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Radiohead's guitarist Ed O’Brien is set to become the band's fourth member to go it alone.
He has has announced an album, inspired by a year he spent in the Brazilian countryside with his family, due for release later this year.
Breaking the news with BBC 6 Music’s Matt Everitt, he said: “I said to the guys (...), me and my wife are gonna go and live in Brazil for a year. I don’t wanna put the kibosh on anything but this is something we have to do. Don’t feel you can’t make a record. Make a record without me, if I can come in later on, whatever … I’d had so many adventures with this band; I wanted to have an adventure with my family.”
Ed found musical inspiration in the processions running down the Sambadrome in Rio. “It was the greatest thing I’ve ever, ever, ever experienced in terms of music,” he told Matt. “Everyone sings. There must be 4,000 people in each samba school who parade down there, and the combination of writing music and that feeling of being there and being like, ‘Oh my god, music can be like this.’ It was so profound."
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