TRACK LISTING FOR SURPRISE! THE GHOSTS

1 4D CONSCIENCE
2 SHOALS
3 WITHOUT SOUL
4 FUGUE OF THE FOREST
5 JUST WORDS
6 THE FUNCTION OF A STRUCTURE
7 INTERMISSION (WITHOUT SHOALS)
8 ARISE

This album is partly dedicated to God Speed You Black Emprorer

SHOALS    ( Surprise The Ghosts EP)

WITHOUT SOUL   SURPRISE! THE GHOSTS EP on Bandcamp

From Arise Fair Sun And Kill The Envious Moon - Out now on Bandcamp

(Envious Moon) The Awareness Draws The Line from new album

I recently read the beginning of the great story - BFG to my 3 year old - this moment always sticks in my mind - the moment where a shocked Sophie spies the mysterious actions of a giant person across the street. She later finds out that this giant is a gentle and kind soul who catches beautiful dreams and blows them into peoples rooms at night...........this track is about that moment where she first sees the giant........an imagined soundtrack.....

(Envious Moon)The Giver Of Dreams    -  Sophie's first glimpse of the BFG in the moonlight.......

Ahead of next weeks release - here is the opening track to the new record.

Cover Art by the wonderful Kiyoshi Yamashita.

(Envious Moon) Lord Ping Returns () Opening Track from newest album

2nd Track from the new album by Zeitghoul.

The cover art is by the artist Kiyoshi Yamashita, whom this
album is partly dedicated to. 

(Envious Moon) All At Once And All Alone  -   0ut Now On Bandcamp

The ' no fear' is the reversed  sound of 'everyone'  - which makes perfect sense in a way - the word somehow containing what is right now an important message in these times where our values for each other are being tested in such horrible ways ........I just thought it has something of Where is Yesterday? about it lyrically(by The United States of America, 1969), which for me is also a huge, very important influence...and like in the late 60s, the message seemed important for the feel of the times where things spiral out of control seemingly........... these kinds of message are important for people to hear......this hopefully is a little bit of sunshine on a rainy day musically for some people. Yes I am hugely influenced by psychedelic rock and also likes of Ravi Shankar and Yann Tiersen, but for me the journey here contains fragments of a much needed hopeful message.....all the stronger for the minimal and straight forward approach of the lyric against the layering motif......ergo I intend no bullshit ....apart from the word ergo of course....A tune Id written when I got my first mini casio at the age of 9 - it used to have really cheesy lyrics in time with tune- here they are

EVERYONE
LIFE IS FUN
EVERYONE
EVERYONE LIFE IS FUN, FUN FOR YOU AND ME
EVERYBODY NEEDS SOME FUN< SOME FUN SOME FUN,SOME FUN,
EVERYONE.

Hardly that poetically advanced  -but maybe 9 year old innocence does not need over embelished prose -I stripped them down to just the title and really tried to create a textural journey with the the sound 'palindrome'.
This has meant something to me for over 25 years . Sometimes less is more....so I will stop talkin....

Out now on the new album - ARISE FAIR SUN AND KILL THE ENVIOUS MOON available to download on Bandcamp.

The Eiffel Tower artwork is by Kiyoshi Yamashita, who along with the peoples of this great city, this album is partly dedicated to.

(Fair Sun) Everyone [No Fear]  FREE FOREVER DOWNLOAD TRACK

This track is dedicated to the wonderful four tet - you will hopefully see why part way through - short and sweet and to the point this little gem is the third track from Arise Fair Sun And Kill The Envious Moon .....out now on Bandcamp

Think Waves in moonlight off the Dorset coast.........

(Envious Moon) Moonbow And Arrow

When I paint or doodle, there usually be clouds. Feel free to analyse the meaning of this.

(Fair Sun) All My Clouds Are Raining

Inspired at first by the idea / dream / cycle of music being signposts in time.....like AD or BC.....I wrote a poem about this....of the same name......hence the title......... For me one of those albums was Radiohead's Ok COmputer - the other was Paranoid by Black Sabbath.........maybe the album is a different one for you.....anyway this EP is mostly instrumental...but I will mix the song version of all the tracks sometime.....so you can here the words.....for now, hope you like some of these sounds..........

