Reflectionz by Ghostown

Recorded in the summer of 2008 during a week long session, a lot of these tracks had started out back in 2002 (Pecking, Whisky, Monster, Moy) and a most of them had featured on the homemade album ‘Culture Vulture” All the music and sequencing/sampling was done on my Yamaha Motif (whereas for Culture Vulture I was using Yamaha RM1X and Sony Acid) The biggest change for this album is that it featured Baptizer on the guitar and DJ Kirsa on scratch, I had met them gigging in Montpellier around 2005 and we had started playing live around France, despite leaving Montpellier in 2007 for Grenoble, we actually started playing more and more gigs thanks to a young motivated guy named Jean-Lo in Grenoble. So this album kind of captured the evolution of my songs at the time and how we were playing them live. A lot of the tracks have 2 or 3 or more parts to them, for example Ghostown goes off into distinct parts with different riffs. The songs don’t really respect any typical popular codes, i.e there is not really verse - chorus - verse chorus.

Accordeon was a basic track I’d made on the Motif, it got radically improved when my brother Lewis Powell Reid was visiting with his accordeon, he redid my keyboard parts making them better then invented a couple of different melodies on the spot, the resulting mix of folk and hip hop has been a success, with over 1 million streams (across platforms), it was last on the album since it didn’t really fit in with the songs we’d performed as a trio.

Reflections samples my Mum - Jo Powell and Paul Rae.

The Artwork was done by the talented Degiheugi . The album was mastered by Remy Alcaraz

Released in 2009
Some of these songs were originally created back in 2001 (monster + Pecking Your Eyes+ Moy Moy Moy)
2003 (Johnny Marr + Insects Dont Know), they have since then know umpteenth remixes and different versions, and have continued to evolve since this album was released.
Recorded and mixed mostly during the summer of 2008 by a very motivated Remy Alcaraz.

Tracklist

1.	Moy Moy Moy	5:30

2.	Johnny Marr (Psycho Killer)	5:43

3.	Reflections	5:58

4.	Ghostown	5:45

5.	Whisky Boat (O2Vie)	4:07

6.	Whyte Coatz	4:56

7.	Blue Crocodile	5:39

8.	Pecking Your Eyes	6:12

9.	Big Moustache	5:48

10.	Dolphin	2:01

11.	Insects Don't Know	4:21

12.	Monster	5:22

13.	Name Your Price	4:30

14.	Accordeon	5:35

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released January 4, 2009

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