Shadows of the Forgotten- an album by Static Apparitions

 

Shadows of the Forgotten

An Album By Static Apparitions

Album #5 by Static Apparitions.

This blog post is a write up of an album called Shadows of the Forgotten.

The album is by our audio project Static Apparitions. The idea behind Static Apparitions is to make something without intelligible speaking, wordless singing, and make it sound like the soundtrack to an experimental Euro horror flick from sometime between the 1960s- and the late 1970s.

This album is horror experimental art.

Static Apparitions is:

Baroness LeStrange: Woodrow, Tibetan bowl, melodica, wah-wah tube, wooden floor, vocals, synth, FX, cigar box dulcimer, electric guitar, clapping

Ravna Ghaul: zither, monotron, duo-tron, Aztec death whistle, kazoo, metal, vocals, violin, FX, test oscillator, genometer, microphones, recordings

Mostly recorded in the Powder Magazine room on George’s Island Fort Warren Saturday 6/24/23 

If you ever go to Fort Warren and really want to explore the space, I really recommend going on a rainy day. It’s a lot less crowded and gives you a lot more time to take in the place without having to deal with a lot of people. Plus the rain sounds deeper there than most anyplace I’ve ever been.

Also recorded in Edinbourgh Scotland, London England, and Weirdfield MA

Everything created by Static Apparitions 

Copyright 2026 Static Apparitions

Art isn’t static, art is an apparition. This is our official tag line for Static Apparitions.

1. Artillery Spirits 4:36 -It starts with a zither being struck. This was in the Powder Magazine room in Fort Warren. The sound in there is incredible. 

If you feel the production on this album is any good, it’s more down to the astounding acoustics of the space we recorded in. Listen to the glimmering echo of the Tibetan bowl. That is all down to the space we were in. Sweet vocals delivered by the Baroness. Tasty Woodrow playing by the Baroness too.

2. Gentle Monster 4:22 -Melodica washes over strings. Some layering of separate recordings on this one. 

The low guttural sounds are some slowed down recordings. I believe this track has some of the recordings we did in Scotland on it.

The monster is coming closer. Don’t worry as long as you’re gentle so will the monster be…

3. Disgruntled Spirits 7:50 - Loads of melodica on this one. There’s also some distorted playback of recordings on this track. This has some of the bits we recorded in London blended in. Added a lot of spooky sounding synth by the Baroness on this one. Some oscillator sounds as well. 

4. Toll the Bell of the Ghost Galleon 4:02  - Title inspired by the Tomb of the Blind Dead movie, The Ghost Galleon. Not the best of the Blind Dead movies but still, its an inspiring title. We were in Fort Warren

on this rainy chilled day when out from the sea, a bell rang. Then the title came. Yes, that is a real bell from out on the water somewhere in the rain. Some of the spatial effects here are achieved rather easily by me moving closer and backing away from the Zoom H2 recorders that we used for this session, with me utilising the monotron and duotron. Zoom H2 recorders are what we use whenever recording outside. They’re reliable and easy to position.

5. The Figure Approaches 2:09 -Beware, if you listen to this song with headphones something may come to you. At least that’s what I tell myself.

Some Aztec death whistle at the beginning. The track starts off innocently enough for us with some woodrow, then veers into a dark distorted directions with a wall of strange sounds and footsteps. The figure is approaching you. A wall of sound comes rolling in.

6. They’re Coming 12:05 -First the figure approaches. Now They are drawing closer. Whoever are They? The chaotic climax builds into the arrival of They. 

The woodrow kicks us off. The exiting drone sound is courtesy of the monotron which is a hand held synth. Melodica moves in and out. The rhythmic sounds on this track is mostly the Baroness dancing around on a wooden board that was covering the dirt floor of part of the fort.

7. Shadows of the Forgotten 4:47 -And here we have the title track. I like when the title track is at the beginning or the end but sometimes due to various vague reasons, the title track sometimes lands elsewhere on the album. Some nice cigar box dulcimer and guitar here and nice vocals all from the Baroness.

This track is the coda of the whole experience. It abruptly ends leaving you alone in the empty shadow filled fort.

This whole album plays out like a horror movie. I dare you to walk around Fort Warren while listening to this album.

The cover art is composed of pictures taken at the fort then tinted to give them an aged appearance.

Total time: 38:71

The tracks are mastered with an ear towards hard rock despite the fact that most of the instruments are what you would consider hard rock instrumentation.

Yours in sonic assault,

Count Robot