Cluster Node presents GHOST TRACKS - Fragments of Light

CLOT Magazine

This week’s mixtape comes from the multidisciplinary music/art project Ghost Tracks. They are a wife/husband team, and Sylvia Girstmair and David Lopez, originally from Austria and Spain but came together in East London. This happy home life hasn’t led them to a place of musical complacency for the duo, though, who also runs the experimental music label Cluster Node. Drawing upon their shared experiences in the art and music scenes, throughout the years, they have cultivated a passion for creating cinematic narratives through their music and visuals. With acoustic and electronic instrumentation, soiled traces of noise and mixed modes of experimentation, their songs present a peculiar intimacy and effortlessness. Ghost tracks sit between a dark lull and eerie, phantasmagoric soundscapes, aiming to create sci-fi soundtracks that evoke vivid and immersive imagery of futuristic dreams and imaginary worlds. They are fresh from a triumphant opening of CLOT and Cluster Node’s PORTALs showcase and presenting here a mix of their own tracks and works in progress alongside artists who inspire them: we are most excited about mixing tracks from artists that we really like and think convey a similar emotion. We tried to keep it cohesive and stick to the 'Fragments of Light' theme. Tracklist: Ghost Tracks - Through Time and Space (unreleased) Ghost Tracks - The Zone (unreleased) Ghost Tracks - Stillness Astrid Sonne - Ephemeral IV (Escho) Ana Roxanne - It's a Rainy Day on the Cosmic Shore (Leaving Records) Feeler - Highest Heaven (Cluster Node) Ghost Tracks - Vases and Gold Ornaments (Cluster Node) James K - Soft Key (Cluster Node) Ghost Tracks - 14 (unreleased) Spivak - i b lyin (Cluster Node) An Trinse - Duairc Aontais (Cluster Node) Ghost Tracks - The Morning Veil (unreleased) Ryuichi Sakamoto - Solari (Commmons) Ghost Tracks - Be with me (Cluster Node) Ghost Tracks - Void Celestial - Endless (Ecstatic Recordings) LA Timpa - Brave (forsake) (O___o) Ghost Tracks - Ice One (Cluster Node) Dania - Lament (Somewhere Press) Ghost Tracks - Don't Move (Cluster Node) Edward Artemiev - Solaris Soundtrack Part IX (Song Cycle Records)