Kele Okerekes (photo © live4ever)
Acclaimed electronic producer Hudson Mohawke has revealed he has been working on Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke’s debut solo album.
Speaking to BBC Radio 1Xtra, Hudson confirmed rumours that Okereke was set to record a solo album after appearing to put his band on the back burner after they recently completed their long ‘Bloctober’ tour last month.
“It hasn’t been finalised yet, but I’m doing a bit of stuff for Kele from Bloc Party’s solo album,” Hudson said. “He’s doing a record with one of the guys from Spank Rock.”
The news comes after Kele Okereke threw doubt on the future of Bloc Party in the summer when he said: “We don’t know what the future holds. It’s weird, we’re out of contract now so we might take a year off, we might take three years off we might never make a record again or we might head straight back in and do a record. We’ll see how we feel come the end of this touring cycle.”
Bloc Party’s final release to date was the non-album single ‘One More Chance’, which hit the UK Top 20 in August 2009.