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MP3 Ayo Bamidele - Healing Time
10 MP3 Songs in this album (33:36) !
Related styles: Pop: Folky Pop, Folk: Urban Folk, Type: Acoustic
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Healing Time New album released 7 March.
Probably the best album of Ayo''s career to date with 10 new songs, featuring Ayo''s soulful and emotive vocals. Musically, Ayo has used various acoustic guitar parts, synthesised strings and over dubbed backing vocals, to create his most accessible work since 2002''s River Roding.
Also for the first time, Ayo on 7 inch vinyl, with the limited edition single, Healing Time (300 copies only), also released 7th March. The B-side includes the track Joseph Fought an Angel which does not appear on any album, and a re-recording of End of The World which first appeared on the album Volume 2.
Stuck outside the mobile with this urban blues again - Tom Waits got answered, rootsy way.
Ayo Bamidele, the man behind the DELTA BLUE moniker, may be a Londoner but his African heritage shows, and it is the crux of the matter, of the where and the why this music feels so full of grace. So full of soul opened to the gloom of the city and light of hope in equal measures.
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Ayo Bamidele is an independent music maker based in London, England. He has been involved in music for over 20 years. His music takes on a mixture of styles soul, jazz and folk. Its a mellow sound, full of rich melodies and thought provoking lyrics, the main feature has to be Ayo`s distinctive deep and soulful vocals. Comparisons have been made with such luminaries as Richie Havens, Van Morrison, Tracy Chapman and John Martyn.
Ayo was born in London in, his parents came to England from Nigeria in the early sixties. His early musical experiences were listening to his parents juju and highlife records, King Sunny Ade, Ebenezer Obe and Prince Nico are just a few of the artists. Although the songwriting started when Ayo was around 13 he didn''t actually get his first guitar until four years later. So began a frustrating period of slowly learning to write songs. Not finding any vibrant musical community to join and benefit from this was a largely solitary labour of love. A turning point was attending a music summer school in 1989 and being tutored by the late Isaac Guillory.
"Playing with Isaac for a few short sessions was a revelation, he basically showed me how to turn the song lyrics and melodies into properly formed songs"
After playing in a succession of bands and developing his songwriting skills Ayo finally started to gain some success a few years ago, he formed a band Delta Blue under which he would perform and record. The EP The Place Where Love Is was released in on Ayo''s own Nesta Records https://www.tradebit.com the next two years worked with bass player Holger Gafert. The line up complemented by various drummers, keyboards, sax , flute and percussion players. The Place Where Love received excellent reviews and was compared in some places to the work of Nick Drake for its orchestral arrangement. This led to some prestigious live dates supporting the late Ian Dury, Jazz Jamaica and Glen Tilbrook among others. The band completed their debut album Soul Sketches in 2000 with producer Roger Askew (Christy Moore, Spike Drivers), working on several tracks. The remaining tracks were produced by the band themselves.
Ayo put The Song Makers Project together in 2001 releasing the complilation The Song Makers Project Volume 1. This included tracks from Billy Bragg, Eric Bibb and a host of less well known acts. This was again released on Ayo''s Nesta Records label. With funding from the Arts Council he organised a short tour of England playing in London, Brighton, Bristol Nottingham and Newcastle. He also set up https://www.tradebit.com the internatonally reknowned roots music fanzine.
In 2002 Ayo formed a full four piece band including his longtime collaborator Paolo Losi on Keyboards. They recorded the album River Roding again with Roger Askew, at Utopia Studio''s in Hertfordshire. This is an album of outstanding beauty including tracks such as Waterfall, Once in my life, Every Day, High and many more.
Ayo is currently recording solo and has produced several highly regarded Solo Acoustic Albums.
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