black midi’s Geordie Greep announces his debut solo album, The New Sound

“With recording The New Sound, it was the primary time I’ve had nobody to reply to. And with each impulse I had, I used to be in a position to utterly observe it by to its conclusion. Being in a band (black midi), we regularly have this ‘we are able to do every little thing’ feeling, however you’re additionally type of restricted in that strategy, and typically it is good to do one thing else, to let go of issues.”

Over thirty session musicians had been concerned within the making of the album, on two continents, in São Paulo and London. Geordie Greep; “A few of the tracks we had recorded already, elsewhere, nevertheless it simply wasn’t proper, so we re-recorded them with new folks. Half of the tracks had been carried out in Brazil, with native musicians pulled collectively on the final minute. They’d by no means heard something I’d carried out earlier than, they had been simply within the demos I’d made. The monitoring was all carried out in a single, perhaps two days. Then we did the overdubs later, in London.”

“The principle theme of the file is desperation; you don’t hear an unreliable narrator however somebody who’s kidding themselves that they’ve every little thing beneath management, however they don’t,” says Geordie Greep.

“I used to be anxious in regards to the size by way of not overblowing it. However I’m additionally actually bloody bored of listening to music and, for higher or worse, figuring out prematurely what it means or what it’s attempting to do,” he continues. “All my favorite music is in regards to the listener coming to phrases with what’s going on. My favorite singers, like Peter Hammill or Nat King Cole, are actually considered one of a sort. I like that. Particularly with lyrics, the place you’re undecided what they’re happening about, however you recognize it’s not simply summary ideas.”

What subsequent? May we see The New Sound as a stay idea or is the album going to remain perpetually in our collective creativeness? Greep; “My plan is to ‘do a Keith Jarrett factor’, have a special group of session musicians in a special place and lean into the truth that we’re not going to get it the identical.”

Tracklist:

1. Blues
2. Terra
3. Holy, Holy
4. The New Sound
5. Stroll Up
6. By means of A Conflict
7. Bongo Season
8. Bike
9. As If Waltz
10. The Magician
11. If You Are However A Dream