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The Man Who Became A Ghost

by Life As Surface Noise (with Equinox)

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Mr Joseph Carruthers had been a portrait photographer. For many years, he had run a modest, but well-regarded private studio. His speciality was providing an intimate service for high society ladies. The "big hats and fancy frocks brigade" he used to call them. The work was fairly mundane, a steady flow of repetition. Portrait followed portrait. Facial echoes in silver chloride. Sometimes, for his own amusement, Mr Carruthers would place unusual objects within the framing to add a surreal element to the final image. Nobody ever seemed to notice. Towards the end, the studio had become littered with scribbled notes and forgotten memories. An abandoned cemetery of his existence, a lifetime thrown upon the wooden floorboards, to be crumpled, under foot, into particles of history. A carpet of discarded plans from yesterday, from the days when he wanted more. Now, like peering into tarnished mirrors, he could no longer recognise himself. In truth, an older man would stare back at him, but Mr Carruthers could only see an aberration. He was somewhere in the afterlife, having passed through an open door that nobody could unlock. The old world had departed. His collapsing mind a colander of vague thoughts, his personality now just a floating dust of incoherence. He had come to understand that time is not forever. It cannot be captured. What is there when you have gone? A faded representation of someone who used to be? Mr Carruthers could not remember others. He could not even remember himself. All names escape you in the end. In his own mind, he had become a ghost.

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A one-off track by Life As Surface Noise mined from the darker edges of experimentation. Inspired by an Edwardian-era photograph taken at Hellingly Psychiatric Hospital, the recording features the voice of Equinox and the haunting cello of Cellista.

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“it draws you in and then slaps you in the head..... Brilliantly done" - Gideon Coe, BBC Radio 6 Music

“we could be about to witness an explosion” – Louder Than War

“brilliant” – God Is In The TV

"sound big enough to fill a ballroom" - Gigslutz

"is one of the most immersive, frustrating, enjoyable, progressive, and ultimately listenable records I've ever heard." - Echo Synthetic
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