Tosin Abasi, acclaimed for his work with Animals As Leaders, has launched a brand-new authentic monitor titled “In Umbris.” Abasi each wrote and recorded the piece together with his new Córdoba Abasi Stage 7, which appears to be like fairly rattling cool.
The monitor was blended and mastered by his bandmate Javier Reyes, whereas the accompanying video was directed by Ivan Chopik.
Exterior that, no phrase on new Animals As Leaders outdoors a 2025 interview with Guitar World, the place Abasi stated he’d wish to spend a bit of 2025 engaged on (and hopefully finishing) the brand new document.
“We’re about to start pre-production on an album,” stated Abasi. “We do have some touring – we’re headed to Europe in a number of weeks – however I wish to spend a portion of this yr writing the document. In an ideal world, it will be written and recorded by the tip of this yr.”
Abasi additionally touched on his long-rumored blues album, noting that he is simply having enjoyable studying the style in the mean time. Which is a cool tackle creativity – merely having fun with the method as a substitute of working towards an finish aim, when perhaps that is not your best option.
“That is humorous, as a result of [Abasi Concepts COO, Ivan Chopik] is a improbable blues guitarist, and I might by no means actually gotten into the style. And there is superb gamers like Josh Smith and Eric Gales that I am like, ‘Okay, I have been lacking out.’
“So I had a second over the pandemic, the place I used to be like, ‘I am studying the blues,’ and I acquired actually into it, and I stated I might do an album. I gotta respect the artwork, and I do not know that I’ve advanced to the purpose the place I can [do it justice], you already know what I imply? But it surely’s enjoyable. It is enjoyable to fiddle with.”
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