Indigo Sessions at Kings Place Festival at Kings Place

Indigo Sessions is the latest quartet project led by singer-songwriter Aimua Eghobamien with musical partners bassists Jerome Davies and Oli Hayhurst and violinist Richard Jones.

With each member contributing his own style through original compositions and arrangements of pop, rock, folk, classical and jazz standards this innovative project truly showcases the collaborative efforts of this ensemble. Voice, violin and two double basses; it’s an unusual ensemble and invites speculative combinations of sound and ‘role reversal’—voice providing percussion, basses duelling contrapuntally. It was only until the four had spent some time together playing that they realised how rich the rewards could be. Call it alternative; call it avant-garde, it is a sound that won’t soon be forgotten....

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Indigo Sessions is the latest quartet project led by singer-songwriter Aimua Eghobamien with musical partners bassists Jerome Davies and Oli Hayhurst and violinist Richard Jones.

With each member contributing his own style through original compositions and arrangements of pop, rock, folk, classical and jazz standards this innovative project truly showcases the collaborative efforts of this ensemble. Voice, violin and two double basses; it’s an unusual ensemble and invites speculative combinations of sound and ‘role reversal’—voice providing percussion, basses duelling contrapuntally. It was only until the four had spent some time together playing that they realised how rich the rewards could be. Call it alternative; call it avant-garde, it is a sound that won’t soon be forgotten.

[Jerome Davies]
"Astute arrangements" —The Sunday Times
"Keeps the music moving" —Jazzwise Magazine

[Aimua Eghobamien]
"There’s something magical about his voice." —BBC Radio Ulster
"He is a true, thoroughly exciting, original." —JazzTimes

[Oli Hayhurst]
"Hayhurst's probing and technically virtuoso playing was for me the highlight of the evening." —Daily Telegraph
"...impeccable bass playing..." —The Oxford Times

[Richard Jones]
"A fiddle player who manages to make his instrument sound sexy" —NME
"A performance that showed a great spirit of adventure,
flare, imagination and joy" —Christian Garrick

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