New 2CD AUROGENY out now — accordion, string quartet, & ensemble works
"consistently fascinating ... pulsating, scintillating music is realised brilliantly ... momentous results" Julian Cowley, The Wire
"epic symphony of accordion mastery ... some of the most powerful experimental music of the last 12 months or more" Noel Gardner, Buzz
"gargantuan, glacially paced, sprawling, fantastic" hypirestition ruins
UPCOMING EVENTS
2024
Summer 2024 Europe Tour
Portent of Laramidia and more
July 29 :: London, UK
Machaut Mashup
with Lore Lixenberg & Federico Reuben
July 30 :: Antwerp, BE
Private event
Aug. 2 :: Halle, DE
with Hannes Lingens & Susanne Stock
(three accordions!)
Berlin, DE
info coming soon!
OUT NOW
:: Ghost Ensemble recording of James Ilgenfritz's Apophenia V (Infrequent Seams)
COMING SOON
:: Rewild album with Ghost Ensemble on New World Records
:: Blue Tapes album with previously unreleased accordion works
:: Dissolution Seedlings album with House On Fire Trio
:: Exploratory LP with Phill Niblock (Matière Mémoire)
:: Ghost Ensemble recording of Catherine Lamb's interius/exterius
:: New accordion works for Ben by Nomi Epstein, Michael Pisaro, and Carolyn Chen
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)
"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
"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
Ben Richter is a composer, accordionist, and founding director of Ghost Ensemble.