Nubya Garcia - The Seer (Single)

Picture Credit: Danika Lawrence

Nubya Garcia has shared details of her forthcoming new album, Odyssey, and released rousing lead single, The Seer.

The Seer reflects Garcia’s efforts to find clarity.  “Wishing that you could get a peek at the future,” she says, “or even just gathering some guidelines in your own future so that you could know that you're on the right path.”  Whilst the song is about trying to catch a glimpse of the future, the music - with its ominous piano chords, stampeding drum break and blazing saxophone - charges forcefully to the unknown.

Odyssey - set to be released on 20th September via Concord Jazz - is, as the title suggests, an ambitious, epic journey of an album.   In a largely male-dominated scene, Garcia has carved herself a prominent space and she invites other brilliant Black female musicians to join her for this adventure, namely; Esperanza Spalding, Richie Seivwright and Georgia Anne Muldrow.  Odyssey is produced by Garcia and returning collaborator Kwes.

Describing the overarching theme behind the project, Garcia says; “It represents the notion of truly being on your own path, and trying to discard all the outside noise saying you should go this way or that way.”  It’s also inspired by life’s ever-changing, ever-continuing adventure, the twists and turns of living.  Musically, the album finds Garcia orchestrating strings for the first time, having fallen back in love with composition and then painstakingly studied a vast array of orchestral sounds.  The bigger, bolder result is a widescreen soundscape that traverses jazz, classical, R&B and dub.  Odyssey follows Garcia’s widely celebrated and Mercury Music Prize nominated 2020 debut, Source.