Description:	CD on Ghost Box Records
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Electronica / IDM
	Label:	Ghost Box
	Price:	£11.09
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5
...according to our Phil on 14 March 2008.

First up is The Advisory Circle on Ghost Box with their brand new CD called 'Other Channels'. This is some pretty cool alaogue sounding electronics and the whole thing sounds like the incidental bits you get in between the proper songs on Boards Of Canada albums. Its like 70's learning program music.... anyone seen Look Around You? Its fucking great anyway. If Trunk released new records instead of novelty reissues or jewish jazz then they should be releasing records like this. Apparently this style of music is called Hauntology which I've not heard of before until Mingus piped up from his enormous beard. Hauntology makes me think of mad scouse 'length' from Most Haunted so I really can't take that seriously. Some may call this 'easy listening' and I guess it is easy on the ear but I reckon it's far from easy listening. A great trip through nostalgia accompanied by a 70's sounding analog organ and a clever use of samples. One of the best electronic albums I've heard in ages and it reminds me of Tandy electronics which isn't something I've not thought about in a long time.

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Sound clips for Other Channels by The Advisory Circle: on CD at Norman Records UK. CD, Ghost Box, GBX010, £11.09.

What their label says...

The Advisory Circle - Other Channels

The long awaited New album from The Advisory Circle will be avaialable 10th March - Pre-order now.

More timely advice on issues such as domestic isolation, tranquilliser addiction and the nuclear threat. Sumptuous booklet art by Julian House and beautifully evocative liner notes by Ken Hollings complement what we feel to be the strongest Ghost Box release so far.

Light synthesiser melodies and moments of surreal humour float in a drift of pastoral melancholia and fuzzy music concrete. Fragments of public information broadcasting are filtered through the distorting lens of prescription tranquillisers. Malicious gossip becomes jumbled and confused with continuity announcements.

This is very much an album in the Ghost Box cannon. Track titles and musical elements echo fragments of lore and landscape alluded to in earlier releases. From the kitchen sink, the album’s protaganist stares out forlornly at the modernist public library outlined against the ancient bulk of Belbury hill.

The album in complemented by a booklet, lavishly illustrated in the Ghost Box style by Julian House. Beautifully evocative liner notes by writer, broadcaster and journalist Ken Hollings set the music in a context of domestic and cold war paranoia and the kind of neuroses explored in RD Laing’s Self and Others.

The Advisory Circle is one of many aliases of recording artist, Jon Brooks. Brooks has also released material for Lo Recordings under the name of King of Woolworths and as Georges Vert. Another project, The Jon Brooks Quartet has
recently completed a remix for Swedish pop-princess Sally Shapiro. Current collaborative projects include Black Mustang (with Jon Tye, head of Lo Recordings) and Woodbines & Spiders (with Moon Wiring Club visionary Ian Hodgson).

Based in rural Derbyshire, Brooks is a modest and reclusive individual, but is well known and respected by many as a talented composer of both commercial and library music, an experienced studio engineer, analogue synthesiser boffin, library music officianado and ornithologist

CD Album

1.         The Advisory Circle - Callsign 'A' - The TV Trap
2.         The Advisory Circle - Civil Defence Is Common Sense
3.         The Advisory Circle - Mogadon Coffee Morning
4.         The Advisory Circle - Sundial
5.         The Advisory Circle - Swinscoe Episode 1 - 'Enter Swinscoe'
6.         The Advisory Circle - Celebrate Michaelmas NOW!
7.         The Advisory Circle - Fire, Damp & Air
8.         The Advisory Circle - Frozen Ponds PIF
9.         The Advisory Circle - Erosion Of Time
10.         The Advisory Circle - A Clear Yarn Warning
11.         The Advisory Circle - Keep Warm, Keep Well
12.         The Advisory Circle - Eyes Which Are Swelling
13.         The Advisory Circle - Hocusing For Beginners
14.         The Advisory Circle - The Coastguard
15.         The Advisory Circle - Swinscoe Episode 2 - 'Release The Birds'
16.         The Advisory Circle - Farmland, Freeland
17.         The Advisory Circle - Everyday Electronics
18.         The Advisory Circle - The Old Schoolhouse
19.         The Advisory Circle - Callsign 'B' - Freeland Logotone