He has a way with words does the charming Mr. Daudi Matsiko. Take those on 'You Can Do Better Than Me, But I Hope You Don't': "But I'm a rotten tooth in/A mouth full of crooked teeth.../So now you know all my secrets/And yet you still talk to me/Your love was the atomic bomb/And my heart was Nagasaki."
The sotto voce Nottingham-based acoustic artist's EP, 'A Brief Introduction To Failure' has just been released, and if you haven't heard the name before it may not be long before you are coming across it everywhere. Balancing folk with a soul twist, his debut shows not just a way with original, thoughtful lines ("Waiting for the waves to rise/Waiting for some peace/I've been here a thousand times/Drowning in my sleep"), but also some interesting arrangements wrapped around a simple acoustic structure that is both ambiently pleasing, as much as intriguing.
Combining the use of acoustic and electric guitar, along with alto sax, electric and upright bass, percussion, piano - and ebow on standout track, 'You Can Do Better Than Me, But I Hope You Don't' - the four-track EP - 'Home', 'You Can Do Better ...', 'This Day', 'Houston In The Blind' - which was released two weeks ago via Bandcamp, has not surprisingly been attracting praise from the likes of Luke Sital-Singh.
The son of Ugandan parentage, Daudi was born in London and spent his early years in the capital as well as periods in Aberdeen and Cambridge, before moving to Brighton to study. Now resident in Nottingham, he has been playing live only since last summer in the local area; having his first full band gig - with two drummers - just last week for the EP launch.
If 'A Brief Introduction To Failure' is such, a 'failure', one can only surmise that it must be a losing win for Daudi Matsiko.
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