International awards are not lacking, from the Best Group for Songlines 2021, to the Best Album World Music 2021 for Mojo: Le Monde praised their concert at the Trans Musicales in Rennes (the historic festival that for 43 years announces tomorrow’s music trends) defining this edition as “marked by the carnival joy of the Ayom group”.

Their name Ayom, is the “Lord of Music“, which in Afro-Brazilian mythology (Candomblè), is the deity who lives inside the drum and who taught humans to make music and sing. Mixing numerous musical and rhythmic traditions, Ayom embarks on an exciting and intimate journey on the routes of the African diaspora.
Thus flourishes their nomadic and deep musicality, provocative and dancing, where tradition and contamination, male and female, poetry and energy, joy and social commitment coexist.

The Ayom are:

Jabu Morales: voice and percussion // Alberto Becucci: accordion // Timoteo Grignani: percussion // Walter Martins: percussion // Ricardo Quinteira: guitar // Francesco Valente: bass

Their album, Ayom, released in November 2020, is a fluctuating collection of songs that combine secular traditions, with the rhythmic language Lusophono. You can feel the sounds of Brazil, Angola and Cape Verde, challenging purists by providing a warm and spiritual journey.

“Their sound is a mix of Brazilian, tropical, Afro-Latin and Afrolusitanian sounds, played with an irresistible charge, like a tropical sun that penetrates into the clouds”.