ART FAIR FUNDRAISER: INSTALLMENT 4 | GHASTLY “SONG TITLE” TOTE BAGS

Hey everyone’

Nerve twitches, nerve nerve nerves & neural witches. We are going in next weekend to begin the recording process towards our future full-length album. We have been whittlin down the drum sections quite meticulously these weeks. Can’t wait to bring this into fruition.

As you probably know, we have also been working hard on other Ghastly arts as well as writing… offering you one-of-a-kind pieces of art and goods as a means to help us raise fundings for this upcoming recording. We have been attempting to raise around $1,200 for this first weekend. And, we must proudly say, it has been going quite amazingly well. We still have a ways to go, but your love and support has chipped that burden meltingly away. Thank you ya big lovely idiotheads… we wanna squeeze you.

Earlier this week Matt posted 2 more handmade copper etched bracelets for those good arms of yours. Please check them out. He has been slamming these beauties out lately… getting more and more “devil’s in the details” by the months.

I have also been working along with Yeliz Secerli in designing a limited edition run of “SONG TITLE” tote bags. We have printed, along with the to-die-for help of Michael Davis, a run of 100 bags. They are available in either black or white, and flaunt one of Ghastly’s new songs on the backs. We have printed 5 different titles:

“Bent, Clumsy 1, Lulling, Moonless, & Witchery”

Stark and goth and yesyes… These totes are available in either black or white, and are each a bit different & one-of-a-kind. As the numbers break down, there are only a handful of each idea. We are super stoked on all of the pieces we have created for this Art Fair Fundraiser so far. Hoping this next album will be far more melting on an ear brain emotional wave level experience.

     

ohhhhh we also would love to begin playing some shows again soon. Please get in touch with us.

Please visit our bandcamp site & help support our artistic endeavors:

http://ghastlycitysleep.bandcamp.com/merch

Big Dumb Dark Red Hearts

Brandon / Ghastly.

GHASTLY: the new 13

Perhaps sooty chimney people creeped down your sleeping houses, and then we entered the year of thirteen, entered the year of the floor to skip. I hope terrifically we get our album out this year… will be perfectly appropriate.

Here’s a pieced-together video for you to work yourself giddy over and come to the brilliant conclusion, “it would be stellar to help Ghastly continue making art.” The video abstractly encapsulates the printing of the posters and candles we are offering for fundraising, as well as random footage from our last tour.

We need help and support from you amazing people. We are far adrift from raising an initial amount of money to begin recording. It’s looking like we will have to hold our horses a bit longer. We are terribly eager to get things in motion however.

Until then, we are still alive and awaiting the return of the horseback Mayaliens, or the upcoming rapture… whichever is to come first.

Please visit our bandcamp and spread the word to help:

http://ghastlycitysleep.bandcamp.com/merch

Additionally, you can help by visiting Matt’s Etsy store. He will give a bit of sales from his site to aid us as well:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/arbor9fiction#

Hearts>>> brandon & ghastlies.

 

 

SINDICATO VIDEO

This is a new restaurant in Williamsburg called Sindicato. It is located on the corner of Nassau and Lorimer overlooking McCarren Park.

I have assisted in a handful of ways. First, I offered my hands over in helping design the logo along with Yeliz and Poliana. More recently, however, the logo was painted on the front of the building, along with being filmed. I wrote and recorded  music along to the video and pieced it all together. Cb helped me a bit with his amazing fingers and presence. Check it out sometime if ever around that one of 200-zillion New York corners.

In addition, I have finished printing up the silk-screen posters along with Michael Davis. Thanks ah ton for your brilliant help Michael. They came out entirely better than the one I printed previously. There are still some available… We have had some people show their amazing support and care with our Ghastly Art-Fair Fundraising. Thank you terribly. If anyone can find it in them to help donate to our cause, and get us into the recording studio… please, please, please do.

http://ghastlycitysleep.bandcamp.com/merch

We hope to be adding some new things for sale from Matt this coming week.

I hope the holiday season fills your lives with some warmth and calm. The cold is creeping in. Snuggle into a EGGheadNOGgin blanket of comfort///friends and families all close quartered if you can. Ghastly sends our pulpy hearts, wrapped in garland, and electric cables of course!

 

loves>>>> bee. / ghastlies.

