Multi-hyphenate artist Chebba talks about upcoming album release, BLAKTREK

Wednesday April 1st, 2026 9:46 AM

I got the opportunity to sit with Omnirhythm Recordings artist, Chebba, to discuss his upcoming album BLAKTREK. He sat across from me unassumingly and allowed me to pick his brain about his newest album that will soon be shared with the rest of the world on April 6th, less than a week from now. While being blessed to experience the full album before its release, I can confirm that this music definitely took me on a "trek".

BLAKTREK, an album dressed in Chebba's unique and no-wave style of hypnotic guitar playing is the closest sound and feeling of riding a chrome spaceship through portals of vibrant electricity. The flow of instrumentation and words with each next track pulls you closer to him and his lineage of spiritual, artistic language.

In this album you'll hear Chebba's mastery in his signature unquantized style drumming, with even a rare, more stripped back acoustic piece titled "Lily N' Larry". 15 songs strong, BLAKTREK invites you in to embrace the journey, making what you want out of it. Here's what we talked about.

Conversation: BLAKTREK

A: What was your favorite song to make for BLAKTREK?

C: Um, probably... I mean probably um...

A: [sings "THE REGALIAAAA!"]

C: Yeah, I liked making that one. I think "KILLING MEDUSA" was my favorite because it

started as a longer song, a 3-part song. The 3rd part is what "KILLING MEDUSA" is. When I got to that section of the song, it was like it clicked... this shit right here is really what I fuck with.

A: I feel it. Wow, wait... what number album is this?

C: [Counts on fingers] 10.

A: And you first dropped music in 2016?

C: Yeah.

A: Wow, so this is your 10/10. 10th body of work, 10th year. You put in your 10,000 hours!

C: Right, it feels that way especially now because I have the physical means for it. Like, the proof of such.

A: What would you want people to take away from listening to BLAKTREK?

C: Umm, I mean, you know, I don't really consider what other people gon' get from it a lot of the time because it's not, ya know... I can't really determine that per se.

A: Mm-hmm...

C: I just want them to have the same effect that I have when I listen to music like, ok, this is a person doing something and I could see myself doing that; music that feels tangible to people. You can break apart what is tangible and what's larger than life. And you may feel like "Maybe I can produce a project."

C & A: [ laughs]

C: And that's the whole point, you can do it too, I'm just showing and proving. My vision is outside of inspiring people, it's more-so like "a writer working on his next book."

C (continued): My perspective is multiple perspectives integrated coming from one perspective, you know what I'm sayin', it's not just solely about me. I get my own words and put them into some sort of universal element, and put it into song. At this point I trust myself enough to know that what I'm doing is just being genuine on the track.

A: Right.

C: That's what songwriting is all about. Confidence.

A: Yeah, trusting the pen and your stream of consciousness. Are you able to see a through-line in your projects? Like the story of what you've been pondering over the years?

C: I mean, definitely!

A: [laughs] Undeniably.

C: I understand I started making high-concept art from the beginning. The music in the beginning, I look at those things

like amateur, youthful artist sketches, an examination. But now of course the concepts come off a little more adult - more grown in the approach behind what I'm sayin'. And even the instrumentation, it literally has switched and shifted the backdrop behind what I'm writing.

A: So right now, you're writing from the ponderings of a "BLAKTREK". It's quite an intriguing concept.

C: Right now I've stepped into the omnirhythms and realms of it all. My last project, Who"R"You, People ? - everything is just a looking out at life and trying to figure that out.

A: Do you find answers thru your songs?

C: Definitely. It's always subliminal because most of the time when I'm writing and recording it's not something that I'm focused on articulating - it's just words coming about. And I try not to think about if it even makes sense.

A: Same, that's relatable.

C: Yeah, and I might feel like it could relate to me, what I'm writing. But I just understand most people and most things. So, it doesn't really matter what I say, I just know where it's coming from. Ya know, like being endowed with the audacity.

A & C: [laughs]

A: I love that. Endowed with the audacity! Btw, I love the artwork for this album too.

C: I planted these seeds in the artwork and the music and it's just growing and growing, and not for what anyone else is thinking, but for what I made it to be. And then in the future it's literally gonna sprout into something else.

A: Word!

C: But like in my project "THE IRONY OF SAYIN IM (F***#**) DEAD", I'm not in the ground anymore, I've risen to my standards. Now I'm at BLAKTREK, I'm like, in a spaceship traveling in these higher realms; Now, we can truly start to explore. I started in the archestra and now I have my own spaceship. I'm coasting.