Radiohead‘s Jonny Greenwood has introduced a brand new album with Israeli musician Dudu Tassa.
‘Jarak Qaribak’ will come out on June 9 and is being previewed by a primary single titled ‘Ashufak Shay’.
Discussing the model of the music on the album in a press launch, Tassa – who has beforehand toured with Radiohead – mentioned: “When people listen to this music, I really love to imagine them thinking…what is this? It sounds 1970s, but there are drum machines, there are guitars but they’re singing in Arabic…what’s going on?”
Greenwood mentioned how the undertaking in comparison with one other previous collaboration with an Israeli singer, Shye Ben Tzur, saying: “‘Jarak Qaribak’ presented a similar set of problems, in that you have all these scales which don’t conform to western major/minor scales, and have notes which involve quarter-tones, and it’s very hard to impose a chord sequence on these melodies. It usually makes them collapse. It’s like reducing the resolution on a colour photo until it’s just squares.”
Listen to ‘Ashufak Shay’ under alongside watching an album teaser.
1. ‘Djit Nishrab’ (feat. Ahmed Doma)
2. ‘Ashufak Shay’ (feat. Rashid Al Najjar)
3. ‘Taq ou-Dub’ (feat. Nour Freteikh)
4. ‘Leylet Hub’ (feat. Mohssine Salaheddine)
5. ‘Ya Mughir al-Ghazala’ (feat. Karrar Alsaadi)
6. ‘Ahibak’ (feat. Safae Essafi)
7. ‘Ya ‘Anid Ya Yaba’ (feat. Lynn A.)
8. ‘Lhla Yzid Ikthar’
More music appears to be like set to be on the horizon for Greenwood, with each of his most important tasks hinting at future new materials in current weeks.
This month, Radiohead drummer Philip Selway has mentioned that the band will launch new materials “of some sort” within the “next couple of years”, whereas The Smile – the band of Greenwood, Thom Yorke and Sons Of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner – have been engaged on new music for the final seven weeks and seeking to comply with up 2022 debut ‘A Light For Attracting Attention’.
Away from music, Greenwood has began promoting his personal olive oil, made on his personal farm within the Le Marche area of Italy.