"Your Ghost" is the first track from Kristin Hersh

Kristin Hersh

Kristin Hersh is an American singer/songwriter who performs solo acoustic concerts; she also continues to perform as lead singer and guitarist for alternative rock group Throwing Muses and the hardcore punk-influenced power trio 50 Foot Wave...

's debut solo studio album Hips and Makers

Hips and Makers

Hips and Makers is the debut solo album by Kristin Hersh, best known as the primary singer and songwriter of the band Throwing Muses. In contrast to Hersh's rock-oriented work with Throwing Muses, the album is primarily acoustic, with Hersh usually playing unaccompanied...

. It features additional backing vocals from Michael Stipe

Michael Stipe

John Michael Stipe is an American singer and lyricist. He was the lead vocalist of the alternative rock band R.E.M.Stipe is noted and occasionally parodied for the "mumbling" style of his early career as well as his social and political activism. He was in charge of R.E.M.'s visual image; often...

 of R.E.M.

R.E.M.

R.E.M. was an American rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1980 by singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry. One of the first popular alternative rock bands, R.E.M. gained early attention due to Buck's ringing, arpeggiated guitar style and Stipe's...

. It was released as a single on January 10, 1994 and reached #45 in the UK singles chart.

According to Filmmaker Magazine, the music video for the song was directed by Katherine Dieckmann

Katherine Dieckmann

Katherine Dieckmann is a film and music video director known for her work with R.E.M. and the feature films Good Baby and Diggers.-Music video filmography:*"Shiny Happy People" by R.E.M.*"Stand" by R.E.M.*"Your Ghost" by Kristin Hersh...

 and is an homage to Maya Deren

Maya Deren

Maya Deren , born Eleanora Derenkowsky, was an American avant-garde filmmaker and film theorist of the 1940s and 1950s...

's groundbreaking 1943 experimental film Meshes of the Afternoon

Meshes of the Afternoon

Meshes of the Afternoon is a short experimental film directed by wife and husband team, Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid. The film's narrative is circular, and repeats a number of psychologically symbolic images, including a flower on a long driveway, a key falling, a door unlocked, a knife in a...

.

The song was also sampled in DJ Scott Browns

Scott Brown (DJ)

Scott Alexander Brown is a Glasgow-born Scottish DJ and music producer, now living in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. Brown produces and plays a variety of genres commonly called rave. Although he is most associated with bouncy techno, his music ranges from happy hardcore, through hard trance, to...

's gabber song "Ghosts".

This song was re-recorded as "Your Ghost 2006" with 50 Foot Wave

50 Foot Wave

50 Foot Wave is an American alternative rock band, formed in 2003. The band is fronted by Kristin Hersh, who writes the group's songs with collaborative efforts from the other group members in composing and arranging the music. The group's name is a reference to both an illustration and the term...

. This version is quite different from the original because of the use of a distorted guitar.

Greg Laswell

Greg Laswell

Greg Laswell is a musician, recording engineer, and producer from San Diego, California. He has released four studio albums: Good Movie in 2003, Through Toledo in 2006, and Three Flights from Alto Nido in 2008, and Take a Bow in 2010, as well as several EPs and special singles...

 issued a remake of "Your Ghost" on his October 2009 EP Covers, an album of five non-original songs covered by Laswell. Laswell's remake was featured in episode 6.05 of the TV series Grey's Anatomy

Grey's Anatomy

Grey's Anatomy is an American medical drama television series created by Shonda Rhimes. The series premiered on March 27, 2005 on ABC; since then, seven seasons have aired. The series follows the lives of interns, residents and their mentors in the fictional Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital in...

and in episode 2.08 of the TV series Dollhouse

Dollhouse (TV series)

Dollhouse is an American science fiction television series created by writer and director Joss Whedon under Mutant Enemy Productions. It premiered on February 13, 2009, on the Fox network and was officially cancelled on November 11, 2009. The final episode aired on January 29, 2010...

.

This song was also covered by the band Black Lab and was the hidden track for their album Passion Leaves A Trace.

Track listing

• CD single (BAD 4001 CD)

1. "Your Ghost"
2. "The Key"
3. "Uncle June and Aunt Kiyoti"
4. "When the Levee Breaks"