Award-winning multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer Danny Keane has released “Passing Time”, the second single from his upcoming sophomore album Kinesis, due 10 July 2026. The track is available now, with the album open for pre-order via Keane’s official website and Bandcamp.
“Passing Time” reveals the more contemplative side of Kinesis, evoking what Keane describes as “a mood of gentle melancholy which rises to optimism.” Yet beneath its reflective surface, the composition retains the rhythmic intricacy and global musical language that has defined Keane’s career. At its core is a layered metric structure built around 3 against 4, introduced through tabla, reflecting his long-standing engagement with Indian rhythmic traditions and cross-cultural composition.
Keane frames the piece as a kind of musical pause—an emotional snapshot of transition: the end of a tour, the closing of a recording session, or the reflective quiet that follows intense creative work. It captures the duality of modern musician life, where stillness and complexity often coexist, and where downtime can become unexpectedly revealing.
Known for collaborations with artists including Mulatu Astatke, Anoushka Shankar, Nitin Sawhney, Damon Albarn, Penguin Café, and The Heliocentrics, Keane continues to operate at the intersection of jazz, classical, and global experimental music. His upcoming performance with Mulatu Astatke at London’s Royal Festival Hall on 17 June 2026 further underscores his deep ties to cross-cultural musical exchange.
Following his 2019 debut Roamin’, Kinesis represents both a return and a redefinition. After years of touring and collaboration, Keane has shifted focus toward a more personal artistic vision, assembling a wide ensemble of collaborators to realise a body of work shaped by movement—geographical, rhythmic, and emotional.
The album spans six tracks, each distinct yet conceptually linked through ideas of flow, transition, and temporal perception. Among them, “Cathartic Chaos” stands out as a high-energy collaboration with oud player Adnan Joubran, combining modular synth patterns with improvisational Arabic classical phrasing to create a dialogue between traditions rather than a fusion of them.
Across Kinesis, Keane explores the tension between structure and spontaneity, discipline and release. The result is a genre-fluid record shaped by classical training, improvisational freedom, and an ongoing curiosity about how musical systems from different parts of the world can intersect without losing their identity.
Kinesis tracklist:
- Running
- Passing Time
- Cathartic Chaos
- Somnolent Stomp
- A Major Minor Waltz
- Time To Go
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