Ghost Pal - God Save MCFK

Alexandre da Silva
Matthew Evans
Oliver Ignatius
Henry Kandel
Carson Moody

UPDATE: Ghost Pal has just released a free single, eight plus minute medley of "Will the Circle Be Unbroken/Time Tough  featuring Mama Coco’s Funky Kitchen All-Star Choir

Another excellent band from Mama Coco’s Funky Kitchen Collective, Brooklyn's Psychedelic Soul-Pop Ghost Pal is a fictional band. But not in a sort of Sgt. Pepper's/exotica "let's put on a play!" sort of way. I mean Ghost Pal literally doesn't exist. Let me put it this way: One night, Oliver Ignatius (previously of excellent combos Hysterics, Dirty Faces and Heat Lightning!) ate some bad frozen olive pizza and had a weird dream. At one point in the dream, between the alien invasion and the frozen shipwreck, he fell upon a teeming mass of what looked like buzzing, golden insects, massed together in percolating swells of movement, their vibrations at constant odds with one another, always threatening to become one and always breaking apart at the last minute. On closer inspection, the insects were just little bits of music, strange, beautiful music falling in and out of itself all over the place. When Oliver woke up, he called all his friends together and told them his dream. "We'll have to build an ark!," opined Josh.

Ghost Pal is a band of merry men who live inside the Mama Coco's studio. They take turns making noises and then record them.

You can summon Ghost Pal tonight at Mama Coco’s Funky Kitchen Seance #22 at Big Snow Buffalo Lodge 89 Varet Street Brooklyn, NY 11206 tonight June 14th with 'The All About', 'No Shoes', Hugh Trimble & The Engines, and Mothers.

Mama Coco’s Funky Kitchen

Mama Coco’s Funky Kitchen is an analog and digital recording studio, musician’s collective and brain hive dedicated to the promotion of musical integrity in all of its shapes and forms. Located in the Windsor Terrace area of Brooklyn, NY. Get in touch at mamacocosfunkykitchen@gmail.com to start making music this week!

It is co-owned by Justin Coles and the in-house producer Oliver Ignatius, who have a decade of experience dedicating our lives to music. We have produced records for the All-About, Anna Bradley, Bridges, can’t see SHAPES, Dr. Skinnybones, Ghost Pal, Giant Octopus, Goodman, the Graveyard Kids, the Great American Novel, the Harmonica Lewinskies, Injun Magic, King Salmon, Oh! My Blackbird & Sons of an Illustrious Father.

The Oval Orifice - EP is The Harmonica Lewinskies debut work. After three years of collaboration, the Lewinskies have come together to record 3 grooving, moving, baked and shaken songs. The Oval Orifice - EP includes 3 songs that were recorded November in 2011. These 3 songs will be included on their debut LP, Hear What We Did There?, due out in April 2012.


Big Blue Dreams and Salty Stories - Miguel Horowitz: Lead and harmony vocals, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, keyboards, organ, synthesizers, piano, spoons, drums, sitars, handclaps, shaker, wind, tambourine Oliver Ignatius: Harmony vocals, bass, fuzz bass, drums, keyboards, organ, synthesizers, harmonium, dampened piano, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, handclaps, tambourine, spoons, shaker Additional players: Josh Aubin: Tambourine, handclaps Matt Chilton: Saz, bass clarinet Justin Coles: Electric guitar Henry Kandel: Saxophone

Ghost Pal is a paranoid, paranormal psychedelic spook soul band from Brooklyn, NY. Having expanded and contracted for the better part of a year as a psychedelic and occasionally psychotic collective, Ghost Pal hardened into a 7 member line up in late 2011

Oh! My Blackbird - NYC based folk trio harnessing the magic of close vocal harmony and pissed off lyrics to hypnotize and pleasure your minds, hearts and ears.

Check out this new article from Jim Testa at Jersey Beat, about the sonic revolution happening at Mama Coco’s!