Geordie Greep (Black Midi) | The New Sound

Geordie Greep, kendt som guitarist og sanger i det grænsesøgende avant-garde jazz-rock band black midi, er gået egne veje og kan præsentere sit første soloalbum, "The New Sound".

Efter tre imponerende albums med black midi, senest Hellfire fra 2023, og næsten uafbrudte verdensturnéer på det seneste fem år, har Geordie Greep på en eller anden måde fundet tid til at indspille sit soloalbum.

Geordie Greep fortæller: “With recording ‘The New Sound’, it was the first time I have had no one to answer to. And with every impulse I had, I was able to completely follow it through to its conclusion. Being in a band (black midi), we often have this ‘we can do everything’ feeling, but you are also kind of limited in that approach, and sometimes it's good to do something else, to let go of things.”

På to kontinenter, i byerne São Paulo og London, har over tredive session-musikere været med til at skabe albummet. Greep uddyber: “Some of the tracks we had recorded already, elsewhere, but it just wasn’t right, so we re-recorded them with new people. Half of the tracks were done in Brazil, with local musicians pulled together at the last minute. They’d never heard anything I’d done before, they were just interested in the demos I’d made. The tracking was all done in one, maybe two days. Then we did the overdubs later, in London.”

Gennem de 11 nye numre er lytteren garanteret en mildest talt unik lytteoplevelse. På guitarstykkerne i den strålende singleforløber "Holy, Holy" kan man dog også tydeligt høre, at vi har at gøre med en af hovedaktørerne fra black midi. Så fans af det eksperimentelle band kan hvile trygt i at Geordie Greep bærer stafetten fra deres helt singulære lydunivers videre.