Psychoactive Ghosts, by Sorry Gilberto

Psychoactive Ghosts

by Sorry Gilberto

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1.	I'm Not Sorry 03:46	buy track
2.	These Walls 03:53	buy track
3.	Bird (on my shoulder) 03:58	buy track
4.	Neighbours 04:53	buy track
5.	Animals In The Night 05:05	buy track
6.	The Beach 04:58	buy track
7.	Easy Street 05:01	buy track
8.	Psychoactive Ghosts 03:38	buy track
9.	Black Leather Jacket 06:23	buy track
10.	Monologues 03:18	buy track

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“Let's go backwards through the sand / let's walk the shoreline 'til it ends" are the first lines of the first song on Sorry Gilberto's fifth album PSYCHOACTIVE GHOSTS, which will be released on July 29th 2022 on Solaris Empire. Anne von Keller's and Jakob Dobers' voices sound in unison and are immersed in a kind of mantra, while in the background the guitars jingle and jangle, West Coast-style.

Leaning backwards against the wind, drifting and catching the waves wafting in from the sea: it all fits well on this record, which gives space to individual sounds within the songs and allows for the kind of layering that gives depth and beauty to the music.

A partly 60s-inspired singer/songwriter pop has emerged, which is sometimes reminiscent of Ennio Morricone, as in the cinematographic duet “Bird (on my shoulder).” But it can also sound like driving French pop à la Gainsbourg, as in “The Beach” with its sharp guitars and beat combo drums, or even like the Velvet Underground in the summer of '69, in "Black Leather Jacket." Other decades are also effortlessly transformed on PSYCHOACTIVE GHOSTS: the 80s beckon in the dark and stoically elegant "Animals In The Night" with chorus guitars and glamorously distant vocals. And maybe someone thinks of Mazzy Star and videos on MTV in the nineties, whilst listening to “These Walls”?

On PSYCHOACTIVE GHOSTS, the opulence of the arrangement is not at the expense of the lyrics. As on previous Sorry Gilberto albums the lyrics continue to form the core of the songs, even if the music is now allowed to unfold its power on an equal footing. And then it becomes clear that – in addition to (all) the psychedelic, the slightly hallucinatory, will-o'-the-wisp moments – something else, much more concrete, is also being negotiated: the disappearance of adventure, the disappearance of wandering in the streets in a bohemian way is exchanged for a commodity-like entertainment for people with money and free time – "Cause things have changed on easy street / as you might have heard before" (Easy Street).

Sorry Gilberto is reminiscent of American indie bands like Yo La Tengo or the Bonnie Prince Billy scene: bands and musicians who keep writing their own story and thus mirroring our lives and sometimes transforming them into something magical.

It's a wistful look at loss, a longing for disruption and a longing for exploration of parallel worlds. Anne von Keller's and Jakob Dobers' voices in PSYCHOACTIVE GHOSTS hold this narrative and the belief that a single melody can suddenly mean everything in a moment, because "on a good day we/ might transform the air".

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released July 29, 2022

produced by Sorry Gilberto & Florian Sievers
mixed and mastered by Norman Nitzsche

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Sorry Gilberto Berlin, Germany

Sorry Gilberto are Anne von Keller and Jakob Dobers. They write lyric-driven songs that are melancholic, witty and playful in the same time. With surprising twists in structure and sparse instrumentation they combine simple folk- and glamorous pop-elements and create a very unique atmosphere. ... more

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