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Robin The Fog

The Ghosts Of Bush

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Special Edition - White Vinyl. 3rd and final pressing limited to 400 copies for the world** Having already created a huge amount of interest, 'The Ghosts Of Bush' is finally here on a limited vinyl pressing and is easily one of the most pertinent and interesting Radiophonic and hauntological artefacts we've had the pleasure of stocking in recent years. Created by World Service studio manager Robin The Fog, 'The Ghosts of Bush' Consists entirely of nocturnal location recordings made by him at Bush House, the iconic home of the BBC's world service for over seven decades before it moved to a new location in July this year. The recordings were mostly made during Robin's night shifts at Bush House and then eventually manipulated on dual quarter-inch reel-to-reel machines, creating a seamlessly segued side of ghostly, decaying acoustic sounds captured within the stone-clad building's numerous corridors, lifts, studios and stairwells. As you'd imagine, the effect is immensely evocative, at once recalling Daphne Oram's most isolated experiments, Konstantin Raudive's famous EVP recordings, the disintegrating loops of William Basinski, even Burial's most haunting interludes, and not least AFX's 'SAW II' classic; a phosphorescing mass of ferric-stroked midnight sonorities and metaphysical murmurs, or as the artist himself puts it "The sounds the building makes when it thinks no one is listening". It should be considered a set text for sound art students and scholars of the ether, we urge you to snap one up while you can. (Boomkat)
Details
Cat. number: THEFOGSIG002
Year: 2012

Format

Special Edition - White Vinyl. 3rd and final pressing limited to 400 copies.

Release notes

Bush House, the iconic home for over seven decades to the BBC World Service, closed its doors for the final time in July 2012. This album was produced entirely at night, using only the natural acoustic sounds of empty studios, corridors, stairwells and other hidden corners, which were then mixed and edited in the building's rapidly disintegrating basement studio using two of the surviving reel-to-reel tape machines. No artificial or electronic effects have been added. These are simply the…

Tracklist
A1Cantonese Subs / Fog At 5am
A2The Resonating Stairwell
A3Cold Space And Peeling Oxide
B1London Ta Ke Kira
B2Shortwave Fishtank
B3The Haunted Handle / Stairwell Reprise
Credits
Hannah Brown
Photography By
Lisa Hack
Photography By
Robin The Fog
Producer, Written-By, Edited By, Design