Since the release of Mellow Motif’s successful self-titled debut album with Warner Music Thailand in 2009, the band has been actively performing in many countries and steadily gaining popularity in the regional jazz scene. Mellow Motif has received international acclaim and works tirelessly as ambassadors who raise the world’s awareness of Thailand as a place with a vibrant jazz culture. The band has performed at Hua-Hin International Jazz Festival (2009), CHIJazz (2009), KinestAsia (2010), Miri International Jazz Festival (2010), Asean Jazz Festival (2010), many other music festivals within the country such as Fat Festival 2009, Melody of Life (2009), Indy in Pai (2010), La Fete de la Musique (2009), and more.

Performing highly inspired, light-hearted arrangements of jazz standards, Brazilian music as well as original compositions, Mellow Motif has captured the hearts of both non-jazz listeners and jazz aficionados both in and out of the country. In November 2009, CNNgo placed Mellow Motif in the Hot List among the “Top 20 People to Watch” in Thailand.

The band’s most recent release, “Sabuy Dee”(2010), is a hard swinging album that consists of re-interpretations of tunes from the 30s to 50s, original compositions, and jazz renditions of Thai favorites such as “I Feel Sabuy Dee” and “Tur Moon Rob Chun, Chun Moon Rob Tur”.


There is two sides to Blaydek.

There is the soft, gentle, contemplative, synthesiser loving sounds, as in tracks like Moon and Anything.

The other is a more raw new-wave inspired, guitar-pop loving sound, heard in Talk or Supermarché.

There is no order to it... it’s an expression of my many eclectic influences from Yo La Tengo and Vangelis, to Beck and Joy Division. I love pop music as much as I love underground, lofi, or strange music. The search is always for the sounds that spark emotion in some form or another. The plan was always to merge my love of synthesisers and guitars, but sometimes music takes on a life of its own and it just comes out the way it does.

It’s much more than indie. Indie doesn’t really help to describe much apart from the fact that I’m in independent musician. Hopefully it can be as genreless as possible.

I spent my early days as a musician touring with various bands in Birmingham, where I’m from, then I moved to New York, where I played amongst musicians on the scene in the Lower East Side, living an artists life in Manhattan. I now live and produce music in London.

I’ve gotten numerous plays on BBC introducing, write-ups from Turtle Tempo, It’s All Indie, Lost in the Manor, etc.

Our live lineup is as eclectic as our music. A changing group of musicians to suit the venue, playing a diverse array of arrangements of Blaydek compositions.

Rumour has it that Blaydek once turned down a slot on McFly’s lineup cause he was just too god damn busy.

He also invented the sea shanty craze.

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