A year after releasing INNERSTANDING, Dhani Harrison is sharing a visual trip behind the making of the album in a new concert film, INNSERSOUNDSTAGE, premiering on YouTube and video on demand for 24 hours on September 27.
Filmed at Soundstage Studios in North London and directed by Joel Kazuo Knoernschild, INNERSOUNDSTAGE is a full live performance of the album, featuring an eight-piece band with guitarist Jeff Wootton, bassist Toby Butler, drummer Donovan Hepburn, and keyboardist Josh Giroux, along with special guests Australian singer Mereki Beach and The Duke Spirit’s Liela Moss, who also appear on INNERSTANDING, and saxophonist Alex White.
The dimly lit performance captures the entirety of INNERSTANDING, including singles “Damn That Frequency,” featuring Blur‘s Graham Coxon, and “I.C.U.”
“I wrote ‘INNERSTANDING’ during a time when touring wasn’t a possibility,” said Harrison of the film in a statement, “so I thought it was important to document the album in a live setting with some of the incredible musicians I collaborated with to create it.”
Harrison’s solo work began with the release of his 2006 debut EP EP001 with Thenewno2, a collaborative project with Oliver Hecks. The duo released one more EP and three albums together, including their 2008 debut You Are Here, thefearofmissingout in 2012, and the 2013 release Beautiful Creatures. The latter album was also the soundtrack to the Richard LaGravenese film of the same name.
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Harrison also worked on the album As I Call You Down with Fistful of Mercy, which he formed with Ben Harper and Joseph Arthur, and in 2018 scored the Sundance Award-winning documentary Matangi/Maya/M.I.A., which chronicled the success of artist M.I.A. He has also worked on the scores for Obey Giant – The Story of Shepard Fairey, Showtime sitcom White Famous, the Amazon historical drama Good Girls Revolt, the HBO docuseries The Case Against Adnan Syed, and more.
Earlier in 2023, the solo catalog of his father George Harrison moved to Dark Horse Records, the label the late Beatle founded in 1974. Now run by Dhani and David Zonshine, Dark Horse oversees Harrison’s catalog, from his 1968 debut Wonderwall Music through his 12th and final album Brainwashed from 2002, along with housing the music of Ravi Shankar, Joe Strummer, Nina Simons, Billy Idol, and Yusuf/Cat Stevens, among others.
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In 2024, Harrison also released the collaboration album Dreamers in the Field with Tuvan throat singers Huun-Huur-Tu and producer Carmen Rizzo (Seal, Alanis Morissette, Coldplay
“I also believe that an album’s not truly done until you’ve played it live from start to finish,” added Harrison on INNERSOUNDTAGE. “That’s the fun part. We’re here now. This is it.”
Photo: Josh Giroux
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