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Mr. Ghost

by Burning Velvet

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Mr. Ghost was recorded in a half-finished house where the band set up their vintage gear and a few lamps to get in the right mood. All the music was recorded in first take.

Nicolai recalls: ”I wrote Mr. Ghost late at night after having taken out the trash in the clear night air. At the time we lived in a very old thatched house, probably the oldest in the village. I remember that my daughter more than once sensed an old lady and that it sometimes smelled like cigarettes in the house even though we always go outside to smoke. I really don’t believe in ghosts, but I do think that they are an exciting metaphor for darkness and longing.”

”The track was the first we recorded in a daylong session that consisted of ten tracks. It was recorded the morning after having played a concert that ran very late. Later on it turned out that only Mr. Ghost had been saved on my recording device. Sometimes it just works out that way... There must have been a ghost in the machine.”

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released January 8, 2016
written & produced by Nicolai Wøldike Schmith

Nicolai Wøldike Schmith (guitar)
Mads Stephensen (drums)
Hjalte Amundsen (acoustic bass)
Rasmus Skovgaard (lapsteel)

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Burning Velvet Svendborg, Denmark

Burning Velvet is the musical output and solo project for singer/songwriter and home recordist Nicolai Wøldike Schmith.

He is based in Svendborg, Denmark and plays lo-fi americana with great appreciation of the raw and unpolished sound. It is a rather new project on the danish music scene and Burning Velvet is one of the finest exponents of pure americana, folk and country.
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