Oscar Jerome has shared his new single ‘Desert Belly’.
The songwriter is on the march creatively, with recent single ‘Easier’ ending a period of silence. Working with alacrity, Oscar is compiling the follow-up to his excellent 2022 record ‘The Spoon’, and another dose of fresh audio is online now.
Available on streaming, ‘Desert Belly’ actually began as a sketch, with Oscar sampling one of his own recordings. Using this as a framework, the song becomes a full circle moment, a place of self-analysis while also longing for warmer days.
Soft and soulful, there’s a delicacy to Oscar’s approach which is matched to an assurance, and accuracy.
He explains…
It started off from me sampling the audio from a video of myself playing that I posted on instagram. Something about the roomy guitar sound felt very nostalgic to me. I then built the song around the sample. I wrote the lyrics while looking at a tiny flower growing out of a plant pot in my garden.
It was the first early sign of spring after a pretty depressing winter. It coincided with the starting of a new chapter in my life, time to plant some seeds and watch the flowers grow. I was longing for warmer days and wanted to give the feeling of trekking through a desert on an alien planet. The synths helped to bring a sci-fi-esque feel to it.
Tune in now.
Catch Oscar Jerome at the following shows:
April
10 Norwich Voodoos
11 Brighton Green Door Store
16 Glasgow King Tuts
17 Newcastle The Grove
18 Manchester Band On The Wall
19 Leeds Belgrave Hall
22 London SCALA
23 Bristol Thekla
Photo Credit: Amber Chen
