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Artist
Jamie Flett
12+ albums
swampbluesaltacousticacid folk
about
“I’m not a prophet, nor a king, I have no soldiers, so I sing” songs that are sometimes saturnine, forging enigmatic, sometimes experimental, mercurial music that welds serrated electric or earthy acoustic blues-infused, detuned guitar to chimerical and quixotic lyrics or folkish storytelling, often with a sonic backdrop of unusual percussion, available instruments and unexpected noises and effects. Originally from the granite city of Aberdeen and now based in the glaswegian city of Glasgow Jamie makes up music, writes and sings songs, plays acoustic and electric guitars from America and unhygienic harmonicas from a flea market in Berlin. He clangs brass candlesticks or rattles a floor tom with pencils. Sometimes he plays the fake bass guitar that Neil gave him or the old accordion that Norman gave him. He uses other instruments, household objects or electronics when it seems like the thing to do. His band ‘The Flaming Jets’ help him make a bigger noise than he can on his own using different arrays of acoustic and electric instruments. Jamie's released two albums, a remix album (with a little help from his friends) and a live mini album of the music he's made up, some of it played solo and some with the help of the Flaming Jets. Among various live escapades he's been fortunate enough to have opened for Joan Armatrading and Malcolm Middleton as well as having appeared on the Danny Kyle stage at Celtic Connections, the Rhythms of the World Festival and at the Tartan Heart fes
