled with breathtaking majesty.
Formed in 2010, Joh n Ghost were nominated for the 'Young Jazz Talent' Award at the prestigious Gent Jazz Festival the same year, and a series of shows followed including the Inter national Jazz Festival Middelburg, in the Netherlands.

After a brief hiatus, they released their 2016 album 'For A Year They Slept', to critical accl aim across Belgium, and they have been busy in the studio once again, developing and honing their sound.