iO pages review Earthshine’s Ghost In The Machine

Dutch magazine IO Pages, in the person of Robert Schuller, have published a review for Ghost In The Machine by Earthshine in edition 140. Some quotes:

  • Ghost In the Machine is a change in the right direction
  • atmosphere and moods are the key ingredient now
  • I like the innovativeness of Earthshine

The original Dutch version is below. Thank you Robbert.

EARTHSHINE
Ghost In The Machine
(ROCK COMPANY)

Op het vierde album van Earthshine in ruim twee jaar tijd gooit men het roer stevig om. De instrumentale werken die Peter Cox onder dit pseudoniem uitbracht, werden tot nu toe maar zuinigjes ontvangen in iO Pages. Ghost In The Machine laat een omslag horen die naar  mijn mening naar de goede kant uitvalt. Het album bevat slechts vier lange composities, waarin piano en synthesizers het voortouw nemen. Een nieuw instrument in het muzikale palet waarmee Cox werkt is de midi-gitaar. Veel klanken op het album zijn afkomstig van dit apparaat; heel duidelijk ligt de nadruk op sfeer. Dat lijkt de componist beter af te gaan dan de ritmische begeleiding.
Ik vond dat laatste op eerdere cd’s het zwakke punt van het Earthshine project.
Cox houdt gelukkig de inzet van de drummachine op Ghost In The Machine binnen de perken. De keren dat de computergestuurde
bas en drums uit het hok mogen, ontsieren meestal niet al vliegt hij halverwege het afsluitende Steam Up That Engine net even uit de bocht qua programmering in combinatie met houterig solospel. Toch bevalt de vernieuwingsdrang van Earthshine me wel. Wordt ongetwijfeld vervolgd.

Robbert Schuller

Mindblowing Earthshine review!

omwr lonely desertSteve Sheppard from One World Music Radio has written  a totally mindblowing review of the album Ghost In The Machine by Earthshine. Here are some quotes for you:

  • Ghost in the Machine is the latest release from Earthshine and with each collection of songs, Peter Cox; the ever so talented Dutch multiinstrumentalist, just gets better and better.
  • In my view this first offering, is the single best piece of work Earthshine have created thus so far, it morphs from Jarre to David Wright and then towards the end, with the slight but very relevant percussion, shifts towards fellow Dutch EM performer Frank Pells in performance. The balance of the composition and the arrangement is simply perfect and creates a superb sense of ambience that one could literally feel like one was about to enter a realm, an old haunted mansion of great mystery and fear.
  • This album is a four piece collection of long form compositions, the keyboards feature in a delightful and very artistic way on the second song called Reverse IN going forward. Cox has manifested a really clever piece here with the use of the keyboard strings to create an aged sound throughout the composition and a somewhat careful piano performing the role of narrator in the early stages.
  • The start of this track is sublime; most electronic fans on listening to it will be in rapture. This reminds me of some of the deeper and darker tracks of both Kevin Kendle and Geigertek, both masters of this genre. Cox has built something quite brilliant here, and one can almost see the Ghost in the Machine!

Read the full review on the OMWR website (link above) or click here: omwr-ghost-in-the-machine

Haunting new Earthshine video

earthshine-ghost-in-the-machineThe fresh new album from Earthshine – Ghost In The Machine, has just seen the release of a video for the opening track “HAUNTED is the house”. Despite the track’s length (almost 12 minutes), we decided on creating a video that represents some of the thoughts behind the album.  We hope it gives the impression of the haunting of the strange spirit that is technology that now functions in our world, in time, and in space….

To check it out, just hit play below:

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