"Le fisherboy" - Jono Heyes

Jono Heyes
Le Fisherboy

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  • artist:Jono Heyes
  • featured artist:Jono Heyes
  • region:South Pacific
  • release year:2015
  • style(s):Folk, Fusion
  • country:New Zealand
  • formats:Audio File / Digital, CD (Compact Disc)
  • record posted by:Jono Heyes + Mama Yeva
  • label:Monkey Records
  • publisher:Finetunes
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The musical tapestry of Jono Heyes’s debut album Le Fisherboy is real eye opener for world music lovers. A unique blend that embodies the raw duende of flamenco, the rhythmic syncopation of West Africa, the modal depth of arabian North Africa and the subtle and playful grooves of South America. Heyes’s lyrics are direct, poetic and political aiming at the global, environmental and social issues we currently face. Above all it is imbued with a sense of urgency and a voice of many cultures. Hold on tight, sit back and enjoy a magic carpet ride across the world.

Jono Heyes grew up in an old goldmining village called Livingstone, situated in the foothills of North Otago in the South Island of Aotearoa (New Zealand). When he was seventeen Jono began teaching himself on an old guitar that was gathering dust behind a couch and had only two strings left. Little by little he found his voice and has since added hundreds of sets of strings to his guitar. Over the last 17 years he has crafted his own language drawing from an array of world music cultures, defying any attempts to be placed in one genre. The result is his own unique blend of world music that is an urgent call for ecological, social and cross cultural understanding.