Morbee talks about ‘All the Beauty’ and what the writing process and inspiration behind the single was: “The opening lines of this song were changed to reflect the Covid-19 context that caused me to delay the release of the album.
“‘There's a scarecrow standing in the middle of the street (metaphor for Covid-19). Everyone's playing hide-and-seek (lockdown). Every day seems exactly the same (extended lockdown).’ The gist of the song is accepting that life is a series of ups and downs.”
I caught up with Morbee last week:
Wobbly starts and broken hearts.
An unexpected consequence of pursuing something others revere - a by-product rather than the target.
A bizarre construct that ‘removes’ the most knowledgeable and experienced people from the ‘think-tank’, perpuating an ageist culture.
Politics
Freedom and therapy.
Observation of the human journey.
Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Nicks and Robert Smith.
Within.
The creative metamorphosis of something out of nothing.
Push me to the floor, Baby be Mine and Giant Mistake.
I once agreed to get wheeled onto stage in some magician’s cage as part of a trick to start the show - let’s just say the “ta-da” moment was pretty underwhelming and the laughter (and confusion) from both the audience and my band mates was at my expense.
My Gran, da Vinci, Aristotle, Newton, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, Paul McCartney, Freddy Mercury, Stevie Nicks and Leo Fender.
James Bond, James Dean, Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan, David Bowie
Paul McCartney. The original singer-songwriter that certainly inspired me to want to journey into songwriting and experiment with genres using pop sensibilities.
My guitar collection.
Old fashioned.
Glastonbury - main stage.
I think my voice is identifiable.
Gingis and Oddball.
I’m currently playing house dad and enjoying it.
Restless, enthusiastic, curious, ambitious and hopeful.
Squeal – Long Pig; Perez – Wasted out; Springbok Nude Girls – Goddank vir klank and Johnny Clegg – Third World Child.
The Big Lebowski.
Great Mental Models – Volume 2 - Book by Rhiannon Beaubien and Shane Parrish.
A Day in the Life - The Beatles.
My wife, family, friends and myself.
Effervescent.
Hats.
A luxury train ride to the Vic Falls and then chilling out on a houseboat for two weeks.
I'm sure you've got some time to kill, or maybe wanna drown out the day... If so, give 'A World at Suicide' a spin... The album is out pic.twitter.com/tPeJ32oGAd
— Kahn Morbee (@KahnMorbee) September 23, 2021
The fact that I somehow turned my hobby into a vocation.
Politicians.
The speed of time.
Escape.
Be kind.
Impassioned perhaps, but not overly. I’m not a shout-at-the-TV kind of guy. I do enjoy the collective experience of watching sport and going with the vibe.
On a luxury train.
Generally stuff that involves awareness around preservation of the planet. I have become very skeptical of charities recently but that’s a lengthy rabbit hole, and this is not the format.
To keep aspiring to be the best version of myself, be valuable, kind and uplifting to those around me and my community and hope that ethos radiates outwards.
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