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Andy Mayo - Dreams of a Homecoming
“Press
Release: Turquoise Tracks 03/02/03".
Newly released by Andy Mayo on the Turquoise
Tracks label, "Dreams of a Homecoming". A fusion of funk, jazz and R&B: melting ballads contrast with driving rhythms. A lyrical poetry soaks the recording... Andy's
blues-folk vocal lines - now raw, now mellow - cut to the soul. These are songs
that echo long after the CD has stopped spinning.
Hauntingly melodic contributions from the versatile jazz saxophonist
Nick Beston of "Take5" and "NBQ" complement the rich talent of Stan
Mayerski on keyboards ranging from Hammond to Grand.
Creative interplay between vocals, bass, drums, guitars, saxes,
keyboards and sequencing - arrangements skilfully sculpted by Stan
Mayersky - make for an imaginative, surprising recording.
With an unlikely eclectic of influences ranging from Morcheeba to
Bob
Dylan; Tracey Chapman to Ronnie Jordon, these songs were written
in the
shelled remains of the former Yugoslav Republics where London-born
Andy
made his home for these last seven years. Against this stark background
of civil war, bombings and deserted dwellings, a cry for peace and
a
homecoming stand out vividly.
After a honing in the streets, bars, train stations and cafés of
Belgrade, Vienna, Sarajevo and London, these passionate songs of
longing
and peace are finally available on CD.
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