GHOST vinyl record out now on Celestial Excursions / Het HEM
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CURRENTResidency at ELIAS, Mohorje, Slovenia, March 10-23 2025
PRESS
“None of the new releases in January 2025 were stranger than GHOST, a series of songs that meditate on loss, grief, mourning… collages of ellipcitcal imagery, a weird poetry to it… really, really striking and unusual.”
John Schaefer, WNYC’s New Sounds (NPR), January 31, 2025
“… manifestations of loss and grief, spirits caught just at that edge between life and death – a piece about memory and loss, precipitated by the death of [Bill Horvitz]… a multimedia work built around a website, with an AI program that generates seemingly random, repetitive, elliptical, fragmentary texts which strangely fit the way we respond to loss, a memory here, an emotion there, a practical thing that needs to be dealt with right now… a series of strange and uncanny meditations.”
John Schaefer, WNYC’s New Sounds (NPR) – on a full-length GHOST centered episode (“Ghosts, of A Sort”, February 4, 2025)
“An all-star, all-art ensemble”
Iggy Pop, BBC Radio 6, February 7 2026
“GHOST is something eerie, revelatory, and cathartic… you’ll probably never hear anything like [it]… the honesty and fearlessness with which this project is approached is palpable, infectious, and appreciated and loved more with every listen.”
Chris Ingalls, PopMatters (8/10)
“The best sort of experimental music challenges our understanding of what we think we know, and GHOST stands as crucial new work, sparking discussion of what grief and creativity are amid the evolving relationship between human and machine intelligences.”
Ernesto Aguilar, Treble Magazine
“Cryptic, Singular, and Emotionally Unguarded.”
Attic Magazine, Album of the Day
“…featuring fractured lyrics derived from a custom-built, grief-text based generative AI, GHOST is the latest album to use the nascent technology in an attempt to create something surprising and new. The work of Asa Horvitz / Carmen Quill / Ariadne Randall / Wayne Horvitz, the album is sure to cause discussion.”
A Closer Listen
“[To Understand the Story] is… a beautiful prayer which transforms into a ghostly vocals amid a bare electronic rendering.”
Gonzo (Circus)
Additional coverage:
Old Grey Cat | Italian National Radio | Creative Audio Newsletter | Interlocuter Interview | Stereogum Album of Note | I Heart Noise/Cosmic Church | The Moderns | Brooklyn Vegan Honorable Mention | Everything is Noise | Rosy Overdrive | Polish National Radio