Morgan Geist - Double Night Time

‘Double Night Time’ is the new album from Morgan Geist and his first solo artist album in over a decade.

After turning the dance music world on its head with his Metro Area project (alongside collaborator Darshan Jesrani) and mining rare disco gems with the seminal obscure disco DJ mix “Unclassics” (2004), Geist decided it was time to turn his attention to a solo album that would indulge his own early influences and guilty pleasures: techno-pop, prog rock and pure electronic music.

While “Double Night Time” is very much a solo flight, made during a challenging period in which dark personal themes inflected the compositions, Geist collaborated with friend and fellow new wave traveler Jeremy Greenspan (Junior Boys) for the vocal tracks on the album.

Unlike Metro Area or the disco music he DJs all over the world, a conscious decision was made to design an album that was almost purely electronic outside of human vocals, with classic synthetic sound design and arrangements.

And while the conceit of a producer-as-one-man-band is well-worn in today’s digital world, Geist felt he could do it differently, aiming for the compositional richness, subtlety and dynamics of an era when artists took their time, had bigger studio budgets and a more attentive listening public.

Morgan Geist ‘Double Night Time’ is released on Environ on September 29, 2008.

Tracklisting : 

01 Detroit
02 The Shore
03 Nocebo
04 Most Of All
05 Skyblue Pink
06 Ruthless City
07 Palace Life
08 City Of Smoke And Flame
09 Lullaby