Andre Donawa lives on an island in the Caribbean. He's a Bajan. He plays
bass, guitars, percussion and produces music from his studio across the street from the beach.
He was the opening act for the Barbados National Jazz Festival 2000,
performed with Kite at Culture Shock 2005, and has released 2 CD’s exploring the merging of local rhythms and sounds with African American music.
His third CD, “Aqua Blue? It’s about my love for open spaces, the beauty of nature's endless vistas’, drifting away into the distance. It’s a sound byte of
that feeling we get as our eyes wander across a horizon.”
“This is quite a different album for me. I think in this one it’s not so
much me telling the story but the stories telling themselves. I’m just
along for the ride. It’s definitely more a mix of all the music that has
influenced me. I listen back to it and hear the influences of Trevor Horn
from The Art of Noise, right up there with, say, Aston “Family Man” Barrett
and Pat Metheny, all in one song. To me it doesn’t sound forced. It sounds
just as if it was always meant to be.”