Temple Stone

Description

Ghost's sacred sounds come to us from early-90s Japan. The collective, clearly inspired by various forms of transcendental music throughout history, forged a new syncretic psychedelia with their first three albums, blending the texture and dynamics of traditional musics, with ancient plucked string instruments and the haunting wail of a recorder in addition to their powerhouse rhythms and guitars. Ghost's first three records — Ghost (1990), Second Time Around (1992) and Temple Stone (1994) — were originally issued by P.S.F. on CD. Drag City quickly reissued all three discs on vinyl — and they've stayed out of print for 25 years. Of Ghost's twenty-year history, these first three albums can be called primitive Ghost — somewhat like a German Os Mutantes (or perhaps a Brazilian Amon Düül). The first two studio records, each an iteration of Ghost's uniquely lysergic folk music, were followed by the monolithic live-recorded-at-various-locations Temple Stone, which significantly upped the trippiness.