Der in Österreich geborene und heute in Berlin lebende Musiker Christian Haudej, besser bekannt als inaud1bl3, hat ein neues Projekt unter dem Namen GIGI (mit G wie Georg) ins Leben gerufen und kündigt für das kommende Jahr ein erstes Album unter dem Titel “The Second Coming” an, die beiden Vorab-Singles “And The Universe Does The Rest” und “The Meaning Of Life” sind bereits in den nächsten Tagen über das Label generate and test erhältlich. Die Songs sollen dem Musiker zufolge recht spontan improvisiert worden sein. Mit ihrem kompakten Songformat und ihrer klassischen, tief in der Kiste der Popgeschichte verwurzelten Aura, aus der man die Punkwurzeln, die Jazzerfahrung und die Meriten als Produzent experimenteller Elektronik herauszuhören meint, geben sie einen guten Vorgeschmack auf das, was einen auf dem Longplayer erwarten mag.
“GIGI, with the g’s pronounced as in guitar, was born as Christian Haudej in Austria where he started playing bass in a punk rock band by the age of fifteen and later on received a master’s degree in jazz-guitar before moving to Berlin and intensifying his interest in experimental electronic and complex-rhythm based music. From 2014 on he has used the alias inaud1bl3 and for the first time since his punk-rock days sung his own lead vocals. Since 2019 he has released 6 albums and 2 e.p.’s on the generate and test label of Austrian computer-music pioneers farmers manual. ‚And The Universe Does The Rest‘ and ‚The Meaning Of Life‘ are the first singles from the album The Second Coming which will be released in 2024. The slightly over 26 minutes short album is his first release as GIGI. It is tightly packed with smashing pophit-songstructure-based bangers and compressed to the essential but still leaves space for breathing.
GIGI sings in English and the performance ranges from heartfelt whispering through melodic narrations to energetic shouting. The driving, rhythmically accentuated and, at times, expressive and emotional lead vocals are backed up by elaborated self-harmonizing or angelic choirs that can also be spiced up by some demonic voices occasionally. In the year 2013 GIGI turned his home into something of a yoga cave. In ‚And The Universe Does The Rest‘ he communicates his situation while progressing in inner transformation and the fact that ‚success‘ in white magic is gained by consistently repeating the same basic simple methods. [...] In 2014 GIGI was blacking-out multiple times daily while doing his breathing method routines as he describes in ‚The Meaning Of Life‘. It’s a song about the possibility of connecting through either socio-cultural or spiritual behavior and that through this connection a field is created”. (generate and test)