Description:	CD on Highpoint Lowlife in DVD style case, edition of 100 - one last copy!
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Drone / Kosmische
	Label:	Highpoint Lowlife
	Price:	£4.99
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

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...according to our Phil on 07 August 2008.

Onto Stray Ghost who have one of those limited CD's on Highpoint Lowlife which come in the DVD style case and it's limited to just 100 copies. Dangerously limited... frustratingly limited.... appallingly limited... disgustingly limited and even possibly disturbingly limited. I don't know. It's none of those things really. It's a CD pressed in a small amount as that's what labels have to do these days. Everything is shockingly limited aside from baz like Amy Winehouse albums and they're the things which should be terrifyingly limited. Anyhoo Stray Ghost makes a dark droney sounding album which I think is really tasty. The music is very glacial sounding.... well atmospheric and very beautiful in the sparseness. At times Losthilde may dwell on the doomy end of drone but it's not hard work at all. I think I might like this a lot.

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What their label says...

Following on from his earlier self-titled web-release on Highpoint Lowlife, Stray Ghost's "Losthilde" album is a slow burning dense combination of doom-laden ambient noise and delicate beauty.

An album in four musical movements, the pieces move from the tranquil, progressing through ever noisier elements towards a crescendo of over-driven textural feedback and minute sound detail. It's an elaborate journey of catharsis and exorcism born in the loneliness springing from separation. The opening chords of “There’s an ocean between us, part one” were the first to be written and set the tone for the entire album, which was recorded in chronological order, and follows to some degree a fictional narrative which mirrored Ant/Stray Ghost's personal state of mind at the time.

Etymology - "Saudade", the name of the two later pieces on the album, is a Portuguese term for a feeling of great separation, a longing for someone who is essential to your existence, and who is lost. It often carries a fatalist tone and a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might never return.

The title "Losthilde" is a portmanteau, which has no meaning, or indeed existence, outside of this usage, an amalgamation of "Lost" and "Mathilde" the latter being the name of Stray Ghost's "lost" partner.