GHOST WORLDS (ANIMAL RITES)
by Avant Kinema / Undertoad
soundtrack album for Avant Kinema's
Expanded Cinema Performance of the
same name (Alchemy Film and Moving
Image Festival, Hawick, 2018)
"The epic 24 minute long Ghost Worlds (Animal Rights), a gorgeous collaboration with Newcastle musician Neil Coles, aka Undertoad... is like listening to pillows of clouds floating over a zen garden while the Cocteau Twins' Liz Frazer gently ululates in the background. The first twenty minutes is so calming it should be available on prescription for stress and anxiety, one listen and you'll be so chilled your friends will think you've swallowed the Little Book of Calm. However as you hit the twenty minute mark everything gets a little more edgy and sinister as Sarahjane's unique vocals come more to the fore finally reaching a crescendo that sounds like they've opened Pandora's box to find it full of the inhabitants of the seventh circle of hell..." - Paul Kerr, The Devil Has The Best Tuna
Ghost Worlds (Animal Rites) is a collaboration between Newcastle-born Handpan player, Undertoad (aka Neil Coles), and Scottish Borders based artist-filmmakers & indie/alternative musicians, Avant Kinema (Sarahjane Swan & Roger Simian, who also create music as The Bird And The Monkey).
The music was composed to soundtrack Avant Kinema's 25 minute long Expanded Cinema Performance, part of Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival's Celebrate Super 8 event at the Auld Baths, Hawick (Friday 4th May 2018). The track's evolution began with Undertoad creating an improvised Handpan jam. To this recording the duo then added their own musical elements: Sarahjane Swan's voice and Roger Simian's instrumentation.
The album is available to download from The Bird And The Monkey's Bandcamp page.
