"simply blew us away with his intricate finger skills..."(BBC C&W)
"one-man musical magician fusing funk, jazz and a splash of drum'n'bass in a single flamenco styled nylon-stringed guitar"(Warwick Core)
"Si’s fantastic technique and style on the guitar always goes down a storm at the festival and it was great to welcome him back!"(Chris Davis/CoventryJazzFestival)
"His solo classical-Spanish style guitar playing, peppered with pepper, funk and drumnbass, takes your breath away like a sledgehammer to the chest"(The Shiznit Magazine)
"Si Hayden left members of the audience in wonder of how anyone could deliver such harmony and rhythms of complexity using a six string, steel strung acoustic guitar"(Alvin Leon, AquiredTaste)
"A classical Spanish style guitarist, who will blow you away with his jazz, latin and funk infused songs. How he manages it all on just a 6 string guitar still amazes us. You will have to see him to believe it!(AcousticLounge, Clapham)
Album Reviews
"‘Backra Man’ by Morley Hayden Haines has certainly came in from the left-field... no doubt there will be people who appreciate whats going on here..."(Andy Reilly - Is this music)
"Hayden’s trademark supersonic picking is present.. the six-string virtuosity shown on this album is irrefutable.. an album that stuns with its technical brilliance, then later endears you to the soul and depth behind the flashiness"(Peter Clayton, cdreviews)
"solo guitar mastery of U.K. based Si Hayden... The music may sound vintage but on his CD Hayden puts a new spin on a timeless art form. As he points out in his liner notes, all tracks were recorded with one guitar and no overdubs and all percussion is from the right hand on the guitar body while playing. A modern flamenco master, Hayden makes excellent use of his Ivor Maraints and Jose Ramirez guitars."(Robert Silverstein, 20th Century Guitar)
"...You might find a methodology to Hayden's playing, but every composition is so tailored with its own voice that it negates everything you have ever learned about method playing. These are not finger moves that are taught in school. They are moves with such imagination and independent thinking that they make you feel honored to hear them. The music has a striking star quality that few artists can achieve. Hayden uses no special effects or overdubs. His playing is divinely pure... Hayden's music falls between the lines that separate jazz from country, and his compositions certainly show that the two have more common factors than most music fans ever knew. You'll never believe that all of these movements are coming out of one acoustic guitar. There is a dreamy quality in Si Hayden's melodies that keeps your head floating up above the clouds while the country aspects in his music keeps everything feeling open and homey... A native of Coventry, England, Hayden's sonic vistas seem to come natural as he plays to the beating pulse of life with total abandonment of conventional methodology. Speaking of unconventional, Si Hayden is left handed and plays right-handed guitars.(Susan Frances, jazzreview.com)
"Poet laureate in waiting goes all the way to fusion and back - Ra: They're a rare breed, great poets crossing over to music, and with only a couple of names springing to mind, Jonathan Morley, an Eric Gregory Award winner who researches T. S. Elliot's stamp over Carribean literature at the University of Warwick, stands closer to Gil Scott-Heron rather than Leonard Cohen. His lines chime with jive, so Morley teams up with guitarist and composer Si Hayden and drummer Ben Haines to deliver them in style. Cue this album, a companion piece to "Backra Man" the book (note the singular as opposed to the plural in the record's title), a jazzy experience which starts creepingly with Hayden's piano rippling over Haines' shadowy cymbals and Morley's gloomy voice reciting strange images. It resonates on many levels when the "Da Da dada dada" sets alliteration apace in "For Lee Miller", spanky bass brings funk into the "Loki's song" Gothic texture, and baroque country picking paints the "grass glares white" picture of "Spon". The music feels as strange as the poems but one fits the other perfectly. "Backra" means the evil white man, and this fusion of poetry and sparse melodies seems sinister indeed, yet it's not aggressive at all, save for the Rasta talk of "Sistah" that sounds melodius even without ragged accompaniment, whereas the "Duskfall" lace is pure elegance and "Iberian Baroque" gently takes a listener on an Indiana Jone-like adventure to the Indian pyramids. That's where the whiter shade of face re-appears. Haunting!" ****(Dmitry M. Epstein, Let it Rock)
Full time musician Si Hayden, plays guitar for
Joe O’Donnell(East of Eden, Woods Band, Rory Gallagher, Mushroom), also guitar player, double bassist and a founder member of live dub dnb band 91db, double bassist for The Verity Pabla Band(SilveryRecords 'Trust Again'), one third of jazz poetry trio MORLeY HAYDeN HAINeS(SilveryRecords 'Backra Men'/performing the Cork Guinness Jazz Festival this year!) and recently applied his upright bass services to singer-songwriter Andrew Buckley.
