Artist: Aashid Himons
Genre(s):
Electronic: Progressive
Discography:
The Metaphysician
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Tracks: 4
Aashid Himons, ordinarily referred to as just "Aashid," has been a part of Nashville's non-country music scene for near a quarter-century. A big adult male with leonine dreadlocks and a prominent artistic front, the African-American musical prodigy has asserted an unbelievable influence on Nashville musicians, working with some of the region's best and brightest talents along the way.Innate in 1942 in rural West Virginia as Archie Himons, he began playing the pianissimo at the age of three, soon telling and performing in christian church. By the meter he was five eld of age he had taught himself the drums and afterwards appeared on various wireless and telly shows, including The Today Show with Dave Garroway. He left field home at 13, hitchhiking to New York City and later joining the regular army at the age of 17. After a brief and routine tour of tariff, Aashid settled into the Washington, D.C., music scene, forming the R&B group Little Archie & the Majestics. A phone number of bands and one-off single deals with fly-by-night indie labels would follow before Little Archie signed a plow with Nashville fable Buddy Killen's Dial label in 1962. The late '60s base Aashid winding the country as a blues musician, playing coffeehouses and street corners. He landed in Toronto in 1969, forming a transient duet with actor/musician Jim Byrnes, and later travelled to Mexico City, where he played with a blues band. It was in Honduras in 1972 that Aashid witnessed a performance by Count Ossie & the Mystical Revelation of Rastafari that would perpetually change the steering of his music. Returning to Pittsburgh, Aashid would make the style of music that he called "blu-reggae," a hybrid of res publica blues, R&B, and reggae that was informed by Count Ossie's nyahbinghi rhythms and Rastafari philosophy.Performing blues in the Northeast as "West Virginia Slim," Aashid distinct to see up his honest-to-god friend, Killen, in Nashville and hit him with the "blu-reggae" construct. "You own to realize," Aashid told Nashville's Metro cartridge holder in 1990, "that he hadn't seen me since around 1967. I had a action and wore pointed toe place and sharkskin suits...that's what he remembered. So I walked into his office in 1979 with dreadlocks and a tie-dyed T-shirt and the whole thing just freaked him out!" Killen apprehended the music merely told Aashid that he'd never do anything with it in Nashville. Aashid distinct to appease in the city, forming Afrikan Dreamland with percussionists Darrell Rose and Mustafa Abdul-Aleem. Between 1980-1987 the isthmus would record six-spot albums and produce a long-form video recording, becoming the first-class honours degree reggae band to have airplay on MTV. Aashid would likewise record his first base solo album, Kosmik Gypsy, during this time. A intimately fatal bout with pneumonia in 1987 forced Aashid to get off the road, effectively breaking up the band salve for special performances.All over the side by side tenner, Aashid would follow up on a number of musical projects, including Aashid & the New Dream with Giles Reaves and Kirby Shelstad. He would record his first album of newfangled age "space music," Black Holiness, in 1988 and participated in deuce Mind Orbit multimedia events with the band Akasha, which likewise included Reaves and Shelstad. In 1995, Aashid recorded the challenging two-CD project The Leaders under the Afrikan Dreamland nominate with contributions from onetime bandmates Rose and Abdul-Aleem as well as members of the New Dream; brothers Mike, Paul, and Jamie from Nashville rock band Simmons; and multi-instrumentalist Tony Gerber. In 1998, Aashid formed a band to experiment with body politic vapors and Appalachian-inspired hillbilly music, cathartic Mountain Soul, a collection of original and traditional tunes, with brothers Victor Wooten and Reggie Wooten, Giles Reaves, and Tramp of Bonepony. The externalize proven to be popular, ahead to a live 1999 album, West Virginia Hills, recorded with the Mountain Soul Band, which featured Reaves, Gerber, Shelstad, Tramp, and Jody Lentz. At the close of the century, Aashid would dig deeper into the space music genre, recording numerous solo and band albums with collaborators like Reaves, Shelstad, and Gerber under band name calling wish Sons of Akasha and Pyramid Underground, about of them released by Gerber's prolific Space for Music label.Well-nigh obscure outside of the Southeast, Aashid Himons has managed to forge a life history that has stretched across five-spot decades. Utilizing raw technology, Aashid records studio albums on an iMac estimator, besides victimisation computer software to blue-pencil his unrecorded digital recordings. Prolific to a fracture, Aashid is one of the to the highest degree popular artists on MP3.com, where he has samples of his music and offers some deuce xII albums for sale. In his sixties, Aashid continues to create interesting, energetic, and unpredictable music for a little but truehearted audience.
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