Dear sisters and brothers of the Radiohead family,
I hope November has treated you well... Autumn is still hanging on here in the Welsh Hills, the leaves magnificent in their fine colours, readying to drop and leave us to the winter... So ... wanted you all to be the first to know what I've been up to outside of Radiohead, seeing as so many of you have been asking me after shows or in the street... Well I've made my first album and the first single, Brasil, is coming out in a few days... December 5 to be precise. Another single will follow in earlyish 2020 and the album just after that. Brasil is produced (as is the album) by my mate, the sonic maestro known as Flood, ably assisted by Catherine Marks, Cecil Bartlett and some of Willesden's finest sound engineers! Alan Moulder mixed the albul... I was also blessed by a truly stellar cast of musicians and friends. David Okumu, Nathan East, Omar Hakim, Laura Marling, Adrian Utley, Glenn Kotche and Colin... Not all at the same... But that's not a bad idea right??!
The story starts post the King of Limbs tour in 2012 when me and my family moved out to Brasil... We had a truly profound experience living in that extraordinary country.... Made new connections with people and places... And happened to go to Carnival in Rio in 2013... Truly the greatest show on Earth... An explosion of light. melody, rhythm and love... For me, one of those musical eureka moments.... As our time out there came to an end, we headed home and I found myself intuitively heading for the Welsh Hills. With a copy of Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass', a couple of guitars, an amp, and some pedals (of course), I rented a cottage in the Cambrian Mountains and the songs that make up the album started to flow out....
At this time I also happened to come across Carl Sagan's beautiful words which accompany that iconic photo of the Earth, known as the Pale Blue Dot.... Check them out if you don't know them... Truly words for our times.
The recording of the album started in the fall of 2017 and we finished it earlier this year... It's been an amazing journey, gathering all these great musicians, sound engineers and producers together. Not always easy and definitely not without it's challenges... But that feels like the right and only place to be.... And now it's soon to be released... I'm going to tour this record properly... So we'll be out there in 2020 and hope to see you at some of the shows. This feels like the start of something new and truly significant for me... It has felt like a calling... I have to do this...
So I hope you really like it.
Thank you to so many of you for your encouraging words and shouts at the shows! I'll see you soon. Big love to you all
Ed x
P.S. I'm going out under the name EOB
sweatbeardshirt wrote:Was at last night's show as well, and yeah it was amazing. Seen the 'Head a half dozen times but never Thom solo, and went in with somewhat tempered expectations but was entranced the whole 2 hour set.
Arturo wrote:Shall I sell my in rainbows box set or will it be worth a bomb in 10-20 years?
https://www.discogs.com/Radiohead-In-Rainbows/release/8525818
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