What's Your Voodoo?, by Ghia

What's Your Voodoo?

by Ghia

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Limited Edition 7" Vinyl
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- Limited Edition of 300 copies
- Includes two tracks: What's Your Voodoo? & Keep Your House In Disorder (previously unavailable on vinyl)
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- Remastered by Frederic Stader

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	1.	What's Your Voodoo? 04:13
	2.	Keep Your House In Disorder 04:01
	3.	You Won't Sleep On My Pillow 03:52

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The Artless Cuckoo is very happy to announce the official re-release of one of the most wonderful and mystic slow motion synth pop tunes ever recorded: “What’s Your Voodoo?”, a song written and performed by Ghia – a little known small home recording/studio project from Bielefeld, Germany.

Ghia only released two singles while they existed and was originally founded in 1983 by old friends Lutz Boberg and Frank Simon. Around 1985 they started to work with singer Lisa Ohm, who they met through a former teacher that was working as an engineer at the local Cottage studio. Boberg and Simon were composing the songs together and also wrote the lyrics. Lutz Boberg, who was trained on classical piano, played the keyboards, including bass. Frank Simon was more about the technical aspects as well as being a proficient guitarist. Their home studio consisted of a Yamaha DX7, a Roland synthesizer, a sampler and a drum machine. Simon was also trying to create a new sound by building his own effect processors. “The analogue effects already had turned mainstream and sounded boring while the newer digital effects sounded aweful to me.”, he recalls. Hence, Simon invested about half a year to develop his own signal processing system to create the FX sounds he had in mind.

The keyboards and guitars on “What’s Your Voodoo?” were passed through that unique processor of course. Combined with a deep synth bassline and the exceptional haunting vocals by Lisa Ohm it gives the track all the magic the title implies. Originally released in a post-synth era in 1991, it still sounds very unique and absolutely timeless today.
The exclusive B-side track of the single is “Keep Your House In Disorder” which previously could only be found on a few handmade demo cassettes as as well as a scarce CD compilation. It effortlessly brings together pop and modern soul vibes.

Almost completely overlooked at the time when it was released, we are happy to shed new light on the long forgotten Ghia project. Both tracks should appeal to cosmic and synth pop lovers as well as late soul collectors. If you dig tunes like Zenit’s “Colours In My Head”, Li Garattoni’s “Friends” or even tracks by the UK supergroup Sade - just to give you a little hint of the direction - we are sure this will be one for you too!

The vinyl single is very limited to only 300 copies, so don’t sleep! The digital version of the release additionally includes the original A-side of the single “You Won’t Sleep On My Pillow”.

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released November 15, 2019

Ghia is Lutz Boberg, Lisa Ohm, Frank Simon

Recorded at Ghia Studio, Bielefeld and Cottage Music, Bardüttingsdorf

Remixed at Cottage Music, Bardüttingsdorf by Wigbert Pieper

Mastering by Frederic Stader

Reissue production by John Raincoatman
Special thanks to Thorsten

℗ 1991 Ghia | © 2019 The Artless Cuckoo | A Division of EQX-Music | TAC-007 | All Rights Reserved | LC 04415

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