![]() ![]() ![]() “We started working together from that point and have developed a repertoire that touches and draws on our roots and experiences shared and individual, emotional and musical. The audience and I were taken straight to another dimension through the soul, range and passion of her singing”.Įtheridge goes on to shed a little light on the duo’s working methods. A few months later she came with friends to one of my solo shows and I invited her up to sing. We struck up a conversation ,talking about music and philosophy. “I first met Vimala while walking on Hampstead Heath. The collaboration between Etheridge and Rowe developed from a spontaneous meeting as the guitarist’s liner notes explain ![]() She has also worked with the rap band TKO, guitar legend Tommy Emmanuel, and released the EP “Vimala”, a collaboration with bassist Simon Horn that won an Indy Award for ‘Best Soul, Jazz and Funk Act’ in 2008. Rowe is a highly accomplished jazz singer who has worked on the London jazz scene with saxophonist Bobby Wellins and pianists Jonathan Gee and Alex Webb amongst others. His talents have been endorsed by perhaps the ultimate guitar authority, none other than Pat Metheny. “Out Of The Sky” is the recently released début recording by the duo of veteran guitarist John Etheridge and promising vocal newcomer Vimala Rowe.Įtheridge is a supremely versatile guitarist, a serial collaborator who has worked with everybody from Stephane Grappelli to Soft Machine as well as releasing several genre spanning albums under his own name.
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