From the Latin rhythms recorded with local musicians in São Paulo, to the meticulous structuring of the melodies and lyrics, to surprise and delight with a new beginning.
Geordie Greep is the creative genius responsible for one of the most fascinating and avant-garde sounds of the moment, he is immersed in new projects this year with the release of his debut solo album which will be released on October 4th through Rough Trade Records. Known for his ability to fuse the unexpected, Greep not only challenges the norms, but reconstructs them at will and creates an auditory experience that captures and disconcerts you at the same time.
Exploring harmonic chaos, The New Sound, marks a turning point for Greepwho claims that for the first time he is doing exactly what he wants to do.
“It's the first time I've worked exclusively with session musicians, so almost every track is a different guy.'Holy Holy' It's one of the songs we recorded in Brazil, they were all Brazilian musicians, local guys in São Paulo, and it was all about trying to make the instrumental part of the music as disciplined as possible to make it super polished. Like when you hear 'Billie Jean' of Michael Jacksonsomething super professional, super classic, and with the percussion doing this kind of Latin stuff, bongo and cowbell and all that. So having such a solid foundation, when you do this crazy guitar and lyrics on top of it, it's more of a standout feature and it works better.”
And if we talk about surprises, the first single “Holy Holy” It is a gem that was born in a movie theater, when the actor let an idea take over his mind until he captured it in a riff which became the core of the song.
It occurred to me last February or something. I was at the cinema watching a movie, and I read at the beginning of the film 'You have to know this: when you're making music, you never know when you're going to get a good idea. And when you get a good idea, you have to stick with it.' So often you have bad ideas and you try to finish them but you never quite finish them, then you realize later that it was because it was a bad idea from the start. So when you get an idea and you know it's good, it's like, 'Ok'“.
“I was in the cinema watching this movie and this came to me riffand I thought about this going through these two things crossing each other, with the right hand and the left hand. So I thought, 'I must remember this,' so I didn't pay attention to the movie I was watching. I was just repeating this. riff over and over in my mind so I wouldn't forget it. And at a certain point in the movie there are two kids, and the two kids were saying 'Holy, Holy.' I was like, 'Okay, this is the chorus.' I said 'Holy, Holy,' then it was something like 'Lalalala,' and I thought about the chord structure that I was probably going to do. So I already had the whole verbal idea of the song, and I took the train home and ran to my room, played it all, and it all made sense. I recorded it quickly and then I had the song, and this came out. outro”.
As for his influences, Greep He mentions such diverse names, artists who, according to him, have the ability to change the atmosphere of a room with just one chord. This evocative power is precisely what Geordie seeks to capture in his music.
“Hector LavoeI love his singing and his style, people like Milton Nascimentothe Brazilian, things like Steely Dan, Frank Zappa and Blue Nilewho I really love. That music that has a kind of atmosphere, I think that's definitely always my favorite, where within a minute or a second after the song starts, you feel like something has changed in the room. It's like, 'Wow“What is this? Where are we now?'”
It evokes a completely different scene and a completely different universe, regardless of whether they were talking about a new scene or universe. Just the sound of it can be so different or so synthetic, in terms of synthesizing another world.”
So, Geordie Greep is poised to continue evolving alongside his music, with the hope that each album will be another step toward creating something truly extraordinary.
“I just want to keep making more albums like this. When you listen to the album, you'll see that it's going to be very… whatever you think of it. If people like it, if they don't like it, at least they'll say 'Oh, it's their own thing and it's something worth doing, it's great'. So I hope I can keep doing it for as long as possible. I think this is a big step in the right direction,” Geordie concluded in the interview.
Geordie Greep is at an exciting crossroads in his career, exploring new musical frontiers and pushing the boundaries of what is possible in the studio. His approach to this album is both a testament to his creativity and his dedication to music as an art form. With “Holy Holy” already capturing our imagination and an album full of surprises to come, Greep invites us to stay alert and be surprised by what comes next, as this is just the beginning of an even bigger chapter in his musical career.
