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Ghost Tunes Album & Publication

Ghost Tunes
Mei Swan Lim
Madeleine Flynn + Tim Humphrey
Cass Ezeji
Josie Vallely
Cass Lynch
Theresa Sainty

Ghost Tunes is a collaborative arts project exploring language, landscape and culture across Scotland and Australia with contributions from Cass Ezeji, Madeleine Flynn & Tim Humphrey, Theresa Sainty, Quinie (Josie Vallely), Cass Lynch and Mei Swan Lim.

Through a series of mutual exchanges and learnings, the artists created works that became a full length album and publication that was launched as part of Counterflows 2022. Here you can listen to the album and read through different chapters of the zine including interviews, poetry and research that informed the tracks.

With special thanks to all the artists, Oliver Pitt for his design work and photography, Arnold De Boer, Lucy Wright, David Donaldson, Bidiya Noel Nannup, Lola McDowell and Richard McDowell for the contributions to the research, Oli Barrett for mastering the tracks, Good Press for the printing, Grace Wright for the proofreading and Simon Worthington for the furniture design and manufacturing.

Ghost Tunes is produced by AC Projects and is supported by the UK/Australia Season Patrons Board, the British Council and the Australian Government as part of the UK/Australia Season and the Creative Scotland Open Project Fund.

MUSIC

Ghost Tunes CD

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Sae Aye
Quinie (Josie Vallely)
5.02
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Milaythina Tunapri (Country Remembers) 1
Theresa Sainty
0.54
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Tìr nam beinn Guyana
Cass Ezeji
2.11
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Extractions 1
Madeleine Flynn & Tim Humphrey
4:00
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Birak 1
Cass Lynch & Mei Swan Lim
2.08
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Birak 2
Cass Lynch & Mei Swan Lim
2.03
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Birak 3
Cass Lynch & Mei Swan Lim
2.59
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Birak 4
Cass Lynch & Mei Swan Lim
3.50
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Bones
Cass Ezeji
1.42
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Extractions 2
Madeleine Flynn & Tim Humphrey
3.11
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Milaythina Tunapri (Country Remembers) 2
Theresa Sainty
0.52
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Psalm 139
Cass Ezeji
1.35
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Ee-ow Eh Kui
Mei Swan Lim
2.30
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Hungry Ghosts
Mei Swan Lim
3.29
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Extractions 3
Madeleine Flynn & Tim Humphrey
2.08
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Son of the Poor Man
Cass Ezeji
0.50
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Extractions 4
Madeleine Flynn & Tim Humphrey
1.44
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Milaythina Tunapri (Country Remembers) 3
Theresa Sainty
1.25

Credits

Mastered by
Oli Barret
Design
Oliver Pitt
CD production
John Garrad/ Akcentmedia
Leafless tree in front of snow covered hill with blue sky. A sense of isolation and change.

Ghost Tunes

(Australia/Scotland)

Ghost Tunes is an expanded concept album created by artists working with sound and writing from Australia and Scotland. Ghost Tunes considers the physical world as cultural swales and swirls around language, time and ecologies. Through a series of mutual exchanges and learnings, the artists will create works that become a full length album and […]
A young woman with her eyes closed, wearing a green jumper and collection of seeds, standing outside.

Mei Swan Lim

(Australia)

Mei Swan Lim is a practicing sound designer and visual artist whose work centres on the environmental, emotional and spiritual importance of place, inter-cultural investigation and storytelling. She is also an electronic musician who has been performing and writing under the name Mei Saraswati since 2010.  
A man and a woman sit on a seesaw artwork outside in the sun. They both wear black.

Madeleine Flynn + Tim Humphrey

(Australia)

Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey are Australian artists who create unexpected situations for listening. Their work is driven by a curiosity and questioning about sound in human culture and seeks to evolve and engage with new processes and audiences, through public and participative interventions. Their practice intertwines local, national and international relationships. Their current areas […]
A young woman with awesome curly hair looks on an angle towards the camera. She is wearing a cream top and fantastic hooped earrings.

Cass Ezeji

(Scotland)

Cass Ezeji is a singer and performer of critically-acclaimed bands Laps and Golden Teacher. She is interested in Scotland’s role in colonialism and its erasure from our national psyche. Her essays and prose reinsert black and mixed-race narratives into the Scottish context and call for accountability. She is informed by her Nigerian, Irish & Scottish […]
Woman with cap on standing in front of shielded microphone

Josie Vallely

(Scotland)

Quinie, aka Josie Vallely, is based in Glasgow. She sings primarily in Scots, with a style inspired by the traditions of Scottish Traveller singers Lizzie Higgins (1929-1993) and her mother Jeannie Robertson (1908 –1975). Quinie’s experiments with composition and vocal techniques create a dialogue between pipe music and voice. Her work has a strong sense […]
A young woman smiles facing the camera, with a white t shirt. She stands in front of a graffitied roller door.

Cass Lynch

(Boorloo/Perth, Australia)

Cass Lynch is a writer and researcher living in Boorloo/Perth, Western Australia. She has recently completed a creative writing PhD that explores deep memory features of the Noongar oral storytelling tradition; in particular stories that reference the last ice age and the rise in sea level that followed it. She is a descendant of the […]

Theresa Sainty

Theresa Sainty is a Pakana woman, from Lutruwita (Tasmania), and is part of a very large, well-known Tasmanian Aboriginal family. Theresa has worked extensively with Aboriginal Education Services, DoE where she co-developed and provided Aboriginal Cultural Awareness training, and produced curriculum resources focusing on Pakana culture; translated script and coached actors in the film The […]