Ghost Rhythms - Missing Times / Another Present 2 x CDs

SKU Rune 536
Guillaume Aventurin : Guitar
Julien Bigorgne : Flute
Alexis Collin : Accordion
Nadia Mejri-Chapelle : Cello
Xavier Gélard : Drums, Additional Electric Guitars, Additional Percussion
Grégory Kosovski : Bass
Morgan Lowenstein : Congas
Camille Petit : Piano, Rhodes
Maxime Thiébaut : Alto and Ténor Saxophones, Flute
with
Bertrand Aimar : Violins
Frédéric Garcia : Choir Director

While they last, buyers of the new Ghost Rhythms album, Missing Times, who purchase it from the band, from Wayside Music or from Cuneiform's BandCamp page, get an additional 20’ CDEP, Another Present at no charge!

Ghost Rhythms are a truly exciting, electric-eclectic jazz / post-genre ensemble based in France. Active in Paris since 2005, the nine-piece ensemble has won numerous awards and released 9 albums. Their music is cool, intelligent (conceptual themes underlay each album), and self-assured, featuring morphing drum grooves, catchy bass lines, expressive harmony changes, world music touches and a never-ending succession of dizzying, odd-time polyrhythms. The highly skilled instrumental ensemble uses a world of instrumentation and influences – jazz, classical, rock, world – to create captivating tunes that defy genre boundaries and soar beyond tradition.

Missing Times, Ghost Rhythms’ new release and third album for Cuneiform Records, conceptually probes notions of UFOs – specifically, the phenomenon in which UFO abductees lose memory of their experiences aboard ships from outer space. It’s a slippery slope full of mythology, as drummer/guitarist Xavier Gelard points out, but not one without merit and depth. And beyond the sci-fi elements of that subject matter, there are universal themes. “We’re trying to decolonize the UFO lore from the UFO,” he explains, “in order to access the human part.”

The Ghost Rhythms ensemble is based around the creative duo of Xavier Gelard and pianist Camille Petit. Together, they’ve deeply explored the interplay between interlocking rhythms and musical feel throughout the group’s 20-year run. The themes relayed in Missing Times —absence, perception, and time itself—have been guiding principles.

In that way, then, Missing Times, their ninth full-length release, is their ultimate statement, as its displaced rhythmic structures weave amongst each other in the foreground. The album—most of which was recorded live in the studio—started with the title and concept, and the music fell into place.

Ghost Rhythms seamlessly create sonic quilts of interweaving riffage and soaring melodies. Their sound straddles genres, wearing inspiration from modern avant-leaning influences like The Claudia Quintet or Bad Plus—both ensembles that feature jazz-associated musicians reaching toward rock, pop, and classical influences—as easily as it does vintage progressive rock groups like National Health, particularly in their propensity toward rhythmic experimentation and flexibility, as well as genre-defying Chamber Rock/ avant progessive ensembles like Lars Hollmer / Von Zamla, Art Zoyd and Miriodor.


  • LabelCuneiform
  • UPC045775053622
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