Joe Geni

Listen on…

Sometimes you’re on the platform. Sometimes you’re on the train. Sometimes it’s farewell for the last time.

This is a climate change record. But it’s not just that. It’s a change record. Every song is about multiple things at once, but a solastalgic elegy for lands abandoned and decisions made runs through the proceedings. Much of this record was composed and recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic, a time of upheaval, uncertainty, isolation, and loss.

Doggerland is a vast flat expanse in the North Sea that once connected Britain to continental Europe. Until the last ice age, it was a forested land populated by humans, but when sea levels rose, it was submerged, and the people who lived there were forced to leave.

Each of my records has some sort of musical conceit to focus my energies. This time, it’s the question of coexistence between the organic and the synthetic… specifically, whether my trusty Warwick $$ Corvette bass guitar—survivor of Superstorm Sandy, itself a harbinger of climate change’s effects on our cities—can share the low end with my Roland TB-3 bass synthesizer. I sought to use both instruments on every song, and managed for most of them.