Imagine walking down a path in a field somewhere and everything you look at turns into part of a song you’re listening
Now listen to Ghost by Radical Face.
The song starts off so simple, almost like you aren’t even listening to a song and it turns into this lush yet pure sound, full of piano, acoustic guitar, humming, and light drums. It goes from retrospective to uplifting and really captures something darkly youthful. Before I know it the song is over and I’m pressing repeat.
Radical Face is a solo project of Ben Cooper of Electric President, and uses a lot of “found-sound” which I absolutely love. I wish I could remember how I found this but it just started playing one day in my library. The song is from the album Ghost, which he explains:
“What if houses had memories? What if, when we lived in them, our stories bled into the walls and became a part of the house? What if our ghosts were always going to haunt the places we’ve lived, along with everyone else who’s lived there? So some songs are from the point of view people still living their lives in one of these houses; some are from the point of view of those dead and gone, watching over the living or haunting them; some are from people visiting home, after being away for along time, and the familiar ghosts of childhood all coming back to remind you of the way things used to be.”
Definitely checkout Radical Face if you like this song.
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I don’t subscribe to and rarely read Rolling Stone magazine. In fact I don’t read any music magazines really unless I hang out for a while in a mag shop. I know right? I talk about and review music and don’t read any magazines like NME or Rolling Stone or anything? Well right now I’m just relying on the internets until maybe I go back to school and maybe I’ll start subscribing. But the thing is half the fun of discovering new music is searching for it on your own, no? Either a friend sends you some songs or tells you about it, you are sitting in a restaurant and overhear someone talking about it, you hang out at record or music stores and just listen to what they play on their speakers and go up and ask whats being played, you dive into myspace or search around and small obscure music blogs and sites. All this may be more unnecessary work, but its that much more satisfying when you find a real gem of music all by yourself. And often times if you know for good places to look for new music, you’ll find out about a group even before the mag does or does a story on them. Sometimes they won’t be big enough for print media just yet. So I say keep your $30 dollar subscription fee and just go out like a blood hound and find the music on your own.