![]() Hoagy was played continuously in the house when I was growing up. My father was obsessed with Hoagy Carmichael, my mother too, and this song was actually their special song the one that they both loved the most together. It's obviously one of the greatest songs ever written. ![]() I had things happen during recording that changed my perspective on everything." It’s an introspective trip from where I was, to where I am now. You can’t help others until you learn to help yourself. "You can’t be loved until you learn to love yourself. "The record is about self-discovery, self-love, self-healing," Harrison states. Each time he creates something new, performs, or collaborates, it’s an invitation for an unique musical journey. With each step of his musical career, he continues to explore new musical ideas and being true to himself. That’s not to say there’s not an enjoyment in asking if his parents were OK with him loving Wu-Tang Clan as a young boy, and hearing back the sweetest story about Bob Dylan easing George Harrison into hip hop, when he insisted on wearing a backward hat for a Traveling Wilburys recording session, because rappers were the only artists “saying anything”.ĭhani Harrison is an artist who doesn't fit neatly into a single category. He owns his history and music talent, and since his 2013 debut as a composer on Richard LaGravenese’s Beautiful Creatures, he’s gone on to score the Sundance Award-winning MATANGI/MAYA/M.I.A., for which he and Hicks received an International Documentary Association (IDA) Award nomination for “Best Music Score.” Physical appearance aside, it’s easy to forget he’s George Harrison’s son as soon as he starts to speak. When you’re me, you just don’t really get to go and play a concert, because everyone’s looking.” “I started to play guitar when I was probably around eight or nine, and I was in a few little bands, but nothing really big. Harrison has been a dynamic presence in the music industry, moving from scoring film and TV projects to collaborating with an array of artists, including Wu-Tang Clan, Annie Lennox, Pearl Jam, Prince, Regina Spektor. ![]() Blur’s Graham Coxon lends his signature guitar playing on four songs, as well as saxophone on “Damn That Frequency”, Liela Moss from The Duke Spirit, Australian singer Mereki, and his old bandmate from Thenewno2, the award-winning producer Paul Hicks. INNERSTANDING features guest appearances from Harrison's wider musical family. “From that music to mine, the difference is that I like to add a bit more of guitar mine has more guitar-based stuff in it, but that is it.” These are some of reference points he weaves together, and more than that, it was a movement that changed everything for him. ![]() INNERSTANDING was born with nothing but beats and a swift question on his mind – ‘What will make me want to move?’ Harrison’s Nine Songs selections take a guess: trip hop, Bristol, 1997 – Portishead, Massive Attack, Tricky. “Here we are in a new world and here is the new album that has come forth from it”, is how he defines it. A future that arrives now, with his first solo album in six years, INNERSTANDING, released today on streaming platforms. Harrison’s creative process isn’t built from an impending sense of nostalgia, but rather one of retrieving the past to re-signify the present and project possible futures. The two elements are closely intertwined. The GRAMMY Award-winning musician and composer threads lightly: sonic memories are within reach as he talks about the pivotal songs that have shaped his life or the sound of his forthcoming album.
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