Radiohead's Ed O'brien is to release his debut solo album next year. The album will be Brazil inspired, written while he was living in the country this year.
The guitarist, speaking to the BBC's 6 Music said that he was inspired while living in the countryside with his family five or six years ago.
"We lived on a little farm in basically a hut the size of this room next door,” he said. “Life was really simple. Kids went to the local school. No one could speak English, so they picked it up, the language of play and stuff."
He continued: "And life was reduced to its simple parts. For me, it was music and my family. And I would go each day, walk up the hill to this beautiful little hut next to this lake, and I started writing. And I took out all this gear — cause Thom said, you know, 'You’re really good at, just do all the ProTools stuff!' And I applied myself, cause I never really applied to it, and I sat and after about eight weeks, I said “I’m not feeling this, this is rubbish!"
O'Brien's experience of the Brazilian Carnival atmosphere inspired the album, calling the event "the greatest show on earth."
The album is due out next year and will be the guitarist first solo album.
