Ghost Light’s Tom Hamilton & Raina Mullen

By Crew JamBase Sep 29, 2022 • 11:04 am PDT

Episode 143 of The JamBase Podcast, a spouse of the Osiris Media Network, features an interview with Ghost Light‘s Tom Hamilton and Raina Mullen. JamBase’s Scott Bernstein spoke to the guitarists/vocalists about the band’s new studio album, The Healing, which will be unveiled on Oct 7.

The interview took put around a video clip connect with soon following the pair concluded filming the online video for The Healing’s title keep track of. The LP marks the quintet’s 2nd album. Tom, Raina and bandmates keyboardist Holly Bowling and drummer Scotty Zwang recorded the comply with-up to 2019’s Very best Saved Techniques with former bassist Dan Africano. Africano still left Ghost Light shortly right after the 8-track effort and hard work was recorded with Taylor Shell tapped as the band’s new bassist. Hamilton and Mullen talked over what Taylor delivers to Ghost Light both equally musically and personally as they shared their pleasure to have Shell aboard.

Discuss then turned to the songwriting process for The Therapeutic. As the band’s primary songwriters, the pair explained the several levels every single tune went through from preliminary thought to fully blossomed studio keep track of. Tom and Raina would construct out the arrangements and work out the intention of their substance. When the stack of tunes was big ample, they termed in their bandmates for periods that spanned late final yr by early this 12 months held at Hamilton’s studio in Philadelphia.

Hamilton, who designed his The JamBase Podcast debut in 2018 for a “Quit My Working day Job” section with Bowling, generated The Therapeutic and talked about what that function entailed. He noted the great importance of staying genuine with his bandmates and the will need to treatment additional about the music than on their own. The aim for Ghost Light-weight is to make the greatest piece of artwork, so at times he requirements to be a bullshit detector. He specified that goes for himself as nicely.

The chat at some point moved on to Ghost Light’s live show with the band about to start out touring in assistance of The Therapeutic. Mullen and Hamilton in-depth the clever way the quintet will make their setlists these days and how that procedure has altered considering that the group 1st hit the highway. The pair also defined why they haven’t performed any covers so much this 12 months, a craze they hope will continue on.

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