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Ghost Ensemble / Catherine Lamb LP interius/exterius 5/2025, greyfade
"a breathtaking collaboration that expands the boundaries of harmonic perception ... a vast, resonant world of sound, where every listening reveals infinite layers of beauty" Don Haugen, Igloo
“magical and serene ... masterfully interpreted and executed by Ghost Ensemble … a transcendent, macrocosmic perspective” Christian Kriegeskotte, I Care If You Listen
"robust, engaging ... a rare union of compositional brilliance and strength in execution" Joseph Neff, The Vinyl District
"it’s like you can feel the sound inhaling and exhaling, especially in the Pauline Oliveros-inspired playing of accordionist Ben Richter." Marc Masters, Bandcamp Best Experimental
Rewild CD with Ghost Ensemble 10/2024, New World Records
"gorgeous … arresting … serene, slowly unfolding shapes … lingering, unspooling and evading time … suggesting an eternal process that we’ve just dropped into for 50 minutes" Peter Margasak, Bandcamp Best Contemporary Classical
Aurogeny 2CD — accordion, string quartet, & ensemble works 12/2023, Infrequent Seams
"epic symphony of accordion mastery ... some of the most powerful experimental music of the last 12 months or more" Noel Gardner, Buzz
"consistently fascinating ... mysterious ... pulsating, scintillating music is realised brilliantly ... with momentous results" Julian Cowley, The Wire
Dissolution Seedlings CD with House on Fire 1/2025, Sawyer Editions
"sensitive sonic vision … stretching between the conscious and the unconscious, the clear and the unfathomable, the tangible and the nebulous, all with a certain dose of mystery" Predrag Vlahovic
New cassette on Blue Tapes — ambient accordion works 3/2025
"likely to offer a profound impact on the very nature of listening."
— Stephen Smoliar, The Rehearsal Studio
"cloudy, mysterious, and dark ... Beckettian in its slow spread"
— Brian Olewnick, Just Outside
"a multifaceted texture that evokes the primeval"
— Meg Wilhoite, Meg's New Music Blog
"gargantuan, glacially paced ... sprawling, fantastic"
— HypIreStition Ruins
"a look, perhaps, into a different dimension … the music sounds like something incomprehensibly massive is passing by, slowly."
— George Grella, The New York Classical Review
"immense magnitude … frequencies melting your very walls … areas of sonic dynamism that work their trembling magic … shiver me timbres"
— Darren Bergstein, Downtown Music Gallery
The Process Podcast with Doug Bielmeier, discussing Rewild
the Infuse podcast: Ben Richter re-accorde son accordéon pour jouer avec la microtonalité
15 Questions interview with Tobias Fischer (text)
PRXLUDES interview with Zygmund de Somogyi (text)
KCBX Arts Beat: Ghost Ensemble's "Sensuous Sounds" interview with Melanie Senn and Sky Macklay (text/audio)
Other Minds Podcast: Ghost Ensemble interview with Joseph Bohigian and Sky Macklay (audio)
SURROUNDSCAPES: The Future of Music interview with Graeme Harrison (audio)
Ben Richter is a composer, accordionist, and founding director of Ghost Ensemble.
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