Ghastly Art Fair: Installment 2 | Fox Candles

Well now. Here is installment no. 2

We have witched together a waxy batch of the Ghastly Fox design over the cauldron and injected the spirit world into em’. We are selling Ghastly candles for a short period to help towards raising over $1,000. This will begin the recording process for Ghastly’s future next album. We are offering 1 for $15. For donations of $30 or more… we will send a candle for every $10. So, we would send 3 for $30, 4 for $40, etc. Please understand, we are trying to be creative and offer our fans and friends something unique and personal from us in return for offering your love and support and funds to help us continue. This is a new, unchartered thing for us. Please send any donations you can if you have the potential. That support is felt in more than just dollars, you have NO idea! Go here, to our bandcamp site, to see more:

http://ghastlycitysleep.bandcamp.com/merch/ghastly-fox-candles-limited-fundraising 

The Silk-screened poster is still available for donations as well.

We will have another installment soon; a week or two. These won’t be up long, so come along.

 

Ghastly Art Fair: Installment 1 | Silk-screened Poster

. Printing limited Ghastly silk-screened posters to raise recording money .

Hello all.

Here is the newest of newsies. We are planning on recording new material… therefore, we are starting our own Ghastly Art Fair FUNDRAISER.

Here is what we are raising money towards:

We have plans to begin recording 5 songs in early January. This material will construct half of our next album. We are booking 2 days in the studio to record drums and some basics. These dates will cost us a total of $1,100. This $1,100 is the immediate sum we are hoping to raise in order to begin tackling this album.

So from there, Ghastly Art Fair:

We will be posting a mini-series of handmade Ghastly artwork for sale with hopes to raise funding towards our gigantic goals.

Our first installment is a Limited Edition hand silk-screened Ghastly poster. These will be limited to a run of 20. I have posted a few pics of one I printed previously.  We are asking for a donation of $40 or more for one of these prints. Unfortunately, it won’t come with a frame, that is mine.  The size is 22″ x 30″. I am also willing to print a smaller, alternate design version using the same screens at about 15″ x 22″.  Here is a link to buy and support us in this cause:

http://ghastlycitysleep.bandcamp.com/merch/ghastly-silk-screened-poster-limited-art-for-fund-raising

This is our Bandcamp site.  Your help and support will be received with no strings attached. We will keep everyone linked in on the generosity and donations.

Please come together with us and offer your appreciation and support of our artistic expressions and dreams. We will post our next installments about every other week. We are forever adoring of all your hearts.

Palpitations>>>>> Brandon. /// Ghastlies.

. Me holding limited Ghastly poster .

SANDY-EYED

Hello you. lil ol you.

As everyone I am sure knows, Hurricane Sandy came ah howling last week with more destruction than some could have ever foreseen. I would first and foremost like to say that all the Ghastlies are very safe and sound, both our bodies and our posessions. We were extremely lucky.

Sadly, we have been surrounded by many horror stories. A small, half-a-block distance saved our practice space, along with all of our gear, from flooding. Our friends on the other side of the building heartbrokenly suffered greatly. Additionally, our dear friends at Translator Audio, the brilliance that recorded Moondrifts and Lunic Driftwood, lost everything. They opened only months ago after building out a brand new space, 2 recording studios and 13 practice rooms. The entire building and all gear was drowned and destroyed. Our hearts go out to them.

I, personally, have lost my job at Stumptown coffee…  yesterday. The roastery was crushed. We have been doing quite gross clean up since the hurricane to salvage what we could. Red Hook still has no power. There’s constant pumping of water from basements by generators all day long. Leaking gas fills the outdoor air and the remains of people’s entire homes grow in piles across the sidewalk edges. I have just dropped off some foods to help those affected in the Rockaways. These are just a couple tiny instances in the grand scheme. I am sure many have heard. Please, send your help to where and what you can. I am quite thrown off by the whole of it for now.

Ghastly is hoping to make some strides in beginning a new album. I will post this coming week about a few ways, and things we will be making, for people to hopefully come together, show their love and appreciation, and help kick up the dirt. Stir the cauldren a trifle.

A bit of a fund raising Ghastly art gallery. More details to come…

Make your passions and appreciations apparent in the world. Hearts to you all.

Brandon. / Ghastlies.

a ginormous Subtle Disaster

A collage: multiple US tours and dozens of shows combined into one Subtle Disaster. Don’t know which number is higher… the number of tours encapsulated within one video, or the number of drummers. pat, ryan, and evan.

Matt pieced this beast together; an idea that’s been brewing around for almost 2 years now. So glad it’s finally been put into a tangent piece. We spend too much time to get our things done, but i sorta think that is what makes Ghastly.

On our way this evening to look at a studio. We want to begin tracking drums for a handful of songs. Get in touch if anyone has some thoughts and ideas they would like to share.