Ghost

DIGIPACK EDITION

The Ghost was formed as both a tribute to my disparate influences in free jazz, harsh noise, and the gay underground community, and as a middle finger to the suffocating heteronormative establishment of improvised music.

"Vanished Pleasures" stands as a new direction for this project, utilizing overt compositional frameworks to convey the anxieties of aging, sexual freedom, and the power relations inherent in the sax-bass-drums format. The title comes from Derek Jarman's "The Garden," referring to the vanished pleasures of untethered, youthful sexuality and the friends whose lives were cut short.

PERSONNEL:

• Michael Foster - (tenor & soprano saxophone)
• Jared Radichel - (double bass)
• Joey Sullivan - (drums & percussion)

Recorded at Pioneer Works, Red Hook, Brooklyn, January 2023

TRACKS:

• 01. Is this How Long the Pleasure Lasts
• 02. PsychoTwink
• 03. The Invisible Prick
• 04. Mr. Mineshaft
• 05. Tadzio at the Beach
• 06. Vibrator Torture
• 07. The Wounded Man
• 08. La Touche
• 09. Sweet Garden of Vanished Pleasures