Arrangement Ghost

As the name of the project suggests, Arrangement Ghost is music that wouldn’t make it to many ears without the convenience of a PC recording program. Chico musician Jason Willmon is the spectral songwriter, and “with help from RA, KL and DG” he’s quietly put out a handful of songs that carefully invite the listener in. The party starts briskly with the happy and warm guitar riffs of the minute-and-a-half opener, “Often Break” (the six songs come in under 10 minutes total), but the clouds gather up almost immediately as Willmon’s sad-sounding, gauze-wrapped vocals dampen the proceedings nicely. Not every word is clear, but problems of the heart aren’t black-and-white, and hearts seem to be having troubles throughout this CD (e.g. “hearts can often break,” “I know your heart is hard,” “half a heart of ash”). The disc ends with “Bright Light,” dragging its feet quietly, hiding vocals and sprinklings of guitar in a blanket of wind for the first half, then opening up with a slightly upbeat melody that dissipates into far off wails of feedback as Arrangement Ghost slowly closes the door.A.G. plays Fri., Aug. 15, at Café Flo. Contact: arrangementghost@hotmail.com.