That's a Record

 

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Ghost Writer is an album featuring 14 New Bedford, Massachusetts area musicians, poets, and artists. Together they tell the story of loss, love, contact and friendship. All taking place by city, shore, outer space, and the afterlife.

It is an album that celebrates the creative landscape, and the artists themselves, of New Bedford, MA, through three eras of my show going experience there, to date. I invited each of the collaborators specifically to help tell the album's story. It is also an album I could not have done without the people who crossed my path in other ways. Some as ships in the night, and some much closer and in the light of day. The in-betweens and meantime, I hope, are illustrated in the organic narrative of the album and the artwork inspired by it. 

Thank you forever,

-Phillip J. Mellen

credits

released July 21, 2024

"From the Top" features Kevin Grant and Dug McCormack.

"Contact" features Ethan Weiss and Mark Arruda.

"Sundress" features Dena Haden.

"Palpitations" features Mark Arruda.

"Pace Yourself" features Kat Knutsen.

"Agreed on a Weed" features Chris Evil.

"Wait for Me" features Sarah Jane Mulvey, Kevin Fernandes and Ryan Coffey.

"It Was a Ghost" features Nick LeBlanc.

"Cigarette Break" features Phillip J. Mellen.

"Voicemail from Kevin" features Kevin Fernandes.

"He Was a Good Man" features Keith Borges.

"Ghost Copilot" features Shelley Cardoos, Kristin Dupre, and Mark Arruda.

All lyrics by Phillip J. Mellen.

Produced by Phillip J. Mellen, Ethan Weiss, Kevin Fernandes, and Mark Arruda.

Mastered by Joe Reilly at Black and Blue Mastering in New Bedford, MA.

Visual assist on vinyl album cover by Kat Knutsen and Eric Isaacsen.

Art photography by Andy Anello.

Voicemail from Kevin

paper collage

Phillip J. Mellen

2023

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