new project
COMING SOON
Alberto
BECUCCI
accordeon
Walter
MARTINS
percussion
Timoteo
GRIGNANI
percussion
Jabu
MORALES
voice & percussion
Ricardo
Quinteria
guitar
Francesco
Valente
bass
*Images from the OXALĂ videoclip
a multicultural
project transcending borders through music
BEST GROUP
AWARD WINNER
Ayom are musical seafarers who traverse the Black Atlantic from Brazil to Angola and Cape Verde with a distinctly Mediterranean identity.
Their name, Ayom, refers to the "Lord of Music" that in Afro brazilian mithology (Candomblè) exists in the tambor and taught humans to play music and sing.
Thus, musicality flourishes nomadic, profound, provocative and dancing, where tradition and contamination, male and female, poetry and energy, joy and engagement coexist.
Ayom is a multicultural band, made up of 6 members from Brazil, Angola, Italy and Greece with Brazilian singer and percussionist Jabu Morales centre stage.
"Their sound is a mix of Brazilian, Tropical, Afrolatin and Afrolusitan sounds played with Irresistible swing, like tropical sun penetrating grey clouds"
They won: "Best 10 Album" and "Best Group award 2021" (Songlines), "Best Wordl music Album" (German Crytics Association), they played at Womex showcase 2021, Atlantic music expo, they made a tour of more than 50 concerts in the most important festivals in Europe and they played in mos important international showcases: Womex, AME, Transmusicales festival 2022, Eurosonic 2023 and Sim Sao Paulo 2023
"Blending century old traditions with the black and rhythmical language of lusophone cultures, Ayom provide a hot-stepping and spiritual voyage across the African diaspora."
TOP 10
BEST ALBUMS
BEST GROUP WINNER
BEST GROUP WORLD MUSIC
2020
2021
2021
*Visual identity of the SALIVA album
BIO
Ayom Jabu Morales emigrated from her home in Minas Gerais, Brazil to Barcelona in 2011 and now juggles her music career with being a mother, teaching women percussion and her on-going study of CandomblĂŠ and Afro Brazilian rhythms. It was an unexpected connection between the italian musicians Alberto, Timoteo and Jabu at a concert in Barcelona mid 2018 that instigated the new formation of the group. Alberto and Timoteo Grignani, Ayom cofounder and percussionist, recognised Jabu's incredible talent, invited her on-board the ship and Ayom was born. Fast-forward to 2019 and an intense, 2 week, recording session in a country house at the home of a Portuguese wine producer in south Lisbon and the manifesto was brought home.
PRESS
An Intoxicating dose of entrancing ritual magic come courtesy of this crew who playfully navigate myriad Afrolusophone tropes on this, their delightful debut⌠The exotic mixture all adds up,building on the bedrock of Brazilian musical vibrancy and the view is truly charming.
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- Songlines
Galo Bedjo
feat. Armando Tito
Fuzuè
Live at Womex
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