Interview - Dhani Harrison

Photo by Josh Giroux

The digital age has, as everyone knows, revolutionised music.

Fans can hear records before they get radio play. The power lies with the creator, they can release their music whenever they choose.

Click a button and you’re away. Yet the demand for physical product offsets that, and as such it’s a balancing act for record labels to release albums on all formats on the same date.

Or at least, that’s the understood methodology. Dhani Harrison, as both a musician and head of a label, can see from both perspectives, but also has his own:

“In running record labels and stuff and doing film scores, I don’t really believe in release dates anymore. The cycle is so short. If you’re coming out with a traditional album release then it lasts a week, then it goes away.”

Last October, Dhani Harrison released his second solo album Innerstanding, a brooding odyssey of ambience and electronica which gets a physical release this month.

Not instrumental, but not short on melodies, the record is uniquely beguiling, if not especially accessible, a fact its creator is acutely aware of.

“I’m not expecting it to be charting,” Harrison states with refreshing honesty, from a beach in Australia. “What I like is the longevity and that people can live with a record. Also, geo-politically, it was more important for me to get it out before more things happened!”

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