Ghost Echoes
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Podcast Overview
<p>Ghost Echoes is a music history podcast with secret rules. It begins in 1970 and it will proceed up to the present day, discussing one musical recording per episode. Some of them are famous and acclaimed, others utterly obscure. Some are classical, most are pop. The list of recordings that Ghost Echoes will focus on throughout its run is already decided and set in stone, having been chosen in accordance with the podcast’s non-negotiable rules, of which there are three: 1. REDACTED, 2. REDACTED, and 3. The first two rules are secret.</p><p><br/></p><p>These rules lead Ghost Echoes down countless historical side streets and blind alleys where it departs from music entirely and passes by Victorian booze palaces, angry Ontarian proletariats, inscrutable paintings about the space race, demolished movie theatres, drunk people, exceedingly large oval rugs, unlikely origin stories of venerable educational institutions, Charlie Brown cartoons, and conspiracy theories about extrajudicial assassinations by MI5.</p><p><br/></p><p>Ghost Echoes is the story of music -- and everything else</p>
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July 28, 2020
No. 10 - The End
<p>We are an optimistic species. Even in our stories about the end of the world, the world doesn’t actually end. In reality, it will. In the season one finale of Ghost Echoes, we study the apocalypse. Ragnarök. The Great Tribulation. The End. Alas, we're not alone -- we're with <a href="https://consequenceofsound.net/artist/nico/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nico</a>.</p> <p><strong>Follow on </strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ghostechoes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Facebook</strong></a><strong> | </strong><a href="https://twitter.com/MJRParsons" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Twitter</strong></a><strong> | </strong><a href="https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/ghost-echoes-1020800" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Podchaser</strong></a></p> <p>Music and Sound Notes:</p> <p>-- This episode contains excerpts from “Femme Fatale,” by the Velvet Underground, and “These Days", “Eulogy to Lenny Bruce”, “Frozen Warnings”, “Nibelungen”, “You Forget to Answer”, “The End”, “Das Lied der Deutschen,” and “Win a Few", all by Nico.</p> <h2>Further reading, listening:</h2> <p>--For biographical information on Nico, see the documentary <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1vkiQdEU7M" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nico: Icon</a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/mar/16/popandrock3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">this Guardian story</a> by Simon Reynolds. This episode also contains clips from Susanna Nicchiarelli’s excellent biopic <a href="https://www.nico1988.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nico, 1988</a>.</p> <p>--For more on the 1910 Halley’s comet panic, read Matt Simon in <a href="https://www.wired.com/2015/01/fantastically-wrong-halleys-comet/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Wired</a>. And for more on the UFO cult Chen Tao, see <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Chen-Tao" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Encyclopaedia Britannica</a>.</p>
July 14, 2020
No. 9 - Lady June's Linguistic Leprosy
<p>June Campbell Cramer, known to all as Lady June, was one of the greatest party hosts of her day. She was the connective tissue that held whole musical scene together. She was the counterculture’s landlady. And she was also an artist in her own right. On this episode of Ghost Echoes, we crash a house party and do a bit of psychedelic people watching.</p> <p><strong>Follow on </strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ghostechoes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Facebook</strong></a><strong> | </strong><a href="https://twitter.com/MJRParsons" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Twitter</strong></a><strong> | </strong><a href="https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/ghost-echoes-1020800" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Podchaser</strong></a></p> <p><strong>Music and Sound Notes:</strong></p> <p>--This episode contains excerpts of three tracks from Lady June’s Linguistic Leprosy: “Some Day Silly Twenty Three,” “To Whom It May Not Concern,” and “Am I.”</p> <p><strong>Further reading, listening:</strong></p> <p>--Details on Lady June’s life were gathered from Marcus O’Dair’s Robert Wyatt biography <a href="https://serpentstail.com/different-every-time-ebook.html">Different Every Time</a>, as well as various online sources. These include her <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-lady-june-1099325.html">obituary in the Independent</a>, an <a href="http://homepages.3-c.coop/facelift/facelift/issue%206.html">interview in Facelift Magazine</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071226015003/http://calyx.club.fr/mus/june_lady.html">this feature</a> on a fansite for Canterbury music, <a href="https://www.charlesmarlow.com/blog/2016/05/13/celebrating-lady-june/">these reminiscences</a> from June’s fellow Deia residents, the <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/lady-junes-linguistic-leprosy-mw0000510759">AllMusic review of Linguistic Leprosy</a>, and Lady June’s own semi-autobiographical poem <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20010301215654/http://musart.org/rebela/default.htm">Rebella</a>.</p> <p>--The complete story of the wealthy Texan optician and Soft Machine patron Wes Brunson can be found on <a href="https://canterburyscene.wordpress.com/2016/04/18/the-fascinating-story-of-wes-brunson/">Aymeric Leroy’s blog about the Canterbury Scene</a>.</p> <p>--The full text of Robert Graves’ Goodbye to All That, complete with the prologue he wrote nearly thirty years later, can be found <a href="https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.186550/2015.186550.Good-Bye-To-All-That_djvu.txt">here</a>. Joan Didion’s “Goodbye to All That” is in <a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374531386">Slouching Towards Bethlehem</a>.</p>
June 30, 2020
Lost Echo: Roxy Music vs. King Crimson
<p>Roxy Music and King Crimson shared a label. They nearly shared a lead singer. And Crimson’s lyricist produced Roxy’s debut album. In this deleted scene from the second episode of Ghost Echoes, we compare and contrast two bands that ought to have been more similar than they were.</p>
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- What is Ghost Echoes?
<p>Ghost Echoes is a music history podcast with secret rules. It begins in 1970 and it will proceed up to the present day, discussing one musical recording per episode. Some of them are famous and acclaimed, others utterly obscure. Some are classical, most are pop. The list of recordings that Ghost Echoes will focus on throughout its run is already decided and set in stone, having been chosen in accordance with the podcast’s non-negotiable rules, of which there are three: 1. REDACTED, 2. REDACTED, and 3. The first two rules are secret.</p><p><br/></p><p>These rules lead Ghost Echoes down countless historical side streets and blind alleys where it departs from music entirely and passes by Victorian booze palaces, angry Ontarian proletariats, inscrutable paintings about the space race, demolished movie theatres, drunk people, exceedingly large oval rugs, unlikely origin stories of venerable educational institutions, Charlie Brown cartoons, and conspiracy theories about extrajudicial assassinations by MI5.</p><p><br/></p><p>Ghost Echoes is the story of music -- and everything else</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
This podcast updates daily.
- Where can I listen to this podcast?
This podcast is available on 4 platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. You can also use the RSS feed directly.
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