The Invisible’s ‘OK’ is Single Of The Week on iTunes. Visit the iTunes front page for the free download of the song, or click on the link below. Described by MOJO magazine as “delectable sunshine pop”, OK is taken from The Invisible’s self-titled debut album, out now on Accidental Records.
http://tinyurl.com/TheInvisibleOK

Trying to describe the Invisible sound is as hopeless as trying to describe subatomic theory – there’s elements of Radiohead, Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew, highlife, ESG, Eddie Hazel, choral music, Trent
Reznor, musique concrete and God knows what else. They only confused people further when on their MySpace they described their sound as Black Metal. Here’s what they had to say…

Dave Okumu (DO): Black metal. That’s just nonsense. MySpace is funny. You’ve got that thing when you have to commit to a genre.
Tom Herbert (TH): There were such ridiculous categories to choose from… I think the idea of giving yourself a set of genres is a bit stupid anyway. It doesn’t really tie in with the way we think about music. Black metal – I mean it’s so obvious that we’re not black metal.We get friends request from all these black metal bands.
Leo Taylor (LT): We’ve always been fans of Bad Brains. But black metal isn’t related to skin colour, it’s just extremely dark metal… So, no we’re not black metal. Sorry to disappoint you.

SHK: So where does the name The Invisible come from?
DO: There’s a book that I’m really into by John O’Donaghue. It’s basically Celtic spiritualism. It sounds so wrong… like we’re going in Lord of the Rings territory. Well, he writes about the cycle of life. He describes what it’s like to exist and it’s like being a threshold between an invisible world and a visible world. And from that I take the idea that to be fulfilled in life is basically to reconcile those two things. I like the idea of what you can’t see in a culture, that’s so obsessed by immediacy, and what you can see and touch, and I guess what is really important is expressing yourself, which is something invisible then being made visible.

SHK: On the subject of visibility, what’s all that PVC you’ve got in your dressing room? Are you getting your gimp on?
DO: Nothing. It’s private… I don’t want to talk about it (laughs). No, seriously though, I met a really great designer called Charlotte Kennedy a few months ago and we just started talking about…
LT: S&M?
DO: No, I just wanted to explore the possibility of having some stuff made. I do love clothes. Hopefully not in a superficial way. It’s really exciting to express yourself thru clothes, especially if you’re a performer. So I met Charlotte and she’s lent me some wicked clothes. I’ve never worn PVC until recently and she lent me an amazing PVC cape. I feel very different about PVC. I thought it was just for perverts, but there’s a sense of occasion that it calls for… She’s brought a PVC mac tonight. I’m gonna try it on and see what levels of perversion it’s doing for me.
SHK: All three of you are better known for playing jazz together as Tomorrow’s Warriors and Jade Fox. The Invisible is quite a big departure. To put it bluntly, it’s kinda rocky.
TH: We’re all into so much music. Just because we’ve done some stuff that some people know us for, it doesn’t mean we cant do something else. And even if it’s not that obvious, that stuff really informs how we play ‘rock music’ if you wanna call it rock music, for want of a better term..
LT: The thing is, jazz fans don’t dance… that’s the problem. They seem incapable of having a good time. I love it for what it is, but it’s not the only way.
TH: Jazz used to be a dance music: Duke Ellington, Chic Webb.
DO: Oh no, this is turning into a jazz history lesson. Next question.

SHK: Matthew Herbert produced your album. It’s sounding damn good.
DO: A lot of people were quite surprised when they find out that Matt produced that record. I don’t think it sounds like Herbert record, because he does have a very distinctive sound. That’s testament to the collaborative process, a dialogue about how ideas have been realized…
TH: His approach was wide open. It would have been a different record if he hadn’t been involved.
DO: Truth of the matter is, it wouldn’t have happened if he hadn’t been involved.

SHK: How long did it take to make the record?
LT: It took two weeks to record. We went away and recorded rhythm tracks and overdubs. We recorded 180 gigabytes worth of audio, which if you stretch that out – it’s quite a lot of music. Then it took a year to
complete and master.
DO: Not as long as Chinese Democracy.
LT: Longer than No Jacket Required.
DO: More of a jacket required scenario.
LT: It was definitely a suit required.

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