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Pyepi

Comfortably Unplugged

About Me

My musical journey started about four years old,with being given a guitar,unfortunately owing to lack of necessary guidance,the guitar became firewood,and so the years rolled by with typical juvenile misdameanours and punishing incarceration.A period of nomadic urban coming of age away from home,the arts offered a sense of purpose and adventure,with social responsibility the late 70's cultural vibrancy had me throwing away my comb and loosing family endz.Squatting was more than anything i could have imagined,my travels had taken me to a junction unequipped with the experiences of a musical consevatoire education,but for some reason the dulcet melodic tones of the flute,a woodwind instrument consisting of pipe with holes to be fingered,enchanted me.Of course my only concern was the rebel general did not have a flautist in the Wailers,so i knew there was a place to be filled,now i had to get hold of my chosen weapon which did'nt prove too difficult,with the aid of a grant from a charitable organisation.I was now in the fast lane with players of the early 80's ladbroke grove melting pot,in no time i was rubbing shoulders with the likes of Don Cherry,Mark Stewart,Bim Sherman,Sean Oliver and many others too cool to mention.Stay tuned.

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Member Since: 8/30/2007
Band Website: None
Band Members: Pyepi And Friends
Influences: Eric Dolphy.Roland Kirk.Louis Armstrong.Jean Pierre Rampal.Miles Davies.James Galway.Jimi Hendrix.Sarah Vaughan.Johnny Cash.Smokie Robinson.Patsy Kline.Parliment.Teddy Pendegrass.Bob Marley.James Brown.Theolonius Monk.James Blood Ulmer.Sun Ra.Rip Rig And Panic.Ornette Coleman.Maurice Ravel.Handel.Public Enemy.Art Blakey.The Clash.Sex Pistols.Talking Heads.Paganini.Billy Holiday.Duke Ellington.Obie Trice.Robert Johnson.Labi Siffre.Twinkle Brothers.Marcus Garvey.Culture.U Roy.Roots Manuva.Seal.Sade.Blue Cantrell.Sydney Bechet.Santana.The Last Poets.Aretha Franklyn.Monteverdi.Charlie Parker.The Beetles.Django Rheinhardt.Third World.Cat Stevens.Ella Fitzgerald.Elgar.Mary J Blige.T Rex.Nina Simone.Faith Evans.Curtis Mayfield.Al Green.Pat Metheny.Hubert Laws.Herbie Mann.Sam Cooke.Scott Joplin.
Sounds Like: Jazzy.Folky.Classical.Free Form.Improvised.
Record Label: Unsigned
Type of Label: None