Ghosting (band)

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Ghosting was a German music formation founded in 1989 by Sascha Tayefeh. The band's early works are assigned to the dark wave environment due to the perceived general mood . Since the second half of the 1990s, Tayefeh moved primarily in the Goa trance environment.

history

The band was founded in Koblenz in 1989 and disbanded in 2003 . The use of synthesizers in combination with classical composition techniques was a defining feature of the style. The band's creative period can be stylistically divided into four clearly distinguishable phases:

After the band was founded until 1991, the Ambient-Experimental phase mainly produced melancholic and sustaining pieces that can best be assigned to the early works of Coil , Dead Can Dance and Fad Gadget . The pieces convey atmospheres and moods, comparable to the modern ambient .

From 1992 to 1995, the classicistic phase , with the album Songs From Fairyland (1994) and the purely instrumental album Enter My Crypt (1995) that followed, the influence of classical, but above all romantic, composition techniques reached their climax. The reinterpretation of the song Revelge from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Mahler) is a clear indication of the preference for romanticism .

In the following commercial phase until 1996, with the change to a larger label, the style became more popular and both classical and ambient style elements faded into the background. The albums Lips Like Red ( 1995 ) and L'etat c'est moi ( 1996 ) fall during this period . A four year creative break followed.

After the creative break, the technoid phase followed from 2000 until the band split in 2003 , which was characterized by clear influences of techno , mixed with all previously used composition techniques.

Discography

  • 1989: Secret Books (Tape / Ghosting Office)
  • 1990: Black Romantic I (Tape / No Control Torture)
  • 1991: Black Romantic II (Tape / Glasnost Rec.)
  • 1992: Enter My Crypt (Tape / Glasnost Rec.)
  • 1992: Pure Romantic (Ghosting Office)
  • 1992: Paranoia (Single / Glasnost Rec. / EFA)
  • 1993: Romantic Death (Album / Glasnost Rec. / EFA)
  • 1994: Songs From Fairyland (Album / Glasnost Rec. / EFA)
  • 1995: Enter My Crypt (Album / Glasnost Rec. / EFA)
  • 1995: Lips Like Red (Album / Synthetic_Symphony / SPV )
  • 1996: L'etat c'est moi (Album / Synthetic_Symphony / SPV)
  • 2001: The Magical Pulse (Album / Alice in ... / Nova Media)
  • 2002: Disguised In Black (Album / Alice in ... / Nova Media)
  • 2019: Remake Sessions (Album / Absolution.NYC)