Shimmering EP

The World As It Is Post Ok Computer

From the  TIme Writer Collection EP by Zeitghoul - FUGUE SYSTEM

The Time Writer Collection Vol 2: FUGUE SYSTEM

After Escher - The Time Writer Collection Vol.2:  FUGUE SYSTEM (Free download version)

I wrote the original Lemon Tree Poem in dedication to the human beings living refugee camps in the Middle East - One refugee camp, Zaatari, has now become a town, and in that town is a man who has tried to recreate his garden from home, and in that garden in the middle of the desert is his Lemon Tree. Life has to find a way....civilization grows has to find a way...........this is my surreal zeitghouly, hope I dont sound too silly, way of expressing my admiration for these people....these true survivors who are trying their hardest every day to rebuild and remember their lives so that they can feel they have a community to be proud of........

A Lemon Tree - The Time Writer Collection Vol.2:  FUGUE SYSTEM FREE DOWNLOAD SOUNDCLOUD ONLY!

The title once more comes from my recent writings - The Ideas of Others is one of my many references / dedications to things which pop up in my work which I enjoy identifying sometimes - and in hindsight i think might influence my own sound - in this case the likes of Portishead sprang to mind when I finished editing this track - and as a Bristol born sound engineer I thought it right on this occassion to point out how important my birth place and things going on there have been to me even though I have not lived there in a long time........
this opener to my latest record sets the mood but like each track on their own has its own twisted, unique zeitghouly experimental merits -
Hear all of FUGUE SYSTEM on Bandcamp

The Time Writer Collection Volume 2: FUGUE SYSTEM

The Ideas Of Others - from Time Writer Collection Vol2

Opening track - used in a  film called The Lotus Eaters.

The most cohesive and produced of the albums until last years Arise Fair Sun and Kill The Envious Moon album. Without Insects We Are DEad was partially inspired by watching a David Attenburrough insect show in a pub one sunny afternoon in New Cross..........

Stuck Up The Up free single (from Without Insects We Are Dead)

Hear the whole triple single from new album Haunted By Spirals (*Asleep \ Awake \ Aware! \ Apart*)on zeitghouls bandcamp page....
1 Impression Recreated (from Asleep*)
2 The Molecules Fall In Love (From Apart)
3 The Grace In You (from Aware!)

Impression Recreated Triple Single   from Haunted By Spirals free on Bandcamp

THis is part of track 1 , Asleep*, from new album HAUNTED BY SPIRALS due for independent release on Bandcamp summer 2017.

The album consists of 5 roughly 15 minute tracks. 
1. Asleep*
2. Awake!
3. Aware*
4 Apart...
5 Alarmed!!

It is all original acoustic work by Zeitghoul placed in a almost God SPeed You inspired/influenced setting ----in other words, from the heart, where no words reside....

Asleep* (excerpt from track 1 of Haunted By Spirals by Zeitghoul)

The opener to new album HAUNTED BY SPIRALS
Release date JULY 1st - on Bandcamp
I would say this is my true voice - the irony being you don't hear it at all this time....time.....time.......time.........
Tracks are
1 (That's Right!) Prologue 
2 Asleep*
3 Awake!
4 Aware*
5 Apart...
6 Alarmed!! (Secret Epilogue)

Haunted By Spirals (Asleep*Awake!Aware*Apart...)

(That's Right!) Prologue   -  Haunted By Spirals Free Download on Bandcamp track - click buy link

A little look back on one of my favorite, most rockygrungy song tracks from 2011. Feels kind of now for lots of reasons....Available on Bandcamp.

Apart from the nice bits
We dont get along
My surface is your surface
We reflect each other
But remain separate mirrors
separate worlds
Neither takes the other
Never will the gap  be crossed
Light moves off both of us
Penetrates our visions
But we only see eachother
Not ourselves
Convert light to sound
Keep your feet on the ground
As the breeze blows around us
I begin to play the theme
To the beginning of time

Lyrics from Not Ourselves
From the album Surrounded By The Surrounded, ZeitGhoul 2011
Copyright ZeitGhoul 2011

Surrounded By The Surrounded (2014 ZEITGHOUL Re-issue)

Not Ourselves (The Theme To The Beginning of Time)2011 by ZeitGhoul

This is one of my fave sections of the latest record - a lot of the acoustic riffs on Haunted By Spirals were instinctual, but later were used to compose more structured soundscapes - this track from the ending soundscape of the album, contains elements of riffs Id been playing with three strings for several years at the time.....alot of the riffs are like familiar spirits to me.....and they sometimes pop up in my playing for a chat.......

