2015 saw the release of an EP, 19,000 Objects, featuring trip hop beats, ambient washes, heavy beats, live instrumentation, and clattering rhythms, spread over four epic tracks. Later in 2015, The Beauty Of Melody Records released an EP, Pegasus Tornado, followed by an album. The Delirium Introduction saw the sound develop to include ambient house, dub, vocal tracks, and more cosmic, way-out moments.

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2016's A Sound Is a Memory is snappier than the previous albums, and each track on the album segues into the next, creating a continuous flow of music, intercut with samples of children's voices and other sound effects. Recorded at the same time was the Airways EP, the title track being a 20 minute, four part epic, and two other tracks from previous albums' sessions.

 

Family Album was next in 2017, a warm, organic album which tracks a journey from morning to night, the music providing a dreamy soundtrack. Early 2018 saw the release of Aliens, recorded in 2015, which harks back to the experimental concept of the early work, with darker and heavier sounds, though with many moments of beauty.

 

Light Touching For Heaven in an Everlasting Mercury was released in October 2018, and is a return to the cinematic, wide screen approach of “Further / Closer”, this time being unique in featuring Robert’s own vocals for the first time. Musically the tracks range from funky beats and bass lines, to the grand title track, taking in propulsive ambient house, Floyd-ian landscapes, and more meditative moments.

 

In January 2020 two companion EPs, Hummm and Turbulent Mediator, were released. These demonstrated Robert’s love of shoegaze music, being guitar based with lots of delayed guitar with full band bass and drums being utilised. This marks a new approach for Robert Crosbie / Geisha, and while all eight tracks could have made up the eighth RC/G album, the two EPs are works in themselves. Also in 2020, a second Airways EP was released, continuing the saga with another epic multi-part track.

 

The first new album in three years was released in June 2021. Afterglow is inspired by music from the late 80s and early 90s, and is part of a trilogy of albums exploring how the sounds of that time period can inform the creative process. While many of the sounds taken from that time appear (big drums, twangy Fender Stratocaster guitars, fretless bass, moody synths), they are combined with the familiar Robert Crosbie/Geisha palette of lush ambient soundscapes, deep dub bass, and shoegaze guitars.

 

The second album of the trilogy, The Global Machine, was released in February 2022 and consists of two distinct halves – the first being more accessible music, the second more experimental - with a strong influence from progressive rock and pop of the era.

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In February 2023 the final part of the trilogy, Epoch, was released. This represented a more earthy, experimental, and progressive album, influenced by David Sylvian, King Crimson, and Can, as well as late 80s ambient music, such as Brian Eno and Holger Czukay.

 

Regarding influences, Robert says "Susumu Yokota, The Orb, Seefeel, The Beatles, Boards of Canada, Air, Brian Eno and King Crimson are all artists who've influenced me, and my wish was to mix together everything I loved about them to come up with something unique that hasn't really been done before. A big part of the focus is on the live instruments. It's making electronic music organically." 

 

The sound of Geisha is truly an original one.

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REVIEWS/PRESS​

 

Beach Sloth: "...epic works...meticulously crafted...reaches a point of pure nirvana..."

 

Red Bull: Top Irish albums of 2013 (Geisha at #28)

 

Dan Hegarty (2FM): "‘Further/Closer’ is a stunning piece of work from Geisha. It is perhaps the perfect soundtrack to those twilight hours where the world seems to slow down momentarily. This is music that crosses generations and genres. A compliment too far? Listen and judge for yourself."

 

Cyclic Defrost: "...deep, immersive stuff that contains more than a bit of unease just below the surface..."

 

Tuning Into The Obscure: "...a definite masterpiece...everything on this album works and fits perfectly and leaves me aching for a follow up"

 

Vital Weekly: "...Geisha shares the same affinity with The Orb when comes to placing such distinctly different musical genres next to each other and actually can get away with it"

 

Road Records: "..."Fans of the ambient glitchy soundscapes of the likes of Christian Fennesz, Brian Eno and Susumu Yokoto will instantly fall in love with this understated little gem of an album. There is some lovely slide guitar sounds thrown over the top of this totally dreamlike sound to create one of the finest Irish collections of ambient electronic music; really, really superb stuff and well worth your attention" (on "The Sounds Of Geisha")