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01. Jules Reidy - Every Day There's a Sunset
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02. Jules Reidy - Interlude I
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03. Jules Reidy - Satellite
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04. Jules Reidy - To Breathe Lightning
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05. Jules Reidy - Ghost
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06. Jules Reidy - Breaks
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07. Jules Reidy - Search Light
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08. Jules Reidy - Every Day There's a Sunrise
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09. Jules Reidy - Spirit
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10. Jules Reidy - Maybe
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11. Jules Reidy - Interlude II
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12. Jules Reidy - Letter
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13. Jules Reidy - Splits the Light
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ARTIST
REIDY, JULES
TITLE
Ghost/Spirit
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
THRILL JOCKEY
CATALOG #
THRILL 618LP
THRILL 618LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
2/21/2025
LP version. "
Jules Reidy
's sublime music maps the human experience in glittering constellations of sound. The guitarist is a driver of Berlin's fertile contemporary music scene. A wide-eyed imagination combined with technical mastery guide each work in Reidy's extensive catalog, from solo guitar albums and collaborations with innovative peers, including recent works with
claire rousay
,
Oren Ambarchi
,
Andrea Belfi
, and
Sam Dunscombe
to major commissions from
JACK Quartet
and
Zinc & Copper
. The songs of
Ghost/Spirit
collectively convey an astral sense of yearning and wonder, pushing towards transcendence. The album charts a deeply personal journey with love, spirituality and transformation expressed in fractal guitar figures, ethereal vocal vapors and rippling microtones. Reidy's guitar approach unlocks the tonal and textural possibilities of the instrument from their use of alternate tunings and astute processing. The maximalist melodics of album opener 'Every Day There's a Sunset' are bolstered by rumbling bass samples from
Andreas Dzialocha
, Reidy's collaborator in the duo
Sun Kit
. On 'Satellite,' cello samples from
Judith Hamann
stretch out through the cosmos, orbited by spiraling finger-picked guitars, while stacked trombone chords echo out into the ether. Thundering drum samples from Berlin metal mainstay
Sara Neidorf
push the album to ecstatic peaks on 'Every Day There's a Sunrise,' fragmented rhythms breaking apart in the atmosphere. Field recordings of the Berlin S-Bahn recur throughout the album, another endless cycle of leaving and returning that shuttles beneath the album's whirling tones.
Ghost/Spirit
captures the inherent power and agency in choosing to offer yourself up to the universe and let go, ego death and prayer rendered in incandescent sonics. Reidy's inimitable skill as a guitarist, producer and composer is on full display, and when combined with the intensity of experience, the resulting album is a remarkable work of art.
"Jules Reidy is another musician transforming the capabilities of an instrument, in this case the guitar -- somewhere between
Vini Reilly
,
Glenn Branca
and
Kevin Shields
."
--
The Guardian
"You grasp for names that might fit Reidy's elusive emotional register, searching in vain for an affective Rosetta Stone. The music feels both warmly familiar and uncomfortably alien; therein lies its power."
--
Pitchfork
"Like looking through a tinted window then trying to adjust to the world's normal colours. It's brilliant."
--
The Quietus
"[Their] music offers an intricate sonic tapestry of fingerstyle guitar, found sounds and spectral electronic drone."
--
Crack
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