The Story of the Ghost

by Phish

The Story of the Ghost cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 28 October 1998
  • Label: Elektra Records
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 49:55
  • Community rating: 3.46/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Culled from extended, free-form improvisational sessions at Bearsville Studios, the Vermont quartet's seventh studio album is characterized by its relaxed, deeply funk-oriented grooves. The project showcases a mature restraint, prioritizing slinky rhythmic interplay and ambient psychedelia over the frenetic compositional density of their earlier catalog.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, rhythmic, vocal-group, conceptual, funky

Tracklist

  1. Ghost (3:52)
  2. Birds of a Feather (4:14)
  3. Meat (2:39)
  4. Guyute (8:26)
  5. Fikus (2:20)
  6. Shafty (2:21)
  7. Limb by Limb (3:31)
  8. Frankie Says (3:06)
  9. Brian and Robert (3:02)
  10. Water in the Sky (2:29)
  11. Roggae (2:59)
  12. Wading in the Velvet Sea (4:28)
  13. The Moma Dance (4:28)
  14. End of Session (1:53)

Credits

  • George Condo - artwork [paintings]
  • Mike Gordon - bass, steel guitar [pedal], vocals, written-by
  • Jonathan Fishman - drums, vocals, written-by
  • Trey Anastasio - guitar, vocals, written-by, arranged by [horns]
  • Page McConnell - keyboards, vocals, written-by
  • Tom Marshall - written-by
  • Heloise Williams - backing vocals
  • Dave Grippo - saxophone

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