This was a way of re-presenting a selection of the songs in a different light: Marcus was getting into vinyl and was raving about the fact that he’s actually listening to music again; the process of placing needle to record making him commit to the moment and see it through. 

I chose 10 tracks (5 a side) for ‘Ghost of Song’ in an attempt to create an old fashioned ‘bedsit kind of album’ that folk might learn to love to live with. We addressed the idea of releasing the selection as vinyl. Too expensive unfortunately but I kept the idea of the collection and applied it to the songs.

 I want it to affect in the same way some of my old favourites have stuck with me (Blue/After the Goldrush/Hunky Dory/Steve McQueen etc.) and picked songs that had a certain homely yet woozy feel to them; this meant precluding some crackers (Fatherless Son) that didn’t quite sit/fit with the idea… 
I also wanted it to take folk back to the original albums.

Trevor Jones

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