"..powerful stuff, not for the squeamish.." ('The Birmingham Post' on the 'Underground' scene)
1. Chosen (Hayden/Haines)
2. The ultimate friend (Hayden)
3. Moses (Hayden)
4. Back from the wilderness (Hayden)
5. Chris's theme (Hayden)
6. Harmonic angel (Hayden)
7. Jay and the King (Hayden)
8. Jay's theme (Hayden)
9. The walk to school (Hayden)
10.Moses in a basket (Hayden)
11.The Bennediction (Hayden)
12.Quranic monologue (Hayden)
13.The plagues (Hayden)
14.The innocents (Hayden)
15.Phil Stein hair salon (Hayden)
16.Delilah (Hayden)
17.Enter Samson (Hayden)
18.The fall of Lucifer (Hayden/Haines)
19.Slaves toil (Hayden)
20.Searching (Hayden)
"..I've been enjoying this cd.." (Steve Passiouras, PBS FM)
1. Walnut Bridge (Hayden)
2. The Tyrants Tale away (Hayden)
3. The Soto Verses (Hayden/Pickin)
4. Subway (Hayden)
5. Dressing Room Blues (Hayden)
6. Parkfield Days(Hayden)
7. 1942 (Hayden)
8. As it comes (Hayden)
"It's really nice to hear new music with real musicians, I do a lot of programmed music, but there is something organic about poetry and well tuned musicians. And Si's work is just great, the double bass playing is spot on... it really sounds like the musicians overstood the poetry. Nice one." (Benjamin Zephaniah)
1. Fabula (Morley/Hayden/Haines)
2. For Lee Miller (Morley/Hayden/Haines)
3. Map:i.Spon,ii.Ball Hill morning,iii.Anglia to...(Morley/Hayden/Haines)
4. From the Spanish Gypsy (Morley/Hayden/Haines)
5. Duskfall (Morley/Hayden/Haines)
6. Bomb (Morley/Hayden/Haines)
7. Sistah (Morley/Hayden/Haines)
8. Deciphering the Eucalypts (Morley/Hayden/Haines)
9. On First Looking into Cecily Jones’s... (Morley/Hayden/Haines)
10.Disillusion (Morley/Hayden/Haines)
11.Loki’s Song (Morley/Hayden/Haines)
12.On the Macclesfield Psalter (Morley/Hayden/Haines)
13.Iberian Baroque (Morley/Hayden/Haines)
14.Dobeš’ Snail (Morley/Hayden/Haines)
15.the new romanian poems* (Morley/Hayden/Haines)
"its a ripper cd... very, very good!" (Steve Passiouras, PBS FM)
"gives a fine display of Americana.. and there is some finger lickin’ pickin’ (Is this music magazine) "fast killer chops on most tracks.. “Moondance” a true piece of art.. at times he reminds me of Tuck Andress in his jazzy approach with a lot of rhythm and bass runs going on" (BridgeGuitarReviews)
1. Ellya (Hayden) 2. Confessions of a tractor thief (Hayden) 3. Folsom prison blues (J.Cash) 4. Golden fictitious (Hayden) 5. Flat spot (Hayden) 6. Hats off to Pete Townshend (Hayden) 7. Jd 'n' coffee (Hayden) 8. Just a bit o' fun (Hayden) 9. Moondance (V.Morrison) 10.Cowstalker (Hayden) 11.Planet of the grapes (Hayden) 12.Steel roots (Hayden)
"UK based composer /guitarist Hayden plays the entire program solo with no overdubs, flawlessly executes the genre's characteristic strums, descending single-string runs and soundboard taps, Yet typically makes things more interesting by weaving complex harmonies and smooth jazz elements into each of the tunes. Both guitarists and general listeners will enjoy this CD; turn it up and enjoy."(Patrick Ragains/Minor7th)
1. Like Fire (Hayden) 2. One Weekend (Hayden) 3. Are you going to eat all that? (Hayden) 4. Armitage (Hayden) 5. Black Magic Nylon (Hayden) 6. Symphony Solo (Hayden) 7. Sounds Better in Red (Hayden)
MORLeY HAYDeN HAINeS 'BACKRA MeN - Label: Silvery - 2008
Scenes from the City - Label: Silvery - 2008
Live like us - Label: Silvery - 2007
The Alchemist Vol II - Label: Liquid Note- 2007
FMN2 Concert for Pete - Label: Penny Brohn- 2007
Steel Roots- Label: Silvery - 2007
Rob Halligan 'Dark Clouds Fighting'- Label: Blatant - 2006
Nylon... For Now- Label: Silvery - 2006
Steel Happenings- Label: RayCra - 1998
Film
Dockers Belgrade Theatre Production (2008): Soundtrack Chosen Belgrade Theatre Production (2009): Soundtrack
Radio
Tonight I Write BBC Radio 4 play by Manjinder Virk '2003' (Composed track 'Barcelona')
Theatre
Live Like Us Belgrade Theatre Production (2007): Soundtrack Scenes from the City Belgrade Theatre Production (2007): Soundtrack The first time I saw snow Belgrade Theatre Production (2008): Actor, Live Soundtrack Now you see me, now you dont Belgrade Theatre Production (2008): Actor, Live Soundtrack The Mystery Plays 'In our own words' Belgrade Theatre Production (2009): soundtrack
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Cheers Coopz new tunes
Si Hayden Thank you for your kindness and friendship Please feel free to down load my first two songs. "Catch Up" and the "Selena Rose" songs. I opened them up no charge just click on download by the smaller picture of myself. Just a small token of my appreciation for you. Si Hayden I will let you know where I will be performing.
I wish the best to you and yours always Si Hayden.
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