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Ghost Against Ghost-Checkpoint Charlie (Naguchi/Bono Remix)

Cristopher Bono

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BACKSTORY

While in the midst of completing production on the upcoming Ghost Against Ghost concept album, Oia, Ghost Against Ghost front man Christopher Bono was unexpectedly struck by a close, personal tragedy in the spring of 2014 forcing him back into the writing studio to process this new trauma through music.

Over the following months, Christopher reflected on the confusion and internal conflict that results when the life we knew and accepted as true and stable is ripped apart by disturbing revelations of a shocking betrayal and a pandora’s box of dark, misaligned secrets.

How is it that we manage meaning, purpose and sanity when we’re blown back and forth between polarized but mutual, co-existent emotional states such as love and hate, right and wrong, innocence and guilt?

How is it that simultaneously, unconditional love could be met by ultimate and unspeakable betrayal, and undeterred selflessness by blatant selfishness?

Is there a space of resolution where our primal-animal instincts find peace with our ancient desire for moral resolution?

At what point does a broken psyche move beyond the threshold of possible reconciliation? Is it possible, or worthwhile, to transcend this point and forgive beyond all limits?

How does “love” meet betrayal, at what point does the clinging to the concept of “love’” constitute self-abuse?

Where does one turn when you realize the majority of your life’s story and memories were built upon layers upon layers of falsehoods, that the ones you trusted most turned against you long ago?

It was in this nightmarish, paradoxical web of unanswerable questions that the roots of the Still Love album drew life. To dig further into the heart of the experience, Christopher based the lyrical point of view from that of the female victim.

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The “still love EP” is the first EP in a series that will make up Ghost Against Ghost’s first large scale, hour long conceptual album. Though still firmly believing in the full, cohesive album experience, Ghost Against Ghost realized and understood that the large scale media is harder to comprehend and digest in the current digital era.

Therefore, this first album is being released in movement-like fragments, in order to encourage focus on the individual sound worlds and themes of each section of the full record. Then, when the final full length is released on vinyl along with the last few missingpieces, the whole vision will be processed.

This first EP from this series, “still love”, was conceived as one continuous, 17 minute work or movement. However, in order to present it to listeners accustomed to differing listening environments, the EP presents the full ‘movement’ as one continuous track as well as several partial tracks so specific points in the piece can be played on demand.

Ghost Against Ghost will release two more EPsfollowing “still love” over the next 4 months, leading up to the hour long epic full length featuring the final unreleased pieces as well as the previously released EPs on special edition vinyl, accompanied by a tour.

still love (instrumental)

still love (Complete)

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