Julie Tippetts & Martin Archer - Ghosts of Gold

A truly beautiful release - 10 of Julie Tippetts' songs / poems in settings ranging from beats to pure abstraction.

Working with Martin Archer always gives an inspiring kind of freedom within his extraordinary soundscapes. His structures on this album provide perfect settings for this selection of texts, drawn from an anthology of poetry written between 1994 - 2004, opening wide all doors with his particular flavour combinations, and yet indicating to me, almost instantly, the precise choice of poems for each piece. To use track 8 as an example, Martin brought this wonderful ingredient to the pot as an after-thought on our last day of recording. I went straight to the text, and within minutes was in front of the mic, and Rainsong was born. No rehearsal, no prior thought or decisions, and yet it gives the impression of being a structured composition. That's what I love about working in this way. The magic of the unexpected. - Julie Tippetts.

Archer's studio savvy and and imaginative electronics place Tippetts in musical situations unlike anything she has previously embraced.....Her voice becomes part of the arrangements too, multiplied and blended with Archer's electroacoustic soundscapes to create evocative contexts for her words, vivid yet strange, like scenes viewed in moonlight. - Julian Cowley, WIRE

Tippett's organic fluidity contrasts with Archer's digitised dreamscapes, suggesting a pagan Portishead. - Stewart Lee, SUNDAY TIMES

Julie Tippetts - voice, percussion
Martin Archer - laptop, woodwind, keyboards