Folk Bands and Artists
Michael Sebastian
https://soundcloud.com/michaelsebastiansound
Michael Sebastian is a musician and loop-artist who improvises to uplift the capital.
South African born, Edinburgh educated, and living in London; he creates music from a broad range of experience and styles. His affinity for groove and feel allows for conflicting styles to fluidly co-exist, feeling human and natural.
Whenever possible, Sebastian is on the streets of the capital, improvising with a loop-pedal, a mic and a bright pink guitar. He will attest that this has been the most important part of his musical education, and has taught him to speak to people through his instrument.
His most recent album, ‘Kayanda’ demonstrates him harnessing live, improvised looping onto record. After developing the recording software himself, Sebastian went into a shed in the country for two weeks to improvise an album, and came out with 14 tracks. The album is written with the sensibilities of modern dance and electronic music, and retains the freedom, rawness and depth of world music and Jazz, while still creating melodies that are hard to forget.
