GHOSTWOMAN - Welcome to the Civilized World | Hamburg

Schedule

Tue, 11 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Molotow | Hamburg, HH

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GHOSTWOMAN
WELCOME TO THE CIVILIZED WORLD
Support: Calvin Love
Dienstag, 11.11.2025, Molotow
Einlass: 19:00 Uhr, Beginn: 20:00 Uhr
– präsentiert von Rolling Stone, ByteFM und concert-news.de –
VVK-Start: 30.05.25, 11:00 Uhr
unter https://www.tixforgigs.com/Event/65646
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There is no reason for GHOSTWOMAN’s fourth album to exist. Welcome to the Civilized World is born to a broken world; a corrupt inheritance – Evan Uschenko and Ille van Dessel are under no illusions about its futility – and yet, this thing is alive. It’s an allergic reaction to the times we are living in: a welt that screams to be itched, the purging of a modern sickness they could no longer stomach. Beyond rationality, this record came from a place of gut feeling and a lack of any other option. Hell may have cracked wide open – but GHOSTWOMAN will not go quietly.
GHOSTWOMAN itself only exists because Uschenko and van Dessel were the ones “stupid enough to commit to it”. Conceived by Uschenko after cutting his teeth as a touring multi-instrumentalist, the project was brought to life in an abandoned farmhouse in Diamond City, Alberta. There, for two months, he would make the self-released, self-titled debut albu which was produced and dubbed directly to custom-made cassette tapes. The music has always been beautifully inhospitable, earned only by those curious enough to seek it out.
Expanded by friends on the Edmonton circuit, Uschenko took the project over the pond where he would meet drummer Ille van Dessel. Drawn to her talent and sheer excitement to make music which had been untouched by ego or cynicism, the two became inseparable. A new life had begun.
And then there were two. GHOSTWOMAN became a head-on collision between the switchblade rust of his guitars and her caustic drum beats which march them on toward a shared oblivion.
Welcome to the Civilized World is an album to be a pure distillation of their shared vision. From its earliest sketch to its final form, the only people to touch it were GHOSTWOMAN themselves.
The meaning of the album is inseparable from its meaninglessness. As Uschenko puts it: “The album is inspired by the absurdity of human behaviour and the circus that is life: sometimes feels like being in a room with no floor – that’s where a lot of these songs come from.” After losing friends to suicide over the past year, the suspension of disbelief required to wade through the everyday had dissipated. If there is any meaning at all to Welcome to the Civilized World, it is simply to keep going: there is no other choice.
Musically, GHOSTWOMAN are a sharper beast than ever: hypnotic spells of psych-grunge, decaying Americana and instrumental locked-horns. Uschenko, who presides over the vocals, insists they are not important. Much of the lyrics are nonsense, not written as much as abstractly sketched to feel out the shape of the music itself – but even in Uschenko’s dream grammar, the force and feeling are no less potent.
The band’s process is intuitive rather than calculated; sounds are made in a chain reaction to one another. “5 Gold Pieces”, with its filthy guitars and snarling, livewire vocals was recorded as a test after they bought a tape machine. The first shot is often the best, and that test is what you hear today. Everything they used to record is gone. “We buy old equipment or instruments which have a bunch of life and soul in it until we’ve used it all up, and then sell it again so we can buy something else,” explains Van Dessel.
True to the band’s origins, Welcome to the Civilized World is the story of Canada and Belgium across the span of two years. The tape machine seemed to pick up different shades wherever they recorded, whether that was in the home of a close friend of Uschenko’s, for example, surrounded by creature comforts including the dog he loves, [Levon – named after the late great Levon Helm] after whom the album track was christened. Or in a cottage in Ardennes, Belgium during an interminable winter surrounded by blankets of snow; an hour’s walk away from anything civilized.
“Alive”, the record’s lead single, was written on a particularly perfect day in rural Belgium. In an earlier iteration, the track was called “Pondi” – named after a hedgehog they had discovered at the pond in the garden, which they felt to be a good omen. The writing of it was frictionless and instinctive; another “line-check-turned-complete-song”. In van Dessel’s mind, “Alive” is like a moment captured as a photograph – something ephemeral that existed once, and will never be replicated again. And that, in its essence, is a GHOSTWOMAN record.
Welcome to the Civilized World is not concerned with making music for an audience, not for the music industry and not for any particular point other than the thrill of it. Nothing matters, we are all doomed, the sun will swallow the earth and our efforts turn to dust anyway. The band will continue to play as the ship goes down.
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Molotow, Reeperbahn 136, 20359 Hamburg, Deutschland, Hamburg, Germany

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