Ghostly Beard — “Inward” | Album Review by Bucket List Music UK
Back in the day, I used to be an audio engineer and professor. I thought in one of the best audio schools in Brazil called Audio and Video Institute (IAV in Brazil). For just over five years I had the privilege of meeting some of the most amazing people in music — colleagues and students.
Now that I have shifted my life to other things — including writing about music, I have the absolute pleasure of discovering amazing new artists and musicians.
And one of these amazing people I’ve had the pleasure to meet was Patrick, a.k.a Ghostly Beard.
Last year I reviewed his album “Invisible” and I was absolutely astounded by how amazingly talented Ghostly Beard is. And if you follow him in social media (if you don’t start now!), you will immediately discover this incredibly friendly person, who makes sure he replies, retweets and keeps in touch with everyone. His profile on Twitter is by far one of Bucket List’s biggest supporters online. I cannot thank you enough, Patrick!
I wanted to make this review was a little more thorough than my previous one on Ghostly Beard. So I got in touch with him (very last minute by the way) to learn a bit more about him and his production process.
This French-born and now a Canadian citizen living in Quebec composes, produces, records, mixes and promotes all of this brilliant material himself. I cannot emphasize how this is beyond impressive. A single listen to any of his material, I guarantee you will be as amazed as I am.
Although his main instrument is the guitar, he plays all the instruments in his recording process. And even though the drums are MIDI, he plays all notes through keyboards and pads, so he can make them sound more natural. I’m still amazed by this — not only because I used to work with audio, but I am a drummer myself (I really got to stop mentioning this by the way — sounds like I’m band-hunting).
Now — on to his latest release, coming out today, 4th May — “Inward”.
