As Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares did two decades ago, Ghostophonia offers a new generation a way to expand their sonic horizons. The difference between this release and Le Mystère is that Silent Strike and Makunouchi Bento are not aiming for the mainstream; their musical archaeology is centered on intrigue. Read more...

Ascutînd această muzică, eu unul am avut senzația că e vorba de fapt de o comuniune stranie aici, pentru că melodiile culese de Bartók și construcțiile sonore pe care Silent Strike și Makunouchi Bento le așează peste ele, în văluri dense de sunete, par să fi fost făcute dintotdeauna unele pentru altele, astfel încît am putea crede că cei trei nu au făcut altceva decît să descopere asta, acum, absolut întâmplător. Read more...

For this material, they created an immersive and multilayered journey that blends old sounds with modern equipment and techniques, bringing forward a mind-bending approach to music which has been almost forgotten in the mists of time. From complex drones and otherworldly textures to deep static insertions, grainy vocal samples and abstract percussive elements, this LP has all it takes to become a classic release for the Romanian experimental music culture. Read more...

Once the first layer is deleted there is always deeper and more disturbing layers triggering further replays. Ghostophonia retrieves accidental analogue troubles and finally settles as an ubiquitous enlivened visitor ghost-guest house. Ghostophonia will be one of the albums of the year because it eschews high cultural fidelity and still stays true to its source material. Read more...

Getting inspiration from the invisible and mysterious they have managed to reassemble ghostly shades and hyper-realistic flickers with the assistance of more or less traditional sounds. [...] For the reviewer here it is the first notch from the new decade to be truly worthwhile. Read more...

The induced-state of the project is one of an imaginary soundtrack for a movie that will never be.. so you have to dream it yourself. Apart from the ghostly voices, you can hear lots of bass-heavy percussions, various bells, glitches, and ambient atmospheres. The sound surprises the listener by its diversity, everything changes not only from one song to another but also inside each track. Read more...

That’s where the real ghosts come in, as some of those voices are threaded throughout this album’s tracks in subtle ways that enhance the “goings on.” This is done skillfully without relying too heavily on the old recordings, so it doesn’t turn into a nostalgia trip. Read more...

Sun Falls Silent: Interesting mix of styles. Very attractive sounds. This is high on the creativity spectrum, although not an easy listen. I like the processed vocals. It's a little hard to review because it's so leftfield, what to judge it by? I like the denseness of it and the mix of found objects. There's sense in the chaos somehow. Nice work.

I've been enjoying listening to this while wanding around the sodden countryside.

Interpretations of Romanian folk music as collected by Bela Bartók on phonograph cylinders... A collaboration between Romanian glitch/electroacoustic/ambient duo Makunouchi Bento and an artist I’m not familiar with, Silent Strike. Unidentifiable ambient washes with delicate, spidery tree branches of sound, ghostly voices drifting in and out... Heavy winter vibes... Read more...