Time Ghost

released April 12, 2024

Time Ghost is a collection of ten tracks released as singles since 2013, offering listeners an opportunity to experience Charming Disaster’s evolution over the past decade. Half of the tracks were released during the COVID pandemic. This compilation’s release marks the first time any of these tracks appear on a Charming Disaster album.

Track List:

  1. Cherry Red (2023)

  2. Stockholm Syndrome (2024)

  3. Ouroboros (2020)

  4. I Am a Librarian (2020)

  5. Houdini (2020)

  6. Murderer (2013)

  7. Driving to Idaho (2020)

  8. East River Ferry Waltz (2013)

  9. Longest Night of the Year (2019)

  10. Spooky Action (2021)

 

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Media coverage:

"Really excellent songs...and then there are the stories about murder, murderers, manslaughter, monsters, nightmares, ghosts and freaks, which make the album a hair-raising but immensely entertaining panopticon of morality. For people with a morbid sense of humor, this is just the thing."
–Ulrich Maurer, Gaesteliste.de

“Their music has the dramatic flair of cabaret, sometimes it's quite macabre and sometimes you even feel like you're among circus people.” –Terrorverlag

"In their live performances, the duo confidently captivate their listeners into their creepy spells." –Doppelpunkt Nürnberg

“Charming Disaster love to tell two sides of a story with their voices, and even more so when no one knows whose side you are actually on."
–Cityguide Frankfurt

“Their two-part goth-folk glitters and has elevated morbid elegance to a style principle.” –Sonic Seducer Magazine

"It is reminiscent of the Dresden Dolls and Handsome Family, of cabaret and circus music, with a slightly over-the-top flair." –HR2 Kultur

“glamorous, exalted vaudeville cabaret. The world needs more beautiful disasters.” –Sonic Seducer Magazine

Charming Disaster was formed by Ellia Bisker and Jeff Morris in 2012, inspired by the gothic humor of Edward Gorey and Tim Burton, the murder ballads of the American Folk tradition, and the dramatic flair of the cabaret. Together the duo write songs that tell stories, using two voices to explore dark narratives and characters with a playfully macabre sensibility. On their critically acclaimed albums Love, Crime & Other Trouble (2015), Cautionary Tales (2017), SPELLS + RITUALS (2019), Our Lady of Radium (2022), and Super Natural History (2023), Charming Disaster explored death, crime, myth, magic, science, nature, and the occult.

In their live performances, they combine vocal harmonies and clever lyrics with ukulele, guitar, and virtuosic foot percussion, drawing listeners into a haunting, offbeat universe of paranormal romance, con artists, and ancient gods, playing out against a backdrop of nightclubs, car chases, circus tents, the afterlife, and beyond with great theatricality. Charming Disaster’s music has been featured on the spooky hit podcast Welcome to Night Vale. They have opened for legendary cello-rock ensemble Rasputina, Goth icon Voltaire, Amanda Palmer’s punk cabaret duo The Dresden Dolls. Their concerts have captivated audiences across the United States. They have appeared alongside storytellers, comedians, fire eaters, puppets, burlesque artists, poets, and circus performers. Recent appearances have included Joe's Pub in Manhattan, Brooklyn’s historic Green-Wood Cemetery, the Rochester Fringe Festival, Philadelphia’s Science History Institute, the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, VA, Cleveland's Wizbang Circus Theatre, and the Coney Island Sideshow stage as well as sundry bars, art galleries, bookstores and libraries.