Vanished Pleasures, by The Ghost

Vanished Pleasures

by The Ghost

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	1.	Is This How Long the Pleasure Lasts? 06:53
	2.	PsychoTwink 04:29
	3.	The Invisible Prick 05:08
	4.	Mr. Mineshaft 07:53
	5.	Tadzio at the Beach 05:12
	6.	Vibrator Torture 05:34
	7.	The Wounded Man 09:58
	8.	La Touché 11:20
	9.	Sweet Garden of Vanished Pleasures 09:24

about

The Ghost was formed as both a tribute to my disparate influences in free jazz, harsh noise, and the gay underground community, and as a middle finger to the suffocating heteronormative establishment of improvised music. "Vanished Pleasures" stands as a new direction for this project, utilizing overt compositional frameworks to convey the anxieties of aging, sexual freedom, and the power relations inherent in the sax-bass-drums format. The title comes from Derek Jarman's "The Garden," referring to the vanished pleasures of untethered, youthful sexuality and the friends whose lives were cut short.

releases July 28, 2023

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released July 28, 2023

Michael Foster: tenor & soprano saxophones, compositions (BMI)
Jared Radichel: double bass
Joey Sullivan: drums & percussion

Recorded by Michael Foster & Justin Frye at
Pioneer Works, Red Hook, Brooklyn, January 2023

Mixed by Jared Radichel
Mastered by Weasel Walter
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Michael Foster New York

Michael Foster is a saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist utilizing extensive preparations of his saxophone, augmenting it with amplification, objects, balloons, drum heads, vibrators, tapes, and samples as a method of subverting and queering the instrument’s history and traditional roles. ... more

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Jun 27

Solar Myth (presented By Ars Nova Workshop)

Philadelphia, PA

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