so jasons this British musician I met a few years ago, when I was on holiday in the uk.

so im a bit of an ethnic lad, and you know, I get it from my mama. well when i went to visit i found my mom was working at a perfume counter at one of the big national retailers.

Mom worked with a young cutie of the same ethnicity, and of course, the girls with cultural ties are always going to be mama's favorite. so we were introduced and got along well. she was from Norway (Sweden, Denmark? Somewhere) and going to university in the UK. we ended up hanging out a lot during my time there going out to bars and pubs and such.

So one night we end up at some coffee shop/bar where shes meeting other friends. one of the guys there is Jason. he was very obviously into my friend ;) Jokng aside - he was absolutely one of the best guys i met in the UK, good time, good conversation, and he even took me for a curry at 2am because I wannted on after drinking!

Through conversation we found out we were both musicians and go to talking about music. It was pretty imediate that our musical tastes ran in the same veins - with both us heavily influenced by Counting Crows and Tori Amos.

After drinks and curry we actually ended up driving around, in the middle of the night, on deserted Cardiff roads listening to a copy of my Lullabyes record which had been recently finished. We swapped CDs and have been email buddies since.

He recently put out a new record on cdbaby and its awesome, he's just got this powerful delivery coupled with sincere lyrics. Instrumental you can hear the Tori piano influence that allows the songs to be built to emotional crescendos. but dont listen to me, check it out yourself - get it here

Check out his site and his myspace to listen to songs
Jason Soudah
Jason's MySpace

He gave me a very early copy of the record (fairly different track list from the final version) and I've posted my favorite track here for your listening pleasure.

MP3 Jason Soudah - Sail