More touring followed, but personnel changes within Blue Note's parent company (Capitol) left Geoff with the chance to leave and rejoin working with the A&R executive that initially signed him in 1992. The result was a deal with Sony in NY and a chance for Geoff to spread his wings. "I felt I had achieved my goals at Blue Note and was looking for a new challenge," Geoff says. The Blue Note samples were ditched and in came 2 new vocalists, rapper Michelob, and singer Alison Crockett. But before the album was complete a major personnel upheaval at Sony left Us3 in limbo. "It wasn't a great time and left a sour taste" admits Geoff. "It took nearly 2 years of legal argument before I got back the rights to my own album."

Eventually the third Us3 album "An Ordinary Day In An Unusual Place" was released in 2001 by Toshiba EMI in Japan, and Universal in Europe. The album itself represented a quantum leap in the Us3 sound. Alison's vocals oozed soul and musically Geoff had successfully incorporated elements of drum'n'bass, Latin, and Indian music into the mix. "I've always had a very wide ranging taste in music and this was my chance to show it", explains Geoff. "I also wanted to do something more overtly political, and Alison & Mich have both written some great socio-economic observations". Several European and Japanese tours took place throughout 2002, and the crowd reactions were incredible. It was, however, no surprise to Geoff when another round of major label personnel cuts at Universal left Us3 homeless.

Despite the major label merry-go-round in Europe & the US, virtually the same staff were still at Toshiba EMI in Japan. A deal was concluded and the 4th Us3 album "questions" was released in Japan in 2003. This time Geoff has ditched the samples completely and made an album heavily influenced by both his love of Latin music and the in-vogue nu-soul movement. Brooklyn rapper Reggi Wyns and London-based (South Africa-born) female singer Mpho Skeef are the featured vocalists, bringing the Us3 sound right up to date. "It's important to keep evolving" says Geoff, "there's been a decreasing reliance on samples with each Us3 album, and "questions" is the culmination of that. And it was kinda nice working with some live musicians rather than dead ones!"
(source:www.us3.com)