Jamie Brooke

Jamie Brooke is a UK singer and songwriter, a political activist, an economist, humanitarian worker and Buddhist. He lived in Africa for over 10 years and in India and Afghanistan since early 2002 and has a PhD in political-economy from the University of Durham. He has been an advisor to numerous governments, including President Karzai as well as international organizations including the UN and World Bank. In addition to music he writes (under his real name) articles and stories about globalization, the state of capitalism, foreign policy and the crisis of human suffering. His songs and poetry are an expression of his particular journey, of love, of loss, and the inevitable alchemy of time and space that Poet’s Dream of. He believes that we are all ‘bound by the limits of our own imagination’ and that against the odds human beings may just be clever enough to survive the ravages of time. Jamie believes that the current ‘extremes’ of global capitalism, between those who have 'too' much and those who have nothing but their dignity, have set the world on a trajectory towards a social and environmental crisis. In addition to his music he is currently working on a number of novels, one that is to globalization what Animal Farm was to communism and a novel about fate, love, freedom, imagination, the road not taken and facing the fear of loosing it all.



Jamie's debut album 'Violet Symphony' captures the spirit and mood of reflection and rebirth - of twilight days, denial and rediscovery, the pulse of life's rock and roll. Written and composed between late 2005 and spring 2006, and recorded at Sound Advice recording studios in New Delhi, India, Violet Symphony explores the spiritual journey of roads both taken and untaken; of highs to lows - stops to goes. The album is the synthesis of more than a little dreaming and scheming, bought to life by a serendipitous union of people from different backgrounds around a common purpose. In musical terms this is a distinctive mix of the 'alternative'; essential and vivid listening. The album was mastered in Turtletone Studios New York.

We are bound by a common destiny, intricately woven together like a single story; the letters and words that brings our collective tapestry into one. Life is a story of roads not taken; of choices, of consequences, of gains and losses, of happiness and regrets, of love found and love torn apart. Yet, in each and every action, there is a Violet Symphony - an invisible feel - that guides us on. A winding road that brings us to the centre of the storm! A love that keeps you warm when winter bites hard! A smile that lights the way ahead! An unexpected stranger who makes your day and turns your life around! A fleeting touch or kiss that will be remembered until your dying breath! Of new adventures, young and old, beginning and ending.