Ghosting – The Order Of Things (Album – Alice In… / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave, Gothic, Cinematic.
Format: Digital.
Background/Info: Two years ago now Sascha Tayefeh reactivated Ghosting. A few new tracks were released, but the main attention went to compilations. “The Order Of Things” brings five new cuts.
Content: The EP features 2 distinguishable parts. You first will discover 2 songs, which might find their place on dancefloors. Typically Ghosting mixes electronics with supportive guitar playing and the unique voice of Sascha on top. We next get instrumental, evasive, pieces supported by beautiful, retro-like, string parts.
+ + + : The EP sounds pretty retro-like. You get the impression Ghosting never stopped composing new stuff. The title song followed by “Upright” both are cool songs mixing melody, power, drama and dance. I even prefer “Upright” to “The Order Of Things” for its extra dancefloor approach.
– – – : The Ballad/Cinematic style bring some evasive moments, but rather sounds like B-side songs. The EP is maybe missing an absolute ‘hit’, but Ghosting still is definitely back composing cool music you can’t compare to other bands.
Conclusion: Ghosting remains a very unique sound experience in the German Wave/Gothic scene; a band with a proper sound DNA and which isn’t affected by the weight of time.
Best songs: “Upright”, “The Order Of Things”.
Rate: 8.
Artist: www.facebook.com/Ghosting.Office
Label: www.darkdimensions.de / www.facebook.com/pages/Dark-Dimensions-Label-Group/486014725206
About Ghosting
Ghosting was formed in 1989 in Koblenz, Germany, by Sascha Tayefeh and Andreas Rudel, both fifteen at the time. The group drew on the British post-punk scene and moved through several line-ups, among them Diana Rappauer on vocals, Thomas Nilges on guitar, Wolfgang Cornet on keyboards and Stefan Noll on bass between 1992 and 1996.
Releases from that period include the self-released “Secret Books” (1989) and “Brave New World” (1990), “Black Romantic” (1991) and “Enter My Crypt” (1992) on Ghosting Office, “Romantic Death” (1993) and “Songs From Fairyland” (1994) on Glasnost Records, “Lips Like Red” (1995) and “Der Magische Puls” (2001). The band paused between 1996 and 1999 and stopped in 2003.
Tayefeh reactivated the name around 2020 and runs it as a solo project. The Alice In… / Dark Dimensions release “Black Pearls” collects early songs reworked and remastered. Tayefeh reviewed the band’s history in the ‘Click Interview’ with Ghosting, published by Side-Line on 6 June 2022. “The Order Of Things” is a digital EP of five new tracks.
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