The Ghosts Of Bush

Bush House, the iconic home for over seven decades to the BBC World Service, closed its doors for the final time in July 2012. This album was produced entirely at night, using only the natural acoustic sounds of empty studios, corridors, stairwells and other hidden corners, which were then mixed and edited in the building's rapidly disintegrating basement studio using two of the surviving reel-to-reel tape machines. No artificial or electronic effects have been added. These are simply the sounds of the space. The sounds the building makes when it thinks no one is listening. When talking of historic structures, the old clichéd approach is to wonder what one might hear if the 'walls could speak'. I like to think that with 'The Ghosts Of Bush' we come closer to hearing them sing: One last song about the passage of time and the impermanence of all things, with the ghosts of the machines joining in. The last hurrah of a bygone era, of obsolete equipment and of a studio that has since fallen silent forever. File under 'Radiophonic' if I may be so bold... Limited pressing of 200 numbered copies. Produced and edited on site in Studio S6, January-June 2012. © The Fog Signals 2012. In memory of Chris Millward.