Pre -Reviews for Ghosts of Our Former Selves

“…(a) very touching, luminous, haunting recording.  A deep pleasure.” “…both very spare and very full.”  

“ It’s like Chasalow got bitten by the Bowie bug and then caught a simple Sonic Youth virus that passed through the members of some early unknown, low-key grunge band, while attending a dinner given by Saariaho. Beautiful arch and completeness to the whole album – it’s a life cycle of sorts. The lyrics are super. … they are great stories being told.”        

“…fascinating and haunting piece and it deserves to be heard and explored.   -        am blown away--both by the personal way that you tweak the idioms involved and the refinement. Also the straight up chutzpah.”        

Bowie, Leonard Cohen, Berio, Beatles, Brian Wilson, Orff, Tom Waits, Neil Young, early Genesis, Zappa, Steely Dan, Traffic...and lots of other stuff… xiu xiu and the Magnetic Fields.         

“The work is grand in scope and has all of you in it, … fresh reinventions on the classic sounds of the late 20th Century electronic music studio.”   “…the core of the work seems to be in the very deep, delicate and moving ballads concerned with the passage of time, the inability to recapture aspects of our past and the questions of what to make of our experiences of love and loss. These numbers, of course the last song truly being a heart of them all, are all beautiful. You have managed to bring together these former selves, as you call them, into an ensemble only you could have imagined and brought forth. The work is skillful of course, but more than that, it’s deeply moving.”