It wont be the huge eyes behind the glasses that will hypnotize you. It also wont be the brightness of that much red cardigan. This edgy, jazzman look is hiding the creator of a new genre. A mixture of acid jazz + electric blues + slow beats+ meaningful lyrics and the most hypnotizing voice ever. This is Obaro Ejimiwe better known as Ghostpoet and one of the nominees for 2011 Mercury Prize.
The picture can actually make you think he's under hypnoze himself. I am pretty sure that if you look at him for quite a long time you might feel sleepy or a bit dizzy like those Youtube videos can do to you.
Ghostpoet does more than just writing what he thinks about women and what happens in his dreams, he takes you somewhere else. Listening to his songs for an hour, non stop, can make you reach some sort of weird musical melo climax. You get lost in his words and beats.
The music speaks for itself and tells you straight away that there is some anxiety going on in his mind. It's the perfect sound for that melo-dramatic atmosphere most of the people create around them without even noticing.
He is some sort of minimalist Dizee Rascal, that probably smokes a certain amount of weed and dreams about nightmarish scenarios before making a song out of them. (Which is, I beleive, by a very good idea) Now you tell me how can that not be amazing to listen to?!
He dreams about losing his girlfriend, she left him, she ran away. He wakes up in the morning and writes the song Run Run Run where he sings. " Runaway, be a real woman and fight another day, I heard that in a TV programme so it must be right...right?"
Second great idea he had while walking in the streets of its London hometown was remixing the famous 1990's track "Electric Relaxation" by Q TIP and calling it Love Confusion. Another tune that tells you how much his love life can suck sometimes.
The success came when he started supporting Metronomy and Jamie Woon in few festivals.His first single "Cash and Carry me Home" was released in Janauary 2011 followed by his debut album on 7 February 2011, Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam.
Let's just say it, the 28 year old man has actually created Peanut Butter Blues. Peanut butter Blues that just tastes amazing.
Enjoy the power of this TrUe OuTsIdEr !
xxx
No need of pictures really...
Love this guy !!
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