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INDIAN SITAR, ROCK AND REGGAE PUT INTO A COCKTAIL MOLOTOV,
TAKE A TRIP WITH PSYCHO KEY AND
BLOW YOUR MIND !
"Psycho Key is able to invent their own sound by mixing ancient, modern and multicultural musical influences in
their own brilliant way” Wolfgang Grabenau.
Psycho Key was born on a beach in the Dominican Republic in 1996 and has become an extraordinary and
unique collaboration of individuals influenced by the world at large.The music of Psycho Key is rock vocals, reggae
beats, Indian sitars, wailing guitars, and a grooved bottom-end thrown in a blender, mixed on high to gather
a new world sound.
The band has just completed their 6th European tour this summer, with a unique audio-visual performance that takes us on a magic trip around the world and within their unique musical landscape. During their shows, they play along and interact with the independent films they made in India and the Caribbean. One production is the true story of a Rasta farmer working on his plantation, trying to get off his Island to see the world. The other is a mystical voyage through India
“Once they started, it was clear they had been building a kind of music that is rare, if not unique.” The St. Lucia
Mirror, Jason Sifflet “
Past touring highlights include the Montreux Jazz Festival '03,The Burg Herzberg Festival '05, Festival de la Paille '06, the Guadeloupe Jazz Festival '05, Muisiglanzgmeind '05, St. Lucia's Kalalu World Music Festival '05, St. Lucia's Jazz Festival '06, Zytanien festival '06, Festival de la Paille '06, and the Scene Ella Fitzgerald in Geneva '06.
Psycho Key has released 5 albums since being together, Wicked Dream, La La Land,
Autrement dit and Jetty, and sweed. The band is now recording their next album. They alos released two live dvd's (check psychokey.com)
All members now spend their time in the hills of St. Lucia. Kyra Jolliet (lead singer) is Canadian born with
Russian roots, Nicolas Jolliet (sitarist, guitarist) has traveled around the world hunting stringed instruments
(sitar, oud, esraj, surbahar), Clint Adjodha (bass, vocals) was born in Barbados, raised in Canada, and now living
his Indian heritage, and Azanaya (drums, vocals), a Rasta from his St. Lucian mountain community. Psycho
Key’s members use their different cultural backgrounds to make their own musical world and create an incredible
realization of artistic vision and repertoire.
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