8 Tracks: Of Haunted Memories With African Ghost Valley

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There is little formal information regarding African Ghost Valley.

The mysterious duo have emerged from Stockholm bringing with them an ever abstract approach to electronic music which draws upon influences from drone music, ambient, new wave and techno. Childle Grangier and Gabriel Ghebrezghi make up a partnership which was formed in the heat of heavily improvised recording sessions. Based out of an industrial space beneath a Stockholm multi storey car park the duo are in the midst of releasing their debut album titled 'Colony' on Natural Sciences.

We invited them to showcase their wares as they take us on a deep tour of haunted memories via eight tracks

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Aguirre, Wrath Of God

This movie formed kind of the base of the Colony project. There’s a heavy, floating and loud feeling distilled along this masterpiece. It’s soundtracked by German Band Popol Vuh who centres the sounds around a sense of mystery, violence and hostility yet is still welcoming to the listener. We try and put that heart into our music.

Aguirre, Wrath Of God

This movie formed kind of the base of the Colony project. There’s a heavy, floating and loud feeling distilled along this masterpiece. It’s soundtracked by German Band Popol Vuh who centres the sounds around a sense of mystery, violence and hostility yet is still welcoming to the listener. We try and put that heart into our music.
Terminator

This track we have a particularly close feeling to and drawn to the dystopian ambience of the movie. It’s hard to find your place in both that world and the future can be even more frightening. As a kid, the sound treatment of the memory placed into the future often surprised us and even now as an adult we are still touched by it.
Wild Boars At Night In Forest

We had a weird moment in Italy when working on Tar which worked it’s way into the recording. Those screams are one of the scariest thing we ever heard. Night, animal noises… these soundsalso illustrate our process of our daily process of working with field recordings and we always have a microphone and pencils to take notes
Bernard Parmegiani: De Natura Sonorum

Bernard Parmegiani is a composer of Electronic/Acousmatic pieces and one that opened many roads for us. Part of the GRM (Groupe de Recherche Musicale) he was an adventurer and now one of the ghosts haunting our Valley… This piece is marvellous.
Jonathan Fitoussi - Polaris

Jonathan Fitoussi is from the new generation of composers making ambient music, travelling between experimentation on legendary synthz and a poetic approach and this track is a beautiful illustration of it. A dive, and moment of total immersion.
Time Travel: Among The Dinosaurs

Often machine music often brings us to that feeling – a desert, a landscape. The paradox of that is that we are improvising a lot and our music is about recording the “Now” but our imagination and the sounds we make are making,keep the boundaries moving and we feel freedom in creating and working through that.. This video is a good moment to take time, close your eyes and listening to this kind of Unknown which is also our fuel…
La Planète Sauvage

A perfect mix of visual psychedelism and sounds, full of details, noises and cartoons noises used in an experimental way. Weirdoz to the max! Crazy animation and voices too… Some of the wilderness, the exploring aspect that we tried make happen in “Colony”.
Kamandi #1-20

This kind of “After the Bomb” comics reminds us of the comments critics qualify our sounds as “End of the World Music”. Kamandi would be for us a good illustration of that… A mix of so many Sci-Fi, Prehistoric, Retro futuristic approaches… We do not have in mind that when we play but it is certainly somewhere in us…