The Ghostwriters - Remote Dreaming [2LP]

Format: 2 x 12" Vinyl
Catalogue No.: DE-325
Release Date: 07 Oct 2024
Genre: Coldwave/Synth

A1. Land Of Pandas
A2. Remote Dreaming
A3. Sub Blue
B1. Empty Chairs
B2. Rococo Rondo
B3. Slow Blue In Horizontal
C1. Left-Handed Fiction 
C2. Boticelli Rewind
C3. Curve Formulas
D1. Inventions of Apparitions
D2. Rococo Reprise 
D3. Botticelli Revised
D4. On Still Water

Dark Entries summons Philadelphia synthesizer scribes The Ghostwriters to rouse their ambient masterwork Remote Dreaming. The late Buchla maestro Charles Cohen and multi-instrumentalist Jeff Cain joined up in 1971 to craft electroacoustic chaos as Anomali, later renaming themselves The Ghostwriters. Their collaborations with choreographers and visual media artists led to their singular style, straddling improvisation and composition, the oneiric and the immediate. Following their debut album, Objects in Mirrors Are Closer Than They Appear, they were approached by ambient outlet Mu-Pysch. Remote Dreaming would take shape in various studios over nine months. Jeff Cain's instruments on this project included electric and acoustic pianos, the Juno 106 synthesizer, and a Mirage sampler, while Charles Cohen used his signature Buchla 200 Series Electronic Musical Instrument. A stark departure from the tightly wound first LP, Remote Dreaming shows the duo unfurling with soothing pianos and psychoacoustic textures, its somnambulant drones just skirting the edges of the uncanny. Although ignored in its time, Remote Dreaming is now heralded as a landmark in 80s experimental ambient music. It is here released for the first time on vinyl, spread across a double LP with five additional tracks, four of which were previously unreleased. Remote Dreaming has been freshly remastered and includes an insert with photos and liner notes. Proceeds will be donated to SOSA (Safe from Online Sex Abuse), a nonprofit that combats online child sex abuse and trafficking.