Perhaps the most well-known ensemble in the Japanese noise/psyche undergound, the neo-hippie collective Ghost have been releasing albums since the early 1990s. Inspired by '70s Krautrock, prog, '60s psychedelia, and traditional Japanese folk forms, Ghost play a hypnotic style of rock that is both hauntingly mellow and fantastically spirited. Although the band's records were difficult to track down for some time, the Chicago-based Drag City label has been the band's home since the late '90s, ensuring that their strange, wonderful music is readily available.

Listen to Ghost at Finetune.

• (2008)  Ghost
• (2007)  Slowly

• Unchained Melody
• Unchained Melody [Orchestral]
• Missing You
• First Real Love
• Killing Me Softly

• Boredoms
• Boris
• Damon & Naomi
• Dungen
• Kinski
• Oneida
• The Olivia Tremor Control
• Wooden Wand
• Bee Gees
• The Temptations
• Pearls Before Swine
• The Groundhogs
• Enya
• Lionel Richie
• Celine Dion
• Roy Orbison
• Barbra Streisand
• Beres Hammond
• Sizzla
• Christina Aguilera

• swifthands
• ThetaManMan

• richrude71 on 2008-11-03 10:00:05.587:
  These two releases are not by the Japanese band, Ghost. Please add "Temple Stone" or "Hypnotic Underworld" by Ghost soon.