Bruhn: Analog Wait

Hi,
It's been a long time since we posted on our blog, and a summer of change. Sound Ghost Studios is temporarily closed as we hunt for a new studio space. We hope it will not be too many months before we can find something.

Anyway, we have good news: New music from Bruhn. Mike & Chris were able to finish up the mixing for their new record Analog Wait in time before we had to move out of Sound Ghost's old location.

They have started a GoFundMe page to try to raise some money for the Mastering & Duplication costs.

http://www.gofundme.com/analogwaitCD   Take a look!!


Thanks so much!

Upsidedown Cat, Bruhn and The Art Table May 10th

We want to invite you to our show on Saturday May 10th in St Johns Portland. Hope you can come!!! 

Hello and a bit about the Muppets

Well. Not much going on here on the blog. Sorry. Life is busy. We got a chance to visit the Studebaker museum in South Bend IN and saw the Muppet official car. Pretty cool.
To bring it full circle... (so much about the Muppets is musical) here is a cute little cookie monster keyboard I ran into. They keys play cookie monster sound. It's so funny and not very musical. Anything with only 4 keys is a little limited.

Hopefully we are seeing the new muppet movie today!
In other news: Mike and Chris are working on their new bruhn album. More about that later. We also got a chance to listen to our friend Kaleb's songs and mike is mixing at least some of them so more about that later too.

soundghoststudios.com

It's been a while since we've written much here on the blog, so I think we will try to keep it updated a little more in the future.  Have you seen our cool looking (not so) new website? www.soundghoststudios.com

Hope you had a Merry Christmas.
We'll see what 2014 contains!!!!

Crazy Old Man

Recently finished up the musical Crazy Old Man by Darrell Baker.

Listen to Crazy Old Man.............................................................................................................................

Hallowed Sails Update

Mike has uploaded another Hallowed Sails album, The Last Lunarian Luminary, songs he and his friends originally recorded in 1997.

http://hallowed-sails.bandcamp.com/ Take a listen!

Harvest Party/ Open House 2012

Hello! Sound Ghost is having our yearly Open House a little bit late this year. We decided to make it closer to Halloween. Yay!

Spaghetti, Costume Contest, Games for the Kids, and Fun Times, ending with (we hope) a Movie and Popcorn.

October 28th, Sunday starting at 4, dinner around 5:30ish.

Please wear a costume and bring a side dish or beverage to share. Bring friends and family and come check out Sound Ghost Studios!

PS: We have a very cool new website, have you seen it?? www.soundghoststudios.com

Our friend David lent this to us... Meow!

Upsidedown Cat likes these songs and wants to share them with you.

The Motifs, from Melbourne.

Hacienda - Mike told me about them, he got to work with them at the Bing Lounge recently. 

LAKE. 

hallowed Sails

hallowed sails is Mike's music. This is his first album, which is from 2001. It is recently remixed and ready to meet the world on Bandcamp. Take a listen.

Definitely 2012.

Hello all,
Well 2012 is starting off busy and exciting! Imaginary Airship is in the studio, Bruhn is too, and Darrell Baker. We hope to share more with you soon about that.

We also bought a lovely RMI 368X Electra-Piano and brought it back from Seattle.
How are you? Sorry that we haven't written a whole lot...

This year we're hoping to record, possibly some new Upsidedown Cat songs in the works, and we'll have to see what else we accomplish!

More Christmas Music!

Good Songs, Good Cheer, It's Christmas Time

We've remixed our Christmas album from 2008! Hooray! You can stream it and download it for free on Bandcamp! Merry Christmas!!!

Pumpkins!

Mike & I carved pumpkins yesterday evening!
Mike's pumpkin:
Laura's pumpkin

Side by side

Imaginary Airship

Hooray!
Imaginary Airship is in the studio. This last weekend, Jonathan recorded all the drums for the album. amazing! and Josh and David did some scratch keys and bass. I think some video was taken, too... so stay tuned for that.

Here's some live tracks to listen to while you read: on Facebook (you may have to scroll down a little - PS: Expert opinion has been stuck in my head so much lately.) oh, yeah they're from Someday Lounge and then mixed by Mike.

Just some words about IA...
I've been friends with Jonathan for at least 4 years? and through him i met tons more friends who have had a big creative influence on me. He also helped me record my album and helped add more to my songs. It's been great to hear Imaginary Airship demo songs, be at the first cd release show, go to shows, see the band in different line-ups, sing occasionally with them on certain songs at shows, and talk with the guys about musical dreams (like putting stuff on vinyl, music videos, documentaries, etc.)

There are certain people who just understand music, and know how to get sounds they want, and Jonathan is one of them. When he helped record for the Upsidedown Cat album, and even playing a few shows with Upsidedown Cat it's just amazing how fast he picks up on the chords, but also like the expression of the song.

The most recent Imaginary Airship show that I saw at Someday Lounge was amazing. (see link above to listen to the songs) After the show, I think we all agreed that it was because Jonathan was back to doing what he loves best: Playing drums and singing at the same time. Also, I think it's really important that this line up is a really good one, including long-time friends, and I just feel like there's no stopping them now. I can't wait to see how these songs develop on the recordings. And Sound Ghost has learned a lot (and gotten more gear) since they recorded Imaginary Airship's first album (which was a really good album anyway). I love how seamlessly they transition from ragtime, to 60s/70s-esque.

As a friend, and fellow musical collective member, I am soo excited for this album, because it's been a while, and I know it will be really good. I don't know what all the songs are on the album...but i have the feeling it will be the kind of album where each song is amazing.

Watching them record drums on saturday night, I just realized how well practiced they are, and how as far as i can tell, this album may be recorded pretty quickly.
anyway, sorry I'm sort of rambling on this post, but I'm excited and I hope you are too. I don't know yet if I'll get to sing on the album (haha) but I'll probably make it on there somehow. Which is part of what the whole musical collective is about.

more about the album later...

also sorry for no pictures, for some reason mine aren't loading.

new bruhn song - "myself"

just scratch vox and practice takes, but still fun!

videos

in case you're wondering...videos i made pertaining to sound ghost will be posted on this page... if you have others and are on vimeo, feel free to join the group. I'm uploading videos of a recording session for some Larry Chipps songs...they should be up soon!

Purpose in our daily work

When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for; and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say, as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, "See! This our father did for us."

-John Ruskin.

Bruhn's bandcamp page

Check out bruhn's new bandcamp page...we're also working on a new website!

Bruhn - Part 2