POD presents
GHOSTPOET
Wednesday 1st April 2015
The Button Factory - Curved St, Temple Bar - Dublin 2
Doors: 7:30pm
Tickets €15 including booking fee from www.ticketmaster.ie and usual outlets
www.ghostpoet.co.uk
‘Shedding Skin’ is tomorrow, today – for its maker, it’s the manifestation of a new challenge, of fresh thinking, after a preceding album of necessary catharsis. If you think you know multifaceted musician Ghostpoet, think again. While the past is important, this singular artist’s third studio album is a brave, confident stride into previously unexplored methodologies and untapped inspiration – it’s a reboot of sorts, the reinvention and distillation of traits that have so far made the man’s reputation. Nothing here sounds like a style stuck on repeat.
Explicitly personal insights have become wider perspectives: after 2013’s ‘Some Say I So I Say Light’ LP purged London-based Obaro Ejimiwe of lingering spectres born of a relationship breakdown, ‘Shedding Skin’ allows him to refocus on what he loves: sitting, observing, processing, creating. In some respects ‘Shedding Skin’ harks back to Ghostpoet’s Mercury Prize-nominated debut of 2011, ‘Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam’, in its assembly at least: then, he was free of baggage, loose-limbed and able to capture a moment and spin it into a song; now, he’s in a comparable place, but has skilfully circumvented potential complacency by opening the door to creative collaboration while also placing strict conditions on the recording process.
More so than either previous LP, ‘Shedding Skin’ is a warm, organic, alternative offering, crafted with a traditional live set-up by the musicians who have become ingrained in the Ghostpoet programme. Ejimiwe is flanked throughout by his touring band: Joe Newman on guitar; John Calvert on bass, who also co-produced the album alongside the man with his name on the sleeve; and John Blease on drums.
‘Shedding Skin’ is the biggest and boldest album yet from an artist who has always stood apart from the sound-alikes. He’s still learning, just as we all are. He’s still growing, just as we all are. But this is the beginning of the next phase for Ghostpoet, and a collection that sets a new precedent as his very best work yet, a dream record to accompany our journey through whatever hands we’re dealt, one day at a time.
GHOSTPOET
Wednesday 1st April 2015
The Button Factory - Curved St, Temple Bar - Dublin 2
Doors: 7:30pm
Tickets €15 including booking fee from www.ticketmaster.ie and usual outlets
www.ghostpoet.co.uk
‘Shedding Skin’ is tomorrow, today – for its maker, it’s the manifestation of a new challenge, of fresh thinking, after a preceding album of necessary catharsis. If you think you know multifaceted musician Ghostpoet, think again. While the past is important, this singular artist’s third studio album is a brave, confident stride into previously unexplored methodologies and untapped inspiration – it’s a reboot of sorts, the reinvention and distillation of traits that have so far made the man’s reputation. Nothing here sounds like a style stuck on repeat.
Explicitly personal insights have become wider perspectives: after 2013’s ‘Some Say I So I Say Light’ LP purged London-based Obaro Ejimiwe of lingering spectres born of a relationship breakdown, ‘Shedding Skin’ allows him to refocus on what he loves: sitting, observing, processing, creating. In some respects ‘Shedding Skin’ harks back to Ghostpoet’s Mercury Prize-nominated debut of 2011, ‘Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam’, in its assembly at least: then, he was free of baggage, loose-limbed and able to capture a moment and spin it into a song; now, he’s in a comparable place, but has skilfully circumvented potential complacency by opening the door to creative collaboration while also placing strict conditions on the recording process.
More so than either previous LP, ‘Shedding Skin’ is a warm, organic, alternative offering, crafted with a traditional live set-up by the musicians who have become ingrained in the Ghostpoet programme. Ejimiwe is flanked throughout by his touring band: Joe Newman on guitar; John Calvert on bass, who also co-produced the album alongside the man with his name on the sleeve; and John Blease on drums.
‘Shedding Skin’ is the biggest and boldest album yet from an artist who has always stood apart from the sound-alikes. He’s still learning, just as we all are. He’s still growing, just as we all are. But this is the beginning of the next phase for Ghostpoet, and a collection that sets a new precedent as his very best work yet, a dream record to accompany our journey through whatever hands we’re dealt, one day at a time.
