A Restless Instrumental Brings Together Clive Deamer, Dennis Hamm, and Bob Lanzetti
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Dan Webb has spent nearly two decades making music that refuses to sit still, and Hungry Ghosts
feels like one of the clearest expressions of that restless instinct. The Australian composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist brings together drummer Clive Deamer, keyboardist Dennis Hamm, and guitarist Bob Lanzetti for a track that moves like a neon-lit current: taut, propulsive, and always on the verge of breaking into something stranger.
Built as an uptempo instrumental, Hungry Ghosts
folds psychedelic jazz, rock, and electronic pressure into a single, shifting frame. Webb handles the composition, arrangement, production, performance, and mix himself, and that control gives the track its sense of architecture as much as momentum. Nothing feels accidental, even when the music starts to tilt toward the unpredictable. The synth bassline drives forward with a low, elastic throb while cosmic keys and improvisational bursts keep opening the floor beneath it. Deamer’s drumming adds a sharp, muscular snap; Hamm and Lanzetti bring the kind of detail that can only come from players who know exactly when to push and when to leave air around the notes.
The track’s emotional pull comes from its origin story. Webb wrote it after relocating from Melbourne to Singapore, where the experience of rebuilding a life in a new place found a fitting mirror in the Hungry Ghost Festival, with its rituals of remembrance and spirits wandering between worlds. As Webb puts it, Hungry Ghosts
became “a meditation on leaving one life behind and stepping into another,” and that feeling runs through the music. Even without lyrics, the piece carries the ache of displacement and the strange clarity that can arrive when everything familiar falls away. Its movement feels physical, but also psychological: a body in motion, a mind trying to catch up.
Webb’s work has long lived at the intersection of curiosity and risk, from his early progressive keyboard rock to the jazz-rock and electro-fusion turns that followed. Sunshine/Dialogue sharpened that reputation, and Hungry Ghosts
pushes it further, with a global cast and a sound that nods toward Miles Davis’s electric years, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Hendrix, and the elastic groove of Thundercat without ever settling into imitation. Webb draws from those lineages as a vocabulary, not a costume.
The accompanying video, built inside Webb Warp, extends that same restless logic into a reactive visual world, turning the track’s pulse into motion and light. It’s the kind of release that feels designed for listeners who like their music with voltage in it, their genre lines blurred, and their horizons left open.
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