Ash Walker Experience

A truly unique sound at the forefront of the new london jazz movement, the Ash Walker Experience is a multi sensory show with six piece band consisting of Ash Walker on keys, Mark Cyril on bass, Yazz Ahmed on trumpet, Lord Laville on vocals, Tim Shackman on drums. Accompanied by live hypnotic visuals and fragrances, controlled by Ezra-Lloyd Jackson. 
Having alrady graced the stages of some of the biggest UK festivals as well as The Jazz Club and Rich Mix, The Ash Walker Experience is a formidable six piece live lineup.
A heavyweight astral shower of rhythm and vibes, Ash Walker’s third album ‘Aquamarine’ was released in July 2019 via Night Time Stories. An avid collector of jazz, blues, soul, funk, reggae and all things in between; Ash has DJ’ed far and wide.. from the infamous Royal Mail squat party to the canals of Venice, spinning vinyl in Brixton with The Specials to scattering dub across San Fran & LA.
Ash’s production output is similarly exploratory: his journeys have taken him far and wide, from tunnels under the Thames to recording local percussionists in the Atlas mountains of Morocco.  His first two albums ‘Augmented 7th’ (2015) and ‘Echo Chamber’ (2016) gained attention from the likes of BBC 6 Music DJ’s Gilles Peterson, Don Letts, Gideon Coe and Clash Magazine, XLR8R and MIMS. ‘Aquamarine’ is a projection and culmination of all he’s absorbed. A cosmic explosion of sound, colour, rhythm, shape & patterns.
The arrival of an unassuming dreamer now projecting his unique flavour of expression.
‘Aquamarine’ is the take-offf of this audial spaceship, a sound discovered in the grooves of thousands of records, united in one.
A meditation designed to inspire good energy. Ash hopes to bring a sense of calm and tranquillity to the listener amongst the chaos of life.
It combines analogue with digital, and a fondness for normally unwanted shapes and textures such as fuzz, hiss & crackle.
“My previous albums have felt to me more like ventures on land. This one feels more like a deep sea voyage into the subconscious. Living to dream with visions of grandeur. Manifesting a beautiful path to walk on. It was inspired by everything around me, from friends & family to art & design, engineering and architecture, movement and how we use our five senses. I love to try and push my own boundaries of what I perceive to be right and wrong, seeing mistakes as innovations and obstacles as inspiration.”
Highlights on the album include ‘Under the Sun’, ‘Time’ and ‘Finishing Touch’ all of which feature the smooth & silky voice of Laville.
Themes of metaphysical exploration and transportation re-occur in the cosmic jazz of ‘Brave New World’ and the smoked beats on ‘Come With Us’.
Also featured across the album are trumpet and flugelhorn genius Yazz Ahmed, bassist Marc Cyril (Keziah Jones, Jr Walker & The All Stars) and renowned musician and producer Jonathan Shorten.

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