Haunted By Spirals

Alarmed (Excerpt From Track 5 Haunted By Spirals 2017)

A free download instrumental version of the track Roar You Bastards! from ZeitGhoul and Lady Claws The Mountain.
The complete album available now on Bandcamp
https://zeitghoulandladyclawsthemountain.bandcamp.com/album/beginning-with-sky

So Many Fragments....Phase1

Roar You Bastards! (Instrumental)Free Download - outtake from Beginning With Sky album 2019

This track is on one of my played often personal guitar riffs - Drama Creep - sped up and chopped and reformed several times over the last decade - it's newest form very much capturing the 'zeit' of the Zeitghoul. The centre track on the record, I think for a lo fi doodle like usual it captures some kind of filmic atmospheric form, just what exactly it is that I love about these textures remains a mystery, but its there quite strongly here.... Having recently met some members of the band who inspired alot of my earlier more folky musical experiments, years later I can hear their influence, but also a fully formed strongly experimental personal identity with sound....

D. C. (stereo)  from Mirrors Of The Speaker

This is the first final version of a track from the forthcoming new album by ZeitGhoul called Beginning With Sky.
The album is a mixture of electronic, acoustic, blues, soundscape poetry and funk and the first with Lady Claws The Mountain.
The album artwork is a still from Alice In The Cities by Wim Wenders
Beginning With Sky out 30th January.

Track List
1 Our Magnetic Skylines Return
2 These Are Landscapes
3 The Road That Followed
4 The Writer Of Is
5 Compact Dusks
6 Roar You Bastards!
7 Death Of Stories
8 So Many Fragments
9 Karma Becomes
10 At The End Of This Skyline
11 Waves Gloom Universe Emptied

Beginning With Sky

The Road That Followed by ZeitGhoul

You can download the instrumental version here on soundcloud free - see further down track list (Roar You Bastards (instrumental.)
Check out the full album via bandcamp link.

This track is a textural call to creative arms in a way....by the sound of it....though Im never really sure.....as each of my tracks are all like subconcious paintings in the end....Z March 2019

Roar You Bastards! (Final Album Edit)

Beginning With Sky now available on Bandcamp.
All my tracks on Soundcloud are free downloads so please share.
You can purchase whole albums via my Bandcamp link. Cheersy.

I have also just published the remastered krautrock inspired 2009 album Mirrors Of The Speaker - Inspired alot by Cluster's Zuckerzeit / Faust Tapes, That record was always intended as my loving soundscape letter to them. And now sounds even better in stereo mode...available on Bandcamp now.

Mountain artwork by Kiyoshi Yamashita

ZeitGhoul&LadyClaws THe Mountain DISCOGRAPHY
Beginning With Sky, Jan 2019

ZeitGhoul (and Three Strings On My Guitar)DISCOGRAPHY

Album 10 Mirrors Of The Speaker (stereo/remix) Dec 2018

Album 9 Haunted By Spirals (Asleep*Awake!Aware*Apart...)
3 string guitar soundscapes available now on Bandcamp

Album 8 The Time Writer Collection: Shimmering Fugue (EP Version 2016)
The Time Writer Collection Vol 2: FUGUE SYSTEM (Long play version 2016) 
The TIme Writer Collection Vol 1: SHIMMERING EP(Long play version 2016)

Album 7 ARISE FAIR SUN AND KILL THE ENVIOUS MOON (2015) 

Album 6  SURPRISE THE GHOSTS  EP(2013) 

Album 5  Moonfish (2012)

Album 4  SURROUNDED BY THE SURROUNDED (2011)

Album 3  WITHOUT INSECTS WE ARE DEAD (2010) 

Album 2  SIMPLE FADES (2009)

Album 1   THE CHILL RETURNS (2008)     

OTHER MEDIA
Lotus Eaters soundtrack, director Alexandra McGuinnes, 2011
Track - Stuck Up The Up from  WITHOUT INSECTS WE ARE DEAD!
by Zeitghoul, 2010, With permission of the artist

The Chill -  Next To New X Gate
On South Facing compilation, 
Kennington Recordings 2009
Download on Amazon

Reflection (In The Mirror Of The Speaker)
from Mirrors Of The Speaker,
Animation by Sam Wilson, 2009
See link above

ZeitGhoul & Lady Claws The Mountain

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