2012 was an amazing year for Jo Hamilton as she performed with the a brand new instrument called the Air Piano on Radio 4’s Loose Ends with Clive Anderson. Fellow studio guest Bill Bailey described the instrument as “…a thing of ethereal beauty”. A live BBC World Service set broadcast to over 1 million worldwide this summer.
To celebrate the new year, for 2 weeks only from 5th January 2013, you can download Gown special edition for £4.99 and get a free 2nd copy to gift to a friend.
You can download a range of formats including CD-quality lossless and this is a great bargain for a must have album. The link to get the album for £4.99 is link
Jo Hamilton is the daughter of a Jamaican mother and a Kenyan father. She was brought up in the Scottish Highlands and went on to live in in Turkey, UAE, Kuwait , Sri Lanka and Cambodia.
She is the first artist in the world to work with an airpiano (The airpiano is a new musical interface which allows playing and controlling software instruments simply by moving hands in the air) and her debut release “Gown“ has received huge acclaim in the U.K. The album has also won three awards in the 2010 Recharged Radio awards and the Guardian describe Jo as ‘singular and unforgettable, Hamilton is quite a discovery’
In January 2011 Gown leapt to number 3 in the Amazon movers and shakers chart and was featured in the Rolling Stone France Magazine. The song “Pick Me Up” went to number 2 on the Music World Radio charts, and made the B-list in Northern Ireland ‘s Q102.9FM station.