Ajimal, a medical student from Newcastle, follows up his 2012 debut ‘Footnote to Love [Part One]’ with a new single, ‘This Human Joy’.
With a name inspired by a Haitian witchdoctor, Ajimal is a shape-shifting collaborative project led by Newcastle’s Fran O’Hanlon with the aim of writing about the interplay between ideas from music, medicine, art, ideas, literature, science and stories. Jumping between piano, delicate acoustic, reverb guitars, loop pedals, singing bowls and saws, with the one constant of expressive and beautiful vocal melodies and lyrics, Ajimal specialises in grandiose haunted pop.
'This Human Joy' is a hopeful song about finding peace in the beauty of small and simple things, when often it's easy to slip into feeling frustrated or irritated by the world, routine and to stop taking chances and risks. It's about accepting the fact that we can't always know where we're going or what will happen to us and embracing those mysteries.
The achingly beautiful song could warm even the coldest heart. Featuring guest harpist Emily Hoile, and produced by Mick Ross (Frankie & the Heartstrings, Let’s Buy Happiness), ‘This Human Joy’ is released on March 25.
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