Ghost Plays For Mr. S.

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Album Info

Release Date: 1974

Label: Gramophone

"This recording was composed and performed by Eric Ghost, with empathy for Mr. S, who is currently imprisoned for what today's society has defined as a felony. The loss of physical freedom is always hard to endure, and it can only be hoped that the music on this disc can set the listener's mind free." R. Spurgin, Psi-Chord Studios, Vancouver, B.C.

This recording was recorded on four track, 1/2 inch, 3M-206 tape using a Scully recorder and was mastered to 1/4 inch on an Ampex 351-2 machine. The disc was transferred on a Neumann cutter in accordance with the R.I.A.A. curve and is compatible with mono and stereo.

"This beautiful, free-flowing music of Eric E. Ghost will say all kinds of different things to all the different people who hear him - after all, each of us is unique.
When there are as many of us as there are, all trying to get along together and get our things together, truth becomes a rare and valuable thing. Our society is like anything that lives. It's pretty complex, and if it loses its ability to inform itself internally and externally, the result is a kind of illness. In a human nervous system when internal communication distorts or breaks down, you get things like Parkinson's Disease or St. Vitus Dance or catatonia or even complete paralysis.
And when the deeper, more aware part of the nervous system learns that there's trouble, it sends out an emergency signal that comes out as a powerful overall wave - doctors call it an "excitation clang" - for each nerve, cell and organ to pick up and interpret on its own terms.
I think we're hearing something like that, in this bigger "body" we're all part of, in Eric E. Ghost's music. I remember Zappa's "Big Note" theory about all of the different sounds and vibrations being ripples on one single Big Note. But that was just a theory. In this free-form utterance of Eric's I think I'm hearing the Big Note in actuality, complete with all the sub-vibes and everything.
I know the original intention is a personal, friendship thing, and we're sort of listening in on something quite private. But the signal is too urgent to remain private, and besides nothing is really all that private anyway. So I just want Eric to know that I'm hearing him, in my own way, and I'm getting a message.
Thanks, Eric - we needed that."
Bill Phillips