Songwriter Writes Songs For Ghosts Gone Astray

Posted on September 21, 2007

Artist Stephanie Dosen is a real ghostwriter -- she writes songs intended for wayward ghosts. She told The Age that she began writing songs for ghosts when her first album was recorded in a haunted abandoned dog-food factory.

Dosen tells The Age, "I recorded it at an old, abandoned dog-food factory. It was terribly, terribly haunted; a bunch of people had been buried in the silos when they were building the place. There were ghosts in all the rooms, things flying off the walls, we heard weird voices and noises on some of the tracks. So everyone said: 'Why don't you start singing your songs to the ghosts and calm them down?'

Stephanie Dosen's MySpace page says she writes the songs for ghosts on a rusty tape player named Jean-pierre. Her MySpace page also says she writes music for "weary sailors and tangled mermaids" as well. She has also written lullabies for her "two favorite pets, a swan and a fox." The Age says that Dosen tries to avoid reading people's reactions to her records. Dosen says, "If anyone ever catches me putting my name in in Google, with quotes around it, I need to be shot." Although they are not her target audience, Dosen is gathering a following of human listeners. Dosen is currently on tour in Australia. She starts a UK tour in October. Her latest album is called A Lily for the Spectre.

Here is one of Stephanie's music video for her song, "Only Getting Better."