Auriol Hays 8th Album Launch at Selective Live
Sun May 26, 17:00 - Sun May 26, 23:00
Selective Live
ABOUT
She has the knack to astound, and quite often her sound defies
categorization’. Zakes Mda
With seven albums under her belt she effortlessly manages to deliver iconic
songs from each musical offering. In June 2019, Ms Hays opened for triple
award winning musician and producer Ben Harper, and in 2021 was the
only South African artist chosen to be part of the Commonwealth of
Learning Virtual Celebrations, focused in addressing increasing
inequalities. Ms Hays was chosen as one of 12 artists, to participate in the
Tankwa Artscape residency in the desert in March 2022. Her 7th album Silk
and Gravel was sponsored by SAMPRA and her 8th and 9th
, After Dusk and Fool’s Gold will be released at the end October funded by SAMRO. She also
participated in the Plettenberg Land Art Festival in September 2023.
Turn Up the Volume and Take it Slow were the two chart topping tracks off
her debut album Behind Closed Doors. A Better Man from her deeply
intimate Call It Love Anima Sola sophomore release. Her Deep Hays album,
collaboration with Rowick Deep, delivered two unforgettable songs that
can still be heard on the dance floors, Deeper Than the Ocean and Rhythm
Sublime. Dreaming Music was no different. She astounded her audience
with her own rendition of Sipho Hotstix Mabuse’s “Burn Out, thereby
making the song entirely her own. “Child Atone”, featuring Riaan Smit from
Crimson House Blues contained, as Zakes Mda said, ‘resonances of the
American Deep South of slavery and Uncle Tom, of tamed field hollers and
ceremonial chants. Auriol’s blues vocals here will surely wake Ma Rainey
from her grave.’
Ms Hays is no mere jazz singer. She is a musical storyteller, a sonorous shaman, a songwriter above all else whose musical and emotive range is influenced by a plethora of sounds. And all her music rendered is done so in a voice entirely and completely her own. She released various singles from her fifth musical release, TENtation, in 2018, and gave audiences a taste of her new material during an intimate performance in 2023 at Selective Live.
Doors Open at 5pm and show starts at 8pm.
Biography https://auriolhaysmusic.co.za/about-me/
Here are various lyric videos as well as traditional music videos
Come Home To Me (written for Greenpeace): https://youtu.be/RgQmqTsoc2s
Slave King: https://auriolhaysmusic.co.za/video/slave-king/
Finger On the Trigger: https://auriolhaysmusic.co.za/video/finger-on-the-trigger/
Thirst: https://auriolhaysmusic.co.za/video/thirst-lyric-video/
A Better Man: : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zlXp4Y2i_A
Child Atone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KBs0WSnzi0
Over My Shoulders:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po81MiIE230
Constellations of Desire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiP3g4AOyEk
A Million Years: https://vimeo.com/200322256
Turn up The Volume: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phb4nmwU4V0
Doors open at 5pm and show starts at 8pm