Photo: Ya Ting Kee

Australian composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Dan Webb has spent the past two decades developing a genre-crossing sound, drawing from disparate genres like jazz, rock and electronic music. A 2024 Music Producers & Engineers’ Guild of Australia Award nominee for Self-Producing Artist of the Year, Webb has built a reputation for taking an adventurous approach to composition and production. He has unveiled a brand new track, ‘Hungry Ghosts’, an energetic instrumental that blends psychedelic jazz-rock, daring improvisation and a driving groove. To bring ‘Hungry Ghosts’ to life, Webb assembled an impressive cast of musicians, including drummer Clive Deamer (Radiohead, Portishead), keyboardist Dennis Hamm (Thundercat) and guitarist Bob Lanzetti (Snarky Puppy). The track is inspired by Webb’s move from Melbourne to Singapore in 2023 and takes its title from Singapore’s annual Hungry Ghost Festival. Drawing on the festival’s themes, ‘Hungry Ghosts’ reflects the experience of leaving one chapter behind and adapting to life in a new environment. “‘Hungry Ghosts’ became a meditation on leaving one life behind and stepping into another,” Webb explains. “The festival is rooted in rituals of remembrance, wandering spirits, and the space between worlds, which mirrored my own psychological experience of relocating and rebuilding.”

Accompanying the single release is a striking and vibrant music video created entirely by Webb using his own Webb Warp, a free, synesthetic browser-based audiovisual platform, which lets users transform music into reactive 3D visuals in real time. Watch the video below.