Biography

The Advisory Circle is the work of Cate Brooks, melodic and often melancholic electronic music inspired in part by library music of the 70s and 80s. Brooks is a stalwart of the Ghost Box label and an extraordinarily prolific artist. She has released six albums and three singles as The Advisory Circle. She also records as The Pattern Forms with Ed Macfarlane and Edd Gibson of Friendly Fires. She worked with vocalist Tim Felton as Hintermass, and along with Ghost Box founder Jim Jupp she is half of The Belbury Circle. Under her own name and several pseudonyms, she has released albums on Clay Pipe Music and her own Café Kaput label. Before joining the Ghost Box family in the early 00s Brooks recorded for Lo Records as King of Woolworths. As a producer and mastering engineer, Brooks is a contributing presence on most Ghost Box releases. She has years of experience as a commercial and library composer and his mastering and audio restoration skills are much in demand, particularly on re-issue labels such as Trunk Records. “The Advisory Circle offers a disarmingly sincere, pellucidly beautiful, and hauntingly disorientating exploration of your civilisation’s problematic relationship with the landscapes of its past.” Stewart Lee Sunday Times