The Ghost Trade

by Camberwell Now

Type: Album
Released: May 1986
Label: Ink
Country: United Kingdom
Length: 39:03
Community rating: 4.31/5 from 9 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Formed from the remnants of This Heat, Camberwell Now expanded their predecessor's avant-prog complexity with heavily processed tape loops and early digital sampling. The album is incredibly dense and rhythmic, utilizing deeply ominous, nocturnal soundscapes to support Charles Hayward's abstract, politically charged vocals. It is a highly surreal, experimental touchstone that profoundly predicted the development of post-rock.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, rhythmic, progressive, complex, political, experimental, dissonant, eccentric, dynamic, technical, polyrhythmic

Tracklist

Credits

The Camberwell Now - primary artist, producer, music by
Trefor Goronwy - bass, guitar, percussion, erhu [erh hu], voice
Madeline Herbert - cover
Charles Hayward - drums, keyboards, lyrics by, voice
Dave Bernez - mastered by
Tony Cousins - mastered by [cut by]
Stephen Rickard - tape, autoharp
Mary Philips - voice
Polly Edmett - voice