Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam

by Ghostpoet

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1.	One Twos 00:40	buy track
2.	Run Run Run 03:18	buy track
3.	Us Against Whatever Ever 04:27	buy track
4.	Finished I Ain't 04:18	buy track
5.	Longing For The Night 03:33	buy track
6.	Yeah Pause 00:16	buy track
7.	I Just Don't Know 03:35	buy track
8.	Survive It 04:21	buy track
9.	Gaaasp 05:27	buy track
10.	Cash And Carry Me Home 03:35	buy track
11.	Garden Path 02:49	buy track
12.	Liiines 04:50	buy track

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Recently migrated from the capital city of the West Midlands – Coventry – to the southerly climes of London, Ghostpoet looks set to make his mark on 2011. The softly spoken 24 year-old has already won over BBC Radio 1’s foremost tastemaker Gilles Peterson with a handful of off-kilter, loopy electronic ditties blessed with his delightfully rambling musings on modern life. Signing to Peterson’s Brownswood Recordings imprint, a free EP entitled ‘The Sound Of Strangers’ sidled into the public domain in June 2010. Comprising four tracks, three original compositions blessed with playful prose, one remix of A Tribe Called Quest’s ‘Electric Relaxation (Relax Yourself Girl)’… and a feature from left-leaning pop mastermind Micachu, it hit a hungry online audience and earned Ghostpoet a coveted spot in The Guardian’s New Band Of The Day feature as well as glowing recommendations from NME, CMJ, RCRDLBL, URB, Drowned In Sound and The Mercury Prize.

Born and raised somewhere between London, Coventry, Nigeria and Dominica, Obaro admits that his heritage is important to him, but that it hasn’t consciously affected his musical career: “My parents enjoyed listening to music around the house but never really encouraged it as a career. I kind of pursued listening to various sounds late into the night when the house was asleep.” And as for attempting to pinpoint his tastes… it’s hard to gauge when his palette flips from Badly Drawn Boy’s ‘The Hour Of The Bewilderbeast’ (the first CD he ever bought) to the angular dynamics of the UK grime scene via Iggy Pop, Fela Kuti, Radiohead, MF Doom and Squarepusher. This was the music that captured his imagination at university, where Obaro was part of a grime collective: “One of the guys made the beats with Reason, he taught me the basics and I kind of stumbled, bumbled and fumbled my way to the present.”

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released April 15, 2013

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British born Ghostpoet is a Doctor of Arts, Mercury Prize nominated musician, poet, DJ, activist and tea addict.

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