"She's an educator, she's an agitator. She's James Joyce with a bodhrán."
- Cursed Murphy
Celtic Hiphop duo based in Dublin - MissElayneous & DJ FunkTom are TMM.

Avatar are an Irish duo Jah Bass and Tony O' Flaherty. They have formed a musical partnership which highlights original music written by Jah Bass.  Their main influences are Jamaican Dub and the music of Miles Davis. To date they have released four original albums : Summa Iru ; Like River To Ocean ; Resting In Alaya ; Ancient Echoes . They have also recorded an original single with legendary Jamaican singer BB Seaton of The Gaylads, called 'Cart before the Horse'. They have recorded a cover of the Standard ' Sit Right Down And Write myself A Letter' for The Specialised Project and feature on a remix album called 'In Dub'for The Senior Allstars. Both live & in the studio Avatar have an impressive brass section ,explosive percussion & deep drum & bass.Their albums feature contributions from legendary  Jamaican vocalists Carlton 'Tetrack 'Hines, Norris Reid & Ricky Grant as well as UK artist Miri and Ireland's Aine Whelan and Mary O' Regan and Patrick Johnson. Also involved in their projects are Uk Jazz giant Trevor Mires on trombone. Ireland's Paul Dunlea is an album regular on  trombone. Paul Frost has featured on bass trombone. Ireland's premier jazz tenor sax player Michael Buckley is a regular outstanding contributor to Avatar's recordings . Trumpet duties have been taken up by Roy Kelleher and Nick Kirwan. Drummers include their mainstay Martin Leahy  as well as contributions from Dick O' Shea ; Laurie Hedger; Donie Moore and Tony O' Flaherty. Swiss percussionist Martin Scharer also makes several guest appearences.  The band have also recorded tracks with Jamaican artists Margra Dread Gregory & Faada Ras as well as with Irish  artist Aisling Urwin. Booking info at avatardub @gmail.com. 

Further info at www.amarumusic.net

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