Album Notes

Andre Donawa lives on an island in the Caribbean. He's a Bajan. He plays bass, guitars, percussion and produces music from his studio across the beach. He was the opening act for the Barbados National Jazz Festival 2000. He performed with Kite at Culture Shock 2005. He has released 2 CD’s exploring the merging of local rhythms and sounds with African American music. “Aqua Blue? It’s about my love for open spaces, the beauty of natures endless vistas’, drifting away into the distance. It’s a sound byte of that feeling we get as our eyes wander across a horizon.” “This is quite a different album for me. I think in this one it’s not so much me telling the story but the stories telling themselves. I’m just along for the ride. It’s definitely more a mix of all the music that has influenced me. I listen back to it and hear the influences of Trevor Horn from The Art of Noise, right up there with say Aston“Family Man”Barrett and Pat Metheny, all in one song. To me it doesn’t sound forced. It sounds just as if it was always meant to be.”