For his new record Brain Pulse Music, Tokyo musician Masaki Batoh strapped a sci-fi-looking apparatus to his head to capture brain waves, which in turn generated eerie, theremin-like tones. Batoh, ...

Ghost ringleader Masaki Batoh realizes a long-held dream to control music via brain waves, offering two such compositions amidst several improvised pieces. Brain pulse music (henceforth "bpm") is made ...

Members of Ghost and Espers plot an unlikely hybrid, gathering songs and instruments from a number of regional folk traditions on this Drag City release. Save this story Save this story It would be ...

In August 2014, Ghost front man Masaki Batoh declared the band defunct after a 30-year run. He also announced his next group, the Silence, which debuted live in Tokyo in late November—and which ...

A Ghost from Japan will be at The Strutt Friday. Masaki Batoh has led the experimental freak-out rock/jam/folk/everything else group Ghost since forming it in Tokyo ...

Following last year’s earthquake and tsunami in Japan, acupuncturist and musician Masaki Batoh found himself and his country devastated. “I believe you American people who experienced 9/11 can ...

When Japanese guitar samurais Ghost scared up folk-inflected lightning psych at Mohawk in 2009, the 30-year-old institution conjured an indoor electrical storm. Now, group constant Masaki Batoh ...

A year following the release of Masaki Batoh's meditative BPM machine experiment Brain Pulse Music, the Ghost leader will be taking his avant-garde piece around North America for a series of sound ...

Masaki Batoh is the mythical multi-instrumentalist mysterioso behind Japanese psychedelic explorers extraordinaire Ghost, and this collection effectively brings together two long out-of-print, stopgap ...

I like press releases. Some are hilarious, some informative, many better than the album you have to listen to, others just plain awful. But never have I come across one as self-righteous, ill ...