This debut CD by Ghost Food, the supernaturally inclined collaboration between multidisciplinary artist/musicians Joel Nelson and Paul Cordes Wilm, was the perfect soundtrack to this year’s particularly haunted Halloween season. Born out of a shared “ghostly experience,” the four tracks combine spectral ambience, obtuse spoken word, and memorable songwriting to wondrous effect, and each moment is just as enigmatic and beguiling as the next, whether Wilm is muttering surreal observations about biscuits (“Little Things We Said”) or Nelson is conjuring unforgettable beauty from his arcane arsenal of instruments (“Ghost’s Come Home”). -Noise Not Music
A new project from Paul Cordes Wilm (Nowhere Squares, Acre Pillows) and Joel Nelson (Silica Gel, flusnoix, solo). This creepy mini album is a treat, ripe for the Halloween season. Below, Joel explains how it began:
"It was so unintentional. He just came over and started doing weird shit. He had this thing he brought with cardboard tubes that he started singing into. And then we had a ghostly experience in the house.
Even MayMay started walking towards the door and we were just playing....and we thought someone came into the house and walked into the other room or something. That's what all those references are, it's all about that ghost encounter we had.
Paul was singing into the tube, and I was playing the trogotronic, and it sounded like a human voice...the synth sounded like a human voice...i think it was the frequencies we were hitting,...i think it really triggered a ghostly experience for us....it was very vocal, very much in that range...and it just had this feeling like there was a human presence there......and that's what's audible on the first track.
So we were in the music room.......i wasn't even talking to Paul yet, and we were playing...and I looked up, and MayMay was there and looked toward the door (in the other room) as if you had come home. It was an audible stimulation that someone was there....it was a fascinating thing that we shared. It was a weird experience to have with someone.....to have the exact same feeling. So that's where the name came from...Ghost Food. Like a ghost that eats sounds."
credits
released October 22, 2021
Paul Cordes Wilm : Vocals and objects
Joel Nelson: Trogotronic, Strega & prepared guitar
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I love these women. the voices mesh together perfectly; also the world music is exceptional. I have all of their albums and they're all excellent. Give them a listen. Steve Lake
supported by 4 fans who also own “Night In My Mind”
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