GHOSTPOET SHARES DARK & FOREBODING NEW SINGLE ‘DOPAMINE IF I DO’

On the back of Friday’s release of his fourth album Dark Days & Canapés through Play It Again Sam, Ghostpoet shares new track ‘Dopamine If I Do’. The track, which opens with a dark foreboding features Ghostpoet, aka Obaro Ejimiwe, contemplating and contrasting the idealistic vision of our hyper-connected world, with the epidemic of isolation it […]
Often, despite writing poetry, I don’t know where the line is between poetry and song lyrics. Thankfully the mumbled spoken word of Ghostpoet stops the questions and starts the listening as he oscillates between the depth and meaning of poetry and experimental electronic sounds. I don’t know what the genre tag is for his music […]

ALBUM REVIEW: GHOSTPOET ‘DARK DAYS AND CANAPES’

GHOSTPOET RETURNS WITH NEW SINGLE ‘IMMIGRANT BOOGIE’ PLUS UK TOUR DATES THIS OCTOBER/NOVEMBER

‘Immigrant Boogie’ marks the first new material from Ghostpoet since the release of his Mercury-nominated Shedding Skin third album back in 2015. The track also heralds news of a full UK tour in the Autumn – see below for tour dates. Ghostpoet aka Obaro Ejimiwe explains: “It’s a first person account of a difficult journey across […]
– THE DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER – There are three types of gigs: those you wish you hadn’t been to; those that are exactly the same as listening to the album in your front room; and those that blast away your expectations. Ghostpoet at Deaf Institute most definitely falls into the latter category. Speaking of categories, […]

LIVE: GHOSTPOET – 19/10/2013

LIVE: GHOSTPOET – 28/05/2013

– GORILLA, MANCHESTER – Things are really moving fast for Obaro Ejimiwe, a.k.a Ghostpoet. His bedroom produced debut album ‘Peanut Butter Blues and Melancholy Jam’ was nominated for the Mercury Prize, which thrust him into the limelight with a little help from Gilles Peterson’s label Brownswood. Two years on, he has released his 2nd album (through […]
After a European tour and a string of festival dates last year, Ghostpoet’s UK ‘More Light’ tour kicked off last week, after this month’s release of second album ‘Some Say I So I Say Light’. This follow-up to his Mercury nominated debut album is another creative blend of experimental electronic sounds, acoustic ideas and Ghostpoet’s […]

INTERVIEW: GHOSTPOET

NEWS: GHOSTPOET – NEW ALBUM DETAILS + UK LIVE DATES

Two years on from the release of his Mercury nominated debut, ‘Peanut Butter Blues and Melancholy Jam’, Ghostpoet announces his sophomore album ‘Some Say I So I Say Light’ which will be released on the 6th May 2013 through Play It Again Sam. Obaro Ejimiwe, aka Ghostpoet, laughs when he remembers how Gilles Peterson “took […]
– THE DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER – Receiving a Mercury Music Prize nomination is one of the biggest and ultimate accolades a UK act can receive. Coventry-born Ghostpoet bestowed the respected roll of honour this year, for his debut album Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam. Even before the nominees were announced, GP was named as […]

LIVE: GHOSTPOET – 09/10/2011

INTERVIEW: GHOSTPOET

London–born Obaro Ejimiwe aka Ghostpoet is one of the freshest UK MC’s to surface over the last year. Not content with flying the flag for the UK Hip Hop scene, Ghostpoet’s softly spoken, casual vocals mix seamlessly with an experimental electronic edge; creatively knocking out vibes of trip-hop, dub-step and beyond. Having received deserved kudos […]