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Aleister Kelman

About Me

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Aleister Kelman is a singer-songwriter living, gigging and creating in London. Taught to play Leonard Cohen songs on the guitar by his mother and raised on a household diet of 60s reggae, 70s rock and Mississippi blues, his influences have grown to range from Brazilian Tropicalia to Carribean Calypso to Latin Jazz to 90s RnB. The resulting sound is an eclectic sunshine mix made from catchy melodies and finger clicking rhythms, strung together by an optimistic sense of songwriting.

His demo was recorded across two high and windy days deep in the month of May at Kite Studios. The songs are free so download them, put them on your MP3 player, listen to them, listen to them again and give them to your friends.

Aleister is performing at Secret Garden Party this summer as well as some other major UK festivals to be announced.

Live @ Secret Garden Party 09

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 05/10/2008
Band Website: aleisterkelman.co.uk
Band Members: Aleister Kelman - guitars & vocals
Influences: A random few of many (many many):

Buena Vista Social Club
Buju Banton
Gilberto Gil
India Arie
Jose Feliciano
John Martyn
Kings of Leon
Mighty Sparrow
Ray Charles
Rokia Traore

Sounds Like: People are commonly heard to be saying after live performances (deep breath):

Lily Allen
Jack Johnson
Nizlopi
Vampire Weekend
Jack Penate

Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Big Chill Festival 2009

Home from the Big Chill Festival and feeling good. Check out our tour van above& never do a festival without an out-of-service fire truck. Solar panels on the roof, fridge, sink, bath and cooker ins...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:51:00 GMT

Secret Garden Party 2009

Just arrived home from Secret Garden Party and I had the best time. Playing in the Living Room was top - awesome audience, thanks guys. And thanks to Kevin and Phil for putting me on. The band before ...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:06:00 GMT

Bang. Another sketch & headline gig.

Just finished another little sketch in Will's bedroom studio that I am currently uploading. Really good to get these things down on 'paper'. Hope you like it... messy round the edges again, but I thi...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:49:00 GMT

Sketch of Love - uploading is a good thing,

Ive decided to start using MySpace a little more openly. I am a ruthless perfectionist essentially, and I am currently working on bringing together the right people to help me create a ruthlessly per...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Feb 2009 09:49:00 GMT

A couple of tunes

I've got more than one song on my profile now! Behold. They are still one mic, rough n' ready bedroom takes, so savour the background sounds of my flatmates closing doors, the computer humming and the...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:28:00 GMT