We love Blue Earth Sound, the project of Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist, bandleader and composer James Weir, and we’re very excited to hear he has a new album on the way. We first fell for the project with Cicero Nights, Weir’s 2025 debut which was one of our Album Picks of the year. After years spent making music with Chicago post-punk band NE-HI and synth-driven group Spun Out, Weir took things in a very different direction, building a jazz-inflected and cinematic sound around his love of improvisation. He followed the album earlier this year with The St. Louis Sessions EP, pushing his sound into a more spontaneous territory.
Entitled Everything to Remember, the new record sees him continuing to weave together jazz, soul, improvisation and cinematic music. Across ten instrumental compositions, Weir continues to explore music as a way of holding onto places, memories and feelings that are difficult to put into words. Everything to Remember brings together his longtime collaborators including drummer Patch Romanowski, Resavoir trumpeter Will Miller, flautist and saxophonist Eamonn Prizy and International Anthem engineer Dave Vettraino. The album was recorded over multiple sessions in Chicago, with demos also developed at Romanowski’s family cabin in Rome, Wisconsin, where Weir and his collaborators spent time working in a more secluded setting. Weir comments:
“We started recording in November of 2025 over multiple sessions with Dave at his new studio on the deep south side of Chicago. Trips to Patch’s family cabin in Rome, Wisconsin were done to get demos recorded and fleshed out in a rural, secluded, inspired space while listening to Pink Floyd B-sides, New Age music, Mizell Brothers productions, Marvin Gaye and The Smiths.”
Everything to Remember is slated for a November 20th release through DeepMatter Records. It seems like a long while away but luckily we can already hear the beautiful, soulful and nostalgic ‘Limiter’, an exhilarating introduction to what’s coming. Speaking about the track, Weir says:
“This one was really written by the live band core of me, Martin Diaz, Patch Romanowski, Eamonn Priz and Michaels Wells. Had an absolute blast recording the psychedelic harmonica stems, inspired by Ludwig Goransson’s productions, and the Durutti column echo on the guitar in post-production, with moody Talk Talk space in the interlude. Gotta keep ‘em guessing.”
We can’t wait to hear the rest. Now listen to ‘Limiter’ below.
