REIDY,JULES - GHOST/SPIRIT Price: €17.99 Format: Compact Disc Availability: Immediate Dispatch

Jules Reidy's sublime music maps the human experience in
glittering constellations of sound. The guitarist is a driver of Berlin's
fertile contemporary music scene. A wide-eyed imagination
combined with technical mastery guide each work in Reidy's
extensive catalog, from solo guitar albums and collaborations
with innovative peers, including recent works with claire rousay,
Oren Ambarchi, Andrea Belfi and Sam Dunscombe to major
commissions from JACK Quartet and Zinc & Copper. The songs
of Ghost/Spirit collectively convey an astral sense of yearning
and wonder, pushing towards transcendence. The album charts a
deeply personal journey with love, spirituality and transformation
expressed in fractal guitar figures, ethereal vocal vapors and
rippling microtones.
Reidy's guitar approach unlocks the tonal and textural possibilities
of the instrument from their use of alternate tunings and astute
processing. The maximalist melodics of album opener “Every Day
There's a Sunset” are bolstered by rumbling bass samples from
Andreas Dzialocha, Reidy's collaborator in the duo Sun Kit. On
“Satellite,” cello samples from Judith Hamann stretch out through
the cosmos, orbited by spiraling finger-picked guitars, while
stacked trombone chords echo out into the ether. Thundering drum
samples from Berlin metal mainstay Sara Neidorf push the album
to ecstatic peaks on “Every Day There's a Sunrise,” fragmented
rhythms breaking apart in the atmosphere. Field recordings of the
Berlin S-Bahn recur throughout the album, another endless cycle
of leaving and returning that shuttles beneath the album's whirling
tones.
Ghost/Spirit captures the inherent power and agency in choosing
to offer yourself up to the universe and let go, ego death and
prayer rendered in incandescent sonics. Reidy's inimitable skill as
a guitarist, producer and composer is on full display, and when
combined with the intensity of experience, the resulting album is
a remarkable work of art

TRACK LISTING:
1. Every Day There's a Sunset
2. Interlude I
3. Satellite
4. To Breathe Lightning
5. Ghost
6. Breaks
7. Search Light
8. Every Day There's a Sunrise
9. Spirit
10. Maybe
11. Interlude II
12. Letter
13. Splits the Light
14. You are Everywhere