The ghosts I have seen have left me cold and defensive. Why do they appear? So many people have been terrified by other ghosts. Millions see no ghosts at all; disputing their very existance.
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I begin the show with GILES CONRAD WATSON and his stunning performance of his song "The Ghostly Witness". Check it out on youtube as he sings it in an old cemetary!
| THE GHOSTLY WITNESS:
Annie Walker and her cousin Shared the self-same bed, She bore a child within her womb But he would not be wed. So William Walker took a pick And cleaved her pretty head, And in a mineshaft dank and cold He let her grisly body mould And swore that she was dead. A Miller worked, a-grinding corn, An honest man but poor, When all at once dead Annie Walker Stepped in through his door. Her head was fairly cleaved in twain And dripped with brains and gore. Her hair was wet and hanging down And blood-bespattered was her gown, A-dripping on the floor. Her blue lips parted and she spoke, Her tongue was black with grime, "Oh Walker did away with me, Murdered in my prime! His boots, besmeared with clotted blood He left outside the mine. He dragged me down into the hole, My corpse decays amid the coal, My bones leach into lime!" The Miller quaked with mortal fear, "Why hast thou come to me?" His feet were frozen to the floor Though he was wont to flee. The corpse said, "Justice I require, And leave it up to thee! I'll haunt thee, Miller, taunt thee nightly Until they bind up Walker tightly And hang him from a tree!" He knelt to wash away the clots Congealing on the floor, But as he scrubbed, the dead girl's blood Returned in gouts of cruor, And fast the Miller ran away Across the misty moor. She followed hard upon his trail And clutched him with her fingers pale And harrassed him the more. He went unto the magistrate And made the matter plain; He told how Walker used his pick And left poor Annie slain. They found the body in the mine The skull pierced to the brain, Limbs akimbo, neck awry, And Walker's boots were stashed nearby Besmirched with bloody stains. There is a gibbet on a tree, And Walker's hanging there. His eyes are fixed on Annie's grave With dull and sightless stare; The ravens watch his twitching corpse And pluck his lanky hair. In tufts they pull it from the roots, And all because he left his boots Beside his cousin fair. (Words by Giles Watson, Music by Kathryn Wheeler. Legend, with some basis in fact, associated with the coal mining communities of Framwellgate Moor and Chester-le-Street, County Durham. J.W. Dickenson's Further Tales of Old Durham, 1988.) |
| THE GHOSTLY WITNESS GILESCONRADWATSON - youtube |
| NEXT SKYLAB - SKYLAB #1 (2LP) - L'ATTITUDE |
| AUTOMATA SCORN - EVANESCENCE (2LP) - EARACHE |
| GESTURE, SIGNAL, THREAT SOVIET FRANCE - MISFITS, LOONY TUNES AND SQUALID CRIMINALS (LP) - RED RHINO |
| IN ABANDONED PLACES RAISON D'ETRE - youtube |
| SEMASEN SOVIET FRANCE - MISFITS, LOONY TUNES AND SQUALID CRIMINALS (LP) - RED RHINO |
| OUT QUIET PERSONAL ELECTRONICS - BOOLEAN LOGIC EP 2 - THEAGRICULTURE |
| DREAMSPACE SCORN - EVANESCENCE (2LP) - EARACHE |
| HIDERS BURIAL - THE RIVAL DEALER (EP) - HYPERDUB |
| GHOST DANCE SKYLAB - SKYLAB #1 (2LP) - L'ATTITUDE |
| TOW TRUCK (DEPTH CHARGE MIX) THE SABRES OF PARADISE - 12" - WARP |
| MILLION TOWN STRANGE CARGO - HINTERLAND (2LP) - N-GRAM RECORDINGS |
| BU - SEKI DJ KRUSH & TOSHINORI KONDO - KI - OKU (2LP) - APOLLO |
| CREATIONS PART 1 HIATUS KAIYOTE - CHOOSE YOUR WEAPON (2LP) - FLYING BUDDAH 
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| CREATIONS PART 2 HIATUS KAIYOTE - CHOOSE YOUR WEAPON (2LP) - FLYING BUDDAH
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| ACCESS SERAPHIM FLIGHT LOG SINGLE CELL ORCHESTRA - DEAD VENT 7 (2LP) - REFLECTIVE |
| TAKE ME HIGHER VIRGO FOUR - DO YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE? (EP) - TRAX |
| DEEPNESS BLACK JAZZ CONSORTIUM - RE:ACTIONS OF LIGHT (CD) - SOUL PEOPLE MUSIC |
| ONDO ELLEN ALLIEN - SOOL (2LP) - BPITCHCONTROL |
| THERE IS STILL HOPE BLACK JAZZ CONSORTIUM - RE:ACTIONS OF LIGHT (CD) - SOUL PEOPLE MUSIC |
| SUR LES TRACES {SIE} - J'EN AI REVE (EP) - DISAPPEAR HERE |
| BIG FEELINGS SHLOHMO - youtube |
| TOWARDS DESOLATION RAISON D'ETRE - youtube |
| DOREMIFA GIRL (ANANDA PROJECT EXPERIENCE) SNOOZE - 12" - NITE GROOVES |
| POSSIBILITY (A SPECIAL PERFORMANCE AT DECIBEL, STOCKHOLM 9 MARCH 2010) LYKKE LI - youtube |
| TEARDROP (SCREAM TEAM REMIX) MASSIVE ATTACK featuring ELIZABETH FRASER - youtube |
| GHOSTS VIP BISWEED - TSAR BOMBA (EP) - PARADISE LOST |
| WITCHCRAFT SUB DUB - DAWA ZANGPO (EP) - THEAGRICULTURE |
| CATACOMBS BISWEED - TSAR BOMBA (EP) - PARADISE LOST |
| THE HOST OF SERAPHIM (ENIGMA DUBZ MIX) DEAD CAN DANCE - youtube |
| SOUNDCHECK .SUB DUB - DAWA ZANGPO (EP) - THEAGRICULTURE |
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1:07 PM, September 12th, 2015