Ghostface Killah – Queen City Sounds and Art

OrionsBelte1_sm — Orions Belte, photo courtesy the artists

In covering “Cherchez La Ghost” by Ghostface Killah from his 2000 album Supreme Clientele, Orions Belte have funked it up a little more but maintained its unusual rhythms. The guitar is more present and not as spidery, the keyboard more in the realm of mimicking Bernie Worrell at his most minimal. But all tasteful with flourishes of playfully warping the musical lines a bit. Like the original it’s well under three minutes but in that time the track goes through some changes suggestive of its pairing with visual narrative. The eccentric and whimsical quality of his cover sounds like something out of a Judd Apatow movie yet to be like a sequel to Super Bad as the song suggests that some mischief born of restlessness is potentially at hand. The cover will be released on July 12 when the group releases its Slim EP on Jansen Records. Listen below and further explore Orions Belte’s musical hijinks at the links following.